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SUMMARY:Webinar: Resource Adequacy in the 2030s in Great Britain
DESCRIPTION:Download the Presentation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Speakers: Mohit Joshi\, Senior Analyst at National Energy System Operator; Lisa Flatley\, Senior Analyst at National Energy System Operator; Tim Price\, Senior Analyst at National Energy System Operator \n\n\n\nModerator: James Okullo\, Director of System Planning\, ESIG \n\n\n\nWebinar Abstract: Decarbonizing the power system in Great Britain over the next decade is essential to meet the country’s legally binding obligations on climate change. This means the future decarbonized power system in Great Britain will be very different\, with a large share of weather-dependent renewables and supported by higher levels of flexible resources such as storage\, interconnection and demand-side flexibility. A study was published by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) in July 2025 to understand potential risks to resource adequacy in the future\, so that actions can be taken ahead of time to give confidence that future consumers can continue to benefit from reliable energy supplies. This webinar will explore the details of the modeling approach adopted for this study and key messages covering the role of weather patterns\, energy storage\, demand side flexibility\, interconnection and adequacy metrics. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers: Mohit Joshi is a senior analyst in the net zero adequacy modelling team at National Energy System Operator (NESO)\, UK. He joined NESO in 2023 where his role focusses on delivering long term resource adequacy assessment for Great Britain and provide recommendations to ensure security of supply in 2030s & beyond. He has over 15 years of experience in energy industry in areas such as power system operation & analysis\, electricity markets and its modelling\, long term planning and resource adequacy. Prior to joining NESO\, Mohit worked at National Renewable Energy Lab\, USA and National Load Despatch Centre in India. \n\n\n\nLisa Flatley is a senior analyst in the Net Zero Modelling Adequacy team at National Energy System Operator (NESO). Her role focuses on resource adequacy assessments and making recommendations for Great Britain in the 2030s. Prior to joining NESO\, Lisa was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick\, focusing on the mathematics and economics of long-duration energy storage. \n\n\n\nTim Price is a senior analyst in the Net Zero Modeling Adequacy team at National Energy System Operator (NESO). He mainly focuses on processes to set up\, run and analyze adequacy models. He has a masters in Physics from the University of Manchester and experience as a technical lead and creating coding infrastructures for particle accelerators.
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-resource-adequacy-in-the-2030s-in-great-britain/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Study of the Protection Improvements for a Weak Grid Area with High Inverter-Based Resources
DESCRIPTION:Download the Presentation \n\n\n\nWatch the Recording \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Speakers: Jing Wang\, Principal Engineer\, National Laboratory of the Rockies; Yaswanth Nag Velaga\, Senior Research Engineer\, National Laboratory of the Rockies \n\n\n\nModerator: Julia Matevosyan\, Associate Director\, Chief Engineer\, ESIG \n\n\n\nAbout the Webinar: The National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) collaborates with Florida Power & Light (FPL) and GE to investigate power system stability and protection reliability challenges in a weak-grid region with high penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs). This presentation will primarily focus on the protection aspects of the study. We will share key insights from this real-world project\, including best practices for developing high-fidelity fault study models\, establishing a controller-hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) platform for testing physical relays\, identifying system-level protection challenges\, and designing enhanced protection schemes to address those issues.Through this discussion\, the audience will gain practical understanding of protection studies in IBR-dominated systems\, the emerging challenges associated with reduced fault current and altered transient behavior\, and effective mitigation strategies. In particular\, we will highlight the critical importance of IBR compliance with IEEE 2800-2022 to ensure dependable and secure protection relay operation in modern transmission systems. \n\n\n\nThe full study report can be found here https://docs.nlr.gov/docs/fy26osti/98333.pdf \n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers: Jing Wang is a Principal Engineer in the Energy System Control and Optimization Group within PSEC. She earned her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University in 2015. Between 2015 and 2017\, she served as a lead power system engineer at GE Grid Solutions in Stafford\, UK\, where she spearheaded multiple microgrid automation and HVDC system validation projects. At NLR\, she leads several multi-million-dollar projects\, delivering significant industry impact. Her research focuses on power electronics control of inverter-based resources (IBRs)\, power system protection\, the co-design of IBR control and power system protection\, and hardware-in-the-loop. \n\n\n\nYaswanth Nag Velaga is a senior research engineer in the Power Systems Engineering Center at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)\, where he focuses on modeling\, control\, and experimental validation of inverter-based resources—including photovoltaic and battery inverters—as well as controller-hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) studies for system protection and advanced grid integration.
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-study-of-the-protection-improvements-for-a-weak-grid-area-with-high-inverter-based-resources/
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SUMMARY:i2X STITCH Introduction Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Download Presentations \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nESIG in collaboration with Berkeley Lab\, is facilitating Studies\, Tools and Interconnection Consistency and Harmonization Meetings (STITCH) as part of the DOE’s Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) initiative.  The i2X STITCH initiative is intended to explore interconnection studies across the US and identify ways where harmonization and automations can help improve the speed and reliability of new generation resource interconnections. The effort will consist of a sequence of collaboration meetings with industry stakeholders and subject matter experts to dive into each region and explore their practices\, which will serve as a reference for a technical report on this topic that will lay out areas for harmonization improvements. \n\n\n\nThe format of the meetings will include presentations followed by structured discussions around differences and harmonization opportunities. Presenters will be asked to cover a similar set of topics to ensure they cover interconnection process milestones\, study methods and assumptions\, pre-interconnection and study tools and automations\, etc. \n\n\n\nKICK-OFF MEETING AGENDA \n\n\n\n\nIntroduction to i2x STITCH: Will Gorman\, LBNL\n\n\n\nLBNL Queued Up – Relevant Trends: Joe Rand\, LBNL\n\n\n\nDeveloper Perspective on Interconnection Studies and Tools: Ajay Pappu\, Invenergy\n\n\n\nInterconnection Studies Whitepaper – Introduction: Sirisha Tanneeru\, Elevate Energy Consulting\n\n\n\nAudience Q&A and Discussion\n\n\n\n\nregister for may 26 stitch meeting
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/i2x-stitch-introduction-meeting/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Integrating Large Loads into Wholesale Electricity Markets & Balancing Operations: Recommendations from the ESIG Large Loads Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Download the Presentation \n\n\n\nWatch the Recording \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Speakers: Beth Garza\, Senior Fellow\, R Street Institute; Erik Ela\, Director of System Operation and Electricity Markets\, ESIG \n\n\n\nAbout the Webinar: The United States and other regions are witnessing rapid growth of large loads including GW-size data centers. Many regions are also evolving their wholesale electricity markets\, by introducing new products\, expanding offerings and technology participation models\, and growing geographically. Large loads\, which can be configured to have flexibility and/or with co-located supply\, require efficient and reliable integration into these wholesale market designs. Due to possible impacts from large unanticipated large load losses or ramps\, balancing operation must also prepare to meet these new conditions through changes to or new products and standards. The ESIG Large Loads Task Force Markets and Operations Project Team examined these issues over the last 12 months\, bringing in experts\, following closely the stakeholder initiatives at RTOs/ISOs and FERC\, and fostering dialogue across a diverse set of stakeholders involved in the task force. The group developed twenty recommendations for consideration. These explored (1) the ideal participation model for both inflexible and flexible large loads and how short-term operational forecasts can benefit reliability\, (2) assessing impact of different large load configurations\, particularly those that co-locate and share the same meter as similar sized generation resources\, on different grid services to quantify their appropriate allocation of those grid service costs\, (3) designing capacity markets that adequately capture large load characteristics and meet resource adequacy requirements efficiently\, and (4) explore the ways in which reserve and balancing functions must adapt to maintain system frequency and area control error with the potential volatility and unanticipated loss of large load facilities. This webcast will share the main findings of this workstream of the task force including the major recommendations for market operators\, balancing authorities\, and other decision makers to consider in their region. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers: Beth Garza is a senior fellow with R Street’s Energy & Environmental Policy Team. Prior to joining R Street\, Beth served as the director of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas Independent Market Monitor from 2014 through 2019 after serving as the deputy director since 2008. In this role\, she was responsible for monitoring market participant activity\, evaluating wholesale market operations and recommending improvements to the wholesale market design. Over the course of her 35-year career in the electric utility industry\, Beth has held a variety of leadership roles in generation and transmission planning\, system operations\, regulatory affairs and market design for both regulated and competitive entities. Her previous employers include NextEra and Austin Energy. Beth is a graduate of the University of Missouri and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. \n\n\n\nErik Ela\, ESIG’s Director of System Operation and Electricity Markets\, has worked across the power industry for 20 years\, specializing in electricity market design and operations\, renewable energy and emerging technology integration\, bulk power system operations\, essential reliability services\, resource planning\, and electricity policy. Prior to joining ESIG\, Ela was a Program Manager with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Additionally\, he worked for several years with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) as a senior research engineer and before that for the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO). \n\n\n\nThe Q&A for this webinar will be facilitated on Slido. Submit your questions here.  \n\n\n\nregister for webinar
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-integrating-large-loads-into-wholesale-electricity-markets-balancing-operations-recommendations-from-the-esig-large-loads-task-force/
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