Publications
June 9, 2022
Planning for power system resource adequacy, once a relatively straightforward engineering calculation, is now characterized by growing complexity and uncertainty in both supply and demand. In the face of increasing complexity, many of the tools power system planners relied on are now becoming obsolete. This paper defines approaches for determining resource adequacy in high renewable systems with energy storage.
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September 1, 2021
What do traditional production cost models miss about a changing resource mix with more intermittent renewables and storage? A lot! This paper shows how traditional models lead to model limited choice, where model limitations lead to systematic biases in favor of relatively inflexible legacy resource options.
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October 27, 2019
Advanced energy is one of the fastest growing sectors of Colorado's economy, and energy legislation before Congress could position Colorado as a national and global leader.
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March 4, 2019
In this op-ed for pv magazine, Mike Mendelsohn & Dr. Allison Weis of Ascend Analytics break down the value of battery storage and the profitability of this tech
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February 11, 2019
NARUC's recent guidance on flexible resources requires new tools
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November 6, 2018
ERCOT summer forward curves have crested toward $160/MWh for July and August in the wake of an ERCOT ISO report that reserve margins could be below 10%.
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September 7, 2018
September 7, 2018
The continued advances in in digital power supply systems will provide more compelling and often unavoidable economic merit over traditional generation.
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January 1, 2018
2018
Utilities need to adopt new decision-making tools in order to compete in the "new normal" environment of renewable energy supply.
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September 1, 2016
The meaningful uncertainty simulation framework can extract all relevant information contained in market and portfolio data to give energy firms the ability to make informed business decisions.
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