Reliability analysis of the U.S. West reviews barriers to a renewable future

The Western Interconnection is an electric grid that connects power from Canada down to Baja California, and from the Great Plains to the Pacific. It also represents an electric system in transition: a steady increase in renewable energy sources, especially solar photovoltaics (PV), is presenting choices today with impacts that will last for decades. As part of a multistate collaboration, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has modeled and assessed long-term reliability and integration impacts of solar PV growth in the western United States, with broader lessons for power grids and renewable policies.

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