Recent years have seen a renewed focus on resource adequacy (RA) in the Western United States, as aging coal plants begin to retire and new technologies and policies are quickly changing the composition of the Western grid. Clean technologies are...

Berkeley, CA. - Better planning tools will be needed to ensure reliability and avoid cutting off power to consumers as climate change worsens and the Western US continues to add clean energy. GridLab has released a new report, Advancing resource...

California’s Senate Bill 100 sets targets of 60% renewable energy by 2030 and 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045. In December of 2020, the California Agencies SB100 report indicated that this timeline could be accelerated in a cost-effective manner; however it...

As part of the “Reliably Reaching California’s Clean Electricity Targets” study, concurrent wind and solar resource data was used to project the generation at renewable energy sites throughout California and the broader WECC area. The concurrent data spanned the period...

California’s Senate Bill 100 sets targets of 60% renewable energy by 2030 and 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045. In December 2020, the Joint Agencies SB 100 report (hereafter, referred to as the “SB 100 report”) analyzed the feasibility of the...