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Grid Planning and Market Structures

Power grids and power markets require detailed planning to operate effectively and efficiency. This page provides resources to help support policymakers, regulators and engineers with the planning of power grids and power markets.

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Insights on Planning for Power System Regulators

This study aims to guide power system planning processes and regulatory actions, and particular consideration is given to ramping up…

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International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

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Accelerating Off-grid Renewable Energy: Key Findings and Recommendations from IOREC 2016

This document brings report the key messages that emerged from the Third International Off-grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC 2016), including…

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IRENA

Date:

1 January 2017

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Addressing Climate Vulnerability for Power System Resilience and Energy Security: A Focus on Hydropower Resources

This paper is intended to inform energy planners and investors about (1) how climate change can affect power generation resources,…

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USAID

Date:

1 May 2017

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Adapting Market Design to High Shares of Variable Renewable Energy

The report analyses challenges and solutions, and it provides recommendations on how to adapt electricity market design to high shares…

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International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Date:

1 January 2017

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Clean Energy Mini-Grids—High Impact Opportunity: Annual Report 2015

This report reviews the year 2015 and focuses on five “high impact opportunity” object areas. It describes how a wide…

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Sustainable Energy for All

Date:

31 December 2015

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Competitive Electricity Market Regulation in the United States: A Primer

The electricity system in the United States is a complex mechanism where different technologies, jurisdictions and regulatory designs interact. Today,…

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Date:

1 December 2016

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Current Status of Energy Sector in Tanzania: Executive Exchange on Developing an Ancillary Service Market

This presentation reviews the energy sector in Tanzania and key power sector challenges and strategies, including power sector reform, relevant…

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Ministry of Energy and Minerals

Tanzania

Date:

2 March 2013

Deployment Data

Policy Data

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Tools and Websites

Deployment of Demand Response as a Real-Time Resource in Organized Markets

This journal article examines the use of demand response as a dispatchable resource in real-time energy markets, and it recommends…

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The Electricity Journal

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1 July 2008

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Electricity Market Design and Renewable Energy Deployment (RES-E-MARKETS)

This report addresses electricity market design and regulation considerations for systems with high volumes of variable renewable energy sources, such…

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International Energy Agency - Renewabl e Energy Technology Deployment Technology Collaboration Programme (IEA RETD TCP)

Date:

1 September 2016

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Energizing Finance: Scaling and Refining Finance in Countries with Large Energy Access Gaps

This report attempts to systematically analyze what finance countries are actually committing to energy access and what is known about…

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Sustainable Energy For All

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Grid Integration of Electric Vehicles in Open Electricity Markets

This chapter examines policy drivers of battery electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid EVs, the current and anticipated impacts on…

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Wiley

Date:

1 August 2013

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Impacts of Large-Scale Wind Penetration on Designing and Operation of Electric Power Systems

This paper aims to thoroughly and coherently present the way the “picture is redrawn” for electric power systems under large…

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IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Date:

18 May 2010

Policy Data

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Tools and Websites

Training Materials

Incorporating Aggregated PV Systems into the Power Grid

This presentation by a representative of the Tokyo Institute of Technology describes the design and performance of large-scale aggregated PV…

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U.S. Department of Energy

Sandia National Laboratory

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

Date:

15 January 2009

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Innovation Outlook: Offshore Wind

This report shows how policy and technological breakthroughs can advance the development of offshore wind energy technology. It aims to…

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International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Date:

1 November 2016

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Integrating Variable Renewable Energy: Challenges and Solutions

This report explores renewable energy integration challenges and mitigation strategies that have been implemented in the United States and internationally…

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Date:

1 September 2013

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Integration of Electricity Networks in the Arab World: Regional Market Structure and Design

This study, which examines the development of the institutional and regulatory framework for electricity trade in the Arab world, is…

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The World Bank

Date:

1 December 2013

Policy Data

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Integration of Electricity from Renewables to the Electricity Grid and to the Electricity Market

The authors of this report assess different European Union countries’ approaches to responding to the challenges brought about by the…

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eclareon

Date:

1 March 2012

Deployment Data

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Integration of Renewables: Status and Challenges in China

This working paper analyzes the potential for renewables to generate an increasing proportion of China’s electricity, with a focus on…

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International Energy Agency

Date:

1 January 2011