Featured Speaker: Sebastian Achilles, Managing Director of Power Systems Planning and Operation at GE Energy Consulting. His team activities include converter, turbine and plant level control design of GE Wind Turbine Generators (WTG) in aspects related to grid performance. His experience includes the configuration of converter and plant level controls in complex wind generation applications. His team responsibilities […]
Overview: The US experienced a total solar eclipse on Monday, August 21. The path of totality was about 70 miles wide. It began on the coast of Oregon and cut a diagonal path across the US, exiting on the coast of South Carolina. Due to its large concentration of solar PV and proximity […]
The UVIG Operations & Maintenance Users Group provides a forum for personnel working with wind and solar generation equipment and at wind and solar power plants to network, share experiences, and learn up-to-date knowledge on technical topics. The schedule of events begins on October 3 with a tour of GE Renewables’ wind turbine manufacturing facility […]
2017 Fall Workshop Agenda Tutorial: Essential Reliability Services – Resources, Requirements and Next Steps Chair: Mark Ahlstrom, NextEra Energy Resources Introduction to Essential Reliability Services – Nicole Segal, NERC Introduction to Voltage Considerations – John Simonelli, ISO-NE Introduction to Frequency Considerations – Mark Ahlstrom, NextEra Energy Resources Introduction to Balancing Considerations – Rodney O’Bryant, Southern […]
Featured Speaker: Jonathan O’Sullivan has spent over 20 years working in the electricity industry in the planning, operation and markets design. In this time he has developed an acknowledged expertise in the theoretical modelling of the system, the necessary practical operation practices and the requirements for a well designed and functional market. In recent years Jonathan […]
Featured Speakers: Ryan Quint is the Senior Manager of Advanced Analytics and Modeling at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The AAM group supports NERC and the utility industry in understanding emerging reliability issues and the changing bulk power system performance through advanced system analysis, modeling, modeling improvements, and collaboration with stakeholders. Ryan coordinates […]
About With more than 100 attendees from electric utilities, commercial solution providers, local-state-federal regulatory and policy bodies, and academic institutions from around the globe, the Dynamic Line Rating Workshop will provide attendees the opportunity to learn from the world's best, share common interests and concerns, and engage in peer-to-peer networking. Idaho National Laboratory will host the […]
Featured Speakers: Wesley Cole is an electricity sector modeler and analyst in the Energy Forecasting and Modeling Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). His work focuses on capacity expansion modeling of the U.S. power system. Within this domain, he specializes in renewable energy integration, battery storage market potential, and impacts of high solar […]
Featured Speaker: Erik Ela is the Principal Technical Leader at the Electric Power Research Institute. He conducts collaborative research and development in areas of electricity market operations, power system operations, and integration of renewable and emerging technologies. He has spoken on these topics to over 80 venues around the world. Dr. Ela received a B.S., M.S., […]
Featured Speakers: Dr. Stan Benjamin is a research meteorologist at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in Boulder, CO. Stan received a Ph.D. in meteorology from Penn State and a B.A. in mathematics from Albion College in Michigan. He became a Senior scientist for advanced modeling systems in June 2017 within the NOAA/ESRL Global Systems […]