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SUMMARY:Webinar: Green Cities and Energy Systems Integration
DESCRIPTION:Download Webinar Recording & Presentations \n\nFeatured Speakers: \n \n\nLauren Faber O’Connor\, Chief Sustainability Officer\, City of Los Angeles – “The Future Outlook for Green Cities”\nYongning Chi\, Chief Engineer of Renewable Energy Center\, CEPRI\, China – “The Role of MVDC and LVDC Networks in Green Cities”\nBrian Motherway\, Head\, Energy Efficiency Division\, IEA – “Energy Efficiency and Green Cities”\n\nWebinar Abstract: With the increasing focus of public policy initiatives globally on decarbonization of the energy system\, and the increased interest of cities and municipalities in supporting this initiative\, ESIG will explore several aspects of this topic through a webinar on Green Cities and Energy System Integration. Renewable energy will play a critical role in the decarbonization of cities\, through energy efficiency\, the direct use of renewable electricity\, and the electrification of fuel and heat vectors. This will not only power the city\, but allow for the decarbonization of transportation\, buildings and industry as well. Over 150 US cities and many more around the world have committed to a goal of 100% clean energy by 2050 or before. This webinar will offer a preview of an ESIG Green Cities and Energy Systems Integration international workshop planned to be held in Suzhou\, China in 2021. \nAbout the Speakers: \n \nLauren Faber O’Connor is the Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Los Angeles. In her role she is driving the implementation of Mayor Garcetti’s newly released LA’s Green New Deal\, a global model for local action to confront the climate crisis. L.A.’s Green New Deal is guided by four key principles: a commitment to uphold the Paris Climate Agreement; a promise to deliver environmental justice and equity; a plan to ensure every Angeleno has the ability to join the green economy; and a determination to lead by example within City government. To deliver accelerated leadership on sustainability\, Lauren also builds collaboration including through Climate Mayors\, a coalition chaired by Mayor Garcetti of over 400 US Mayors committed to US leadership on climate change and C40\, an international network of cities raising the bar on climate action. \nDr. Chi Yongning is the Chief Engineer of renewable energy research Center of CEPRI (China Electric Power Research Institute)\, and serve as the secretary of IEC TC 8/SC 8A “Grid Integration of renewable energy generation” since year 2014. He is the expert member of IEA GIVAR Advisory Group\, and also a member of CIGRE and IEEE. His research interests includes modeling\, control and integration analysis of renewable energy generation. He was responsible for formulating the Chinese connection code for wind power and PV\, and led several national level research projects with regard to renewable energy grid integration\, offshore wind integration and system analysis considering large RE integration. He was honored with the UVIG Achievement Award in 2016\, the ESIG Excellence Award in 2019 respectively. \nDr Brian Motherway is Head of Energy Efficiency at the International Energy Agency. He leads the IEA’s global analysis and best practice programmes on energy efficiency\, supporting governments to implement the best policies to deliver social\, economic and environmental benefits. Prior to joining the IEA\, Brian was Chief Executive of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.\n\nModerator: Mark O’Malley\, NREL/UC Dublin\n \nRegistration Cost: FREE \n \n 
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-green-cities-and-energy-systems-integration/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T140000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: MISO’s Renewable Integration Impact Assessment
DESCRIPTION:DOWNLOAD WEBINAR RECORDING \nDOWNLOAD WEBINAR PRESENTATION \nDOWNLOAD Q&A \n\nFeatured Speaker: Jordan Bakke\, Manager\, Policy Studies\, MISO \nJordan Bakke is the manager of Policy Studies within MISO focusing on how public policy and changing economic conditions impacts energy and gas systems for the MISO footprint. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at North Dakota State University and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas. He has held many roles at MISO working in resource forecasting\, transmission planning and renewable integration. His current work deals with understanding the impacts of the evolving power system and finding ways to evolve to meet these changes. \nModerator: Charlie Smith\, ESIG Executive Director \nRegistration Cost: FREE \nWebinar Abstract: Renewable energy\, namely wind and solar\, is currently the fastest-growing class of resource in MISO. There are many questions that will need to be explored and answered in order to understand and mitigate the impact these resources will have on reliability and performance of the grid. MISO’s Renewable Integration Impact Assessment (RIIA)\, provides an in-depth\, systematic analysis of how the system behaves as more renewable energy resources enter MISO’s overall generator fleet.
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-miso-renewable-energy-impact-assessment/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200430T140000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Weak Area Network Control of Wind Turbine Generators
DESCRIPTION:Featured Speaker: Dr. Rajat Majumder\, Key Senior Expert Engineer\, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy \nDr. Rajat Majumder\nDr. Rajat Majumder is a Key Senior Expert Engineer in Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. He covers all Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy\, Inc. territory across the United States and Canada. He makes critical technical decisions on product portfolio\, manage risks and makes strategic impact on the regional organization. He works closely with global engineering headquarters in Europe influencing technical road map in the North America region. He also works to represent subject matter expert to internal stake holders and customers – including customer’s engineering teams. He also represents SGRE in various standard organization such as NERC\, IEEE\, WECC etc. \nDr. Rajat Majumder received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2006. He has published many papers and holds several patents in field of power systems control. Prior to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy\, he worked at Siemens Industry Inc\, focusing HVDC and FACTS and ABB Corporate Research in Sweden and USA. \nModerator: Charlie Smith\, ESIG Executive Director \nRegistration Cost: FREE \nWebinar Abstract: Most of the inverter-based resources in operation today\, such as wind turbine generators (WTGs)\, solar PV and battery energy storage (BES) work on a current vector control. The interfacing converter creates a voltage at its terminal to inject a certain amount of current of a particular nature to meet the control objectives\, such as active power set point and controlling AC voltage or reactive power etc. The inverter-based resources (IBRs) that use such a control mechanism are also termed “grid following’. \nIf the reference voltage created at the terminals of the converter varies significantly from the system voltage either in magnitude or frequency/phase following any system event\, the inaccuracy introduced into the IBR control system could lead to an unreliable and unstable operation of the device. A weak AC grid often exhibits such behavior. Therefore\, recovery of system voltage is very important for such a control mechanism following any grid event\, especially grid faults. To improve such conditions\, some well-proven traditional approaches can be taken\, such as building out additional transmission lines (reducing the effective grid impedance)\, or installation of additional VAR support such as synchronous condensers or power electronics based SVC/STATCOM. In some instances\, special control measures referred to as weak grid options (WGO) or extended voltage dip mode control can be deployed. The webinar will discuss the basics of grid following converter operation and their behavior in weak grids\, and both traditional approaches and control system tuning that can be done with WGO to enable reliable system operation. \nHowever\, there could be a situation where additional build out may not be feasible\, and notwithstanding special controls such as WGO\, the WTG cannot be made to operate in a stable manner. It is also apparent that a grid following IBR will not be suitable to operate in an islanded condition due to complete lack of an external reference voltage. This has led to further interest in the ‘grid forming’ class of controllers which are inherently more suited to such weak and islanded AC power systems. The webinar will conclude with a discussion of grid forming converters and their characteristics\, such as fast frequency control and blackstart capability.
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-weak-area-network-control-of-wind-turbine-generators/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Operational Considerations for a 100% Instantaneous Converter Fed Power System
DESCRIPTION:DOWNLOAD RECORDING FROM THIS WEBINAR \nDOWNLOAD PRESENTATION FROM THIS WEBINAR \nDOWNLOAD Q&A \nFeatured Speaker:\nNick Miller\, Principal\, HickoryLedge LLC \n \nNick recently retired from GE after 3/8 century of experience and research on bulk power systems.  He has lectured on Wind and Solar Power integration to governments and institutions in more than three dozen countries.  He currently provides consulting expertise to a variety of private and public institutions on topics of grid integration of renewable resources.  He holds twenty US patents for wind\, solar\, and grid technologies\, is a Fellow of IEEE\, a NY PE\, active in CIGRE and IEC\, has authored over 150 technical papers and articles\, and is the recipient of several power industry awards. \nModerator: Charlie Smith\, ESIG Executive Director \nRegistration Cost: FREE \nWebinar Abstract: This webinar will examine a number of considerations related to operation of power systems with a high share of inverter-based resources (IBR). The focus will be primarily on technical limitations that are related to stable operation of the grid when most or all power is delivered thru inverters. As a general distinction\, we will refer to conventional converter technology which uses the grid voltage as a reference as grid following converters\, and to a next generation of converters which can produce the grid reference voltage as grid forming inverters. This webinar will examine how performance and stability limits with present grid-following IBR present themselves. This will include both ways to understand when limits are hit\, and ways to push the limits out with presently available technology. The webinar will then go on to discuss how grid-forming IBR should be able to relieve some limits\, but not others. This will include both what we know and can expect from grid forming inverters\, and areas that are less clear or well understood\, and in need of further R & D efforts. A few thoughts on where limitations in tools affect our ability to make good planning and operations decisions as we approach 100% IBR will be offered.
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-operational-considerations-for-a-100-instantaneous-converter-fed-power-system/
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