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Webinar: Grid Planning for Building Electrification
October 30, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Featured Speaker: Sean Morash, Principal, Telos Energy
Webinar Abstract: Building electrification is expected to affect all facets of the power system, and the effects will be pronounced for distribution systems where many pieces of grid edge equipment are already heavily loaded. In many ways, our thinking about grid planning will need to change as new technologies are adopted that change the fundamentals of load, and shift stress towards winter. Because of the timelines associated with building new distribution and transmission infrastructure, decisions today, or lack thereof, will impact the preparedness of the grid for the expected demand. Despite the high uncertainty of the timing and makeup of this demand and that different jurisdictions may experience the impacts in different ways, there are opportunities to lay a grid planning foundation today that will support a grid that enables widespread building electrification.
This webinar will cover the report developed by the ESIG Grid Planning for Building Electrification Task Force over the last year (report & executive summary). It will outline the four priorities for effectively integrating building electrification into grid planning. It will cover the practices from across the industry and identify where improvement is needed, with a primary focus on distribution planning, forecasting, energy efficiency, and opportunities to integrate planning processes.
About the Speaker: Sean Morash is a Principal at Telos Energy with experience across a range of topics, including power system modeling, transmission and distribution planning, and technology integration. He recently coordinated the ESIG Task Force on Grid Planning for Building Electrification and a similar activity on vehicle electrification. For the last 10 years, he has worked on projects that combine the traditional disciplines of economics, engineering, technology, and policy. Beyond the strategy work, Sean has performed detailed production modeling to inform a balancing authority’s operational reserves practices and developed a novel dynamic line rating forecasting methodology using machine learning techniques.
Moderator: Debbie Lew, Executive Director, 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.
