Grid benefits of individual projects quantified and valued in terms of:
- Reliability improvement (utility cost reduction)
- Conservation voltage reduction (energy cost reduction)
- Incremental bulk system capacity
- Incremental ancillary services capacity
- System voltage security
- Locational energy or congestion relief
- Loss reduction
- Load relief
- Emission reduction
- Reliability improvement (customer value of service)
- Power quality
Case Study Findings
- Grid expansion and distributed resource projects can provide comparable value, but in different benefit categories.
- A GRIDfast-aided analysis revealed 100 of a regional system's 1,563 switches as high-value automation candidates to maintain ideal radial topology over daily and seasonally-varying conditions.
- Distributed resources on specific circuits can provide significant value in reliability improvement by expanding load shift opportunities.
