Grid Integration & Planning

Distributed Renewable Energy & Storage

Analyzing emerging issues in distributed renewable energy and storage

Grid Integration & Planning

We analyze how distributed resources impact grid reliability, operations, and planning, and how they can be integrated cost-effectively to deliver unique benefits to the power system.

Distributed renewables and storage pose specific challenges but also offer unique value to the electric grid. EMP conducts research into the impacts of distributed energy resources on grid reliability, operations, and planning, and how these resources can be reliably and cost-effectively integrated into power systems and combined with other end-use technologies. Past research includes analyzing how distributed renewables and storage impact the reliability of local grids; assessing how distributed resources are treated in utility resource plans; showing how improved distributed solar adoption forecasts can improve planning outcomes; and analyzing how distributed storage can help integrate higher levels of distributed solar on local distribution networks.


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Juan Pablo Carvallo
Will Gorman

Recent Publications

Baik, Sunhee, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy: The resilience value of residential solar + storage systems in the continental U.S.." (2024).
Heleno, Miguel, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan Valenzuela, Greg Leventis, Cesca Miller, and Jeff Deason."Distribution Grid Impacts of Community Solar." (2023).
Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."County-level assessment of behind-the-meter solar and storage to mitigate long duration power interruptions for residential customers."Applied Energy 342 (2023). DOI
Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruptions." (2022).
Gill, Carrie, Shauna Beland, Ryan Constable, Tim Roughan, Caitlin Broderick, Stephen Lasher, Joyce McLaren, Sherin Abraham, Anthony Teixeria, Naïm R Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Conceptual Framework." (2022).
McLaren, Joyce, Sherin Abraham, Naïm R Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Technical and Economic Analysis." (2022).
McDermott, Thomas E, Killian McKenna, Miguel Heleno, Bilal Ahmad Bhatti, Michael Emmanuel, and Sydney Forrester."Distribution System Research Roadmap." (2022). DOI
Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Stephanie Bieler, Myles T Collins, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, Douglas J Gotham, and Peter H Larsen."A framework to measure the technical, economic, and rate impacts of distributed solar, electric vehicles, and storage."Applied Energy 297 (2021). DOI
Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Sean Murphy, Benjamin Leibowicz, and Peter H Larsen."The economic value of a centralized approach to distributed resource investment and operation."Applied Energy 269 (2020). DOI
Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Myles T Collins, Stephanie Bieler, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, and Peter H Larsen."Indiana 21st Century Energy Policy: Emerging Technologies on the Electricity Distribution System." (2020).
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Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruption
Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs
Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs
Estimating the Value of Improved Distributed Photovoltaic Adoption Forecasts for Utility Resource Planning
Estimating the Value of Improved Distributed Photovoltaic Adoption Forecasts for Utility Resource Planning