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June 2019
Special Topic Webinar: NERC CIP Compliance for Wind Plants
Featured Speakers: Craig Reeds, EPS Engineering & Design Neil Kennings, DTE Energy Joseph Baxter, NERC Leland McMillan, NAES Corporation Moderator: Bjorn Hedges, NAES/White Creek Wind Registration Cost: FREE Webinar Abstract: The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has established Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards to ensure minimum cyber security requirements for generators of electric power on the bulk electric power system, including wind plants. In an era with an increasingly integrated grid, concerns about physical and cyber security of critical…
Find out more »Webinar: Transmission Topology Optimization: A Software Solution for Improving Congestion Management
DOWNLOAD RECORDING/PRESENTATION FROM THIS WEBINAR Featured Speakers: Pablo Ruiz, The Brattle Group and NewGrid; Jay Caspary, Southwest Power Pool Dr. Pablo A. Ruiz is a senior consultant at The Brattle Group, Associate Research Professor at Boston University and co-founder of NewGrid, a software startup providing topology optimization solutions. He was the Principal Investigator for the DOE ARPA-E Transmission Topology Control Algorithms project, which led to the formation of NewGrid. Pablo holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University…
Find out more »July 2019
Webinar: The Impacts of Variable Renewable Energy on Wholesale Power Prices: Implications for the Merchant Market Value of Wind and Solar
DOWNLOAD RECORDING/PRESENTATION FROM THIS WEBINAR Featured Speaker: Ryan Wiser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dr. Ryan Wiser is a Senior Scientist in and Group Leader of the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Ryan oversees a 30-person group that seeks to inform public and private decision making within the U.S. electricity sector through research on electric system planning, reliability and regulation as well as on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and demand response. Ryan has been a lead…
Find out more »August 2019
Webinar: More Accurate Solar and Wind Guidance from the NOAA High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model in 2019-2020
Stan Benjamin DOWNLOAD RECORDING FROM THIS WEBINAR DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION FROM THIS WEBINAR Featured Speaker: Stan Benjamin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Dr. Stan Benjamin is a research meteorologist and weather model developer 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 and his group at NOAA/ESRL like being useful by improving NOAA forecasts for applications including energy,…
Find out more »September 2019
NERC/NAGF/ESIG Battery Storage, Hybrid Resources, Frequency Response and Grid Services Workshop
Battery Storage, Hybrid Resources, Frequency Response and Grid Services Workshop Agenda Orientation, Welcome and Overview (Allen Schriver/NAGF, Mark Ahlstrom/ESIG) Opening Keynote: Storage and other drivers of grid transformation Elizabeth Salerno, Technical Advisor to FERC Commissioner Glick Panel 1: Technical capabilities of battery energy storage systems ― Battery and inverter technologies ― Services storage can provide (energy, peak shaving, PFR, FFR, regulation, etc.) ― Reactive capabilities of battery energy storage systems (including while charging) ― Economics of provision (efficiency, degradation,…
Find out more »Webinar: Energy Storage Integration into Electricity Markets: Current Status and Ongoing Research
DOWNLOAD WEBINAR RECORDING DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION DOWNLOAD WEBINAR Q&A Featured Speakers: Erik Ela & Nikita Singhal, EPRI Erik Ela is a Principal Manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). In his role, he provides technical leadership in several areas including electricity market design, electricity market operations, renewable energy integration, emerging technology integration, bulk power system operations, frequency control and essential reliability services, and generation planning. At EPRI, Erik facilitates the R&D collaborative group of technical experts of North America’s Independent…
Find out more »October 2019
2019 Fall Operations and Maintenance Users Group Meeting
The ESIG Operations & Maintenance Users Group provides an industry-leading forum for people working with wind and solar generation equipment to network, share experiences, and learn up-to-date knowledge on technical topics. DOWNLOAD FULL EVENT AGENDA October 1: Solar O&M Roundtable October 1: Pre-Meeting Workshop October 2: Plenary Session October 2-3: Turbine Roundtables October 3: Balance of Plant Roundtable About the Solar O&M Roundtable The Solar O&M Roundtable will focus on issues related to operations and maintenance of DER and bulk-grid…
Find out more »Grid Integration Week
In partnership with Energynautics, we’re excited to announce Grid Integration Week, to be held in Dublin, Ireland – October 14-18, 2019. Call for Papers: Grid Integration Week with 3rd E-Mobility Power System Integration Symposium, 9th Solar & Storage and 18th Wind Integration Workshops Seize this unique opportunity to present your up-to-date research or technical developments to a large international audience in the field of the integration of renewable energies into power systems. Submit your abstract until May 11, 2019: https://www.conference-service.com/dublin2019/access.html…
Find out more »Webinar: The Use of Probabilistic Forecasts in Theory and Practice
DOWNLOAD WEBINAR RECORDING DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION Featured Speakers: Dr. Sue Ellen Haupt is a Senior Scientist and Deputy Director of the Research Applications Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She leads and oversees projects in artificial intelligence, applications of weather forecasting, surface transportation, renewable energy, wildland fire management, aviation applications, hydrology applications, and more. She is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, Director of Education for the World Energy and Meteorology Council, Adjunct Professor of Meteorology at Penn…
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2019 Fall Technical Workshop
2019 Fall Workshop Overview 2019 Fall Workshop Agenda Tutorial: Future Directions for Market Design and System Planning Co-chairs: Bethany Frew, Engineer, NREL & Mark Ahlstrom, President, ESIG Board of Directors Introduction, Bethany Frew, Engineer, NREL Brief resource adequacy (RA) overview, Aidan Tuohy, Principal Project Manager, EPRI Current and future wholesale markets, Bethany Frew, Engineer, NREL A Decentralized Markets Approach, Rob Gramlich, Founder and President, Grid Strategies LLC Long-term Markets Working with Short-term Energy Markets, Steve Corneli, Principal and Owner, Strategies…
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