The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) has released a series of three reports on integrated planning. The reports offer a framework and steps that planners can use to move toward integrating planning for electricity generation, transmission, and distribution, and customer loads and resources.

• Foundations of Integrated Planning: Defining a Framework for Comprehensive Energy System Planning defines integrated planning and presents a four-part framework focused on the integration of inputs, analysis, actions, and decision-making.
• Integrated Planning Guidebook: A Practical Coordination Framework for Electricity Planners provides practical recommendations for today’s electricity system planners to advance toward increasing levels of integration using a “walk/jog/run” approach.
• Optimization for Integrated Electricity System Planning: Opportunities for Integrated Planning in Capacity Expansion Models explores the opportunities and challenges of using economic optimization capacity expansion modeling to consider a broader set of integrated planning constraints and investment opportunities.

Read more on ESIG’s website.