Reliability Technology Issues and Needs Assessment (RTINA) monitors and identifies technology trends and emerging gaps in electricity system reliability research and development (R&D) to anticipate and scope new R&D efforts needed to enable the grid of the future.
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2008
Eto, Joseph H, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare. Tracking the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System: An Assessment of Publicly Available Information Reported to State Public Utility Commissions. Berkeley: LBNL, 2008. LBNL-1092E.
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2007
Huang, Zhenyu, Bernard C Lesieutre, and Steve Yang. Load Monitoring: CEC/LMTF Load Research Program. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2007.
2006
National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2006). Berkeley: U.S Department of Energy, 2006.
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Eto, Joseph H. Maintain, Enhance, and Improve Reliability of California’s Electric System under Restructuring. Berekeley: LBNL, 2006. LBNL-58939.
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Eto, Joseph H, Douglas R Hale, and Bernard Lesieutre. "Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies: A Review of Recent Benefit-Cost Studies of RTOs." The Electricity Journal 2006: 50-62. LBNL-62571.
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LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto. Cost of Power Interruptions to Electricity Consumers in the United States (U.S.). Berkeley: LBNL, 2006. LBNL-58164.
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2005
Group, Electric Power, and Consortium for Electr Solutions. Assessment of Reliability and Operational Issues for Integration of Renewable Generation. 2005.
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"The Value of Economic Dispatch: A Report to Congress Pursuant to Section 1234 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.". 2005.
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Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Douglas R Hale. A Review of Recent RTO Benefit-Cost Studies: Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies. 2005. LBNL-58027.
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Lesieutre, Bernard C. Improving Dynamic Load and Generator Response Performance Tools. Berkeley: LBNL, 2005.
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2004
Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto. "When a Rose Is Not a Rose: A Review of Recent Estimates of Congestion Costs." The Electricity Journal 2004. LBNL-52739.
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Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations. U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, 2004.
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Mobasheri, Fred, Margaret Cheng, Jaime Medina, and Joseph H Eto. Economic Evaluation of Transmission Interconnection in a Restructured Market. CERTS, 2004.
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Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Steven E Widergren. Transmission-Planning Research and Development Scoping Project. 2004. LBNL-55487.
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Lesieutre, Bernard, Emily S Bartholomew, Joseph H Eto, Douglas R Hale, and Thanh Luong. The Potential Impacts of a Competitive Wholesale Market in the Midwest: A Preliminary Examination of Centralized Dispatch. 2004. LBNL-56503.
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Eto, Joseph H, Deepak Divan, and William Brumsickle. Pilot Evaluation of Electricity-Reliability and Power-Quality Monitoring in California’s Silicon Valley with the I-Grid® System. 2004. LBNL-52740.
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LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto. Understanding the Cost of Power Interruptions to U.S. Electricity Consumers. Berkeley: LBNL, 2004. LBNL-55718.
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2003
Thomas, Steve, Paul Boggs, and Victoria Howle. A Survey of National Transmission Grid Modeling Capabilities at DOE Laboratories. Sandia National Laboratoies, 2003.
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Carreras, Benjamin A, V.E. Lynch, David E Newman, and Ian Dobson. "Blackout mitigation assessment in power transmission systems." 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Big Island, HI, USA: IEEE, 2003. 10 pp.
Interim Report: Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada. U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, 2003.
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Divan, Deepak, William Brumsickle, and Joseph H Eto. "Assessing I-Grid Web-Based Monitoring for Power Quality and Reliability Benchmarking." IEEE PES DSASC Test Feeder Working Group. Berkeley: LBNL, 2003. LBNL-52736.
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Eto, Joseph H, and John P Stovall. California's Electricity System of the Future: Scenario Analysis in Support of Public-Interest Transmission System R&D Planning. 2003. LBNL-52047.
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Dyer, Jim. U.S. Department of Energy Transmission Bottleneck Project Report. 2003.
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Consulting, KEMA. Analysis and Selection of Analytical Tools to Assess National-Interest Transmission Bottlenecks Final Report. 2003.
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Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto. Electricity Transmission Congestion Costs: A Review of Recent Reports. Berkeley: LBNL, 2003. LBNL-45049.
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