This presentation focuses on the historical contribution to reliability, trends in market value, and impacts on the bulk power system of solar deployed in the U.S. through the end of 2020.

The scope of this analysis includes the seven organized U.S. wholesale power markets and is based on historical hourly solar generation profiles for each individual plant larger than 1 MW or county-level aggregate profiles for smaller solar. In addition, we present a limited set of results for ten utilities that are outside of the independent system operator (ISO)/regional transmission organization (RTO) markets.

The webinar was given to the Energy Systems Integration Group on August 18th 2021. Some of the data covering the year 2020 was preliminary at the time. While none of the major conclusions have changed, please see the attached briefing and visit our project page for our final analysis.

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