Context for Responses To provide context for some of the responses below, it may be helpful to provide additional insight into how the model works. Strategist is a long term generation planning tool and as such uses load duration curves an...
AI summary The document explains that the Strategist model is used for long-term generation planning and does not include detailed operational models for load following or hourly dispatch. The Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) will not evaluate storage and load following economics in detail, but will use placeholders like the back-up adder for wind. CAES will be evaluated for CO2 mitigation and dispatchable resource capabilities.