Description
This program – designed by integrated resource planners for integrated resource planners – will explore the new IRP paradigm. Leading utility, power resource planning professionals and related industry experts will address the key elements associated with emerging operational issues, such as:
- Environmental mandates
- Variable energy resources
- Regulatory policies
- Modeling around uncertainty
The conference will blend presentations from utilities, state regulatory staff/commissioners, non-utility SMEs, service providers and other resource planning gurus from all over North America. Case studies will provide a solid survey of “best practices” thinking and methodologies by a full range of utilities and subject matter experts, and feature panels will draw out collaborative concepts for further consideration and implementation.
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Learning Outcomes
Attendees will gain practical skills and insights on how to:
- Develop resource plans that incorporate the full palette of supply and demand options
- Describe how IRP planners can analyze, model and incorporate DERs and storage in IRPs
- Identify how to properly account for all variables when analyzing, modeling and planning portfolio decisions
- Determine the value of portfolio flexibility for resource planning and market operations
- Consider the range of inputs that future resource decisions should incorporate to map a pathway for attainment of carbon-free generation resource outcomes
- Evaluate the portfolio effects of high penetration renewable energy resources in production cost models
- Examine the preparation of IRP documentation with regulatory and stakeholder review and engagement in mind
