Abstract

Integrated resource planning, as currently practiced, has a fatal flaw: the revenue-requirements method of evaluating new capacity options improperly ignores risk features. When risk is properly accounted for, the cost of supposed ‘high-cost’ resources—photovoltaics, for example—drops dramatically while the cost of supposed ‘low-cost’ resources like natural gas-fired generation goes up.

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