Integrated Energy System Planning

Integrated Strategic System Planning | Resource Planning for Electric Companies

Integrated Strategic System Planning

Learn more about EPRI's work on Integrated Strategic System Planning

EPRI Reports

• Rachel Moglen. (2025). Stochastic Modeling Practices for Integrated Resource Planning. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. 3002030746
• Ryan Fulleman and Nidhi Santen. (2025). Integrated Resource Planning - Generation Transitions: Practical Realities. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. 3002030606
• Nidhi Santen, Anish Gaikwad, Devin Van Zandt, N. Srujana Goteti, Phil de Mello, Miguel Ortega-Vazquez, Parag Mitra, Greg Adams, Matt Rylander. (2024). Linking Capacity Expansion, Resource Adequacy, and Production Cost Modeling Tools for Integrated Strategic System Planning. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 3002028534
• Greg Adams, Jesse Bukenberger, Sudipta Dutta, N. Srujana Goteti, Nidhi Santen, and Qianru Zhu. (2024). Current Modeling Capabilities and Practices for Integrated Planning. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 3002028537
• Gaikwad, A., Santen, N., Van Zandt, D., 2023. Integrated Strategic System Planning Initiative: Modeling Framework, Demonstration Study Results, and Key Insights, EPRI Report 3002028640.
• Tapia-Ahumada, K., Swanson, S., and Santen, N., 2023. Energy Storage in Long-Term Resource Planning: A Review of Modeling Approaches and Utility Practices, EPRI Report 3002028378.
• Karen Tapia-Ahumada and Nidhi Santen, 2022. Emerging Integrated System Planning Methods: Utility Perspectives and Applications, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002025566

Resource Planning for Electric Companies

Publications and Presentations

• Goteti, N. S., et al. (2025). Stochastic Capacity Expansion Model Accounting for Uncertainties in Fuel Prices, Renewable Generation, and Demand. Energies. 18(5), 1283
• Anna Lafoyiannis, Maren Ihlemann, and Jo Ann Rañola. (2024). Assessing the Flexibility of Green Hydrogen in Power System Models. Energy Systems Integration Group.
• Jo Ann Rañola, N. Srujana Goteti, and Bailie Neary. (2023). A Survey of Global Electric System Resource Planning Approaches to Achieve Decarbonization Goals. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 3002028306
• John Bistline and Naga Srujana Goteti (2022): “Capacity at Risk: A Metric for Robust Planning Decisions under Uncertainty in the Electric Sector” (Environmental Research Communications)
• John Bistline (2019): "Turn Down For What? The Economic Value of Operational Flexibility in Electricity Markets" (IEEE Transactions on Power Systems)
• John Bistline, Stephen Comello (Stanford), Anshuman Sahoo (Stanford), (2018). Managerial flexibility in levelized cost measures: A framework for incorporating uncertainty in energy investment decisions (Energy)

EPRI Reports

• Nidhi Santen, Rachel Moglen, and Dheepak Krishnamurthy. (2025). Stochastic Analysis for Electric Company Resource Planning: A Primer. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. 3002030218
• Anand Kumar. (2024). State of Electric Sector Resource Planning in Canada 2024. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. 30020309006
• A. Staid and R. Fulleman, 2024. Practices for Representing Climate Impacts in Bulk Electric System Models. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. 3002030855
• Rachel Moglen, Nidhi Santen, Steve Dahlke, and Srujana Goteti, 2024. Stochastic Modeling Practices for Integrated Resource Planning. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. 3002030746.
• Nitin Padmanabhan, Anand Kumar. (2024). Overview of Energy Storage Wholesale Market Participation. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 3002029194
• Anna Lafoyiannis. (2024). Review of Grid Reliability Services from Inverter-Based Resources. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 3002029347
• Anna Lafoyiannis, Maren Ihlemann, Nidhi Santen, 2023. State of Hydrogen Modeling in Electric Company Integrated Resource Planning. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002026595
• Steve Dahlke, Silas Swanson, and Sean Ericson, 2023. State of Electric Company Resource Planning 2023. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002026243
• Robin Hytowitz., Erik Ela, and Nidhi Santen, 2022. Natural Gas Networks and Hydraulic Modeling: Basic Needs for Gas Data Sets. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #3002024649.
• Naga Srujana Goteti and Adam Diamant, 2021. Incorporating Solar PV and Electric Vehicles into Electric Company Resource Planning, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002022791
• Adam Diamant and John Bistline, 2021. Incorporating Energy Storage Resources into Long-Term Capacity Planning Models: An Assessment of the Inclusion of Specific Features on Battery Deployment in the Southeastern United States. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002021969
• Adam Diamant and Miles Evans, 2021. Incorporating Energy Storage Resources into Long-Term Capacity Planning Models: Experiments to Evaluate Approaches for Representing Battery Degradation — Phase 2 Report, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002022942
• EPRI, 2021. target="_blank"Exploring the Impacts of Extreme Events, Natural Gas Fuel and Other Contingencies on Resource Adequacy. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002019300
• Diamant, A., 2020. Incorporating Energy Efficiency and Demand Response into Electric Company Power System Resource Planning. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002019626
• EPRI, 2019. Coordinated Expansion Planning: Status and Research Challenges. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3012016661
• EPRI, 2019. Case Studies of 10 Integrated Energy Network Planning Challenges – Volume 1, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. # 3002014644
• EPRI 2019. Case Studies of Integrated Energy Network Planning Challenges – Volume 2, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. #3002017669