Applied Research
Integrated Resource Plan for a United States utility system
2023 · United States — Northern Indiana · Power system planning
Context
- Client type
- Academic — graduate capstone, University of San Francisco
- Role
- Author (MS Energy Systems Management, Fulbright Scholar)
- Geography
- United States — Northern Indiana
- Sector
- Power system planning
Academic work. The utility was the subject of study and was not a client of any kind.
Problem
Least-cost resource planning for a real utility system under multiple demand, fuel-price and policy scenarios.
Work performed
- Scenario construction across generation, storage and demand-side resources
- Least-cost capacity expansion modelling
- Comparison of pathways against reliability and cost criteria
Output
A full Integrated Resource Plan, and the modelling approach FlowOps now applies commercially.
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