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SUMMARY:G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Is “Grid Forming” Enough: What Do Electricity Grids Need From IBR?
DESCRIPTION:Download Presentation \nView Session \nQ&A Recap \n\nIs “Grid Forming” Enough: What Do Electricity Grids Need From IBR?\nWednesday\, May 12 – 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. (eastern US)\nFeatured Speaker: Tim Green\, Professor\, Co-Director of the Energy Futures Laboratory (EFL)\, Imperial College London \nTim C Green received a B.Sc.(Eng) from Imperial College London\, UK in 1986 and a Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University\, Edinburgh\, UK in 1990. He is a Professor of Electrical Power Engineering at Imperial College London\, and Co-Director of the Energy Futures Lab with a role of fostering interdisciplinary energy research across the university. His research uses the flexibility of power electronics to enable electricity networks to operate with very high fractions of low carbon technologies. In HVDC\, he has contributed converter designs that strike improved trade-offs between power losses\, physical size and fault handling. In distribution systems\, he has pioneered the use of soft open points. He has made important contribution to the study of stability of grid-connected inverters. Prof. Green is a Chartered Engineering in the UK\, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of IEEE. \nModerator: Charlie Smith\, Executive Director\, ESIG \nRegistration Cost: FREE \nQ&A Session: We will be using the slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link. \nWebinar Abstract: The replacement of electro-mechanical machines by inverter-based resources (IBR) is fundamentally changing the dynamics and stability properties of grids. A review will be made of the needs a grid system has in order that it is stable and secure. The needs in terms of voltage strength\, frequency regulation and synchronisation will be discussed in term of how they are met by synchronous machines\, grid-following converters and grid-forming converters. A case will be made that there is advantage in not all resources being obliged to provide all system services and that new services can replace some traditional services. Thus\, strictly following a virtual synchronous machine (VSM) approach may not yield the best solution. \nApproaches to ensuring system-wide dynamic stability will also be explored noting that IBR have overlapping sets of dynamics but with details often hidden in black-box models. A method for identifying root-causes of poorly damped modes in black-box models will be illustrated. This analytical grey-box method avoids exhaustive transient simulation. A toolbox for compiling models of composite grids with IBR and synchronous machines will be introduced. The talk will conclude with some thoughts on modelling and analysis challenges that remain for IBR dominated grids. \n \n  \n  \n  \n\nAbout G-PST Consortium \nThe chief executive officers of National Grid Electricity System Operator UK\, California Independent System Operator (CAISO)\, Australia Energy Market Operator (AEMO)\, Ireland’s System Operator (EirGrid)\, and Denmark’s System Operator (Energinet) are champions in developing the consortium mission and activities. Importantly\, these system operators are leading a Research Agenda Group to identify common\, cutting-edge research questions that can inform large- scale national research and development investments. Relevant results and lessons from this process will be broadly shared for learning across all countries. The Consortium is also partnering with around 10 emerging economy and developing country system operators from Africa\, Asia\, Latin America and Eastern Europe who will also guide the G-PST vision and collaborate with the Consortium to advance power system transformation with a focus on technical collaboration\, peer learning and exchange\, and workforce development to support local PST priorities. \nA core team\, including the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG)\, Imperial College London\, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)\, Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Integrated Energy Systems\, National Renewable Energy Laboratory\, Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE)\, IEEE\, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)\, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)\, the Danish Technical University (DTU)\, and ASEAN Center for Energy\, is actively developing the consortium and will be engaged in implementation of technical work as well as coordinating specific pillars. \nInternational agencies and multilateral and regional development banks\, including World Bank\, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)\, German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)\, International Energy Agency (IEA)\, Asian Development Bank (ADB)\, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and others are serving as key implementing partners to ensure the consortium complements and reinforces existing programs. \n For more information on the G-PST visit https://globalpst.org/.
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/g-pst-esig-webinar-series-is-grid-forming-enough-what-do-electricity-grids-need-from-ibr/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210517T160000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Open Networks Project - Extracting Flexibility from DER
DESCRIPTION:Download Presentation \nView Webinar Recording \nDownload Q&A \n\nWebinar Abstract: Launched in 2017\, ENA’s Open Networks Project is laying the foundations of a smart\, flexible energy system in Great Britain. Through the work over the years\, the project has introduced real momentum into the transition to Distribution System Operation and is playing a key role in enabling local markets for flexibility. With over 2.9GW of flexibility planned for tender by Distribution networks in 2021 in Great Britain\, the Open Networks Project is playing a key role in boosting flexibility markets and enabling DER to participate in them. Join the talk to hear more about the project and its work on flexibility. \nAbout the Speakers:\nFarina Farrier is the Head of Open Networks at the Energy Networks Association and has over 6 years of experience in managing engineering and business change projects within the energy and utilities sectors. Farina is currently heading the Open Networks Project that is laying the foundations of a smart grid in Great Britain. Farina works closely with the network operators\, Government\, stakeholders and industry in defining\, planning and delivering the project. \nRandolph Brazier is the Director of Innovation & Electricity Systems at the Energy Networks Association\, and has over ten years of experience in the electricity and energy sector in the UK\, Europe and Australia. Randolph leads teams looking at Digitalisation\, Engineering\, Future Networks (Open Networks Project)\, Innovation\, Low Carbon Technologies and Resilience. He is responsible for co-ordinating and delivering a broad range of strategic initiatives\, including how networks can help to deliver Net Zero. He has previous experience in the design and management of multi-disciplinary power projects in the power and renewables sectors. Randolph has an M.Phil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge and has presented at a wide range of events and conferences. \nModerator: Charlie Smith\, ESIG Executive Director \nRegistration Cost: FREE \nQ&A Session: We will be using the slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-open-networks-project-extracting-flexibility-from-der/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20210525T160000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Towards a Common Understanding of Energy System Costs
DESCRIPTION:Date: Tuesday\, May 25\, 2021 – 4:00 pm (Central European Time)\, 10:00 am (Eastern US Time) \nVIEW SESSION RECORDING \nThe EERA Joint Program on Energy Systems Integration together with ESIG\, is organizing a workshop program on the issue of “System Integration Costs”. In the last decade\, a diversity of publications\, reports and approaches have been presented on this matter\, with sometimes seemingly different interpretations. This webinar is part of a four-step program on this matter (including also an in-person workshop in fall 2021 in Leuven\, Belgium\, and the writing of a consensus paper). Through this program\, we will strive for a common understanding and consensus of this concept. \nFeatured Speakers & Presentations: \nThe Hirth & Ueckerdt Philosophy of System Value and System Cost\nLion Hirth (Neon Energy & Hertie School\, Berlin\, DE) & Falko Ueckerdt (Potsdam Institute\, DE) \nThe Milligan School on Cost Causation\nJuha Kiviluoma (VTT\, FI) \nThe NEA Approach Confronting VRE with Nuclear\nMarco Cometto (formerly OECD/NEA\, now IAEA\, Vienna\, AT) & Jan Horst Keppler (OECD/NEA & Univ Dauphine\, Paris\, FR) \nThe System Cost Detailed Simulation Approach\nGoran Strbac (Imperial College\, London\, UK) \nModerators: William D’haeseleer (KU Leuven\, BE) and Erik Delarue (KU Leuven\, BE) \nRegistration Cost: FREE \nQ&A Session: No Q&A\, nor discussion will take place at this point\, but an electronic question drop-off box will be available. The submitted questions will be taken up in the further steps of the program. We will be using the slido platform for this question drop-off. Please submit your questions and at this link. Presentations are recorded and remain available online afterwards. \n\nAbout the Speakers:\nLion Hirth is founder and director of Neon\, a boutique energy economics consulting firm; assistant professor at Hertie School\, a Berlin-based public policy school. He is an energy economist and expert in renewable energy and electricity market design. He has advised numerous clients on system integration costs and has published a series of articles on that matter. \nFalko Ueckerdt is a senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). There he leads a team on National Energy Transitions. He has been the main developer of the system LCOE metric\, but is currently more engaged in researching hydrogen and electrification. \nJuha Kiviluoma is a principal scientist at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and a part-time senior energy systems researcher at the University College Dublin. He has a wide-ranging interest in electrification of energy\, flexibility\, energy system planning and operation as well as in tool and method development. \nMarco Cometto is an energy economist at the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations\, where he works on the economics of nuclear power. The main areas of his research are the integration of nuclear and renewable energy and the analysis of costs and financing options for nuclear projects. \nJan Horst Keppler is Senior Economic Advisor at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. He pursues the system cost analysis of integrated electricity systems in order to assist policymakers in identifying low carbon generation mixes that allow to attain ambitions carbon emission reduction targets while maintaining high levels of security of supply at least economic cost. He is also professor of economics at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL. \nGoran Strbac is a Professor of Energy Systems at Imperial College London – he led the development of advanced whole-system methodologies that have been extensively used to inform industry\, governments and regulatory bodies about the role and value of emerging new technologies and systems in supporting cost effective evolution to smart and resilient low carbon energy future. \nLion Hirth\nFalko Ueckerdt\nJuha Kiviluoma\nMarco Cometto\nJan Horst Keppler\nGoran Strbac\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Moderators:\nWilliam D’haeseleer is professor in Energy Systems at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven)\, Belgium\, director of its Energy Institute and academic member of EnergyVille. His current research concentrates on energy systems and energy policy\, with emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects\, particularly energy-system integration & interactions\, including flexibility & sector coupling\, system effects related to hydrogen\, power to gas and e-fuels. \nErik Delarue is assistant professor in Energy Systems at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven)\, Belgium\, and active in EnergyVille. His research and expertise is on quantitative tools\, supporting an efficient operation of\, and transition towards\, a low-carbon energy system (mathematical modeling of energy systems)\, with a strong interdisciplinary focus (techno-economic models\, linked to energy markets and policies). \nWilliam D’haeseleer\nErik Delarue\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-towards-a-common-understanding-of-energy-system-costs/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210526T160000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Market Design for the Clean Electricity Transition
DESCRIPTION:View Webinar Recording \nDownload Presentation \nDownload Q&A \n\nFeatured Speakers:\nDr. Karl Hausker\, Senior Fellow\, World Resources Institute\nDr. Karen Palmer\, Senior Fellow and Director of the Future Power Initiative\, Resources for the Future\nSteve Corneli\, Principal and Owner\, Strategies for Clean Energy Innovation \nWebinar Abstract: Policymakers in the U.S. and many other countries are examining whether current electricity market designs are well-suited to support the efficient and rapid decarbonization of the power sector. WRI and RFF are exploring concepts for organized long-term markets designed to operate parallel to today’s short-term energy markets\, and intended to identify and support the financing and development of efficient\, reliable mixes of clean (i.e.\, zero- and very low-carbon) resources. Karl Hausker and Karen Palmer will present on why such markets may be needed\, and on four potential long-term market designs. \nThey will draw on their recent workshop on this topic. For background reading:\nhttps://www.wri.org/events/2020/12/market-design-clean-energy-transition-advancing-long-term \n\nAbout the Speakers:\n \nDr. Karl Hausker\nDr. Karl Hausker is a Senior Fellow in WRI’s Climate Program. He leads analysis and modeling of the clean energy transition\, climate mitigation\, electricity market design\, and the social cost of carbon. He led the Risky Business study of clean energy scenarios for the U.S.\, and lectures widely on clean energy and deep decarbonization. He has worked for three decades in the fields of climate change\, energy\, and environment in a career that has spanned legislative and executive branches\, research institutions\, NGOs\, and consulting. He has led climate policy analysis and modeling projects for USAID\, USEPA\, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative\, the Western Climate Initiative\, and the California Air Resources Board. Much of his work has focused on the energy and transportation sectors\, and on low carbon\, climate resilient development strategies. \n  \n  \nDr. Karen Palmer\nDr. Karen Palmer is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future and an expert on the economics of environmental\, climate and public utility regulation of the electric power sector. Her work seeks to improve the design of environmental and technology regulations in the sector and the development of new institutions to help guide the ongoing transition of the electricity sector. To these ends\, she explores climate policy design\, analyzes efficient ways to promote use of renewable and other clean sources of electricity\, and investigates new market designs\, new approaches to electricity pricing and regulatory reforms to pave the way for long-term de-carbonization of electricity supply and electrification of the energy economy. \n  \n  \nSteve Corneli\nSteve Corneli has worked in the power sector since 1990\, at the intersection of new technologies\, new business models and ideas\, and the key policy-making institutions of state and federal government\, with a focus on clean energy entrepreneurship in both business and policy arenas. He worked for 14 years for NRG Energy\, and during that time led the company’s wholesale market design and development\, government and regulatory affairs\, climate policy\, and broader policy and strategy practices. Prior to NRG\, Steve was a utility consumer advocate in the Minnesota Attorney General’s office and a regulatory specialist serving competitive power sector clients in the law firm of Leonard\, Street and Deinard. Steve serves on the board of the Climate Action Reserve\, on the Executive Leadership Council of the Smart Electric Power Alliance\, on RMI’s eLab Advisory Council\, and has also served on the board of the Solar Electric Power Alliance and as a member of the Operating Committee of NERC. Steve has a MA in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute\, concentrating on energy\, environment and technology policy\, and a BA degree from St. John’s College. \n  \n\nModerator: Mark Ahlstrom\, President\, ESIG Board of Directors \n\nRegistration Cost: FREE \n\nQ&A Session: We will be using the slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-market-design-for-the-clean-electricity-transition/
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