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Webinar: Emerging US Market Requirements for Grid-Forming BESS, and a Practical Exercise for a Potential Plant Design Approach
July 30, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Featured Speakers: Frank Berring, Director of Business Development, Large Scale at SMA America; Lucas Meubrink, Senior Applications Engineer, SMA America
Webinar Abstract: The Energy Transition to renewable generation is happening right now. Renewable generation is dominating the interconnection queues, and legacy synchronous generators are scheduled for decommissioning in the coming years. These are exciting trends, yet these market dynamics create new challenges to maintain grid stability and enable additional new renewables generation to come online. Grid Forming BESS has become a well-recognized contributor toward grid stability, and several ISOs have announced plans to implement grid forming requirements in recent months.
In this webinar, SMA’s Director of Large Scale Business Development, Frank Berring, and Senior Applications Engineer, Lucas Meubrink, will share recent market news pertaining to Grid Forming BESS adoption and functional test requirements, as well as the impact of two common inverter control modes on the inverter’s behavior, and lastly a practical exploration of what a future approach of designing a plant based on a required short circuit contribution could look like.
About the Speakers: Frank Berring is the Director of Business Development, Large Scale at SMA America, a leading global provider for energy transition markets, specializing in power conversion solutions. He has 30 years of experience across technical industries, including 15 years within the renewables industry in various product, sales, and business development leadership roles. Frank received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. Currently, he is focused on market shaping and articulating the untapped value of inverter-based resources (IBRs) to system operators and independent power producers (IPPs). His goal is to facilitate the next phase of the bulk power energy transition by highlighting the benefits and potential of advanced IBRs, thereby driving innovation and progress within the industry.
Lucas Meubrink, a Senior Application Engineer, holds a Dipl-Ing degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. His expertise lies in power systems and energy transition. Lucas commenced his career at Daimler, focusing on technical sales support for both new and second-life energy storage products. He then advanced to Skeleton Technologies, where he served as an Application Engineer, specializing in the design and sizing of grid-scale supercapacitor-based short-term energy storage solutions. For the past five years, Lucas has been contributing to SMA as a Senior Application Engineer, where he focuses on energy storage inverters and grid-forming projects.
Moderator: Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG
Registration Cost: FREE
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.
