The National Transmission Planning Study: Chapter 1: Introduction

Program Document · Fri Oct 25 04:00:00 EDT 2024

OSTI ID:2475622

The National Transmission Planning Study (NTP Study) was led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Deployment Office, in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The study sought to develop new national grid-scale planning tools and methods that can be used by industry, especially when planning for interregional transmission capacity needs; identify potential transmission solutions that will provide broad-scale benefits to electric customers under a wide range of potential futures; inform planning processes for regional and interregional transmission; and identify interregional and national strategies to maintain grid reliability as the grid transitions, including to a reliance on low- and zero-carbon energy resources. The NTP Study is presented as a collection of six chapters.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Grid Deployment Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 2475622
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-6A40-89668; MainId:90447; UUID:b41ae7d8-bc08-4b2f-a9e1-e5fe451d5554; MainAdminId:74099
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY,POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
interregional transmission
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power system reliability
transmission
transmission deployment
transmission planning