Abstract:

This guidebook provides a brief but comprehensive summary of the strategies, best practices, and terminology associated with conducting a high-quality grid integration study. Teams that are in the initial stages of designing a grid integration study can use this guidebook to understand the key steps, modeling tools, data collection activities, and considerations that will enable a successful effort. Although this guidance is broadly applicable to most power systems, it emphasizes considerations relevant to developing economies, drawing on experiences from efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support analyses with its partner countries.