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ESIG LLTF Webinar: Large Load Performance – Lessons Learned from Recent Disturbance Events
May 28 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
**PLEASE NOTE – THIS IS A MEMBERS-ONLY WEBINAR**
Featured Speakers: Rich Bauer, Principal Engineer, Event Analysis, NERC and Patrick Gravois, Lead Operations Engineer, ERCOT
About the Webinar: Since 2022, many large electronic-based loads have connected to the ERCOT Interconnection. ERCOT has observed that much of this load exhibits voltage-sensitive behavior and will immediately reduce consumption under moderate voltage disturbances. This has the potential to adversely affect system reliability, so ERCOT has been actively monitoring load behavior and considering grid code changes to maintain reliability. This presentation will cover the events identified by ERCOT over the past four years and discuss challenges to address the issues and prevention of larger events as more voltage-sensitive load connects to the system in the coming years.
About the Speakers: Rich Bauer is the Principal Engineer for Event Analysis for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). Joining NERC in January 2013, Rich promotes the understanding and learning from events and occurrences that are experienced on the Bulk Electric System. Rich performs forensic analysis of major system disturbances as well as cause analysis of events through the NERC Event Analysis Process. Rich participates on the NERC System Protection and Control Working Group, NERC Event Analysis Subcommittee and the NERC Inverted-based Resource Subcommittee as well as the IEEE Power System Relaying and Control Committee.
Patrick Gravois is a Lead Operations Engineer in the Operations Analysis group at ERCOT. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013 with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. He began working at ERCOT in 2013. His recent work has focused on grid event analysis primarily dealing with ride-through performance and capabilities of inverter-based resources and large loads.
Registration Cost: FREE for ESIG Members
Q&A Session: We will be using the Slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
