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2020 Spring Technical Workshop
March 20, 2020 - May 5, 2020
**The 2020 Spring Technical Workshop has moved to online sessions**
Each session that was planned for the 2020 ESIG Spring Technical Workshop will now be held online via WebEx. Below you will find the schedule, along with the corresponding link to register for each session. 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 over the next several months.
Friday, March 20 – 2:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Opening Plenary Session: Thinking About the Value of DER
Chair: Matt Schuerger, Commissioner, Minnesota PUC
A Utility View of DER Value
Obadiah Bartholomy, Manager, Distributed Energy Strategy, SMUD
A Customer View of DER Value
Holly Lahd, Lead Program Manager, Energy & Sustainability, Target
A Regulator View of DER Value
Carl Linvill, Principal, Regulatory Assistance Project
A NERC View of DER Value
Bob Cummings, Senior Director of Engineering and Reliability Initiatives, NERC
An ISO View of DER Value
James Pigeon, Manager, Distributed Resources Integration, NYISO
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Tuesday, March 24 – 4:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Session 1: Evolving Thinking on Resource Adequacy for High VG Scenarios
Chair: Bethany Frew, Engineer, NREL
Resource Adequacy: Connecting Existing Methods, Tools, and Metrics with the Future Grid
Michael Milligan, Consultant
Changes in Capacity Value for Energy Storage and DR with Increasing VG Levels
Keith Parks, Senior Trading Analyst, Xcel Energy
RA Considerations for Renewable Integration in Japan
Kazuhiko Ogimoto, Project Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan
Securing RA in a VG World
Matthias Fripp, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii
Resource Adequacy and Markets
Rob Gramlich, President, Grid Strategies
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Thursday, March 26 – 2:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Session 2: Synchronous Condenser and Control System Considerations for Weak Grid Applications
Chair: Bob Zavadil, Chief Operating Officer, EnerNex
Weak Grids to Condensers to Grid-Forming Inverters: The Right Progression?
Nick Miller, Principal, HickoryLedge LLC
Modeling and Simulation for Synchronous Condenser Applications – A Case Study
Dennis Woodford, President, Electranix
ERCOT Experience with Synchronous Condenser Application
Fred Huang, Manager of Regional Planning, Transmission Planning, ERCOT
Application Engineering Considerations for Synchronous Condensers
Shruti Rao, Senior Engineer, GE Power
Dynamic Stabiity Considerations for High VG Penetrations
Vahan Gevorgian, Chief Engineer, NREL
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Thursday, April 2 – 2:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Session 3: Current Challenges with Transmission Planning – Where Are We?
Chair: Jay Caspary, Director, R&D and Special Studies, SPP
Transmission Expansion Planning: The Role of the Queue and Cost Allocation
John Lawhorn, Sr. Director, Policy & Economic Studies, MISO
Transmission Expansion Planning: The Role of FERC
Rob Gramlich, President, Grid Strategies
Transmission Expansion Planning: The Role of Energy Price Formation
Dick O’Neill, Distinguished Senior Fellow, ARPA-E
Transmission Expansion Planning: A Canadian Point of View
David Jacobson, Interconnections & Grid Supply Planning Engineer, Manitoba Hydro
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Tuesday, April 7 – 2:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Session 4: DER Integration and System Operation
Chair: Steve Beuning, Vice President, Holy Cross Energy
Autonomous Energy Systems
Benjamin Kroposki, Director – Power Systems Engineering Center, NREL
Communications, Control and Security for DER
Ted Burhans, Director, Emerging Technology and Innovations, Tucson Electric Power
Autonomous Control for DER Inverter Functions
Ric O’Connell, Executive Director, GridLab
Dynamic Voltage Stability of Distribution-level Volt-Var Control Systems
Matt Richwine, Founding Partner, Telos Energy
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Thursday, April 9 – 3:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Session 5: Market Design Evolution for High Share of Renewables
Chair: Eric Gimon, Senior Fellow, Energy Innovation
A Forward Market for Clean Energy Attributes
Brendan Pierpont, Senior Electricity Sector Analyst / Expert, Sierra Club
Ensuring RA in Future High VG Scenarios – A View from CA
Phil Pettingill, Director, Regional Integration, CAISO
Elements of Market Design that Support High Renewable Penetration
Julia Matevosyan, Lead Planning Engineer, ERCOT
Impacts of Market Design on Storage Valuation
Erik Ela, Senior Technical Leader, EPRI
MISO’s AGC Enhancements for Fast Ramping Resources
Jessica Harrison, Senior Director of R&D, MISO
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Tuesday, April 14 – 2:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Session 6: Integrated Energy System Analysis
Chair: Kory Hedman, Program Director, ARPA-E
US National Electrification Assessment
Geoff Blanford, Senior Technical Executive, EPRI
Joint Planning of the Gas and Electric System at the European Level
Antje Orths, Chief Engineer, Energinet, Denmark
Flexibility from Targeted Cool Storage Systems
Adam Valmoro, Regional Director, Viking Cold Solutions
Integrated Transportation-Energy System Modeling
Matteo Muratori, Engineer, NREL
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Thursday, April 16 – 1:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Session 7: Sector Coupling & Flexibility
Chair: William D’Haeseleer, Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium
Flexibility Improvements from Process Engineering
Michael Baldea, Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Optimization for Energy Systems Integration
Christopher Clack, CEO, Vibrant Clean Energy
Flexibility in Industrial Production – A View on Status and Prospects
Elizabeth Endler, Program Manager, Shell Engineering
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Tuesday, April 21 – 2:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Session 8: ESI Planning Optimization and Modeling Techniques
Chair: Lindsay Anderson, Associate Professor, Cornell University
The Electricity-Water Interdependency
Vijay Vittal, Regents Professor, Arizona State University
Gas Electricity System Coupling
Line Roald, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Modeling Market Interactions
Bethany Frew, Engineer, NREL
Planning Towards a 100 Percent Renewable Electricity System
Michael Ferris, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
DER Planning Results Using REopt Lite – A Behind-the-Meter Techno-Economic Analysis Tool
Sakshi Mishra, Researcher, NREL
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Thursday, April 23 – 12:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Session 9: Operations Planning for Storage and Hybrid Power Plants
Chair: Tom Acker, Professor, Northern Arizona University
The Rise of the Hybrid Power Plant
Will Gorman, Graduate Student Researcher, LBNL
HyFlex – Simplifying the Operation of PV Hybrids
Mark Ahlstrom, President, ESIG Board of Directors, NextEra Energy Resources
Hydro Plus Storage
Thomas Mosier, Energy Systems Group Lead, INL
Assessment of Solar + Storage for Resource Adequacy and Ramp Control
Andrew Mills, Senior Scientist, LBNL
Renewable Generation Reserve Sharing Groups
Brendan Kirby, Consultant
DOE Energy Storage Grand Challenge – Introduction & Overview
Alejandro Moreno, Director, Water Power Technologies Office
DOE Energy Storage Grand Challenge – Use Case Overview
Eric Hsieh, Director, Grid Systems and Components, DOE
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Tuesday, April 28 – 3:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Session 10: Challenges with High Inverter-Based Resource Penetration
Chair: Julia Matevosyan, Lead Planning Engineer, ERCOT
A Grid Forming Converter Future Without Frequency Droop Control
Deepak Ramasubramanian, Engineer Scientist III, EPRI
Grid Forming Inverters, A Way Forward
Ralph Pfeiffer, Head of Network Codes and Connection Rules, Amprion GmbH, Germany, on behalf of ENTSO-E a.i.s.b.l., Belgium
Industry Focus on BPS-Connected Inverter-Based Resource Modeling
Ryan Quint, Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics and Modeling, NERC
Reliability and Security Assessment: Performance, Models, and Tools in ERCOT
Fred Huang, Manager of Regional Planning, Transmission Planning, ERCOT
Reliability and Security Assessment: Performance, Models, and Tools in AEMO
Babak Badrzadeh, Manager, Operational Analysis and Engineering, AEMO, Australia
Control System Stability for Converter Dominated Grids
Shahil Shah, Research Engineer, NREL
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Tuesday, May 5 – 2:00 p.m. (eastern US) VIEW SESSION
Closing Plenary Session: Nuclear and Renewables – A Match Made in Heaven or Hell?
Chair: Mark O’Malley, Senior Research Fellow, NREL
The Size of the Problem
John Reilly, Senior Lecturer, MIT
Experiences and Opportunities with Flexible Nuclear Power Plant Operations
Sherry Bernhoft, Sr. Program Manager, Nuclear Innovation Department, EPRI
Conventional Reactors and Hydrogen Production
Bethany Frew, Engineer, NREL
Cost of Flexibility from Nuclear Power Plants
Nikhil Kumar, Director, Engineering Consulting Practice, Intertek
Small Modular Reactors and Flexibility
George Griffith, Relationship Manager, INL
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