Amount of new energy capacity connected to the grid during the reporting period, measured in MW.
Organizations should footnote all assumptions used.
This metric is intended to capture the amount of new energy capacity – that is, the maximum amount of renewable energy that the organization’s power system can transmit – added to the system during the reporting period. This metric should be reported and disaggregated according to Primary Energy Source (OI3781).
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
New metric. Energy Capacity Added (PI9448) was developed via the IRIS+ Clean Energy Expert Subgroup.
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