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July 2022
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Wind and Solar Power Forecast Management
Download Presentation View Webinar Recording Featured Speaker: Nitika Mago, Manager, Electric Grid Operations, ERCOT Nitika Mago About the Webinar: As of May 31, 2022, ERCOT has integrated about 35,755 MW of wind and 11,669 MW of solar capacity on its grid. ERCOT currently receives both hourly and intra-hour 5-minute wind and solar forecasts from three different vendors and has built tools and processes to integrate these various forecasts into ERCOT’s Real Time operations and forward-looking studies. Since about 2018, ERCOT…
Find out more »Webinar: HECO Plans for Meeting Clean Energy Targets and Role of Grid Forming Inverters
Download Presentation View Webinar Recording Download Q&A Responses Featured Speakers: Li Yu, Manager, Transmission Planning & Ken Aramaki, Director, T&D and Interconnection Planning, Hawaiian Electric Company; Li Yu About the Webinar: Hawaiian Electric has been aggressively pursuing its renewable energy goals. In 2021, Hawaiian Electric re-affirmed its commitment with a climate change action plan – to reduce carbon emissions by 2030 to 70% below 2005 levels, and to achieve net zero emissions by 2045. The key to achieving these goals…
Find out more »August 2022
Joint Generator Interconnection Workshop (Virtual)
Session recordings and presentations are linked below. Click here to download a full summary of the entire three-day workshop. This major online workshop by ESIG, NAGF, NERC and EPRI covers the important relationships between interconnection process reforms and new capability and performance standards for inverter-based resources. The workshop provides education on both topics and how they interact for potentially expediting the large generator interconnection process while also supporting a more economic, sustainable, and reliable future power system. Interconnection queues…
Find out more »Webinar: Proactive Planning for Generator Interconnection: A Case Study of SPP and MISO
Download Presentation View Webinar Recording Download Q&A Responses Featured Speaker: Bruce Tsuchida, Principal, The Brattle Group Webinar Abstract: This study, from the Proactive Planning Task Force, examines how costs vary in the generator interconnection (GI) process, depending on the level of proactive planning. It studies three levels of proactiveness using the MISO and SPP regions as testbeds. It finds significant cost reductions using expanded study windows and additional cost reductions with increased study scope. Bruce Tsuchida About the Speaker: Mr. T.…
Find out more »Webinar: Market Design Concepts for Evolving Power Systems
Download Presentation View Webinar Recording Download Q&A Responses Featured Speakers: Bethany Frew, Group Manager, Capacity Expansion & Electricity Markets Group, NREL & Yinong Sun, Researcher, Capacity Expansion & Electricity Markets Group, NREL Bethany Frew About the Webinar: This presentation provides a summary of competitive wholesale electricity market modeling tools and analysis being conducted in the Grid Planning and Analysis Center (GPAC) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). A specific emphasis is placed on the impact of forward and operational…
Find out more »Webinar: An Empirical Assessment of Regional and Interregional Transmission Congestion Value
Download D. Millstein Presentation Download J. Pfeifenberger Presentation View Webinar Recording Featured Speakers: Dev Millstein, Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Johannes (Hannes) Pfeifenberger, Principal, The Brattle Group; Michael Goggin, Vice President, Grid Strategies Dev Millstein About the Webinar: In this webinar we will examine recent trends and characteristics of one important benefit of transmission infrastructure—congestion relief. Specifically, we examine the marginal value of potential transmission links as indicated by nodal pricing (LMPs) from 2012 through the first half of…
Find out more »G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Operating the System Towards Zero Carbon
Download Presentation View Webinar Recording Download Q&A Responses About the Webinar: National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) plays a very important role of ensuring that Great Britain has the essential energy it needs by making sure supply meets demand every second of every day. The flow of electricity is getting more complex in the GB system with key features of more renewable energy and interconnectors; a growing number of ways to source electricity as well as more participants in “demand…
Find out more »September 2022
2022 Fall O&M Users Group Meeting
Members of the ESIG O&M Users Group are invited to attend the 2022 Fall O&M Users Group Meeting at the Omni Severin Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana. The workshop will feature a plenary session as well as manufacturer-specific roundtables. The roundtables provide the opportunity for frank and open discussion among users, who share their information, knowledge and experience. Participation in the roundtables is limited to employees of ESIG member organizations that own, operate, or maintain wind, solar, and energy storage equipment.…
Find out more »G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Update on Changing Role of Resources and Growth of Utility Scale Storage
Download Presentation View Webinar Recording Featured Speaker: Robert Kott, Operations Policy Manager, California Independent System Operator Robert Kott About the Webinar: This presentation provides an update on the current state of supply resources for the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) balancing authority area (BAA) and the expected future state of the resource mix as CAISO continues an energy transition toward 60 percent renewable and 100 percent zero carbon resources. This will include a description of an effective resource adequacy program,…
Find out more »Webinar: Energy Islands Update
Download Presentation View Webinar Recording Featured Speaker: Nicolaos A. Cutululis, Professor, Offshore Wind Power Integration, Technical University of Denmark Nicolaos A. Cutululis About the Webinar: Denmark and Northern Europe have set very ambitious targets for deployment of offshore wind power, which will form the backbone of power generation in a decarbonized power system. To facilitate a cost-efficient connection of such massive amounts of offshore wind power, Denmark is revolutionizing the grid connection concept for offshore wind. In 2020, the Danish…
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