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UL Solutions delivers renewable energy grid solutions that combine accurate solar and wind forecasting, sophisticated atmospheric modeling and custom research to help operators plan and run more reliable and more efficient grids. We support grid stakeholders with data-driven insights that quantify variability and its impact on operations.
Our power and weather forecasts help grid operators, balancing authorities and asset owners anticipate variability, schedule resources and respond to ramps and extreme events — supporting grid reliability and operational efficiency. Forecasts can be updated as often as every five minutes and tailored from sub‑hourly intervals out to several weeks.
By combining advanced models with production data, we create site‑specific profiles that reveal seasonal/diurnal patterns, ramp behavior and variability from seconds to years, enabling smarter capacity expansion, transmission and distribution (T&D) planning and Distributed Energy Resource (DER) scenarios.
Our forecasting solutions meet strict cybersecurity data and infrastructure requirements for over half of North American Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs), supporting more secure data flows for real‑time operations at scale.
Get location‑specific solar energy forecasting and wind power forecasting for grid operators and asset owners — deterministic and probabilistic outputs, event alerts (e.g., icing, cutouts) and hindcasts for curtailment analysis.
Use grid management solutions to evaluate capacity expansion, T&D investment, high‑penetration DER scenarios, load coincidence studies and storage optimization — supported by high‑frequency, sub‑hourly resource and power profiles.
We’ll help you reduce waste, increase use of renewable energy, and responsibly engage with the community and environment.
Get location‑specific solar energy forecasting and wind power forecasting for grid operators and asset owners — deterministic and probabilistic outputs, event alerts (e.g., icing, cutouts) and hindcasts for curtailment analysis.
Use grid management solutions to evaluate capacity expansion, T&D investment, high‑penetration DER scenarios, load coincidence studies and storage optimization — supported by high‑frequency, sub‑hourly resource and power profiles.
We’ll help you reduce waste, increase use of renewable energy, and responsibly engage with the community and environment.
Our digital grid solutions are designed to align with grid‑operator requirements and meet the strict cybersecurity requirements of over half the RTOs/ISOs in North America, helping utilities and balancing authorities safeguard operations while integrating renewables.
Discuss your electric grid solutions operations, planning or research with our experts and see how our forecasting, modeling and planning support can help reduce risk and improve reliability. Contact us to start a conversation.
UL Solutions' site-specific energy-generation modeling services support your site’s reliable and economical operations.
UL Solutions can provide the data and expert advice you need for expanding renewable energy.
UL Solutions’ advisory services help integrate energy storage solutions into renewable energy projects for clean, reliable energy generation.
Extensive forecasting and asset management solutions to support your investments in renewable energy.
UL Solutions offers software tools and data products to support the development, assessment and operation of more efficient renewable energy projects.
UL Solutions offers technical advisory services to help you weigh the returns of your renewable energy project against the inherent technical risks.
We help companies mitigate risk and earn trust among stakeholders to whom companies demonstrate health and sustainability in their product lines, facilities and supply chains.
We provide deterministic “best‑estimate” forecasts, probabilistic forecasts with confidence bands and event forecasts (e.g., ramps, icing, cutouts). Forecasts can be updated as often as every five minutes, with prediction intervals from sub‑hourly granularity out to several weeks.
Yes. Forecasts are tuned to exact plant locations and optimized with any available on‑site data, but we can still produce valuable forecasts when on‑site measurements aren’t available by leveraging Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), satellite and nearby sensor data.
We combine simulated wind/solar resource data with production data to create high‑frequency profiles for load coincidence and high‑penetration DER studies, informing capacity expansion, T&D planning and storage optimization.
Yes. Using high‑performance computing, we quantify scheduling uncertainty from minutes to years and generate event‑focused forecasts (e.g., icing, snow on PV, extreme temperatures) to support operational readiness.
We produce historical hindcasts (forecasts of foregone energy) to estimate generation potential during curtailed periods, supporting performance analysis and settlement discussions.
We work with transmission system operators, utilities, balancing authorities, plant owners/operators, energy storage providers and other grid stakeholders across operations and planning.