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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 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 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…
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