A Sustainable Future for the U.S. Electricity Grid

The United States faces the need to build generation, storage, and transmission infrastructure while meeting a growing electricity demand. I will present results from several ongoing analyses that quantify the costs, benefits, and technology investments needed across the country for a variety of policy and technology scenarios. We use a new modeling tool, PyPSA-USA, that includes characteristics of generators, transmission, candidate new generation and transmission technologies, a representation of renewable generation potential, and state- and federal-level policies and incentives.

Speaker: Ines Azevedo, Stanford University