Hybrid Energy Systems of the Future

This video was produced when the laboratory operated as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The laboratory is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). This webinar showcased the design and control of the wind energy systems of the future ranging from utility-scale wind plants and state-of-the-art wind-based hybrid plants to the control of these variable resources along with millions of devices across vehicles, buildings, and distributed solar. The future energy system will be a carefully orchestrated effort between utility-scale renewable energy and distributed energy resources. A clean energy future requires coordinated control of these technologies and fundamental innovation with state-of-the-art control theory and sensor fusion. Research will be conducted with NREL capabilities being developed at the Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES)—a state-of-the-art research facility that brings together hardware and software across different domains to match the complexity of modern energy systems. These technologies can seamlessly integrate edge devices, sensor information, and utility-scale generation to go beyond mere convenience and simultaneously improve the quality of life, enhance mobility, optimize grid integrated efficient buildings, and improve the affordability, reliability, and resiliency of the grid in a sustainable way.