Inertia in power systems refers to the energy stored in large rotating generators and some industrial motors, which gives them the tendency to remain rotating. This stored energy can be particularly valuable when a large power plant fails, as it...

Virginia’s Energy Transition explores the impacts of the Commonwealth employing a number of advanced energy resources to build a 100% carbon-free grid. Advanced Energy Economy worked in collaboration with GridLab and the Greenlink Group to map out how Virginia could...

Electricity grids across the nation are undergoing a rapid transition. To date the principal contributor to this transition is the increased deployment of utility-scale renewable energy resources, driven in part by declining costs of these resources relative to conventional, fossilfired...

Minnesota Gov Tim Pawlenty signed the Next Generation Energy Act in 2007, bipartisan legislation designed to spur renewable energy deployment with the goal of decarbonizing the Minnesota economy 80% from 2005 levels by 2050 The Minnesota’s Smarter Grid study modeled...

The Impact of Renewables in ERCOT During the Summer of 2023 Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed the Next Generation Energy Act in 2007, bipartisan legislation designed to spur renewable energy deployment with the goal of decarbonizing the Minnesota economy 80%