REopt Lite: Sizing Solar+Storage for Savings and Resiliency with NREL’s New Tool

In this webinar, presenters from the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) introduced the beta version of the lab’s new solar+storage web tool, REopt Lite. This free tool is designed to help building owners and planners quickly and easily evaluate the economics of solar PV and battery storage for their sites. It identifies the optimal PV and battery system sizing to minimize costs and maximize lifetime energy savings. The tool can also be used to size solar+storage systems to support a site’s critical loads during a grid outage.

REopt Lite is an online version of NREL’s more comprehensive REopt model, which has been used by analysts to evaluate renewable energy opportunities at more than 10,000 sites, supporting decisions leading to more than 260 megawatts of renewable energy development.

Presenters:

• Kate Anderson, Senior Engineer and Manager, Engineering and Modeling Group, Integrated Applications Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Emma Elgqvist, Engineer, Engineering and Modeling Group, Integrated Applications Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Clean Energy Group will be offering REopt Lite training and analysis support to nonprofit organizations looking to evaluate solar+storage deployment in low-income communities and affordable housing. For more information about this opportunity, please contact Clean Energy Group project director Seth Mullendore, seth@cleanegroup.org.

This webinar was presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project.