Power and Energy Magazine - Volume 17: Issue 6 - Nov/Dec 2019: New Breakthroughs: Decarbonizing the Electric Energy Supply

This issue, compiled by Guest Editors Charles Smith and Charlton Clark, updates the means of integrating large wind and solar plants, which have grown tremendously since our November/December 2017 issue devoted to this topic. The authors present a worldwide report on the diversity of approaches and successful recipes for decarbonizing the electric energy supply. We all can learn from the tremendous insights provided on the following topics:
- operating experience with high levels of variable inverter-based generation
- means of achiev ing bulk power sys tem reliability with large amounts of distributed energy resources
- the theory and use of probabilistic forecasts
- market designs with massive amounts of zero-cost variable energy resources
- the need for system flexibility and ways to achieve itcodes, standards, and IEC collaboration for the design and interconnection of inverterbased resources connected to the transmission and distribution systems
- the status and future of gridforming inverters
- the transition from rapid to quality development of renewable resources in China.