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SUMMARY:Joint Generator Interconnection Workshop (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nSession recordings and presentations are linked below. \nClick here to download a full summary of the entire three-day workshop. \n\nThis major online workshop by ESIG\, NAGF\, NERC and EPRI covers the important relationships between interconnection process reforms and new capability and performance standards for inverter-based resources. The workshop provides education on both topics and how they interact for potentially expediting the large generator interconnection process while also supporting a more economic\, sustainable\, and reliable future power system. \nInterconnection queues around the U.S. are backlogged by approximately 1\,500 GW of generation projects facing multi-year study delays. FERC recently issued two proposed rulemakings to address some of these challenges—“Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection” and “Improvements to Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreements”—with comments to FERC due this fall. \nSeparately\, recent NERC Disturbance Reports have indicated gaps in interconnection studies\, modeling\, and interconnection requirements for inverter-based resources (IBRs). Also\, the new IEEE 2800 standard for “Interconnection and Interoperability of Inverter-Based Resources Interconnecting with Associated Transmission Electric Power Systems” has recently been published and\, if adopted by ISOs/RTOs and other authorities governing interconnection requirements\, could provide additional benefits for both reliability and the interconnection study process. More information is available from the recording of a joint webinar on the IEEE 2800-2022 standard on May 3\, 2022. \nThis timely online workshop shows the important relationships between these topics\, as well as provide deeper technical understanding of each topic area\, in a way that can facilitate fact-based discussion and meaningful feedback prior to the upcoming FERC comment deadlines. While panelists include engineering and technical experts on each topic\, the workshop is intended for a broad engineering\, policy\, and decision maker audience. \nThe workshop includes three half-day online sessions on August 9\, 10 and 11. Participation in all three days is recommended. Participants need to register separately for each half-day session. Materials and recordings of the respective sessions will be provided at the conclusion of the workshop. There is no charge for the workshop. \nDOWNLOAD FULL 3-DAY AGENDA (includes session and presentation topics\, along with speakers)\n\nDay 1: The Interconnection Process\nTuesday\, August 9 / 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. (EDT)\nThe first day of the workshop will discuss differences between the traditional interconnection and transmission planning processes—and why these practices were appropriate when originally implemented but may now be insufficient or inadequate. It will cover best practices in these two areas as well as the multiple benefits of transmission and proactive planning. Today\, significant transmission expansion is happening through the generation interconnection process\, and this contributes to the complexity and backlog of the interconnection process. Additionally\, assumptions and criteria used in the transmission planning are not applied consistently\, when identifying transmission upgrades in the interconnection process. A new generator interconnection is evaluated as a cost while benefits such as lower energy cost for consumers\, contribution to resource adequacy\, security of supply\, etc.\, are not considered. As a result of this approach\, transmission upgrade costs for interconnection may be fully assigned to generator owners\, the transmission upgrades may not be least cost or optimal solutions from the system perspective\, and the costs of upgrades may be prohibitively high. In turn\, this may result in project withdrawals and restudies that further delay the interconnection process and putting excessive burden on developers and transmission engineers alike. \nView Day 1 (Sessions 1 & 2) Recording \nDownload Session 1 Q&A \nDownload Session 2 Q&A  \nIntroduction \nOpening Remarks\nWayne Sipperly\, Executive Director\, North American Generator Forum \nBrief Workshop Introduction\nJulia Matevosyan\, Chief Engineer\, ESIG \nSession 1: Generation Interconnection vs Transmission Planning\, Why the Difference?\nChair: Warren Lasher\, Lasher Energy Consulting \nTransmission Upgrades identified through Interconnection Process vs Transmission Planning Process Pros and Cons\nJohannes Pfeifenberger\, Principal\, The Brattle Group \nA Roadmap for Modernizing & Integrating Interconnection and Transmission Planning\nAaron Vander Vorst\, Senior Director\, Transmission\, Enel Green Power \nDispatch Assumption for the Interconnection Studies and Assumptions Around NRIS and ERIS\nHorea Catanase\, Senior Manager – Energy Resource Integration and Interconnection\, Electric Power Engineers \nSession 2: Integrating Interconnection and Transmission Planning\, Benefits of Transmission\nChair: Debbie Lew\, Associate Director\, ESIG \nSPP Consolidated Planning Process Task Force: Process Assumption and Criteria\nMatt Pawlowski\, Executive Director of Business Management and Regulatory Affairs\, NextEra Energy\nSunny Raheem\, Supervisor\, Modeling\, Southwest Power Pool \nJoint Targeted Interconnection Queue Study\nAndy Witmeier\, Director Resource Utilization\, Midcontinent Independent System Operator \nPro-Active Planning\nT. Bruce Tsuchida\, Principal\, The Brattle Group \nMulti-benefits of Transmission\nDerek Stenclik\, Founding Partner\, Telos Energy \nDay 2: Interconnection Studies and Modeling\nWednesday\, August 10 / 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. (EDT)\nThe second day of the workshop will identify gaps in the study processes\, identify needs for validated models both in the positive sequence and EMT domains\, discuss challenges from both the developer and transmission provider perspective\, and provide recommendations to improve the study and modeling processes. Complexities of the interconnection process are leading to challenges with interconnection studies and potential reliability concerns once projects become operational. Exacerbated by the rapid (and important) pace of technology innovation in today’s generation technologies\, developers cannot know the equipment that will be available and used in their project because of the long timeline to complete interconnection studies and identify their interconnection upgrade costs. This causes discrepancies between what was studied and the equipment that is ultimately commissioned. Improvements to the study processes are needed to align interconnection process milestones\, OEM equipment lifecycles\, project development timelines and reliability study needs. \nView Day 2 (Sessions 3 & 4) Recording \nDownload Session 4 Q&A \nIntroduction \nNERC Disturbance Events\, Focus on Reliability Needs\nRyan Quint\, Director\, Engineering and Security Integration\, NERC \nSession 3: Interconnection Studies\nChair: Roberto Favela\, Manager- Interconnections & Transmission Plan\, El Paso Electric Company \nInterconnection Process vs Project Development Timeline\nDivya Kurthakoti\, Senior Lead Specialist\, Ørsted \nERCOT Interconnection Study Process\, Focus on Reliability\nMario Hayden\, Senior Manager\, Transmission\, Enel Green Power \nControl Tuning as Alternative to Transmission Reinforcement\nAlex Shattuck\, Lead Electrical Engineer\, Vestas \nInterconnection study process\, reliability implications and improvements needed\nJens Boemer\, Principal Technical Leader\, EPRI \nSession 4: Importance of Modeling\nChair: Lauren Hughes\, Project Manager\, OATT Studies\, Southern Company \nImportance of Models\, Model Validation and Lack of Follow-up Past Commissioning\nPouyan Pourbeik\, President & Principal Consultant\, Power and Energy\, Analysis\, Consulting and Education \nIBR Models and Modeling Needs\nDeepak Ramasubramanian\, Technical Leader\, EPRI \nEMT Modeling Experience at ISO-NE\nBrad Marszalkowski\, Senior Engineer\, ISO New England \nDay 3: IBR Interconnection Requirements and Next Steps\nThursday\, August 11 / 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. (EDT)\nThe third day of the workshop will focus on the gaps in existing interconnection requirements\, provide information about the ongoing gap analysis between existing interconnection requirements and IEEE 2800\, and discuss the path forward. Currently\, there is no consistency in interconnection requirements for IBRs between the regions. Some areas already have stringent requirements\, while others are still lacking. Recent NERC Disturbance Reports have identified gaps in existing interconnection requirements and incorrect application of existing interconnection requirements\, leading to multi-generator disturbance events. State-of-the-art inverters are developed with the most stringent interconnection requirements in mind. The industry should take advantage of these capabilities to ensure reliable operation of IBRs in the future grids. The IEEE 2800 standard for “Interconnection and Interoperability of Inverter-Based Resources (IBRs) Interconnecting with Associated Transmission Electric Power Systems” has recently been approved and it builds upon state-of-the-art technology capabilities. \nThe workshop will conclude with discussion of next steps and DOE’s new Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2x) initiative. \nView Day 3 (Sessions 5 & 6) Recording \nDownload Session 5 Q&A \nDownload Session 6 Q&A \nIntroduction \nInterconnection Requirements\, Need for Harmonization and IEEE2800\nJason MacDowell\, Senior Director – Technology\, Strategy & Policy\, GE Energy Consulting \nSession 5: IEEE2800\nChair: Manish Patel\, Chief Engineer – P&C Applications\, Southern Company \nIEEE2800 and Roadmap to Adoption\nAndy Hoke\, Prinicipal Engineer\, NREL \nIEEE2800 OEM Readiness Panel Discussion\nLucas Meubrink\, Senior Application Engineer – Large Scale Storage\, SMA America\nSamir Dahal\, Grid Specialist\, Siemens Gamesa Renewables\nAlex Shattuck\, Lead Electrical Engineer\, Vestas\nRajat Majumder\, Lead Grid Connection Specialist US\, Ørsted\nSiddarth Pant\, Senior Systems Engineering Manager\, GE Renewable Energy \nIEEE 2800 vs Existing ERCOT Interconnection Requirements\, Gap Analysis Learnings\nStephen Solis\, Principal\, System Operations Improvement\, ERCOT \nISO-NE IEEE 2800 Adoption Update\nBrad Marszalkowski\, Senior Engineer\, ISO New England \nSession 6: DOE i2x Initiative\nChair: Mark Ahlstrom\, President\, ESIG Board of Directors & NextEra Energy Resources \nDOE i2x Overview\, Roadmap and Feedback\nCynthia Bothwell\, Grid Integration Engineer\, Systems Integration\, Wind Energy Technologies Office at U.S. DOE\nTom McDermott\, Chief Engineer and Solar Sub-sector Lead\, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory \nClosing Remarks \nSummary of Workshop Next Steps\, White Paper\nJulia Matevosyan\, Chief Engineer\, ESIG
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/joint-generator-interconnection-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Proactive Planning for Generator Interconnection: A Case Study of SPP and MISO
DESCRIPTION:Download Presentation \nView Webinar Recording \nDownload Q&A Responses \n\nFeatured Speaker: Bruce Tsuchida\, Principal\, The Brattle Group \nWebinar Abstract: This study\, from the Proactive Planning Task Force\, examines how costs vary in the generator interconnection (GI) process\, depending on the level of proactive planning. It studies three levels of proactiveness using the MISO and SPP regions as testbeds. It finds significant cost reductions using expanded study windows and additional cost reductions with increased study scope. \nBruce Tsuchida\nAbout the Speaker: Mr. T. Bruce Tsuchida is a Principal of The Brattle Group with thirty years of experience in domestic and international power generation development\, utility operation\, and power market analysis. He specializes in assessing the impact of new technologies and regulatory changes\, including analysis of evolving wholesale electric markets and modeling\, impact of renewable and other new technologies’ on system operations\, utility business\, and various impacts on valuations of transmission and generation assets\, deliverability\, and contracts. These studies range from large interconnected systems to small island systems. \nModerator: Debbie Lew\, ESIG Associate Director \nRegistration Cost: FREE \n \n 
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-proactive-planning-for-generator-interconnection-a-case-study-of-spp-and-miso/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Market Design Concepts for Evolving Power Systems
DESCRIPTION:Download Presentation \nView Webinar Recording \nDownload Q&A Responses \n\nFeatured Speakers: Bethany Frew\, Group Manager\, Capacity Expansion & Electricity Markets Group\, NREL & Yinong Sun\, Researcher\, Capacity Expansion & Electricity Markets Group\, NREL \nBethany Frew\nAbout the Webinar: This presentation provides a summary of competitive wholesale electricity market modeling tools and analysis being conducted in the Grid Planning and Analysis Center (GPAC) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). A specific emphasis is placed on the impact of forward and operational market designs on investment decisions and system resource adequacy. This includes linkages that have been developed between a suite of integrated investment\, market operations\, and resource adequacy tools\, as well analysis exploring the impact of non-traditional levels of operational detail on resource adequacy assessment and how markets may need modifications to more efficiently signal for desired resource adequacy outcomes. Analytical approaches and select preliminary results are provided from multiple analyses that leverage NREL’s integrated modeling approach. \nAbout the Speakers: Bethany Frew is the Group Manager of the Capacity Expansion and Electricity Market Group in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Grid Planning and Analysis Center\, where she also oversees a team of power system modelers focused on capacity expansion\, resource adequacy\, and wholesale electricity market design. Her personal research interests span a wide range of topics related to grid integration of renewable energy\, including the impact of wholesale electricity market structures on investment decisions and resource adequacy\, the economic and operational impacts of nuclear-hydrogen hybridization\, capacity credit methodologies\, and operational considerations with low-cost solar deployment. Bethany holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Food\, Agricultural\, and Biological Engineering from The Ohio State University. \nYinong Sun\nYinong Sun is a researcher in the Capacity Expansion and Electricity Markets Group within the Grid Planning and Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Her research focuses on transmission planning\, renewable energy integration\, resource adequacy assessments and wholesale electricity market design. Her current work explores operational impacts on power system resource adequacy\, transmission planning in the context of policy analysis and land use impact assessments\, and power system infrastructure deployment during low-carbon energy system transition. Yinong is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University\, and she holds an M.S. from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.S. in Physics from Peking University. \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.
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-market-design-concepts-for-evolving-power-systems/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: An Empirical Assessment of Regional and Interregional Transmission Congestion Value
DESCRIPTION:Download D. Millstein Presentation \nDownload J. Pfeifenberger Presentation \nView Webinar Recording \n\nFeatured Speakers: Dev Millstein\, Research Scientist\, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Johannes (Hannes) Pfeifenberger\, Principal\, The Brattle Group; Michael Goggin\, Vice President\, Grid Strategies \nDev Millstein\nAbout the Webinar: In this webinar we will examine recent trends and characteristics of one important benefit of transmission infrastructure—congestion relief. Specifically\, we examine the marginal value of potential transmission links as indicated by nodal pricing (LMPs) from 2012 through the first half of 2022. We find\, for example\, that many links have hourly average pricing differences in 2021 that exceed $15/MWh—equivalent to $130 million per year for a 1000 MW link. We will examine trends in the transmission value over the past decade. We will explore how extreme conditions and high-value periods play an outsized role in the value of transmission. For example\, we find that 50% of transmission’s congestion value comes from only 5% of hours. These high value transmission hours are only partially attributable to designated extreme weather or grid-stress events identified by NERC\, with the remainder of the high-value hours representing periods that are natural features of actual market operations (possible causes include uncertain generation or other infrastructure outages\, fuel price volatility\, forecast errors\, and electric demand volatility). We will discuss the broad implications of these findings\, key limitations\, and importantly\, the challenge of adequately representing transmission congestion value in transmission planning studies. \nLBNL Report: Regional and Interregional Transmission Have Significant Economic Value | Electricity Markets and Policy Group (lbl.gov) \nHannes Pfeifenberger\nAbout the Speakers: Dev Millstein is a Research Scientist in the Electricity Markets and Policy department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Millstein leads research across a diverse range of topics\, including the assessment of wind and solar value\, wind resource variability\, renewable power and grid-integration topics\, and air quality topics. Dev Millstein received a BA in economics from Vassar College in 2002 and a PhD in environmental engineering from UC Berkeley in 2009. \nJohannes (Hannes) Pfeifenberger\, a Principal at The Brattle Group\, is an economist with a background in electrical engineering and over twenty-five years of experience in wholesale power market design\, renewable energy\, electricity storage\, and transmission. He also is a Visiting Scholar at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)\, a Senior Fellow at Boston University’s Institute of Sustainable Energy (BU-ISE)\, a IEEE Senior Member\, and currently serves as an advisor to research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Energy\, the National Labs\, and the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG). \nMichael Goggin\nMichael Goggin is Vice President at Grid Strategies LLC. He has been at Grid Strategies for nearly 5 years\, and previously worked at the American Wind Energy Association for 10 years. Grid Strategies offers consulting on electric grid and market issues for clean energy sector clients. \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-an-empirical-assessment-of-regional-and-interregional-transmission-congestion-value/
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SUMMARY:G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Operating the System Towards Zero Carbon
DESCRIPTION:Download Presentation \nView Webinar Recording \nDownload Q&A Responses \n\nAbout the Webinar: National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) plays a very important role of ensuring that Great Britain has the essential energy it needs by making sure supply meets demand every second of every day. The flow of electricity is getting more complex in the GB system with key features of more renewable energy and interconnectors; a growing number of ways to source electricity as well as more participants in “demand side response”. National Grid ESO is working hand in hand with the energy industry and continually finding ways to innovate\, invest and adapt the electricity system to keep electricity flowing reliably to homes and businesses across Great Britain. \nAs an active member of the G-PST Consortium\, National Grid ESO will use this webinar  to share a series of good practices featuring five speakers who will cover the following topics below in support of the UK’s Net-zero energy transition: \n\n\n\nGB Grid Forming Grid Code Development (Antony Johnson)\nGB Grid Forming Best Practice Guide Development (Dechao Kong)\nStability Constraint Management – Stability Pathfinder Program (Shurooque Baloch)\nSystem Strength Management – Innovation Project of Strength To Connect (Xiaoyao Zhou)\nInertia Measurement (Anna Blackwell)\n\n\n\nAntony Johnson\nDechao Kong\nShurooque Baloch\nXiaoyao Zhou\nAnna Blackwell\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFeatured Speakers: Antony Johnson is a chartered engineer and IET member who began working for National Grid within System Operations at the Electricity National Control Center in 1993. In 2012 he started initial work on the implementation of the impact of the European Directive on the GB Grid Code and related industry codes which he saw through to its implementation in 2018 having worked with the wider industry including Government. More recently he was instrumental in the development of technical requirements for storage technologies in GB in addition to chairing a European Expert Storage group. His latest work involves the development of technical requirements for Grid Forming technologies and looking at Black Start arrangements from Embedded Generation which is very much a growth area. \nDr. Dechao Kong is a chartered engineer with heavy involvements in the UK’s academia and industry for DC systems and Power Electronics since 2008\, contributing his such subject-matter expertise in technical strategy & policy development\, new technology & innovation\, engineering and asset management. \nShurooque Baloch is a chartered engineer with over a decade of experience in the electricity transmission planning and operation. Her role is to identify future operability risks\, define system requirements and enable creation of long-term solutions to operate the system. \nDr. Xiaoyao Zhou is a chartered engineer with two decades of transmission system operation\, planning and investment experience. Xiaoyao’s role is to set out operability policy for Great Britain’s electricity network to enable the net zero operation\, specify the technical requirements for new technologies and define future network needs so that market and network owners can invest in the right solutions at the right time. \nAnna Blackwell is a Product Manager (Inertia & Frequency)\, at National Grid ESO\, the Electricity System Operator of Great Britain\, responsible for delivering new WAMS based situational tools into National Grid ESO’s Control Room. Anna has an electrical engineering background having started in HV asset research before moving across to operational planning and delivery of IT products working as business lead between projects\, IT and business. \nRegistration Cost: FREE \n 
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/operating-the-system-towards-zero-carbon/
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