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September 2023
2023 Fall O&M Users Group Meeting
Members of the ESIG O&M Users Group are invited to attend the 2023 Fall O&M Users Group Meeting at the Dallas/Fort Worth Marriott Hotel & Golf Club at Champions Circle in Fort Worth, TX. The workshop will feature a plenary session and manufacturer-specific roundtables. The roundtables provide the opportunity for frank and open discussion among users, who share their information, knowledge and experience. As a reminder, participation in the roundtables is limited to employees of ESIG member organizations that own, operate,…
Find out more »Webinar: Overview of Grid Forming Interconnection Requirements
Download Presentation View Webinar Recording Download Q&A Featured Speaker: Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG About the Webinar: With grid forming controls being considered as one of the solutions for the reliable integration of inverter-based resources (wind, solar, storage), there is a need to define interconnection requirements (or grid codes) and performance expectations for this technology. Around the world there are a handful of entities that have begun working on grid codes for grid forming technology, including National Grid Electricity System…
Find out more »G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: GFM Technology Implementation Council – Status and Outlook
View Webinar Recording Download Presentation Featured Speaker: Sten Arendt Stoltze, Senior Vice President – Engineering EPCO & IT, Ørsted Sten Arendt Stoltze About the Webinar: The Global Power System Transformation Consortium (GPST) is a force multiplier in the global effort to drive rapid transition to a zero-carbon electricity grid, connecting its ecosystem partners and creating intentional, inclusive and purpose-driven collaboration to solve common challenges. The mission of GPST is to bring together key actors and foment a rapid clean…
Find out more »October 2023
Webinar: The Need for Intertie Optimization: Reducing Customer Costs, Improving Grid Resilience, and Encouraging Interregional Transmission
Download Webinar Recording Download Presentation Download Report Featured Speakers: Hannes Pfeifenberger, Principal, The Brattle Group; Norman Bay, Co-Chair of the Energy Commodities Group and Head of the Energy Regulatory Practice, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Hannes Pfeifenberger About the Webinar: Inefficient use of interregional transmission facilities unnecessarily raises system costs and reduces reliability. During many hours, interregional power flows do not fully utilize available transmission capabilities despite high price differences, or even flow power in the opposite direction to price…
Find out more »2023 Wind Turbine Blade Maintenance Workshop
Members of ESIG and/or EPRI are invited to attend our third annual Wind Turbine Blade Maintenance Workshop, co-hosted by EPRI and ESIG on October 11th, 2023. Like last year, we will focus on one or two pressing topics in blade maintenance, to be selected by participants. Attendees will offer examples of blade defects, damage, and mitigation strategies for the group to discuss and learn from. Unlike typical ESIG O&M workshops, attendees will come away from the event with workshop proceedings,…
Find out more »Webinar: Power-to-X: Concepts and Implications for Market Participants and Independent System Operators Copy
View Webinar Recording Download Presentation Download Q&A Responses Featured Speaker: Andrew Reimers, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Lancium Andrew Reimers About the Webinar: “Power-to-X” is the generalized concept for using carbon free electricity to produce other things like synthetic fuels such as hydrogen or ammonia that can then be used as inputs for hard to abate end products like steel or cement. Despite its advantages in terms of decarbonization, Power-to-X has the potential to stress the reliability of the bulk…
Find out more »G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Advances in the Use of Wind and Solar Forecasting
View Webinar Recording Download Presentation Featured Speaker: Amber Motley, Director, Short Term Forecasting, California ISO Amber Motley About the Webinar: This webinar focuses on the importance of renewable energy forecasting to grid operations with high penetrations of renewable resources. Renewable resource forecasts have become a critical part of grid operations, informing uncertainty products, the market optimization, and the reliability of the grid throughout the real time and day ahead horizons. This webinar will address the optimization of forecasts from…
Find out more »2023 Fall Technical Workshop
All of the presentations from our 2023 Fall Technical Workshop held in San Diego can be downloaded below. To view recordings of each of these sessions, please visit our YouTube channel and select the 2023 Fall Technical Workshop playlist. Tutorial I: HVDC Transmission Moderator: James Okullo, Director of System Planning, ESIG Overview of HVDC Technology, its Capabilities, Use Cases, Operational and Markets Benefits, Misconceptions, Technology and Supply Chain Barriers Johannes Pfeifenberger, Principal, The Brattle Group Chandra Mohan Sonnathi, Lead HVDC Specialist,…
Find out more »November 2023
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: European Experience with “Connect and Manage”
Download Presentation View Webinar Recording Featured Speaker: Mark Norton, Vice President of Business Development, Smart Wires Mark Norton About the Webinar: In the drive towards a targeted decarbonized power system by 2050, it is critical that the growth and speed of connections for renewable generating energy sources keeps pace to make this a reality. However, developers of renewable resources often face long lead times before they can freely offer (firm access) their power into energy markets, awaiting not only…
Find out more »Webinar: DER Communication and Data Management: From Interoperability to Impacts
Featured Speakers: Sean Morash, Principal, Telos Energy and Aaron Snyder, Director of Grid Technology Consulting, EnerNex About the Webinar: With increasing emphasis on electrification, continued technology innovation, and changes to federal policy, distributed energy resources are becoming more integral in power system planning and operations. However, the variety of DER control mechanisms can lead to a maze of data streams that can quickly fall out of sync without appropriate care for end-to-end interoperability and data management. Standards can be…
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