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October 2019
2019 Fall Technical Workshop
2019 Fall Workshop Overview 2019 Fall Workshop Agenda 2019 Fall Workshop Recap 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,…
Find out more »November 2019
Webinar: Understanding Key Challenges to Conducting Integrated Energy Network Planning
Download Webinar Recording Download Presentation Download Q&A Featured Speakers: Adam Diamant is a Technical Executive in the Energy and Environmental Analysis Group at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Mr. Diamant manages EPRI's research program on Resource Planning for Electric Power Systems (Program #178). This research program focuses on improving understanding of the cost and performance of power generation and storage technologies and developing new methods to address emerging challenges to long-term integrated energy system planning resulting from the transformation…
Find out more »December 2019
Webinar: Update on Dynamic Model Development and Validation for Converter-based Resources
Download Webinar Recording Download Webinar Presentation Download Q&A Featured Speakers: Bob Zavadil, Chief Operating Officer, EnerNex, a CESI company Ryan Quint, Senior Manager, NERC Bob Zavadil is a co-founder of EnerNex, and continues his role in executive leadership following the formalized partnership in June of 2018 with CESI, an international electric energy consulting firm based in Milan, Italy. He has worked on electric power system issues for wind and renewable generation for over 30 years. His clients include wind turbine…
Find out more »January 2020
Webinar: Regulating Voltage: Recommendations for Smart Inverters
DOWNLOAD RECORDING FROM THIS WEBINAR DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION FROM THIS WEBINAR Featured Speaker: Ric O'Connell, Executive Director, GridLab Ric is the Executive Director of GridLab, an organization that provides technical grid expertise to enhance policy decision-making and to ensure a rapid transition to a reliable, cost effective, and low carbon future. A recognized leader in renewable energy technology and policy, Ric has provided engineering support for more than 8 GW of utility scale solar projects worldwide, including several of the largest…
Find out more »February 2020
Webinar: Operational Considerations for a 100% Instantaneous Converter Fed Power System
DOWNLOAD RECORDING FROM THIS WEBINAR DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION FROM THIS WEBINAR DOWNLOAD Q&A Featured Speaker: Nick Miller, Principal, HickoryLedge LLC Nick recently retired from GE after 3/8 century of experience and research on bulk power systems. He has lectured on Wind and Solar Power integration to governments and institutions in more than three dozen countries. He currently provides consulting expertise to a variety of private and public institutions on topics of grid integration of renewable resources. He holds twenty US patents…
Find out more »March 2020
2020 Spring Technical Workshop
**The 2020 Spring Technical Workshop has moved to online sessions** Each session that was planned for the 2020 ESIG Spring Technical Workshop will now be held online via WebEx. Below you will find the schedule, along with the corresponding link to register for each session. Registration for each session will be FREE. If you have any questions, please let us know at info@esig.energy. We hope you are able to join us for these informative sessions from industry leaders over the…
Find out more »2020 Spring Operations and Maintenance Users Group Meeting
**The 2020 Spring O&M Meeting has been cancelled** In light of developing circumstances surrounding COVID-19 coronavirus, Energy Systems Integration Group is cancelling the 2020 Spring O&M Users Group Meeting scheduled to take place in Tucson, March 31 - April 2. Over the last week, a large number of speakers and attendees have been forced to cancel due to travel bans/restrictions from their own companies. We feel that with so many speakers unable to attend, we would not be able to…
Find out more »Webinar: Consumer Preferences and Energy System Integration
DOWNLOAD RECORDING FROM THIS WEBINAR DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION FROM THIS WEBINAR DOWNLOAD Q&A Featured Speaker: Dr. Linda Steg, Professor of Environmental Psychology, University of Groningen Dr. Linda Steg is a Professor of Environmental Psychology on the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Linda is a graduate of the university and has been employed there since 1991, although the university has been…
Find out more »April 2020
Webinar: Weak Area Network Control of Wind Turbine Generators
Featured Speaker: Dr. Rajat Majumder, Key Senior Expert Engineer, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Dr. Rajat Majumder Dr. Rajat Majumder is a Key Senior Expert Engineer in Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. He covers all Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Inc. territory across the United States and Canada. He makes critical technical decisions on product portfolio, manage risks and makes strategic impact on the regional organization. He works closely with global engineering headquarters in Europe influencing technical road map in the North America…
Find out more »May 2020
Webinar: MISO’s Renewable Integration Impact Assessment
DOWNLOAD WEBINAR RECORDING DOWNLOAD WEBINAR PRESENTATION Featured Speaker: Jordan Bakke, Manager, Policy Studies, MISO Jordan Bakke is the manager of Policy Studies within MISO focusing on how public policy and changing economic conditions impacts energy and gas systems for the MISO footprint. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at North Dakota State University and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas. He has held many roles at MISO working in resource forecasting, transmission planning and renewable integration.…
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