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DOE Energy Innovator Fellows Informational Webinar: Electric System Reliability

Presentation

06/2025

This informational webinar for DOE Energy Innovator Fellows on Grid Reliability covers:

Definitions of reliability for power systems
Tradeoffs in power system design — cost vs. reliability
Resource adequacy for bulk power systems and reliability for distribution systems
- Metrics
- Methods for measuring it
- Mechanisms for achieving it
Operational reliability and transmission stability
Economic perspectives
- Cost of interruptions
- Value of Lost Load and applications
- Reliability in planning

2025

This webinar was recorded on June 17, 2025, and can be viewed here.