Grid Strategies, GridLab launch initiative to educate regulators on reliability, clean energy technologies

Grid Strategies LLC and GridLab recently announced a new initiative to educate regulators about the reliability aspects of clean energy resources and represents the interests of clean energy technologies.

The Clean Reliability Project, also referred to as CleanNERC, will focus on participating at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). It will seek to provide NERC and its stakeholders with information about the capabilities of inverter-based clean energy resources.

“These new technologies can offer superior performance in providing many grid reliability services, yet rules and standards that were developed with other technologies in mind do not always accommodate them or use them to their full advantage,” GridLab said. “Clean Reliability Project will advocate for non-discriminatory rules that allow all resources to contribute to grid reliability.”

Michael Goggin, vice president of Grid Strategies LLC, will be the primary representative of the project on NERC’s key committees and task forces.

“We look forward to working with Clean Reliability Project, which will play a critical stakeholder role with NERC to ensure the compelling grid reliability capabilities of these technologies are fully recognized.” Todd Foley, senior vice president of policy and government affairs at the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) said. “Renewable power and storage are game-changing applications in the shift toward a modernized U.S. power grid that offers economic savings and improved resilience and reliability.”