State Energy Office Direct Technical Assistance

This Kentucky projections presentation sets long-term electricity sector projections for the state using the Regional Energy Deployment System model.

This Mid-Atlantic Cohort planning presentation summarizes key topics from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 1920, Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation.

It highlights the main reforms from the regulation, including perspectives on how the new rules may be implemented. The presentation serves as a resource for policymakers, utilities, industry, and researchers seeking to understand how the new ruling may impact regional transmission planning.

To map and prioritize critical infrastructure, energy cost, and reliability, Minnesota developed an interactive Carto map of the pilot community as a method to support prioritization and a strategy for identifying high-priority communities for future engagement. St. Cloud was selected as a pilot community to create and update a prioritization map and adjust the analysis for future statewide scaling.

The New Mexico Energy and Conservation Management Division sought technical assistance to enhance its ability to evaluate program impacts using the Low-Income Energy Affordability Data tool. NLR assisted the Energy and Conservation Management Division in leveraging the tool to calculate and analyze costs across electric utility service areas, enabling them to assess program outcomes more effectively. NLR developed a customized methodology to calculate utility-specific metrics using census tract data and available utility service area information from the Energy Information Administration. The analysis, described in this report, provided the Energy and Conservation Management Division with a new capability to evaluate program success.

Subject matter experts developed a building code overview in response to a request from the North Dakota state energy office. This effort was part of a larger report delivered to the state, and was intended to provide access to resources from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy that provide general information and frequently asked questions about building and energy codes:

Energy Codes 101: What Are They?

Building Energy Codes—Development, Adoption, Implementation, and Compliance.

Utah aims to meet its growing energy needs with a focus on doubling energy generation. One of the greatest challenges to meeting this goal will be the transmission and distribution system. Utah needed analysis to inform discussions on new generation, the likely network congestion based on new power flows, and modeling of the state's energy infrastructure. To support this need, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a baseline understanding of recent historical congestion in the existing transmission system based on electricity market prices. The results shared in this analysis of electricity price differentials presentation visualize and provide metrics on congestion within Utah and between Utah and its neighbors from 2015 to 2023.

Meeting data center demand growth in Virginia may require several options. The Virginia options presentation outlines how grid-enhancing technologies and upgrades to existing power line infrastructure could help meet demand in the short and medium term.