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Plan It Together: Optimizing Across Generation, Transmission, Distribution, and Distributed Energy Resources

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Abstract

Integrated planning holds the promise of unlocking lower total system cost solutions by connecting previously siloed planning processes. This article summarizes the state of bulk and local grid planning today and details multiple new analytical approaches that can enable more holistic planning methods to develop comprehensive solutions to generation, transmission, distribution, and distributed energy resource needs. These include both iterative approaches as well as cooptimization techniques. In addition to the benefits of these methods, the technical and institutional challenges and associated solutions are also discussed.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)87-99
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Power and Energy Magazine
Volume24
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2026

NLR Publication Number

  • NLR/JA-6A40-99239

Keywords

  • distributed power generation
  • intserv networks
  • optimization methods
  • power distribution networks
  • power distribution planning
  • power grids
  • power transmission

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