Integrated Planning Virtual Workshop: Assuring Stability in Modern Systems

This workshop is sponsored by Breakthrough Energy and follows onto previous workshops on advanced tools and system expansion modeling. This workshop addresses the questions:

• How do we link economic and reliability planning?
• How do you know if your economic solutions are operationally stable?
• How do wind, solar and batteries change the fundamentals of operational reliability and how are they an integral part of the solutions?

This educational workshop is aimed at a broad industry audience. You do not need to be an engineer to learn the basics of operational reliability.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2:00 – 4:00 PM Eastern US Time: On Day 1 we’ll discuss the importance of including stability as an integral part of planning, not as an afterthought. We’ll be using the April 2025 event in Spain and Portugal as an example of how economic solutions that are not operationally stable may lead to a blackout. We’ll cover the fundamentals of power system dynamics including voltage stability and frequency stability/inertia.

We will also discuss the fundamentals of power system dynamics including voltage stability and frequency stability/inertia.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2:00 – 4:00 PM Eastern US Time: On Day 2 we will focus on recommendations for planning and modeling for systems dominated by wind, solar and batteries. What tools are used? How can we link reliability tools to the economic tools?

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