Integrating Variable Energy Resources (VERs)
The growth of renewable energy sources introduces challenges in grid management across SERC’s footprint. As renewable integration accelerates, advancements in inverter technologies, forecasting, and grid modeling are essential to manage the intermittency of wind and solar resources.
Maintaining grid reliability requires adherence to industry standards, ongoing infrastructure investment, and the adoption of new operational strategies.
Why It Matters
VERs like wind and solar introduce new operational challenges due to characteristics such as their intermittency and potential lack of visibility. These resources require updated forecasting methods, balancing mechanisms, and careful planning to maintain system reliability and ensure adequate reserve margins.
Traditional system planning frameworks will need to continue to adapt to consider planning/building a system when VERs are unavailable, as well as how to improve operational visibility and flexibility.
What SERC Is Doing
SERC evaluates the impact of increased variable energy integration in its seasonal and long-term assessments. It works with entities to promote better forecasting and system visibility tools, and it facilitates technical discussions on resource adequacy, grid balancing, and interconnection requirements.
What You Can Do
Improve renewable generation forecasts and incorporate them into planning
Collaborate with balancing authorities and system operators on coordination strategies.
Stay involved in SERC’s working groups on variable generation integration.
Resource Downloads
Renewables Integration and New Technologies
Renewables Integration and New Technologies
Based on the 2023-2033 SERC Annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment Report, the existing total internal generation capacity for the SERC Region is 309.6 GW (323.1 GW winter capacity).
2024-2034 Long Term Relilibity Assessment
RM10-11-001 Integration of Variable Energy Resources
What You Can Do
Improve renewable generation forecasts and incorporate them into planning
Collaborate with balancing authorities and system operators on coordination strategies.
Stay involved in SERC’s working groups on variable generation integration.
Resource Downloads
Renewables Integration and New Technologies
Renewables Integration and New Technologies
Based on the 2023-2033 SERC Annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment Report, the existing total internal generation capacity for the SERC Region is 309.6 GW (323.1 GW winter capacity).
2024-2034 Long Term Relilibity Assessment
RM10-11-001 Integration of Variable Energy Resources
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