Renewable Electricity Futures for the United States

Trieu Mai; M. Maureen Hand; Samuel F. Baldwin; Ryan H. Wiser; Greg L. Brinkman; Paul Denholm; Doug J. Arent; Gian Porro; Debra Sandor; Donna J. Hostick; Michael Milligan; Edgar A. Demeo; Morgan Bazilian

doi:10.1109/TSTE.2013.2290472

Renewable Electricity Futures for the United States

Trieu Mai, M. Maureen Hand, Samuel F. Baldwin, Ryan H. Wiser, Greg L. Brinkman, Paul Denholm, Doug J. Arent, Gian Porro, Debra Sandor, Donna J. Hostick, Michael Milligan, Edgar A. Demeo, Morgan Bazilian

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This paper highlights the key results from the Renewable Electricity (RE) Futures Study. It is a detailed consideration of renewable electricity in the United States. The paper focuses on technical issues related to the operability of the U.S. electricity grid and provides initial answers to important questions about the integration of high penetrations of renewable electricity technologies from a national perspective. The results indicate that the future U.S. electricity system that is largely powered by renewable sources is possible and the further work is warranted to investigate this clean generation pathway. The central conclusion of the analysis is that renewable electricity generation from technologies that are commercially available today, in combination with a more flexible electric system, is more than adequate to supply 80% of the total U.S. electricity generation in 2050 while meeting electricity demand on an hourly basis in every region of the United States.

Original language	American English
Article number	6690152
Pages (from-to)	372-378
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
Volume	5
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2013.2290472 https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2013.2290472
State	Published - Apr 2014

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NREL/JA-6A20-58804

Keywords

Energy storage
power generation dispatch
power generation economics
power system planning
power systems
renewable energy
solar energy
wind energy

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Mai, T., Hand, M. M., Baldwin, S. F., Wiser, R. H., Brinkman, G. L., Denholm, P., Arent, D. J., Porro, G., Sandor, D., Hostick, D. J., Milligan, M., Demeo, E. A., & Bazilian, M. (2014). Renewable Electricity Futures for the United States. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 5(2), 372-378. Article 6690152. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2013.2290472, https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2013.2290472

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