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2020 Meteorology & Market Design for Grid Services Workshop (ONLINE)
June 1, 2020 - June 30, 2020
The 2020 Meteorology & Market Design for Grid Services Workshop will be held online via WebEx throughout the month of June. Below you will find the schedule of sessions.
Registration for each session will be FREE. If you have any questions, please let us know at info@esig.energy.
We hope you are able to join us for these informative sessions from industry leaders during the month of June.
Tuesday, June 2 – 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Opening Keynote Session – Thoughts on Market Optimization
Chair: Mark Ahlstrom, President, ESIG Board of Directors, NextEra Energy Resources
Optimization: Are We Getting What We Need?
Edward Rothberg, CEO & Co-founder, Gurobi
Optimization: How Much is Too Much?
Mike Hogan, Senior Advisor, RAP
Panelist: Mark O’Malley, Professor, UC Dublin; Chair, ESIG Research and Education Working Group
Thursday, June 4 – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Opening Plenary Session – Joint Session with WEMC: Climate Services in Support of the Energy Sector in a Changing Climate
Chair: Alberto Troccoli, Director/Professor, WEMC/UEA, United Kingdom
Introduction
Sue Ellen Haupt, RAL Deputy Director, NCAR
Climate Science and Its Relevance to Renewable Energy
Sara Pryor, Professor, Cornell University
Climate Services: What They Are and How to Use Them
Carlo Buontempo, C3S Director, ECMWF
Climate Services in Support of TSO Long Term Studies
Laurent Dubus, Lead Scientist on Weather & Climate, RTE
Tuesday, June 9 – 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Markets Session 1: Grid Services Under Uncertainty
Chair: Bethany Frew, Engineer, NREL
Co-Chair: Rob Gramlich, President, Grid Strategies
Accounting for Uncertainty via Operating Reserve Demand Curves
Jacob Mays, Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
Market Power and Unit De-commitment in Regional Markets
Steve Beuning, Vice President, Holy Cross Energy
Forecasting Applications for Dynamic Reserve Allocation
Henry Lee, System Operations Director, HECO
Thursday, June 11 – 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Forecasting Session 1: Solar/Wind Forecasting R&D Project Updates
Chair: Tassos Golnas, Technology Manager, DOE
Co-Chair: Eric Grimit, Technology Manager, Applied Meteorology, Vaisala
DOE PV Forecasting Program Update
Tassos Golnas, Technology Manager, DOE
The Value of Solar Forecasting
Rodrigo Amaro e Silva, Researcher University of Lisbon, Portugal
Short Term Utility Scale PV Power Forecasting in the Australian NEM
Nick Engerer, Chief Technology Officer, Solcast, Australia
Tuesday, June 16 – 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Markets Session 2: New Products for a New Reality
Chair: Erik Ela, Senior Technical Leader, EPRI
Co-Chair: Julia Matevosyan, Lead Planning Engineer, ERCOT
Imbalance Reserve and Real Time Flex Ramp Requirement Products
Amber Motley, Short Term Forecasting Manager, CAISO
New Market Product Developments in MISO
Jessica Harrison, Senior Director of R&D, MISO
New Market Products Down Under
Mike Davidson, Manager Operational Forecasting, AEMO, Australia
Q&A Session: We will be using the slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
Thursday, June 18 – 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Forecasting Session 2: Extreme Weather Events
Chair: Josh Novacheck, Electricity System Research Engineer, NREL
Co-Chair: Craig Collier, Chief Meteorologist, Head of Operations, Energy Forecasting Solutions
Extreme Weather and the Grid of the Future
Justin Sharp, Principal & Owner, Sharply Focused
Impact of Extreme Events on Wind and Solar Forecasts
Ulrich Focken, Managing Director & Co-founder, Energy and Meteo, Germany
Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Resource Adequacy Methods and Calculations
Gord Stephen, University of Washington
Q&A Session: We will be using the slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
Tuesday, June 23 – 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Markets Session 3: Control and Dispatch of Hybrid Resources
Chair: Paul Sotkiewicz, Consultant
Co-Chair: James Pigeon, Manager, Distributed Resources Integration, NYISO
Aggregated DERs and Hybrid Resources
Matt Rippe, Sr. Operations Engineer, NextEra Analytics
Challenges and Opportunities for DER Markets and dLMP
Hongyu Wu, Assistant Professor, Kansas State
Market Models and Forecasting for Hybrid Power Plants
Mark Ahlstrom, President, ESIG Board of Directors
Q&A Session: We will be using the slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
Thursday, June 25 – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Forecasting Session 3: IEA Wind Task 36 Joint Session: Updates in Best Practices/Tools
Chair: John Zack, UL Renewables
Co-Chair: Corinna Möhrlen, Managing Director, WEPROG, Germany
Task 36 Overview
Gregor Giebel, Senior Researcher, DTU, Denmark
Update on Recommended Practice Documents and Issues
Jeff Lerner, Business Development and Project Manager, ENFOR
Overview, Demonstration and Results of Probabilistic Forecasting Game
Corinna Möhrlen, Managing Director, WEPROG, Germany
Update on Recommended Practice Documents and Issues
John Zack, Senior Advisor, UL Renewables
NWP Wind Forecasting Benchmarks
Will Shaw, Earth System Measurements & Data Manager, PNNL
Q&A Session: We will be using the slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
Monday, June 29 – 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Closing Plenary Session: Forecasting and Operation Challenges Under Coronavirus Conditions
(Sponsored by EPRI)
Chair: Debra Lew, Consultant
Co-Chair: Aidan Tuohy, Program Manager, EPRI
Setting the Scene
Aidan Tuohy, Program Manager, EPRI
A European Point of View
Julian Leslie, Head of Networks, ESO, National Grid, United Kingdom
An Australian Point of View
Tjaart Van Der Walt, General Manager, Real-time Operations, AEMO, Australia
A US Point of View
Dave Edelson, Manager, Operations Performance and Analysis, NYISO
Q&A Session: We will be using the slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
