Evaluating the Impact of the 2017 Solar Eclipse on U.S. Western Interconnection Operations

Santosh Veda; Yingchen Zhang; Jin Tan; Nicholas Gilroy; Dylan Hettinger; Sean Ericson; Jason Ausmus; Slaven Kincic; Xiaping Zhang; Guohui Yuan; Jonathan Duckworth

doi:10.2172/1435500

Evaluating the Impact of the 2017 Solar Eclipse on U.S. Western Interconnection Operations

Santosh Veda, Yingchen Zhang, Jin Tan, Nicholas Gilroy, Dylan Hettinger, Sean Ericson, Jason Ausmus, Slaven Kincic, Xiaping Zhang, Guohui Yuan, Jonathan Duckworth

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Abstract

With support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) partnered with Peak Reliability to evaluate the impact of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse on the reliability and grid operations in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) territory.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	48
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1435500
State	Published - 2018

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NREL/TP-5D00-71147

Keywords

2017 solar eclipse
eclipse
electric grid
impact
peak reliability
solar

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