The 2021 Meteorology & Market Design for Grid Services Workshop will be held online with sessions beginning on June 1 and closing on June 29.

Below you will find a list of the scheduled session topics, speaker/presentation information and registration links for each session. Please note, all sessions are FREE to attend.

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Opening Session and Keynote Comments (VIEW SESSION)

Tuesday, June 1
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. (US-EDT)

Welcome & Introduction
Mark Ahlstrom (@markahlstrom), President, ESIG Board of Directors, NextEra Energy Resources

Keynote Comments – Weather and Climate as Components of Energy Planning, Risk Analysis, and Decision Making
Gary Geernaert, Director, Earth and Environmental System Sciences Division, U.S. DOE

 

 

 

 

 

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Opening Plenary Session: Meteorology and Climatology – The Texas Event Part 1 (VIEW SESSION)

Friday, June 4
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (US-EDT)

Chair: Aaron Bloom, Director, New Product R&D, NextEra Analytics

What Does Climate Science Tell Us?
Julie Lundquist (@JulieKLundquist), Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado

Unprecedented Extreme Winter Weather Event – or Not?
Justin Sharp, Principal and Owner, Sharply Focused

What Did MISO See?
Dr. Congcong Wang, Lead Day-Ahead Market and Reliability Commitment, MISO

Changes in System Response to Tail Events with the Changing Generation Mix
Josh Novacheck, Electricity System Research Engineer, NREL

 

 

 

 

 

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Session 3: Probabilistic Forecasting: State-of-Art and Use in Operations (VIEW SESSION)

Tuesday, June 8
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (US-EDT)

Chair: Benjamin Hobbs, O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Co-Chair: Aidan Tuohy, Program Manager, EPRI

Probabilistic Forecasting: Development of Novel Products for Advanced Operational Needs
Pierre Pinson (@pierrepinson), Professor, Technical University of Denmark

Probabilistic Net-load Forecasting Using Gradient Boosted Classification
Daniel Kirk-Davidoff (@dankd), Lead Research Scientist, UL

A Probabilistic Forecasting System for Solar Power Generation
Carlo Siebenschuh, Research Scholar/Software Engineer, IBM

Ensemble-Based Dynamic Ramping Reserve Forecasts: An Irish Case Study
Corinna Möhrlen, Managing Director, WEPROG, Germany

Solar Uncertainty Management and Mitigation for Exceptional Reliability in Grid Operations (SUMMER-GO)
Bri-Mathias Hodge, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Session 4: Global Advances in Forecasting (VIEW SESSION)

Thursday, June 10
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)

Chair: Jessica Harrison, Senior Director of R&D, MISO

IEA Wind Task 36 Forecasting Recommendations
Gregor Giebel, Head of Section for Grid Integration and Energy Systems, DTU Wind Energy, Denmark

Extreme Events and Resource Adequacy
Robin Hytowitz, Grid Ops & Planning, EPRI

Renewable Energy Nowcasting in South Australia
Nick Engerer, (@nickengerer) CTO and Co-founder, Solcast, Australia

 

 

 

 

 

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Session 5: High VRE Futures – How Are Markets Adapting? (VIEW SESSION)

Tuesday, June 15
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)

Chair: Bethany Frew, Engineer, NREL

Bidding Hydro Resources to Support High VRE Futures
Nickie Menemenlis, Researcher, Hydro Quebec, Canada

Forecasting Evolution with Hybrids from the ISO Point of View
Amber Motley, Senior Manager, Short Term Forecasting, CAISO

DER Forecasts, System Planning and Market Design – Impacts of FERC Order 2222
Damian Sciano, Director, Distributed Resources Integration, Con Edison

 

 

 

 

 

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Session 6: Tail Events Concerns from Around the World (VIEW SESSION)

Thursday, June 17
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)

Chair: Mark O’Malley, Chief Scientist, ESIG

Forecasting and Markets for Increasing Renewables at NGESO in Uncertain Times
Matthew Magill, Market Requirements Senior Manager, National Grid ESO, United Kingdom

Extreme Weather Event Concerns in Australia
Ellise Harmer, Operations Team Lead – Operational Forecasting, AEMO, Australia

Market Related Tail Event in Japan
Yoh Yasuda, Research Professor, Kyoto University, Japan

 

 

 

 

 

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Session 7: Impacts of Forecasting on Operations – An Operations Perspective (VIEW SESSION)

Tuesday, June 22
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)

Chair: Jay Caspary (@CasparyJay), Vice President, Grid Strategies

Operating Through an Extreme Winter Weather Event
Gunnar Shaffer, Power Systems Engineer, SPP

Forecasting Wind Plant Output during the Recent TX Extreme Weather Event
Craig Collier, Chief Meteorologist, Head of Operations at Energy Forecasting Solutions

Wind Bidding in Regulation Markets Accounting for Forecast Uncertainty
Elina Spyrou (@ElinaSpyrou), Researcher, NREL

 

 

 

 

 

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Session 8: Forecasting, Reserve Requirements and System Operations (VIEW SESSION)

Thursday, June 24
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)

Chair: Aidan Tuohy, Program Manager, EPRI

Update from the DOE Solar Forecasting Program
Tassos Golnas, Technology Manager, Solar Energy Technology Program

Use of Wind/Solar/Load Forecasts in Operations
Nitika Mago, Manager, Electric Grid Operations, ERCOT

Present and Future Operation of the Ireland Power System
Damian Flynn, Associate Professor, University College Dublin, Ireland

Use of Forecasts in Reserve Allocation
Rhett Trease, Engineer, Duke Energy

 

 

 

 

 

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Closing Plenary Session – Energy Adequacy and Market Design – The Texas Event Part 2 (VIEW SESSION)

Tuesday, June 29
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (US-EDT)

Chair: Erik Ela, Principal, EPRI

NERC Energy Resource Adequacy Task Force (ERATF)
Mark Lauby, Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer, NERC

Viewed from the Intersection of the Electric and Gas Systems
Beth Garza, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute

The Resource Adequacy Angle Through a New Lens
Derek Stenclik, Founding Partner, Telos Energy

What Difference Would a Macrogrid Make?
Michael Goggin, Vice President, Grid Strategies

What Role Did Market Design Play?
Steve Berberich, Consultant

 

 

 

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