2018 Fall Workshop Overview 2018 Fall Workshop Agenda Tutorial: Inertia Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be Chairs: Derek Stenclik and Matt Richwine, GE Introduction and Industry Trends in Low Inertia Operations Common Definitions, What’s What - High-level trends - Synchronous inertia, synthetic inertia, FFR, PFR, SFR, UFLS, DR - Technology aspects Island Grid Perspective, […]
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. Schedule of Events Download Event Agenda October 15 tour of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Wind Technology Center October 15 Pre-Meeting Workshop October […]
Featured Speaker: Rob Gramlich, Founder & President, Grid Strategies Rob Gramlich has been working to drive grid modernization and expansion efforts since the mid-1990s. Through senior positions in government and the private sector, he has developed and led initiatives on renewable energy integration, market design, and transmission policy. Rob oversaw transmission policy for the American Wind […]
Featured Speakers: Patrick O’Connor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Nathalie Voisin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Patrick O’Connor is an Energy Analyst at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managing and executing projects assessing the markets, policy, and economics of hydropower, energy storage, and the electric power sector more broadly. He holds a BA in Mathematics and Political Science […]
Build upon your energy expertise, combining your existing knowledge with global and multidisciplinary strategies, and learn to create smart and sustainable integrated energy systems. Businesses and institutions all over the world face critical energy challenges. Namely: the rising cost of energy, the effects of climate change, and the resulting threats to our energy security. If […]
Featured Speakers: Bob Zavadil, Chief Operating Officer, Enernex Ryan Quint, Senior Manager, NERC Bob Zavadil is responsible for developing and overseeing EnerNex’s power system engineering and consulting business. Bob is a nationally recognized expert in electric power system issues for wind generation. His clients in the wind generation industry range from turbine designers and manufacturers to […]
DOWNLOAD RECORDING/PRESENTATION FROM THIS WEBINAR DOWNLOAD WEBINAR QUESTIONS/ANSWERS Featured Speakers: Mahesh Morjaria, Vice President – PV Systems, First Solar Arne Olson, Senior Partner, Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) Jimmy Nelson, Managing Consultant, Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) Dr. Morjaria leads a R&D effort addressing key challenges associated with integrating utility-scale solar plants into the power […]
DOWNLOAD RECORDING/PRESENTATION FROM THIS WEBINAR DOWNLOAD Q&A FROM THIS WEBINAR Featured Speakers: Christopher Clack, CEO, Vibrant Clean Energy, LLC Brendon Slotterback, Program Officer – Midwest Climate & Energy, McKnight Foundation Dr. Clack is CEO of Vibrant Clean Energy, the company that he founded to push the forefront of system planning, optimization, and modeling to address the intelligent transformation of […]
DOWNLOAD RECORDING/PRESENTATION FROM THIS WEBINAR DOWNLOAD WEBINAR Q&A Featured Speaker: Julia Matevosyan, ERCOT Julia Matevosyan is Lead Planning Engineer at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Resource Adequacy Group, primarily working on adequacy of system inertial response, system flexibility, frequency control and performance issues related to high penetration levels of inverter-based generation. Her other interests […]
Featured Speaker: Greg Martin, ESIF Operations Research Engineering Manager Greg Martin is the Engineering Group Manager for a team of 12 at the Energy Systems Integration Facility, National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. He has been at NREL working in microgrids, hydrogen systems and grid technology integration since 2008. Greg received his […]
