2022 Fall Technical Workshop

 

Our 2022 Fall Technical Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota featured more than 60 industry leaders from around the world. All of the presentations from the workshop can be downloaded below.

Workshop Session Recordings: For recordings of each of the sessions, please see the workshop playlist here.

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Special Event: Capacity Expansion Modeling for Transmission Planning

Tutorial: Evolution and Effectiveness of Flexibility Products in Markets and Operations

Overview of Need for Flexibility
Aidan Tuohy, Senior Program Manager, EPRI

Introduction – Evolution and Effectiveness of Flexibility Products in Markets and Operations
Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG

Background on Flexibility Products and Alternative Options, Implementation Details and Evolution of Flexibility
Nikita Singhal, Technical Leader, EPRI

Short-Term Reserve Product in MISO
Chen-Hao Tsai, Advisor I, Operation Risk Assessment, MISO

Flexibility Products in Markets and Operations
Amber Motley, Sr. Manager Short Term Forecasting, CAISO

Breaking Flexibility Down
Eamonn Lannoye, Program Manager & Managing Director, EPRI

Introduction & Keynote Comments

Welcome
Mark Ahlstrom, President, ESIG Board of Directors & NextEra Energy Resources

Keynote Comments: Planning for the Energy Transition at MISO
Aubrey Johnson, Vice President, System Planning & Competitive Transmission, MISO

Meeting Overview
Charlie Smith, Executive Director, ESIG

Opening Plenary: A Panel Discussion: High VRE Futures – 100% Clean Electricity

Chair: Aaron Bloom, Sr. Director of Regulatory Affairs, NextEra Energy Resources

Panelists:
Joe Sullivan, Commissioner, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
PJ Martin, Xcel Energy
Elizabeth Cook, General Manager, Advanced Grid Solutions, Duquesne Light Company
Jacob Mays, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell
Paul Denholm, Principal Energy Analyst, NREL

Session 1: Congestion Management Practices, Challenges and Potential Mitigation Solutions

Chair: Jay Caspary, Vice President, Grid Strategies

European Perspective
Anders Bavehoj Hansen, Chief Engineer, Energinet (Denmark)

US RTO Perspective
Trevor Hines, Manager – South Region Reliability Coordination, MISO

Market Participant Perspective
Temujin Roach, Sr. Transmission Policy Manager, EDF Renewables North America

GETs: A New Approach
Pablo Ruiz, Sr. Consultant, The Brattle Group and CEO/CTO, NewGrid
Germán Lorenzón, Senior Engineer, NewGrid (Argentina)

Rethinking the Role of FTRs for Renewables
James Kim, Energy Policy Project Scientist, LBNL

Session 2: IEEE 2800 and IBR Modeling

Chair: Andy Hoke, Senior Engineer, NREL

IEEE 2800 OEM Readiness
Aung Thant, Engineer, Inverter-Based Resource Specialist, NERC

Gap Analysis Between IEEE 2800 and Existing Interconnection Requirements
Jens Boemer, Principal Technical Leader, EPRI

Interconnection Study Process – Reliability Implications and Improvements Needed
Jason MacDowell, Senior Technical Director, GE Energy Consulting

MISO Interconnection Requirements
Patrick Dalton, MISO

IBR Models and Modeling Needs
Deepak Ramasubramanian, Technical Leader, EPRI

Session 3: Planning and Deployment Implications with Storage and IBRs

Chair: Cristin Lyons, ScottMadden

Exploring Hydrogen’s Role in the Power Sector
Kai Van Horn, Manager, National Grid

Understanding Economic and Deployment Benefits of Wind-PV Hybrid Power Plants
Caitlin Murphy, Sr. Energy Policy Analyst, NREL

Insights from Studying a Dispatchable Emission Free Resource (DEFR)
Jason Frasier, Manager, Economic Planning, NYISO

Grid Operational Impacts of Widespread Storage Deployment
Nikita Singhal, Technical Leader, EPRI

Session 4: Aligning Retail Pricing with Grid Needs

Chair: Carl Linvill, Principal, Regulatory Assistance Project

Introduction to the Nexus between Customers, Prices, and Grid Needs
Debbie Lew, Associate Director, ESIG

Regulatory Policy in Aligning Retail Rates with Grid Needs
Travis Kavulla, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, NRG Energy

Aligning Retail Rates with the Needs of Transitioning Power Systems
Arne Olson, Sr. Partner, Energy and Environmental Economics (E3)

Heat Pump-friendly Retail Rate Designs
Sanem Sergici, Principal, The Brattle Group

Putting the “Curve” in Demand Curves: Moving Beyond Supply-curve “Demand Response” to Consumer Empowerment at the Grid Edge
Michael Hogan, Senior Advisor, Regulatory Assistance Project

Session 5: Future Market Design for Resource Adequacy

Chair: Rob Gramlich, Founder & President, Grid Strategies

Linking Resource Adequacy Analysis to Real-Time Availability
Derek Stenclik, Founding Partner, Telos Energy

Estimating Capacity Performance Risk Using Statistical and Economic Models
Muhsin Abdur-Rahman, Manager of PJM Market Fundamentals, Vistra Corp.

Resource Accreditation Considering Correlated Outages
Joel Dison, Sr. Managing Consultant, Astrapé Consulting

MISO’s Path to Resource Adequacy
Durgesh Manjure, Resource Adequacy Policy, MISO

Towards Zero-Carbon Electricity Markets: Challenges and Solutions for Resource Adequacy
Audun Botterud, Principal Energy Systems Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory

Session 6: IBR Stability and Control

Chair: Jason MacDowell, GE Energy Consulting

Comparison of Current GFM Equipment Specs
Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG

Assessment of GFL and GFM Inverter and Synchronous Condenser Connection in Australia: Lessons Learned
Babak Badrzadeh, Technical Director, Power Systems, Aurecon (Australia)

Replication and Identification of Causes of Grid Oscillations
Lingling Fan, Professor, University of South Florida

Stability Impacts of Providing Frequency Response from IBRs in Lower Inertia Regions
Pengwei Du, Lead Engineer-Renewable Integration, ERCOT
Shruti Rao, Senior Engineer, GE Power

Session 7: Topics in Power Systems Operations

Chair: Mark O’Malley, Imperial College London

European Synchronization with Ukrenergo and Moldelectrica
Albino Marques, Director, REN (Portugal)

Online Oscillations Analysis at ISO New England: Current Status and Future Needs with Respect to IBR
Slava Maslennikov, Technical Manager, ISO-NE

Grid-support Opportunities Provided by GFL and GFM IBR
Babak Badrzadeh, Technical Director, Power Systems, Aurecon (Australia)

A Novel Offshore Pumped Storage Concept
Bernhard Ernst, Deputy Head of Energy Storage, Fraunhofer Institute (Germany)

Session 8: Closing Plenary: Inter-regional Transmission Planning – Why Is it Important and How Do We Make it Happen?

Chair: Juliet Homer, Energy Policy Analytics Team Lead, PNNL

ENTSO-E Minimum Inter-TSO Transmission Capacity Requirements
Peter Markussen, Managing Director, Energinet

DOE’s Building a Better Grid Initiative
Hamody Hindi, Electrical Engineer, DOE

National Transmission Planning Study – Learnings to Date
Patrick Brown, Researcher, NREL

Atlantic Offshore Wind Study
Jian Fu, Program Manager, Grid Integration, Wind Energy Technologies Office, DOE

How Can We Move Interregional Transmission Planning Forward?
Hassan Hayat, Regional Transmission Planning Manager, AEP