Webinars and Videos

Featured Videos

Transmission Planning and Operations—Getting More With Less

At the CEM Senior Officials Meeting in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in March 2023, 21CPP held a side event focused on both efficient use of existing transmission and effective planning of new transmission.

Power System Transformation: Case Studies From Brazil, China, and Mexico

At CEM 9 in Copenhagen, 21CPP convened a side event on Power System Transformation: Case Studies from Brazil, China, and Mexico with high-level representations by government officials from each country.

You can find more Clean Energy Ministerial videos by visiting our CEM YouTube channel.

Featured Webinars

Power Sector Decarbonization Action Plan Webinar Series

September – November 2023
Throughout 2022 and 2023, the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) workstreams provided support to countries around the world for the development of power sector decarbonization action plans. At the 14th annual Clean Energy Ministerial conference in Goa, India, the first cohort of countries – Australia, Chile, India, the European Commission, India, and the United Kingdom – released their action plans to accelerate power sector decarbonization and transformation in their countries. Brought to you by the CEM's Clean Energy Solutions Center (CESC) and 21st Century Power Partnership (21CPP), the Power Sector Decarbonization Action Plan Webinar Series highlights these power sector decarbonization action plans and prospects for implementation.

Resource Adequacy and Flexibility: Keeping the Lights On

May 2023
Brought to you by the Clean Energy Solutions Center and 21CPP, this webinar focused on resource adequacy and grid flexibility, key themes in the CEM14 action plans and critical topics for integrating variable renewable energy into the grid while ensuring system reliability. Global energy experts discussed how grid planners can ensure stable supply while rapidly decarbonizing the power system and how various policies can increase the power grid’s flexibility. The session ended with a Q&A with the audience.

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Capacity Value of Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) Resources

May 2018

This webinar focused on the use of capacity expansion models in long-term planning and how they ensure "enough" capacity is built if significant quantities of variable renewable generation exist. NREL's capacity expansion model, ReEDS (Regional Energy Deployment System), is described. It also describes the concept of capacity value and different techniques used to quantify it.

Large-Scale Integration of Variable Renewable Energy: Key Issues and Emerging Trends

March 2018

This webinar summarized key lessons, trends and best practices associated with integrating utility-scale VRE into grids, with a special in-depth case study from India.

Power System Transformation: Case Studies from Brazil, China, and Mexico

At CEM 9 in Copenhagen, 21CPP convened a side event on Power System Transformation: Case Studies from Brazil, China, and Mexico with high-level representations by government officials from each country.

You can find more Clean Energy Ministerial videos by visiting our CEM YouTube channel.

18 December 2017

This webinar co-hosted by the 21st Century Power Partnership and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, took place during a study tour from China State Grid Energy Research Institute staff to North American power system operators and research institutes, and provides a comparative overview of power transformation activities in China, India, and the United States. View the recorded webinar and the individual slide presentations below.

Big, Fast, and Flexible: Grid Operations for Efficient Variable Renewable Integration

11 October 2016

Following a brief introduction to the basics of power system operations and power system flexibility, the webinar presents various methods and examples of pathways for moving towards larger balancing areas and faster dispatch under different institutional contexts.

Clean Restructuring: Design for Low Carbon Wholesale Markets and Beyond

30 June 2016

The webinar will review three main areas of consideration for decision makers embarking on a clean restructuring process: planning and procurement, market operation rules, and network expansion and grid code. The webinar, based on the Power Partnership report features case studies of clean restructuring for Mexico, Denmark, and Germany, and the webinar will focus on current clean restructuring efforts in Mexico by the co-authors of the case study, Hector Beltran and Jose Maria Valenzuela.

Greening the Grid: Implementing Wind and Solar Power Forecasting

21 April 2016

This webinar introduces the considerations associated with advancing the use of wind and solar forecasts to more efficiently integrate variable renewable energy into the grid. Discussion topics included how wind and solar forecasting enhance power system operations; how wind and solar forecasts are produced; approaches to structuring forecasting programs and the collection of necessary data; and policy and other actions to support forecasting.

Greening the Grid: Implementing Renewable Energy Zones

1 December 2015

This webinar introduces the renewable energy zone (REZ) approach, including the value of REZ to a power system, crucial components of the REZ process, technical approach to defining REZs using geospatial analysis, and case studies to highlight examples and key lessons for implementing REZ in other parts of the world.

6 October 2015
This webinar was presented as part launch of GreeningTheGrid.org, which is designed to support countries in integrating renewable energy into the power system. It addresses fundamental questions, about conducting grid integration studies, best practices for engaging key stakeholders in them and the kinds of analysis and data that are involved in them. It includes several case studies to highlight lessons learned.

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Integrating Variable Renewable Energy into the Grid: Key Issues and Emerging Solutions

29 July 2015

This webinar reviews the challenges to integrating significant quantities of variable renewable energy to the grid as well as the emerging solutions that policymakers, regulators and grid operators have taken to integrate wind and solar and meet renewable energy targets. Webinar participants learn about the myths, misperceptions, costs and options for scaling up grid-connected renewable energy, as well as the Greening the Grid website and technical assistance opportunities.

Open Source Energy System Modelling with OSeMOSYS

In this webinar, panelists discuss energy modelling using OSeMOSYS, a fully fledged systems optimization model for long-term energy planning that is a simple, powerful, and transparent tool for informing the development of local, national and multi-regional energy strategies.