2021 Spring Technical Workshop
March 2, 2021 – April 8, 2021
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The 2021 Spring Technical Workshop will be held online with sessions beginning on March 2 and closing on April 8.
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.
Opening Session and Keynote Comments – VIEW SESSION
Tuesday, March 2
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. (US-EST)
Chair: Mark Ahlstrom (@markahlstrom), President, ESIG Board of Directors, NextEra Energy Resources
Introduction
Mark Ahlstrom (@markahlstrom), President, ESIG Board of Directors, NextEra Energy Resources
Keynote: 100% Clean by 2050, What Does it Look Like?
Christopher Clack (@DrChrisClack), Founder & CEO, Vibrant Clean Energy
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Opening Plenary: Electricity Pricing – VIEW SESSION
Thursday, March 4
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EST)
Electricity Pricing
Chair: Debbie Lew, Associate Director, ESIG
Modern Pricing Designs
Ahmad Faruqui, Principal, Brattle
Residential Time-of-use and Demand Rates at APS
Charles Miessner, Consultant, APS, Chairman EEI Rates Committee
Flexible Demand Programs on the Path to 100% Renewable Supply
Steve Beuning, Vice President Power Supply and Programs, Holy Cross Energy
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Session 3: Grid Forming Inverter Research Landscape – VIEW SESSION
Tuesday, March 9
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (US-EST)
Introduction
Chair: Julia Matevosyan, Lead Planning Engineer, ERCOT
Debate format on the disconnect between what is needed for system operations and what the OEMs can deliver. Presentation of system operations requirements, with reactions from the OEMs; consultant and researcher providing possible ideas to bridge the gap.
System Operations
Australian Experience with Grid Forming Inverters
Babak Badrzadeh, Technical Director – Power Systems, Aurecon, Australia
Virtual Synchronous Machines – Grid Forming Converters
Julian Leslie, Head of Networks, ESO, National Grid, United Kingdom
OEMs
Presentation
Eckard Quitmann, Head of Integration Department, ENERCON, Germany
Presentation
Gary Custer, Principal Application Engineer, SMA
Consultant
Grid-forming Definition
Andrew Isaacs, Vice President, Electranix
Researcher
Research Landscape for Grid Forming Inverters
Tim Green (@OtherProfGreen), Professor, Co-Director of the Energy Futures Laboratory (EFL), Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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Session 4: The Advent of the Inverter Based System – VIEW SESSION
Thursday, March 11
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EST)
Chair: Jason MacDowell, Senior Director – Technology, Strategy & Policy, GE Power
Bulk Power System Reliability with Increasing Inverter Technology – IRPWG Update
Ryan Quint, Senior Manager, BPS Security and Grid Transformation, NERC
IEEE P2800, A Draft IEEE Standard for Inverter-Based Resources Interconnecting with Transmission Systems
Jens Boemer, Principal Technical Leader, EPRI
Will We Be Ready for a Future Without Synchronous Machines?
Sebastian Achilles, Managing Director Power Systems Operation and Planning, GE Power
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Session 5: The Changing Planning Environment – VIEW SESSION
Tuesday, March 16
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)
Chair: Ken McIntyre, Executive Director System and Operations Integration, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)
Linking Different Modeling Tools and Domains
Nidhi Santen, Senior Technical Leader, Energy & Environmental Analysis, EPRI
Do Traditional Unit Commitment Algorithms Work with the Changing Resource Mix? Getting the Tails into Production Cost Modeling
Russ Philbrick, CEO/CTO, Polaris Systems Optimization
LA 100: Consideration in Planning for 100% Clean Energy
Greg Huynh, Operating Agent Manager, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
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Session 6: Is There Green Hydrogen in Your Future? – VIEW SESSION
Thursday, March 18
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. (US-EDT)
Chair: Bethany Frew, Engineer, NREL
Green Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Electric Vehicles
Corky Mittelsteadt, Vice President, Electrolyzer Technology, Plug Power
Distributed PV Hydrogen Production
Alan Yu, CEO, LAVO, Australia
Wind to Hydrogen with the Port of Rotterdam
Elizabeth Endler, Program Manager – Advanced Energy Storage, Shell
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Session 7: Energy Storage Developments – VIEW SESSION
Tuesday, March 23
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)
Chair: Bob Zavadil, Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder, EnerNex
Oakland Clean Energy Initiative Battery Storage
Ric O’Connell (@RicOConnell8), Founding Executive Director, GridLab
Role of Hydropower in a Low Carbon Future
Pierre-Olivier Pineau, Professor, Dept. of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Canada
Is There a Business Case for Battery Backup at Data Centers?
Mike Della Penna, Project Lead, Carbon-free Energy, Google
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Session 8: Transmission – Breaking the Logjam – VIEW SESSION
Thursday, March 25
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)
Chair: Wayne Galli, Executive Director, NextEra Energy Transmission
Transportation Corridors and Transmission Line Siting
Morgan Putnam (@morgancputnam), Consultant
Dynamic Line Rating – How Pennsylvania Power & Light (PPL) is Lifting Congestion Costs in the PJM Region
David Quier, Director of Asset Management, PPL
Joey Alexander, Director of Business Development, Ampacimon US
The Value of Inter-regional Coordination and Transmission in Decarbonizing the US Electricity System
Patrick Brown, MIT
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Session 9: Distribution System Planning Evolution – VIEW SESSION
Tuesday, March 30
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)
Chair: Miroslav Begovic, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
UK Open Network’s Project and Active Network Management System for DER Flexibility
Jason Brogden, Energy Networks Association
UFLS and DER: Shadows on the Tombstone of Old UFLS
Nick Miller, HickoryLedge LLC
Blackstart from DER
Vahan Gevorgian, Chief Engineer, NREL
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Session 10: The Evolving Hybrid Power Plant – VIEW SESSION
Thursday, April 1
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)
Chair: Derek Stenclik, Founding Partner, Telos Energy
Optionality Value of Hybrids
Mark Ahlstrom (@markahlstrom), President, ESIG Board of Directors, NextEra Energy Resources
The CA Hybrid Power Plant Model
Mark Rothleder, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, California ISO
Enhancing the Value of Solar Energy at High Penetrations
Andrew Mills, Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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Session 11: Co-optimization Techniques and Results – VIEW SESSION
Tuesday, April 6
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (US-EDT)
Chair: Lindsay Anderson (@lndsyandrsn), Associate Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
G&T Planning
Christopher Clack (@DrChrisClack), Founder & CEO, Vibrant Clean Energy
T&D Planning
Bryan Palmintier, Manager, Grid-connected Energy System Modeling Group, NREL
Gas and Electric Network Planning
Alex Rudkevich, Enelytix
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Closing Plenary: Resource Adequacy, Rolling Blackouts and Wildfires – VIEW SESSION
Thursday, April 8
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (US-EDT)
Introduction
Chair: Mark O’Malley (@profmarkomalley), Chief Scientist, ESIG
CA Summer 2019-2020 Events
Phil Pettingill, ISO Director, Regional Integration, CAISO (Followed by two short responses)
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- Market Design, System Operations, and Software Challenges – Erik Ela, Principal, EPRI
- What are the Resource Adequacy Options for CA? – Arne Olsen (@ArneOlsonE3), Senior Partner, E3
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AU Summer 2019-2020 Events
Ben Jones, Supply Adequacy Stream Lead, Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) (Followed by short response)
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- What are the RA Options for AU? – David Bones, Executive Manager Risk, Assurance and Regulation, GHD Advisory
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