ESIG/EPRI/G-PST Webinar: Voluntary IBR Standards Update: Conformity Assessment, Planned Revisions, and Emerging GFM Requirements

Featured Speakers: Jens Boemer, Technical Executive, EPRI; Alex Shattuck, Director of Grid Transformation, ESIG; Andy Hoke, Principal Engineer, National Laboratory of the Rockies; Jose D. Cordova, Ph.D., Engineer, EPRI

About the webinar: Stay ahead in the evolving grid landscape with updates from leading organizations including GPST, IEEE, ESIG, PSERC, CURENT, and UNIFI. This session will cover:

• GPST Overview: Brief introduction and summary of Pillars 1 & 4
• IEEE Standards Update:
  • P2800.2 balloting and publication timeline
  • P2800/.x PARs progress
• Global Standards Alignment: IEC non-GFM specs and path toward IEC/IEEE Dual-Logo GFM standard with IEEE P2800.1
• UNIFI GFM Specifications V3: Latest developments
• Simulation Insights: UNIFI results on testing GFL and GFM models using IEEE P2800.2 procedures, featuring EPRI’s 2025 work

About the speakers: Jens Boemer, Ph.D., is Technical Executive in the Transmission Operations and Planning group at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He leads EPRI’s strategic research on integrated transmission & distribution planning and operations, including projects on the grid integration of renewable and distributed energy resources with a focus on power system stability issues. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands in 2016, and prior to that worked for 10 years to help facilitate the German “Energiewende” (energy transition).

Alex Shattuck, ESIG’s Director of Grid Transformation, has worked across the power industry for more than 10 years, specializing in maintaining bulk power system reliability as inverter-based resource (IBR) penetration increases. Prior to joining ESIG, Shattuck was a Senior Engineer in Engineering & Security Integration at North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). In his role, Shattuck provides support to the Reliability Working Group, as well as other multidisciplinary ESIG task forces.

Andy Hoke is a principal engineer with expertise in grid integration of power electronics and inverter-based renewable and distributed energy. His work includes advanced inverter controls design, hardware-in-the-loop testing and model development, power systems modeling and simulation, and standards development. He is the chair of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standards 1547.1 and P2800.2, which contain the test and verification procedures to ensure distributed energy resources and inverter-based resources conform to the grid interconnection requirements of IEEE Standards 1547 and P2800, respectively. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Colorado.

Jose Cordova, Ph.D., is an Engineer level V working in the Transmission Operations and Planning group at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He currently carries out research focusing on integrated transmission and distribution planning and operations. His projects include grid integration of grid-following (GFL) and grid-forming (GFM) inverter-based resources (IBRs) and distributed energy resources (DERs) with an emphasis on bulk power system reliability. His areas of expertise include interconnection guidelines, IBR and DER model verification/validation, power systems real-time digital simulation (RTDS), machine learning, and solar generation forecasting. His contributions to different industry working groups such as UNIFI Consortium, IEEE 1547 and IEEE 2800.x focus on standards development and gap analysis for DER and IBR interconnection requirements. He is also a main contributor of the working group Data Centers: Standards Needs Analysis and Recommendations. He has led industry working groups such as the Coordination subgroup of the System Planning Impact of Distributed Energy Resources (SPIDERWG) from NERC.

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