An Integrated Resource Plan for Arizona Public Service Electric (APS)

An Integrated Resource Plan for Arizona Public Service Electric (APS)
Author: Irene Boghdadi
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN:

Our Masters Capstone Project is an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for Arizona's largest electric utility, Arizona Public Service Electric (APS). An IRP is developed by utilities to identify the optimal combination of demand- and supply-side resources needed to reliably meet forecasted demand for energy and capacity, including a planning reserve margin, over a future period. In addition to APS's obligation to serve the growing load in Arizona while minimizing costs, it is required by the state to adhere to the Renewable Energy Standard (RES) policy of 15 percent retail sales from renewable energy resources by 2025. The analysis described in the report aims to identify the optimal resource mix for APS to deploy to reliably meet the forecasted deficit and deliver 100 percent of its retail sales from zero-carbon sources by 2050, based on its recently announced goals. We analyzed three scenarios: Business-as-Usual (BAU), 100 Percent Clean Energy (Clean100) and 100 Percent Renewable Energy (RE100). The Business-as-Usual scenario serves as a reference, exploring what it would look like if APS only adhered to Arizona's current RES policy. The alternative scenarios explore two pathways to reaching zero carbon emissions electricity by 2050, using only carbon-free energy resources in Clean100 and only renewable energy resources in RE100. The results of our analysis show that while both alternative scenarios demonstrated the feasibility of a zero-carbon system, Clean100 provided the least cost pathway to achieving APS's zero-carbon electricity goal by 2050.

Hoover Power Plant Amendments of 1992

Hoover Power Plant Amendments of 1992
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water, Power, and Offshore Energy Resources
Publisher:
Total Pages: 602
Release: 1992
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System

Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2017-10-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309463076

Americans' safety, productivity, comfort, and convenience depend on the reliable supply of electric power. The electric power system is a complex "cyber-physical" system composed of a network of millions of components spread out across the continent. These components are owned, operated, and regulated by thousands of different entities. Power system operators work hard to assure safe and reliable service, but large outages occasionally happen. Given the nature of the system, there is simply no way that outages can be completely avoided, no matter how much time and money is devoted to such an effort. The system's reliability and resilience can be improved but never made perfect. Thus, system owners, operators, and regulators must prioritize their investments based on potential benefits. Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System focuses on identifying, developing, and implementing strategies to increase the power system's resilience in the face of events that can cause large-area, long-duration outages: blackouts that extend over multiple service areas and last several days or longer. Resilience is not just about lessening the likelihood that these outages will occur. It is also about limiting the scope and impact of outages when they do occur, restoring power rapidly afterwards, and learning from these experiences to better deal with events in the future.

Public Utilities, Second Edition

Public Utilities, Second Edition
Author: David E. McNabb
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2016-10-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1785365533

A thoroughly updated introduction to the current issues and challenges facing managers and administrators in the investor and publicly owned utility industry, this engaging volume addresses management concerns in five sectors of the utility industry: electric power, natural gas, water, wastewater systems and public transit.

Handbook on Battery Energy Storage System

Handbook on Battery Energy Storage System
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9292614711

This handbook serves as a guide to deploying battery energy storage technologies, specifically for distributed energy resources and flexibility resources. Battery energy storage technology is the most promising, rapidly developed technology as it provides higher efficiency and ease of control. With energy transition through decarbonization and decentralization, energy storage plays a significant role to enhance grid efficiency by alleviating volatility from demand and supply. Energy storage also contributes to the grid integration of renewable energy and promotion of microgrid.