What Utility Planners Need to Know About Solar

Greentech Media

The road to bringing more distributed solar into the utility resource mix runs through long-term planners.

Solar complicates utility planning decisions, according to the findings presented in Treatment of Solar Generation in Electric Utility Resource Planning, a survey of 28 utilities and load-serving entities in twenty-two states from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.  What planners consistently say is that they want more and better data.