An Infocast Deal Working Event

A unique forum where federal and state regulators, utilities and grid operators, wind, solar, transmission and energy storage developers, and leading technical experts come together to provide detailed analyses and briefings on:

• New federal and state policies and regulatory initiatives for managing wind and solar integration
• Reactions from leading market players
• The latest business and technical strategies for wind and solar integration being developed by utilities and grid operators
• Impacts on investment in wind, solar, transmission and energy storage assets

As the percentage of wind and solar in the generation mix has increased, difficulties have arisen. The grid was not designed to handle distributed variable assets, leading to system instability, generation curtailment and problems delivering available power to customers. Both FERC and state regulators have recognized the potential negative impacts of distributed variable assets on system reliability and market efficiency and, in response, have launched rulemakings that could have enormous impacts on energy markets, system operations, and investment not only in the grid itself, but also in energy storage and in wind and solar projects. Myriad operational, market and technological solutions are being proposed to deal with wind and solar integration problems, but the devil is in the details—the regulatory decisions made now will have major repercussions not only on wind and solar projects, but also on investment in transmission and energy storage.

Infocast’s Wind and Solar Integration Summit will examine the impending regulatory rulemakings and explore how they will affect the opportunities to implement operational, market and technological solutions aimed at ensuring the delivery of renewable energy to market. Regulators, grid operators, utilities, and wind and solar developers will come together to discuss which changes to operations, market rules and grid investment will have the greatest impact on integration at the national, regional and local levels. Informal discussions will enable communities that normally do not interact to become educated on each others concerns and constraints, and work towards cost-effective and commercially viable solutions to getting power to market.