Interconnection bottlenecks are starving our grid of gigawatts of solar projects, which, as they sit in line waiting for a green light, become less financially feasible.

However, distribution system flexibility presents a still largely untapped opportunity to unblock hosting capacity constraints, releasing private capital to deliver projects that provide flexibility for both distribution and transmission systems.

Dynamic Hosting Capacity (“DHC”) represents the concept of calculating the hosting capacity for a specific location in the distribution grid in real-time at given time intervals.  It can be further expanded to include the ability to calculate hosting capacity across all grid levels and can be applied to any given time frame for a specific location in the grid. This observed time frame can stretch from years (analysis of data) to just a single event (real-time) depending on the utility’s use case.

DHC is simply where the future and the present is at, as it is now economically optimal for solar to be overbuilt in conjunction with curtailment. Unfortunately, policy and other status quo societal structures still make this optimal solution hard to deliver. 

We need a step change in what is considered a standard approach and standard technology within the Utility industry for achieving all of the above. It is time to embrace modern and open digital technologies and approaches.

This is why we have developed a white paper including a case study, which you can access here: Dynamic Hosting Capacity (DHC) Definition and Opportunity

Already interested in learning more? Reach out to the Ecosuite team at info@ecosuite.io