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2023 Meteorology and Market Design for Grid Services Workshop
June 13 - June 15
All of the presentations from our 2023 Meteorology & Market Design for Grid Services Workshop held in Denver, Colorado can be downloaded below.
Workshop Session Recordings: Click here to view the workshop session playlist on our YouTube channel.
Introduction/Opening Comments
Workshop Introduction
Charlie Smith, Executive Director, ESIG
Session 1: Ancillary Services Markets and Ramping Products for Renewable Energy
Session Chair: Emma Nicholson, Senior Economist, FERC
CAISO Day-ahead Market Enhancements and Ramp Products
James Friedrich, Lead Policy Developer, CAISO
MISO Short Term Reserve and Ramping Products
Jason Howard, Director, Operations Risk Management, MISO
Evolution and Value of the ERCOT Operating Reserve Demand Curve
Ryan King, Manager, Market Design, ERCOT
Flexibility and Ramping in a Vertically Integrated Market Structure
Keith Parks, Senior Trading Analyst, Xcel Energy
Flexibility Products and ORDC: Are They Really That Different?
Ryan Schoppe, Senior Technical Leader, EPRI
Session 2: DER Forecasting for Operations
Session Chair: Andrew Akman, Senior Data Scientist, AEMO (Australia)
Forecasting of DERs for Distribution Operations
David Larson, Technical Leader, Grid Ops & Planning, EPRI
Forecasting of DERs for Bulk System Operations
Jared Lee, Project Scientist II, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Forecasting and Operation of DERs under Different T/D Coordination Frameworks
Ali Golriz, Lead, System & Sector Development, Innovation and R&D, IESO (Canada)
Forecasting for Renewable Energy and Grid Analysis for Congestion Management
Lars Rohwer, energy and meteo systems (Germany)
Session 3: Aligning Retail Rates and Grid Needs for Flexibility and Balancing Considerations
Session Chair: Obadiah Bartholomy, Manager, Distributed Energy Strategy, SMUD
Regulatory Perspective – A Key Piece of the Puzzle
Eric Blank, Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
Demand Response Programs in Action
Bryan Hannegan, President & CEO, Holy Cross Energy
Extracting Flexibility from Price-Sensitive Loads Through Bid-in Demand
Richard O’Neill, Distinguished Senior Fellow, ARPA-E
Orchestrating Customer Programs and Rates for a Customer-centric Path to Clean Energy
Tom Hines, Consultant, Arizona Public Service
Session 4: Progress in the Use of Probabilistic Forecasts: A Panel Discussion
Session Chair: Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG
Each panelist gave a 5-minute overview on one probabilistic forecasting application being used or planned in their company. The panel was grouped according to application areas, such as Short Term Reserve, Flex Ramp Requirements, Imbalance Reserve Requirements, RUC Uncertainty Requirements, system pre-positioning, etc. with group discussion following each set of presentations.
Usage of Probabilistic Wind and Solar Forecasts At ERCOT
Nitika Mago, Manager, Balancing Operations Planning, ERCOT
Capturing Net Load Uncertainty – RUC Uncertainty and Imbalance Reserve Requirements
Amber Motley, Senior Manager, Short Term Forecasting, CAISO
Jon Black, Manager of Load Forecasting, ISO-NE
Embracing Uncertainty in Operational Forecasting
Andrew Akman, Senior Data Scientist, AEMO (Australia)
Operations Risk Assessment and Uncertainty Management
Jason Howard, Director Operations Risk Management, MISO
Using Probabilistic Wind Forecasts for Long-Lead Thermal Unit Dispatch
Anneliese Alexander, Senior Meteorologist, Xcel Energy
IESO Presentation
Faraz Majid, Planner/Data Engineering, IESO (Canada)
Joseph Mulhern, Lead Engineer, Markets Coordination, PJM
Session 5: Market Design for 100% Renewable Markets
Session Chair: Bethany Frew, Group Manager, Capacity Expansion & Electricity Markets Group, NREL
The Value of Marginal Cost Pricing in a High Renewables and Storage World
Emma Nicholson, Senior Economist, FERC
Key Research Challenges Related to Evolving Electricity Markets
Todd Levin, Electricity Markets Team Lead, Argonne National Laboratory
Controllable Loads for Ancillary Services: Green Hydrogen and Beyond
Andrew Reimers, Director of R&D and Regulatory Affairs, Lancium
Storage is to Temporal Prices as Transmission is to Locational Prices
Erik Ela, Principal, EPRI
Session 6: State of the Art and Outlook for Renewable Energy Forecasting
Session Chair: Sue Ellen Haupt, Deputy Director, Research Applications Laboratory, NCAR
Winter Storm Elliot – Lessons Learned
Craig Collier, Chief Meteorologist, Head of Operations, Energy Forecasting Solutions
HRRR Model Update and Next Steps
Dave Turner, Senior Scientist, NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory
Evaluating the Ability of Met Models to Characterize Daily Cycles in Wind Generation
Dev Millstein, Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Forecasting for Hydro Power in an Increasingly Climate Stressed Environment
Daniel Palmer, Business Development & Partnerships, Upstream Tech
Session 7: Electricity Market Performance Under Extreme Events
Session Chair: Erik Ela, Principal, EPRI
An Assessment of Market Reform Options in ERCOT including the new Performance Credit Mechanism (PCM) Rule Review
Zach Ming, Director, Energy & Environmental Economics (E3)
PJM Performance Assessment Interval Penalty Assessments under Winter Storm Elliott
Paul Sotkiewicz, President, E-Cubed Policy Associates
Performance of Batteries in CAISO During the 2022 Heat Wave
Guillermo Alderete, Director, Market Analysis and Forecasting, CAISO
Session 8: Data Sets for Future System Planning and Extreme Weather Events
Session Chair: Bri-Mathias Hodge, Chief Scientist, NREL
Incorporating Uncertainty into the Use of Climate Data to Inform Planning Studies
Robin Kaiser, Network Development Engineer, Amprion GmbH (Germany)
Development of Correlated Wind, Solar and Load Forecasts for Power System Planning
Ian Schomer, Data Team Lead, Newton Energy Group
Need for Better Datasets for Resource Adequacy Planning
Elaine Hart, Founding Principal, Moment Energy Insights
Need for a National Power System Planning Weather Database
Justin Sharp, Principal & Owner, Sharply Focused
Session 9: Incorporating Risk into Power Systems and Markets (work from ARPA-e PERFORM)
Session Chair: Richard O’Neill, Distinguished Senior Fellow, ARPA-E
Probabilistic Forecasting of Extreme Market Events
Alex Rudkevich, President & Founder, Newton Energy Group
Risk-Aware Power System Control, Dispatch and Market Incentives
Dan Bienstock, Professor, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Columbia University
Grid that’s Risk-Aware for Clean Electricity – GRACE
Dimitris Floros, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
An Integrated Paradigm for the Management of Delivery Risk in Electricity Markets: From Batteries to Insurance and Beyond
Michael Blonsky, Research Engineer, NREL