 GridSTART is working on a renewable energy integration study for the country of Thailand. This is in collaboration with EGAP, the Power Generation and Transmission Utility. In this chart here, you see the total generation in Thailand, and it's currently dominated by natural gas. We're looking at scenarios five and ten years out to see what kind of impacts they increase renewables that has on their current grid. These intermittent resources will introduce a lot of issues into the grid that the utility has not have experience handling. The goal of this study is to model these intermittency into a software simulation environment and come up with mitigation strategies that would help prepare the utility to address these issues as they come up. The model of Thailand is broken up into seven regions and it's actually modeled as nodes. The nodes are then interconnected with transmission lines, with thermal constraints, and within each node we have the generation. If we look at one of the generators, we can see that it includes a lot of operational characteristics of the generator. We have information such as the maximum capacity, the minimum stable level, heat rates, the run-up and run-down cost, and so forth. It's not always about economic dispatch. Sometimes there are physical and contractual agreements that EGAP has with other vendors that actually place part in day-to-day operation. In the model validation, we address those issues and incorporate them into the model as we see discrepancy between the model results and the actual operation. We can take the knowledge that we gain here and apply it to other countries where everyone is looking at more renewable resources and how to better integrate them into the grid without affecting the customer satisfaction.