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On the Road to Grid-Forming Inverters: When and How Many Will We Need?
Read More: On the Road to Grid-Forming Inverters: When and How Many Will We Need?AC/DC is not only a rock band of repute with countless classics under their belt, but it was also the topic of the great current war between Tesla and Edison. Both approaches, however, required the presence of a rotating machine, inside which the friendly properties described by Faraday, Newton, Maxwell, and Lenz meshed together to…
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Energy Systems Integration Group Elects Three New Board Members
Read More: Energy Systems Integration Group Elects Three New Board MembersReston, Va. – The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) has announced three new members of its board, following a recent nomination and election process. The new board members were introduced during ESIG’s annual membership meeting held earlier this month. The board of directors serve as industry ambassadors for ESIG and collectively oversee and ensure the…
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Capacity Markets: The Way of the Future or the Way of the Past?
Read More: Capacity Markets: The Way of the Future or the Way of the Past?Capacity markets are used in some wholesale electricity markets to pay resources for being available to meet peak electricity demand. Capacity is not actual electricity, but rather the ability to produce electricity when called upon several years in the future. Capacity market payments cover some or all of the fixed costs of building and maintaining…
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Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) Announces Recipients of 2020 Excellence Awards
Read More: Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) Announces Recipients of 2020 Excellence AwardsEnergy Systems Integration Group (ESIG), the leading source of global expertise for energy systems integration and operations, recently announced the recipients of its 2020 Excellence Awards. These awards recognize energy professionals from around the world for their contributions and accomplishments toward the planning and operation of energy systems across multiple pathways and geographical scales in…
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Inertia Trends in ERCOT
Read More: Inertia Trends in ERCOTThe November 2018 ESIG blog on “Implementation of Inertia Monitoring in ERCOT – What’s It All About?” discussed the importance of synchronous inertia for a power system. It included the impacts of inverter-based resources on system inertia, and an inertia monitoring tool that ERCOT implemented to track system inertia in real time, forecast it for…
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Notice of Annual Membership Meeting for 2020
Read More: Notice of Annual Membership Meeting for 2020The Energy Systems Integration Group will conduct an annual meeting of the membership, to be held at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, AZ. The meeting will take place from 12:00 p.m. to 12:20 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. The agenda for the meeting is posted with this notice. The agenda includes a…