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We are thrilled to wrap the official launch week of #IRPCoLab with RMI! Thank you to Nikhil Kumar Aaron Schwartz Ryan Tracey Roger Pierce Nidhi R. Santen for joining the CoLab's launch webinar yesterday, exploring best practices, and sharing first-hand experience in long-term planning with participants. All IRP CoLab resources, including the Best Practices Rubric and Reference Guide from Telos Energy are now live at >> https://irpcolab.org/ Now it's time to dive deeper during the CoLab's second webinar on May 13th, "Exploring Emerging Themes on Integrated Resource Planning" with Priya Sreedharan, PhD, PE, Gabe Mantegna, Harry van der Weijde, Nicholas Oberski, P.E., and Aaron Schwartz for an encore appearance! 👏 Webinar panelists will discuss:  ⚡ Integrated Resource Planning for an Uncertain Future.  ⚡Automation and Reproducibility in Integrated Resource Planning ⚡Modeling for Coordinated Resource and Transmission Planning Register here ⌨️ >> https://lnkd.in/gm9DUrs2

We are less than a week away from the IRP CoLab launch webinar! Join us on Thursday, April 23rd at 10am PT / 1pm ET 🚀 GridLab and RMI built IRP CoLab to bring greater transparency and rigor to integrated resource planning in an increasingly complex planning landscape. Our panel will walk through our IRP Best Practices Rubric and what it means for utility planning, regulation, and advocacy. Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/esYewZkw #IRPCoLab #IRP #ResourcePlanning

We are thrilled to see our #StorageGap report referenced in this Dayton Daily News op-ed from two former #FERC commissioners - Allison Clements and Neil Chatterjee. https://lnkd.in/e2-T3kDU PJM serves more customers than any other grid in the country. It should be deploying every tool in the shed to meet rising demand and manage reliability and affordability, particularly in states like Ohio. So why is storage not fully optimized in PJM territory so that all customers will benefit? A winning team from across the aisle, Allison and Neil specify how to pave the way for full storage deployment in regions that need it most.

🦘WEBINAR– From DERs to CERs: What Australia's Energy Transition Means for U.S. Regulators, April 29th at 4pm ET/1pm PT Stop by for a firsthand recap of our recent study tour to the Land Down Under, where GridLab, RMI, and Advanced Energy United led a delegation of U.S. utility regulators across the globe to learn from Australia’s distribution market. Joining the panel are study tour participants Megan Decker, former chair of the Oregon PUC, and Dan Scripps, Chair of the Michigan PSC. We are also excited to welcome Brian Spak, a representative from Energy Consumers Australia, for a lively discussion on Australia’s experience integrating and deploying distributed energy resources. Register today 😎 👉 https://lnkd.in/gg7FUKhy #CHARGED #Distribution #Electrification #DERs #CERs

🦘WEBINAR– From DERs to CERs: What Australia's Energy Transition Means for U.S. Regulators, April 29th at 4pm ET/1pm PT Stop by for a firsthand recap of our recent study tour to the Land Down Under, where GridLab, RMI, and Advanced Energy United led a delegation of U.S. utility regulators across the globe to learn from Australia’s distribution market. Joining the panel are study tour participants Megan Decker, former chair of the Oregon PUC, and Dan Scripps, Chair of the Michigan PSC. We are also excited to welcome Brian Spak, a representative from Energy Consumers Australia, for a lively discussion on Australia’s experience integrating and deploying distributed energy resources. Register today 😎 👉 https://lnkd.in/gg7FUKhy #CHARGED #Distribution #Electrification #DERs #CERs

📢 GridLab and RMI are excited to launch IRP CoLab, a platform built to support planners, regulators, advocates, and utilities with transparent, modern, and forward‑looking IRP approaches. As planning gets more complex, the CoLab plans to respond in kind with transparent and innovative resources to adapt and strengthen planning outcomes. Developed through collaboration with industry experts, IRP CoLab features: ✓ A comprehensive Best Practices Rubric ✓ Tools and insights for more rigorous planning ✓ Resources designed for stakeholder alignment The team is hosting a launch webinar on Thursday, April 23rd with an all-star ⭐ panel: Roger Pierce, Senior Specialist, Capacity Planning at Tennessee Valley Authority Ryan Tracey, Chief Strategy Officer at Sonoma Clean Power Nidhi R. Santen, Ph.D., Area Manager, Integrated Systems Planning at EPRI Aaron Schwartz, Senior Engineer at Telos Energy They'll discuss the rubric, emerging planning challenges, and how this platform can support your work in utility planning, regulation, or advocacy. 🗓️ Register now: https://lnkd.in/esYewZkw

I'm just getting back from Berkeley where I joined the GridLab "Flex and Invest" workshop to discuss how grid interconnection reforms can help speed up generator interconnections to help bring on new load. The goal was to lock thirty experts in a room for the day, and don't leave until we solve the industry's interconnection woes. And mission accomplished, you should see the queues unjam any day now :) We didn't get quite that far, but I learned a ton. Importantly how we can reform NRIS and ERIS interconnection processes and use flexibility (in both gen and load) to interconnect faster and decouple "deliverability" from capacity constructs. I can't say we solved all the problems, but I can say confidently that the next breakthrough in interconnection reform will likely have its groundwork layed by someone that was in that room. Huge thansk to Ric O'Connell, Casey Baker, Katie Siegner and the RMI team for facilitating.

Last month, GridLab, RMI, and Advanced Energy United led a delegation of state utility commissioners to Australia as part of our #CHARGED Initiative — the third in a series of international study tours, following trips to the UK last year. With one in three Australians now hosting rooftop solar (and one in two in South Australia!), we got to experience firsthand how a system adapts to work with their customers, embracing a flexible “customer-first” approach to managing high penetrations of distributed solar. The trip was eye-opening, offering insights that we hope will be considered as we figure out how to modernize our own distribution system. Full blog is on our website! ☀️🦘 #CHARGED #Distribution #Electrification #Rooftop

I'm just getting back from Berkeley where I joined the GridLab "Flex and Invest" workshop to discuss how grid interconnection reforms can help speed up generator interconnections to help bring on new load. The goal was to lock thirty experts in a room for the day, and don't leave until we solve the industry's interconnection woes. And mission accomplished, you should see the queues unjam any day now :) We didn't get quite that far, but I learned a ton. Importantly how we can reform NRIS and ERIS interconnection processes and use flexibility (in both gen and load) to interconnect faster and decouple "deliverability" from capacity constructs. I can't say we solved all the problems, but I can say confidently that the next breakthrough in interconnection reform will likely have its groundwork layed by someone that was in that room. Huge thansk to Ric O'Connell, Casey Baker, Katie Siegner and the RMI team for facilitating.