Policy planners and electric utilities often face grave uncertainty regarding the future of renewable energy. How much solar or wind energy could be built in a region? What are the most likely sites to be developed, and how much energy would they produce? We have helped many organizations, develop realistic build-out scenarios to answer these questions. The scenarios take into account resource quality and geographic distribution, transmission availability, land-use constraints, and policy mechanisms.
We can also provide the generation data to allow you to analyze and understand the effects of different scenarios on grid operation, fossil-fuel use, and cost. By combining our advanced models with actual production data, we can provide site-specific energy-generation profiles for existing, planned, and future projects. The synthesized data provide realistic representations of the seasonal and diurnal generation patterns, the variability of the resource and generation on time scales of seconds to years, and power ramp behavior.
