This report examines cost reduction and technology improvement trends for a suite of renewable energy generation options, and it illuminates other factors that may influence their deployment through 2025.
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Source: Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA)
Date: February 2015
This report describes the range of choices available in renewable energy auctions and makes recommendations to facilitate optimal decision-making. The authors focus on challenges that need to be addressed and the alternatives that may be considered for each auction design element.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Date: January 2015
This report describes how energy has become the central theme in discussions on alleviating poverty, promoting economic development and improving the quality of life of people.
Source: Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All)
Date: July 2015
This report describes how cities, with their urban driving patterns, high concentration of vehicles and dense infrastructure are keys to the development of robust electric vehicle markets.
Source: International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)
Date: July 2015
This paper proposes a new methodology based on Monte Carlo chronological simulation to evaluate the operating reserve requirements of generating systems with large amounts of renewable energy sources.
Source: IEEE
Date: January 2010
This study examines the feasibility of maintaining reliable electric service with the expected level of intermittent renewable resources associated with California's 20% renewable portfolio standard.
Source: California Independent System Operator (ISO)
Date: November 2007
This report analyses the nature of variable renewable energy and the resulting challenges associated with integrating variable renewable energy technologies into a power system. It highlights the importance of increased flexibility when integrating high levels of variable renewable energy.
Source: World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
Date: February 2015
As distributed energy resource technologies proliferate on the grid, resulting changes to the grid will make it more efficient and reliable, and will provide end users with the opportunity to more proactively use energy and reduce the cost of services.
Source: Det Norkse Veritas (DNV)
Date: January 2013
This webinar provides an overview of implementing a renewable energy zone (REZ) for integrated transmission and generation planning.
Source: Clean Energy Solutions Center, USAID, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Date: December 2015
This report examines how ten countries have switched, or are planning to switch, from traditional fuels such as wood, coal, charcoal, animal waste and kerosene, to LPG as a cooking fuel.
Source: The World LPG Association (WLPGA), WLPGA
Date: September 2015