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SUMMARY:Webinar: The Need for Intertie Optimization: Reducing Customer Costs\, Improving Grid Resilience\, and Encouraging Interregional Transmission
DESCRIPTION:Download Webinar Recording \nDownload Presentation \nDownload Report \n\nFeatured Speakers: Hannes Pfeifenberger\, Principal\, The Brattle Group; Norman Bay\, Co-Chair of the Energy Commodities Group and Head of the Energy Regulatory Practice\, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP \nHannes Pfeifenberger\nAbout the Webinar: Inefficient use of interregional transmission facilities unnecessarily raises system costs and reduces reliability. During many hours\, interregional power flows do not fully utilize available transmission capabilities despite high price differences\, or even flow power in the opposite direction to price differences. These inefficiencies have been pointed out by market monitors for over a decade. \nThis webinar discusses (1) the source and magnitude of the inefficiencies currently associated with interregional transactions; (2) why the time is ripe to implement “intertie optimization” that would ensure the efficient use of interregional transmission\, as the Western Energy Imbalance Market and European “market coupling” already does successfully; (3) why FERC already has the authority to approve intertie optimization frameworks; and (4) why doing so is important as we attempt to expand interregional transmission capacity\, including through merchant HVDC lines. \nThis work is sponsored by ACORE\, NRDC\, Invenergy\, Grid United the Advanced Power Alliance\, and the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition Action. \nAbout the Speakers: Hannes Pfeifenberger is an economist with a background in electrical engineering and over 25 years of experience in the areas of electricity markets\, regulation\, and finance. Hannes specializes in wholesale electricity market and transmission\, helping clients explore the benefits of improved power market designs and grid investments\, the integration of renewable generation and storage resources\, and the impact of regulatory and legislative actions in the context of evolving market conditions. He is a Visiting Scholar at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)\, a former Senior Fellow at Boston University’s Institute of Sustainable Energy (BU-ISE)\, and an IEEE Senior Member. Hannes frequently serves as an advisor to research initiatives by the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) and the US Department of Energy’s National Labs. \nNorman Bay\nNorman C. Bay is Co-Chair of the Energy Commodities Group and Head of the Energy Regulatory Practice at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Washington\, DC. His practice focuses on enforcement and compliance\, energy policy and rates\, mergers and acquisitions\, and infrastructure development. Bay was Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)\, as well as Director of the Office of Enforcement. He was integral in shaping FERC policy on a wide range of energy market issues\, including enforcement and compliance\, energy storage\, aggregated distributed energy resources\, transmission and interconnection policy\, and price formation in the RTO markets. Bay was previously a Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law and the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico. He is currently a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board for the Department of Energy\, a non-resident Senior Fellow with Duke University\, a member of the NYU Institute for Policy Integrity Advisory Board\, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth College. \nModerator: Debbie Lew\, Associate 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.
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-the-need-for-intertie-optimization-reducing-customer-costs-improving-grid-resilience-and-encouraging-interregional-transmission/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Power-to-X: Concepts and Implications for Market Participants and Independent System Operators Copy
DESCRIPTION:  \nView Webinar Recording \nDownload Presentation \nDownload Q&A Responses \n\nFeatured Speaker: Andrew Reimers\, Director of Regulatory Affairs\, Lancium \nAndrew Reimers\nAbout the Webinar: “Power-to-X” is the generalized concept for using carbon free electricity to produce other things like synthetic fuels such as hydrogen or ammonia that can then be used as inputs for hard to abate end products like steel or cement. Despite its advantages in terms of decarbonization\, Power-to-X has the potential to stress the reliability of the bulk power system if it results in large swings in demand over short timescales or increases aggregate demand beyond what the grid can consistently supply . However\, if Power-to-X can operate as controllable loads\, i.e. loads that can follow dispatch instructions from the grid operator and provide balancing services such as frequency regulation and energy reserve service\, Power-to-X can improve the reliability of the grid and balance against intermittent generation from renewables. \nThe optimal development of such controllable loads poses challenges for both market participants and grid operators. For example\, owner/operators of controllable loads will have to develop techniques to operate their loads within defined parameters to be able to follow instructions from the grid. At the same time\, grid operators will have to devise rules and strategies for dealing with reliability issues that can result from sudden changes in load and factor the economics of controllable loads into their forecasts for resource adequacy . We will present an overview of contemporary issues related to the operation of Power-to-X resources and how market participants and grid operators can optimally manage these dynamics. \nAbout the Speaker: Andrew Reimers is the Director of Regulatory Affairs for Lancium\, a start-up specializing in demand management for large electrical loads. He has worked as an electricity market analyst for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory\, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas\, and RWE Renewables. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas where he was advised by Michael Webber. \nModerator: Mark Ahlstrom\, President\, ESIG Board of Directors & NextEra Energy Resources \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-power-to-x-concepts-and-implications-for-market-participants-and-independent-system-operators-copy/
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SUMMARY:G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Advances in the Use of Wind and Solar Forecasting
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nView Webinar Recording \nDownload Presentation \n\nFeatured Speaker: Amber Motley\, Director\, Short Term Forecasting\, California ISO \nAmber Motley\nAbout the Webinar: This webinar focuses on the importance of renewable energy forecasting to grid operations with high penetrations of renewable resources. Renewable resource forecasts have become a critical part of grid operations\, informing uncertainty products\, the market optimization\, and the reliability of the grid throughout the real time and day ahead horizons. This webinar will address the optimization of forecasts from multiple renewable providers\, and the evolution towards new renewable resource types of co-located and hybrid resources. This will include the additional data requirements for Hybrid and Co-located resources\, and the use of confidence bands in probabilistic renewable forecasts in planning Day Ahead and future time horizons to ensure the uncertainty of these resources is accounted for in system reliability considerations. \nAbout the Speaker: Amber Motley is the Director of Short Term Forecasting at the California ISO. In her current role\, Amber is accountable for leading a team to perform daily forecasting responsibilities for 27\,000 MWs of solar energy\, 7\,000 MWs of wind energy\, a peak demand of over 52\,000 MWs for the CAISO\, and 78\,000 MWs for the participating EIM entities. \nAmber’s roles and responsibilities expand into advancing the California ISO formulation of regulation requirements\, flexible resource adequacy\, flexible ramp requirements\, including the avenue to integrate probabilistic forecasting into the market optimization. \nPrior to Amber’s role with the ISO she worked for Xcel Energy Services for nearly 9 years\, she held the position of Trade Analyst and had the primary responsibility of directing all company owned and operated resources. Mrs. Motley’s duties also included pre-scheduling day-ahead planning for Xcel Energy Services into the Southwest Power Pool. Areas of support in Mrs. Motley’s previous role included energy trading\, maintaining the resource portfolio’s unit characteristics\, energy supply contract analysis\, and emergency operations. \nFollowing her role as Trade Analyst Mrs. Motley accepted the position of Manager\, Market Operations with Xcel Energy\, Mrs. Motley’s primary responsibilities in this role were the management of Xcel Energy Services participation in the energy market operated by Southwest Power Pool\, Inc. and the Mid-Continent Independent System Operator (ISO). \nMrs. Motley holds her Bachelor of Science in Meteorology\, with a minor in Hydrology at Saint Cloud State University. \nModerator: Julia Matevosyan\, Chief Engineer\, 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.
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/g-pst-esig-webinar-series-advances-in-the-use-of-wind-and-solar-forecasting/
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