April 26, 2024
[caption id="attachment_11472" align="alignright" width="184"] Jeff Billo[/caption] Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 4:30 p.m. – I had just exited a 90-minute online knowledge-sharing session with fellow Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST) system operators in the U.S., Australia, and Europe discussing best practices for managing transmission constraints in a system with high levels of inverter-based resources (IBRs) like wind and solar generation. Upon closing out of the meeting, my eyes immediately shifted focus to a monitor in my office displaying a dashboard of critical real-time Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) system information, essentially a summarized version of the displays that operators in the control room down the hall use to monitor…
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