Renewable Electricity Futures Study Executive Summary

Technical Report · Fri Nov 30 23:00:00 EST 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1338443· OSTI ID:1338443

Mai, Trieu ^[1]; Sandor, Debra ^[1]; Wiser, Ryan ^[2]; Schneider, Thomas ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

The Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures) provides an analysis of the grid integration opportunities, challenges, and implications of high levels of renewable electricity generation for the U.S. electric system. The study is not a market or policy assessment. Rather, RE Futures examines renewable energy resources and many technical issues related to the operability of the U.S. electricity grid, and provides initial answers to important questions about the integration of high penetrations of renewable electricity technologies from a national perspective. RE Futures results indicate that a future U.S. electricity system that is largely powered by renewable sources is possible and that further work is warranted to investigate this clean generation pathway.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Analysis (EI-30) (Energy Analysis Corporate)
• OSTI ID: 1338443
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP--6A20-52409-ES; 7586
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Renewable electricity
generation
grid integration
high penetration
high renewable
scenario analysis