NREL Releases Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Power System Model Results for Long-Term Planning

The Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Power System Model Results for Long-Term Resource Plans is designed to improve decision-making in the electricity planning process by strengthening dialogue between system planners and relevant stakeholders.

It focuses on interpreting scenario results generated by power system planning models. These results are often used to inform integrated resource plans, which are long-term plans for a utility to meet future electricity requirements.

The guide is intended for state utility commissioners, commission staff, state energy offices, intervenors in the planning process, and other stakeholders. It is designed to help various interested parties better weigh in on the modeling methods or interpret model results to improve decision-making. The guide can help industry professionals ask the right questions, which can enable better understanding of results and key assumptions, data, and methods. 

A follow-on guide will also be provided, which dives deeper into topics that are becoming more prominent in the electricity planning process but have methods and approaches that are still in development.

_{Source:  National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)}

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