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SUMMARY:2025 Spring Technical Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nPresentations from our 2025 Spring Technical Workshop held in Austin can be downloaded below. \nRecordings of workshop sessions are now available on the ESIG YouTube Channel. \n2025 Spring Technical Workshop Introduction / Opening Remarks\nOpening Remarks\nMark Ahlstrom\, NextEra Energy & ESIG Board of Directors’ President \nKeynote – Opportunities and Challenges in the Texas Power Grid – ERCOT Perspective\nVenkat Tirupati\, Vice President of Grid Transformation\, ERCOT \nIndustry Overview\nDebra Lew\, Executive Director\, ESIG \nOpening Plenary Session: Discussion on Large Loads – Challenges and Solutions\nSession Chair: Erik Ela\, Director of System Operation and Electricity Markets\, ESIG \nDownload Presentation\nAgee Springer\, Senior Manager\, Grid Interconnections\, ERCOT \nDownload Presentation\nJeff Bladen\, Head of Energy\, Verrus \nDownload Presentation\nKatelynn Vance\, Manager\, ET Planning & Strategic Initiatives\, Dominion Energy \nDownload Presentation\nAmanda King\, Director\, Interconnection and Planning\, EPE \nDownload Presentation\nBryn Baker\, Senior Director for Policy and Market Innovation\, Clean Energy Buyers Alliance \nSession 1A: Grid-forming Inverters\nSession Chairs: Andrew Isaacs\, Vice President\, Electranix and Lukas Unruh\, Power Systems Studies Engineer\, Electranix \nLarge AI-based Data Center Load Challenges (flicker and network reliability) and Mitigation Techniques Using GFM\nSam Maleki\, Director\, T&D Engineering and Consulting\, RMS Energy \nGFM IBR: Functional Specifications\, Simulation Strategies\, and Scenario Recommendations\nHossein Ashourian\, Power System Modeling and Simulation Specialist\, EMTP \nUtility-Scale Grid-Forming Projects & Lessons Learned\nSarah Walinga\, Staff Power Control Engineer\, Tesla and Ali Mohammadpour\, Staff Power Systems Engineer\, Tesla \nBenefits of GFM in Stability-constrained Areas\nDeepak Ramasubramanian\, Senior Technical Leader\, EPRI \nEstablishing Grid-Forming Capability Requirements at IESO: Motivation\, Development\, and Verification\nMohamed ElNozahy\, Engineering Manager\, IESO \nSession 1B: Demand Flexibility\nSession Chair: Alison Silverstein\, Consultant\, Alison Silverstein Consulting \nValue of Lost Load in Texas\nSanem Sergici\, Principal\, The Brattle Group \nVirtual Power Plant Study\nAngela Long\, Founder & CEO\, Rockcress Consulting \nThe Impact of Demand Flexibility in Wholesale Power Markets\nBeth Garza\, Senior Fellow\, R Street Institute \nDemand Flexibility from Small Retail Customers\nMichael Lee\, Former CEO\, Octopus Energy US \nSession 2A: Control Room of the Future and System Operations\nSession Chair: Aidan Tuohy\, Director\, EPRI \nEPRI Report\nJohn Simonelli\, CEO and Managing Director\, Flashover LLC \nOnline Stability Assessment\, Lessons Learned and Challenges\nVamsi Madam\, Manager of Real Time Grid Operations Support\, ERCOT \nInertia Monitoring in Hawaii and GFL vs GFM Contribution\nJin Tan\, Principal Engineer\, NREL \nInertia\, Oscillations\, System Strength Monitoring\nDuncan Burt\, Chief Strategic Officer\, Reactive Technologies \nSession 2B: DER Integration for Transmission and Distribution Services\nDER Integration for T&D Services\nSession Chair: Obadiah Bartholomy\, Manager\, Distributed Energy Strategy\, SMUD \nEmerging Issues for DER Grid Services in Deregulated Markets\nArushi Sharma Frank\, Founder and Principal\, Luminary Strategies \nGrid Services Compensation Fund\nJen Schilling\, Vice President\, Grid Modernization\, Eversource \nCase Studies of DER Management\nAstrid Atkinson\, CEO and Co-Founder\, Camus Energy \nSourcing DERs for Distribution Grid Services\nDarren Murtaugh\, Director\, Electric Distribution Strategy\, ICF \nSession 3A: FERC 901\nFERC 901 Milestone 3 – An Overview\nSession Chair: JP Skeath\, Manager\, Engineering & Security Integration\, NERC\n \nProject 2022-02 – Uniform Model Framework for IBRs\nJohn Schmall\, Transmission Planning\, ERCOT \nProject 2020-06 – Verification of Models and Data for Generators\nDavid Marshall\, SPC Transmission and Markets\, Southern Power \nProject 2021-01 – System Model Validation with IBRs\nHari Singh\, Core Electric Cooperative \nProject 2022-04 – Electromagnetic Transient (EMT) Modeling\nDan Kell\, Global Director\, eGrid\, Hatch Ltd \nSession 3B: Integrated Planning\nSession Chair: Liz Cook\, Vice President of Technical Strategy\, Association of Edison Illuminating Companies\n \nIntegration of High Levels of Clean Energy in China’s Northeast Power Grid of SGCC\nHuang Zhen\, Deputy Chief Engineer of State Grid Corporation of China & Director of Northeast Branch of State Grid Corporation of China \nTen-Year Network Development Plan 2024\nRalph Pfeiffer\, Head of System Development – International Planning Products\, Amprion (Germany) \nGrid of the Future: Optimizing Across T&D\nMark Schoenheider\, Manager\, Operations Strategy\, Planning Grid Technology and Modernization\, Xcel Energy \nSystem Expansion Modeling\nAaron Burdick\, Director\, Integrated System Planning\, E3 \nIntegrated Planning Guidebook\nCarlo Brancucci\, Co-founder and CEO\, encoord \nSession 4A: Oscillations and Stability\nSession Chair: Deepak Ramasubramanian\, Senior Technical Leader\, EPRI \nLarge Load Impact on Stability Limits\nYunzhi Cheng\, Manager\, Operations Stability Analysis\, ERCOT \nFeedback and Oscillations\nLingling Fan\, Professor\, University of South Florida \nInvestigation of Persistent Sub-synchronous Oscillations in the Netherlands\nAleksandar Boričić\, Dynamics & Stability Expert\, System Operations\, Tennet \nStability Screening Methods and EMT/PSSE Linkages\nMatt Richwine\, Founding Partner\, Telos and Nick Miller\, Principal\, Hickory Ledge \nSession 4B: Unlock Expansion of Grid to Facilitate Large Loads\nSession Chair: Jeff Bladen\, Head of Energy\, Verrus \nColocation of Generation and Large Loads\nKaren Onaran\, President and CEO\, ELCON \nProtection Settings and Studies for Co-located Load/Generation\nElliott Flick\, VP of Commercial Projects\, Constellation Energy \nNew Market Participation Model for Co-location\nSai Moorty\, Principal\, Market Design & Development\, ERCOT \nElectrification & System Integration of Industrial Heat\nMichael Walsh\, Business Advisor\, RedoxBlox (Ireland) \nSession 5A: Grid-Enhancing Technologies Case Studies\nSession Chair: James Okullo\, Director of Transmission Planning\, ESIG \nPower Flow Control Experience in Southern Company\nFranchesca Aponte\, Transmission Planning Project Manager\, Southern Company and Elizabeth Chase Battaglio\, Manager – Transmission Planning East\, Southern Company \nExperience with Dynamic Line Ratings at GRE\nMichael Craig\, Manager\, Energy Management Systems\, Great River Energy \nTopology Optimization Case Study at EDF Renewables\nAlexandra Miller\, Director\, Transmission Analytics & Policy\, EDF Renewables and Pablo Ruiz\, CEO\, NewGrid and Senior Consultant\, The Brattle Group \nThe Promise and Pitfalls of High Performance Conductors\nCasey Baker\, Senior Program Manager\, Transmission Projects\, GridLab  \nSession 5B: Improved Modeling for System Planners\nSession Chair: Josh Novacheck\, Electricity System Planning Engineer\, NextEra Energy \nIncorporating Stressful Grid Conditions for Reliable and Cost-Effective Electricity System Planning\nTrieu Mai\, Senior Energy Analyst\, NREL \nManaging Variability with High Fidelity Capacity Expansion\nRuss Philbrick\, CEO/CTO\, Polaris System Optimization \nIncorporation of Transmission Power Flow in Resource Adequacy Modeling\nKevin Carden\, President\, Astrape \nIterative Portfolio Optimization and Modeling Approaches for Planning\nDerek Stenclik\, Founding Partner\, Telos \nSession 6A: Transmission Planning\nSession Chair: Warren Lasher\, Lasher Energy \nProbabilistic Methods Applied to MISO’s LRTP Business Case\nArmando Figueroa-Acevedo\, Senior Engineer\, MISO  \nMeeting Accelerated Demand Growth in ERCOT with 765kV Transmission\nSun Wook Kang\, Senior Manager\, Dynamic Studies – Grid Planning\, ERCOT \nTransmission Value Assessment\nDev Millstein\, Staff Scientist\, LBNL \nIntegrating Siloes of Transmission Planning\nAhmed Rashwan\, Senior Director\, Transmission Planning and Operations\, Utilities\, EPE \nSession 6B: Resource Adequacy\nResource Adequacy: Introduction\nSession Chair: Tom Acker\, Sr. Principal Research Engineer\, SRP \nResource Adequacy in ERCOT\nJulie Jin\, Supervisor\, ERCOT \nClimate Change Implications for Resource Adequacy in the US Desert Southwest\nJon Cook\, Principal Resource Analyst\, SRP \nResource Adequacy Under System Transformation: Energy Storage\, Capacity Markets\, and Scarcity Pricing\nTodd Levin\, Electricity Markets Team Lead\, ANL \nZonal vs Nodal Reliability Analysis in NYISO\nAlex Rudkevich\, President\, Enelytix \nCause Evaluation of Load Loss Hours in Monte-Carlo Dispatch Simulations\nMax Muller\, Engineer for Energy Economic Scenarios\, TransnetBW GmbH (Germany) \nSession 7: Closing Plenary Session: Scale\, Speed and Supply Chains\nDownload Presentation\nSession Chair: Steve Martz\, Vice President\, Integrated Planning\, Xcel Energy\n \nDownload Presentation\nDamir Novosel\, President\, Quanta Technologies \nDownload Presentation\nJohn Francis\, Business Transformation Partner\, ScottMadden \nDownload Presentation\nKevin Jacobs\, Director\, Supply Chain Consulting\, Wood Mackenzie \n 
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/2025-spring-technical-workshop/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Austin\, 208 Barton Springs Rd\, Austin\, TX\, 78704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,ESIG Workshops
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