A new study by EPIcenter affiliate, Dr. Mamkhezri, investigates how and when households read their electricity bills, and what it means for residential energy consumption in the U.S. Dr. Mamkhezri surveys more than 1,000 households to understand how frequently they check their electricity bills, and how this varies across households by age, family size, consumption […]
Listen to the podcast: This study examines how short-term variability in wind power—known as wind intermittency—affects real-time electricity system imbalances in U.S. regional power markets. The authors, Victoria Godwin and Matthew E. Oliver of the Georgia Institute of Technology and EPIcenter affiliates, analyze data from four major system operators: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), New York […]
Listen to the Curtailment 101 podcast: EPIcenter affiliates Gaurav Doshi and Matthew Oliver’s article in The Energy Forum discusses the why grid operators occasionally curtail wind and solar output when transmission capacity is insufficient or demand is low, and the economic and environmental impacts of these decisions. Congestion-based curtailment arises when the transmission network cannot […]