Harmonized geospatial data to support infrastructure siting feasibility planning for energy system transitions.

ABSTRACT: Climate change, energy system transitions, and socioeconomic change are compounding influences affecting the growth of electricity demand. While energy efficiency initiatives and distributed resources can address a significant amount of this demand, the United States will likely still need new utility-scale generation resources. The energy sector uses capacity expansion planning models to determine the aggregate need for new generation, but these models are typically at the state or regional scale and are not equipped to address the wide range of location- and technology-specific issues that are increasingly a factor in power plant siting. To help address these challenges, we have developed the Geospatial Raster Input Data for Capacity Expansion Regional Feasibility (GRIDCERF) data package

SUBMITTER: Vernon CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10636006 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature