Solar Potential Analysis for the MISO Region

Other · Tue Jun 30 04:00:00 EDT 2020

OSTI ID:1668266

Perez, Marc ^[1]

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1. Clean Power Research; Minnesota Department of Commerce

As part of the Minnesota Solar Pathways project, funded in part by the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, Clean Power Research completed a scenario-based analysis that estimates and optimizes the levelized cost of capacity for high renewables penetrations across the entirety of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) region. The analysis concludes that it can be cheaper to overbuild solar + wind and curtail surplus than to store all generation. The analysis described in this report was preceded by an analysis completed in 2018 that used the same modeling framework to optimize generation resources located only in Minnesota.

• Research Organization: Minnesota Department of Commerce
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• Contributing Organization: MN Center for Energy and Environment, Clean Energy Resource Teams, Great Plains Institute, MN Department of Commerce
• DOE Contract Number: EE0007669
• OSTI ID: 1668266
• Report Number(s): DOE-MNCOMM-7659-4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
17 WIND ENERGY
25 ENERGY STORAGE
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
MISO
Midcontinent Independent System Operator
Minnesota
curtailment
energy storage
flexible generation
high penetration renewable electricity
implicit storage
levelized cost of energy
overbuilding
resource planning
solar
wind