PJM and Argonne National Laboratory Collaborate to Study Guidelines for Solar Resources
April 03,2019
PJM Interconnection has joined forces with the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory to support the integration of distributed energy resources such as residential and commercial solar into the power grid serving 13 states and the District of Columbia.
Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, Argonne is supporting PJM's Distributed Energy Resource Ride-Through Task Force, which is developing guidelines for "ride through" and "trip" requirements. These guidelines are important for PJM, which manages the bulk electricity system and wholesale electricity market serving 65 million people, to be able to integrate the increasing number of solar installations into its footprint, PJM said
"Our primary mission is reliability, and we are preparing our system for the advent of more distributed energy resources so that we can seamlessly operate and understand their behavior, both during normal operations and times of system stress," said Chantal Hendrzak, executive director – Applied Innovation & Market Evolution for PJM.
PJM coordinates energy resources and ensures reliability for a system stretching from the East Coast to the Midwest and is managing a network with more solar input than ever before. Two states within its footprint, New Jersey and North Carolina, are among the country's top 10 for solar capacity per capita.
The combined PJM-Argonne team will study the impact of DER trip and ride-through settings to help PJM stakeholders reach a consensus and inform technical guidance that utilities and states can apply to DERs across the PJM footprint, PJM said