Robust growth in electric sector capacity in recent years has likely been slowed by technical, policy, and economic barriers, including but not limited to interconnection queues, permitting, availability, cost of emerging technologies, inflation, and supply chain delays. Incorporating these barriers into models is often challenging, resulting in a divergence between model results and realized deployment rates. This analysis attempts to address this challenge by developing scenarios that constrain deployment rates of power system assets, reflecting possible realizations of uncertain barriers.
Authors Dan Livengood, John Bistline