Samir Succar Ph.D.

Visiting Research Collaborator
Energy Group
Princeton Environmental Institute
Email: ssuccar [at] nrdc.org

Energy

Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center (CEIC)
Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HEPG)
Imperial College Energy Futures Lab
MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment (LFEE)
Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
NREL Energy Analysis Group
UMD Energy Research Center (UMERC)
Berkeley RAEL Laboratory
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Energy Modeling Forum (EMF)
Renewable Energy Information (Eric Martinot)
Columbia Center for Life Cycle Analysis (CLCA)
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
International Energy Agency (IEA)

Wind

NREL National Wind Technology Center (NWTC)
University of Delaware Offshore Windpower Group
Risoe Laboratory Wind Energy Research
Mark Jacobson, Stanford University
Utility Wind Intergation Group (UWIG)
National Cilmatic Data Center
Wind Energy Projects in the U.S.
National Wind Coordinating Committee
Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE)

Energy Storage

CU Boulder Energy Storage Group
Sandia NL Energy Storage Systems (ESS)
Energy Storage Association (ESA)
Iowa Stored Energy Park
Energy Storage and Power LLC
Electric Storage Power Corporation
The Combined Power Plant (Germany)
A123 Systems
ZBB Corporation
VRB Power Systems
General Compression

Etc

Capoeira
Wprb
Grounds For Sculpture

Carbon Mitigation Initiative

WWS Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy

My research focuses on integration issues associated with large-scale wind energy. Specific interests include implementation of energy storage solutions as a strategy for optimizing transmission utilization and mitigating the variability inherent in wind. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is of particular interest for enhancing the capacity factor of large wind farms and allowing wind to play a role in baseload power markets. Other topics include the competition of large-scale wind with other low-carbon technologies such as coal IGCC with CCS under various climate mitigation policy scenarios.

Selected Publications and Presentations:

S. Succar, R. H. Williams, “Compressed Air Energy Storage: Theory, Resources, And Applications For Wind Power” Princeton Environmental Institute Report, April 2008

S. Succar, D. Denkenberger, J. B. Greenblatt, and R. H. Williams, "An Integrated Optimization Of Large-Scale Wind With Variable Rating Coupled To Compressed Air Energy Storage," Proceedings of AWEA Windpower 2006,Pittsburgh, PA, 2006. [pdf]

S. Succar, J. B. Greenblatt, and R. H. Williams, "Comparing Coal IGCC with CCS and Wind-CAES Baseload Power Options in a Carbon-Constrained World," Proceedings of Fifth Annual Conference On Carbon Capture And Sequestration - DOE/NETL, Alexandria, VA, 2006.[pdf]

J. B. Greenblatt, S. Succar, D. Denkenberger, R. H. Williams, and R. H. Socolow, "Baseload wind energy: Modeling the competition between gas turbines and compressed air energy storage for supplemental generation," Energy Policy, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2007, Pages 1474-1492 [doi]

S. Succar “Global Prospects For Wind Energy: Addressing The Challenges Of An Intermittent Energy Resource” presented to the African regional meeting of the InterAcademy Council Program on Transitions to Sustainable Energy, Durban, South Africa, 30 October, 2005 [slides]