A Major Player: Renewables Are Now Mainstream [Guest Editorial]

The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) has focused on the integration of wind, and more recently solar, power into electric power systems. The industry focus is now concentrating around how to integrate inverter-based power plants into weak grids and, indeed, how to design a grid for 100% nonsynchronous generation. The focus is no longer on how to integrate those alien forms of generation from Mars into the grid but how to integrate the energy systems of the future, of which renewable energy systems are a major part, into a coherent whole. Examines how this will likely develop over the coming years.