2024 ESIG/G-PST Special Topic Workshop: A Deeper Look at Oscillations

Presentations from our 2024 ESIG/G-PST Special Topic Workshop: A Deeper Look at Oscillations held in Tucson can be downloaded below.

Recordings of each of these sessions will be available soon on the ESIG YouTube Channel.

Introduction & Background
Mark O’Malley, Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems, Imperial College London

Session 1: Oscillation Monitoring, Tracing & Mitigation in Operations
Chair: Nick Miller, Principal, HickoryLedge

Setting the Stage
Nick Miller, Principal, HickoryLedge

Experience with Oscillations in ISO-NE
Slava Maslennikov, Technical Manager, ISO-NE

NGESO Experience and Sub-synchronous Oscillation Guidance Document
Xiaoyao Zhou, Engineering Compliance Manager, National Grid ESO

GE Experience with Oscillations
Jason MacDowell, Chief Systems Integration Officer, Vernova’s Consulting Services

Session 2: Research Efforts in Tracing the Oscillations
Chair: Deepak Ramasubramanian, Senior Technical Leader, EPRI

Tracing the Oscillations – A Few Pieces of the Puzzle
Yunjie Gu, Lecturer in Power Systems, Imperial College London
(with input from Shahil Shah, NREL and Slava Maslennikov, ISO-NE)

Novel Approach to Modeling Multi-time-domain Problems for Identification of Resonances in IBR Systems
Jose Daniel Lara, Senior Staff Researcher Power Grid Optimization, NREL

Oscillation Damping for the Grid of the Future
Sam Maleki, Senior Principal Power Systems Engineer, Electric Power Engineers

Session 3: System Planning and Interconnection Studies in an IBR World
Chair: Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG

Dealing with Control System Interactions
Sebastian Achilles, GM, Grid Integration and Stability. Consulting Services . GE Vernova

Dealing with System Oscillations
Yunzhi Cheng, Manager, Operations Stability Analysis, ERCOT

Dealing with Oscillations – How Much Can We Do in the Planning Process?
Tim Green, Professor of Electrical Power Engineering and Director of Energy Futures Lab, Imperial College London

Do We Have the Tools We Need?
Deepak Ramasubramanian, Senior Technical Leader, EPRI

Session 4: Mitigation and Next Steps
Chair: Tim Green, Professor of Electrical Power Engineering and Director of Energy Futures Lab, Imperial College London

What’s on the Horizon for Mitigation Measures?
Lingling Fan, Professor, University of South Florida

Options for Mitigation Measures
Enrique Mallada, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Workshop Wrap-up & Summary
Mark O’Malley, Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems, Imperial College London