The US Division of Power’s (DOE) Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) program has launched a draft roadmap to enhance processes for interconnecting clear vitality assets to the distribution and sub-transmission grids.
The draft doc gives stakeholders with 37 options organized round: rising information entry, transparency and safety for interconnection; bettering interconnection processes and timelines; selling financial effectivity in interconnection; and sustaining a dependable, resilient and safe grid. The doc enhances the beforehand launched Transmission Interconnection Roadmap, which identifies near- to long-term options for addressing challenges in transmission system interconnection.
Interconnection points are a barrier to the deployment of distributed vitality assets (DERs) that produce and provide electrical energy on a small scale, similar to distributed photo voltaic photovoltaics (PV), wind, EV charging tools and battery vitality storage. As requests to interconnect DERs to the grid proceed to rise, present processes can’t sustain, and the rising queue instances can delay the deployment of recent assets and jeopardize governmental renewable vitality objectives.
“Connecting extra distributed vitality assets will enhance grid reliability and decrease vitality prices in communities throughout America,” stated Jeff Marootian, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Power Effectivity and Renewable Power. “Options on this roadmap may also help all states or areas—no matter their present deployment ranges—velocity up interconnection and profit from clear vitality.”