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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T130000
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SUMMARY:2023 Wind Turbine Blade Maintenance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Members of ESIG and/or EPRI are invited to attend our third annual Wind Turbine Blade Maintenance Workshop\, co-hosted by EPRI and ESIG on October 11th\, 2023. Like last year\, we will focus on one or two pressing topics in blade maintenance\, to be selected by participants. Attendees will offer examples of blade defects\, damage\, and mitigation strategies for the group to discuss and learn from. Unlike typical ESIG O&M workshops\, attendees will come away from the event with workshop proceedings\, which will summarize the examples shared during the workshop and outcomes of polls and discussion. \nWorkshop Background\nPast EPRI research revealed vast differences across the industry in how damage is assessed and addressed. Absence of standardization surrounding damage assessment is limiting because: \n\n\n\nThe industry relies on a small number of blade experts to manually review inspection results and advise on appropriate actions.\nAutomation and data analytics are less effective when categorization is not applied uniformly.\n\n\n\nEPRI and ESIG recognize these challenges and have a long-term vision for bringing the industry together through knowledge sharing and consensus building by way of blade maintenance workshops. \nWorkshop Format\nThis is a fully remote workshop\, where attendee participation is vital. We will start with an expert presentation followed by brief presentations from each participant of their example(s)\, survey questions\, results\, and open discussion. \nParticipants will be asked to share one or more examples of blade damage or defects\, including some information about the finding such as the blade age\, the location on the blade\, the size of the finding\, and description of the finding\, as well as some additional optional information. \nHow to Participate\n\n\n\nClick to Pre-register\nReview the confirmation email which will include a meeting invite and a link for sharing your example\nUpload your example data using the instructions provided in your confirmation email prior to the workshop\nClick to review EPRI white paper
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/2023-wind-turbine-blade-maintenance-workshop/
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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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SUMMARY:2023 Fall Technical Workshop
DESCRIPTION:All of the presentations from our 2023 Fall Technical Workshop held in San Diego can be downloaded below. \nTo view recordings of each of these sessions\, please visit our YouTube channel and select the 2023 Fall Technical Workshop playlist. \n\nTutorial I: HVDC Transmission \nModerator: James Okullo\, Director of System Planning\, ESIG \nOverview of HVDC Technology\, its Capabilities\, Use Cases\, Operational and Markets Benefits\, Misconceptions\, Technology and Supply Chain Barriers\nJohannes Pfeifenberger\, Principal\, The Brattle Group\nChandra Mohan Sonnathi\, Lead HVDC Specialist\, DNV \nHVDC Fundamentals and State-of-the-Art: A Vendor Perspective\nEugen Starschich\, Lead Engineer HVDC\, Siemens Energy \nHVDC Transmission Case Study\nHenry Abrams\, Manager\, Renewable Electrical Engineering\, Invenergy \nPower from the Prairie Project Economic Assessment\nJinxiang Zhu\, Consulting Director\, Hitachi Energy \n\nTutorial II: High Fidelity IBR Generic Model Development and Validation for Planning\, Operating and Protection Studies \nModerator: John Seuss\, Technology Manager\, US Department of Energy \nDownload Tutorial Presentation\nJens Boemer\, Technical Executive\, EPRI\nDeepak Ramasubramanian\, Technical Leader\, EPRI \n\nIntroduction/Opening Comments \nWelcome\nMark Ahlstrom\, President\, ESIG Board of Directors & NextEra Energy Resources \nKeynote Comments\nAllison Clements\, FERC Commissioner \nIndustry Overview\nCharlie Smith\, Executive Director\, ESIG \nOpening Plenary Session: Grid Enhancing Technologies \nGrid Enhancing Technologies\nChair: Julia Selker\, Executive Director\, WATT Coalition \nGrid Enhancing Technologies – Status and Prospects\nKen Donohoo\, Consultant \nA GETs Business Case\nJulian Leslie\, Head of Networks\, National Grid ESO (UK) \nDynamic Line Rating\nBrian Berry\, Chief Product Marketing Officer\, Ampacimon \nSystem Reconfiguration\nPablo Ruiz\, Sr. Consultant\, The Brattle Group\, and CEO/CTO\, NewGrid \nAdvanced Power Flow Control\nFrank Kreikebaum\, CTO\, Smart Wires \nSession 2: IBR and GFM Studies and Tools \nChair: Jason MacDowell\, Chief Systems Integration Officer\, ESIG & GE Energy Consulting \nEMT Inverter-Based Resource Plant Modeling- How Consultants\, Developers\, OEMs\, and Grid Operators Can Create Best Practices Together\nKelsey Ciemny\, Senior Power Systems Engineer\, Telos Energy \nDifferent Types of Fast Frequency Response from IBRs\nJin Tan\, Principal Engineer\, NREL \nSystem Services from GFM Wind and STATCOMs\nXiongfei Wang\, Professor\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) \nBenefits of GFM in West Texas Using Generic Models\nYunzhi Cheng\, Manager\, Operations Stability Analysis\, ERCOT \nSession 3: Building Sector Decarbonization in Energy Systems Modeling \nBuilding Sector Decarb in Energy Systems Modeling\nChair: Sean Morash\, Principal\, Telos Energy \nOpportunity for HVAC in the Building Sector\nLieve Helsen\, Professor\, KU Leuven (Belgium) \nTargeting New Heat Pump Customers and Quantifying Impacts on Demand Flexibility\nBrian Gerke\, Director\, Forecasting & Methods\, Recurve \nImpact of Building Electrification on the Electric System of the Future\nErik Delarue\, Associate Professor\, KU Leuven (Belgium) \nStrategy for Building Electrification and Gas Decommissioning in CA\nAri Gold-Parker\, Associate Director\, Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) \nSession 4: Grid Code Interconnection Requirements Assessment \nChair: Jens Boemer\, Technical Executive\, EPRI \nCompliance Assessment Process\nBabak Badrzadeh\, Technical Director – Power Systems\, Aurecon (Australia) \nGenerator Grid Code Compliance Using Simulation Models\nJan-David Schmidt\, Senior Engineer R&D\, Energynautics GmbH (Germany) \nGerman Grid Code Compliance Assessment Practice\nJens Fortmann\, Professor\, Wind Energy and Grid Integration HTW Berlin (Germany) \nGrid Code Compliance – A Vendor Perspective\nSebastian Achilles\, Managing Director Power Systems Operation and Planning\, GE Power \nSession 5: Transmission and Interconnection \nChair: Josh Novacheck\, Transmission Planning Engineer\, NextEra Energy Resources \nIBR Grid Connection Studies – Lessons Learned\nBabak Badrzadeh\, Technical Director – Power Systems\, Aurecon (Australia) \nDOE i2x Roadmap for Queue Management and Cost Allocation\nWill Gorman\, Research Scientist\, LBNL \nCAISO Interconnection Process Enhancements\nDanielle Osborn Mills\, Principal\, Infrastructure Policy Development\, CAISO \nIntegrating Transmission \, Interconnection and RA Planning\nRob Gramlich\, President\, Grid Strategies \nSession 6: GFM Developments \nChair: Julia Matevosyan\, Chief Engineer\, ESIG \nValue of GFM DER in High Penetration Scenarios\nDeepak Ramasubramanian\, Technical Leader\, EPRI \nFuture Role of Hybrid Simulations in Assessing the Dynamic Stability of IBR Dominated Power Systems\nWallace Kenyon\, Power Systems Simulation Lead\, encoord \nNGESO Experience with Inertia Monitoring and Measurements\nJulian Leslie\, Head of Networks\, National Grid ESO (UK) \nParallel Operation of GFM and GFL IBR with Synchronous Machines\nShahil Shah\, Principal Engineer\, NREL \nTransient Stability of GFM\nBehrooz Bahrani\, Associate Professor\, Monash University (Australia) \nSession 7: Market Topics \nChair: Bethany Frew\, Group Manager\, Capacity Expansion & Electricity Markets Group\, NREL \nSystem Services for a 100% Renewable Power System\nMark O’Malley\, Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems\, Imperial College (UK) \nThe Value of Modeling DA/RT Uncertainty in Market Simulations\nSasha Kuzura\, Research Associate\, The Brattle Group \nAssessing Nodal Adequacy of Large VRE Power Systems with New Adequacy Metrics Reflecting RA Contributions of G\, T & D\nSelin Yanikara\, Polaris Systems Optimization \nAdvances in Energy Storage Modeling for Improved Market Efficiency\nNikita Singhal\, Senior Technical Leader\, EPRI \nSession 8: Transmission – From DER to HVDC \nChair: James Okullo\, Director of System Planning\, ESIG \nInterregional Transfer Capability Study\nWilliam Lamanna\, Senior Engineer\, NERC \nHVDC Transmission’s Role in the Energy Transition\nHenry Abrams\, Manager\, Renewable Electrical Engineering\, Invenergy \nChallenges Connecting the Interconnections\nMike Spector\, Director of Transmission & Interconnection\, Grid United \nHVDC Planning and Operations in CAISO\nEbrahimi Rahimi\, Sr. Advisor – Transmission Planning\, CAISO \nSession 9: Power Systems Planning and Operations \nChair: Aidan Tuohy\, Director\, EPRI \nSystem Operation with High Shares of Renewables\nCaixia Wang\, Senior Engineer\, SGERI (China) \nRealistic Modeling of Energy Storage Dispatch and Ancillary Service Provisions\nArne Olsen\, Senior Partner\, Energy + Environmental Economics (E3) \nModeling the Value of Existing Pumped Storage Hydro in a High Renewable Future –\nGenevieve de Mijolla\, Technical Leader\, EPRI \nOperational Readiness for Inverter-Based Resources\nScott Anderson\, Director – Operational Readiness\, Salt River Project \nOperations Challenges Driven by Oscillatory Modes in the Southern African Region\nBonginkosi Sibeko\, Chief Engineer\, National Operations\, ESKOM (South Africa) \nLarge Scale Renewable Energy Integration in the Northeast China Grid\nDu Shibo\, Senior Engineer\, State Grid Northeast Power Dispatching and Control Center \nClosing Plenary Session: Planning Implications with Large Loads \nChair: Allison Holly\, Director of Strategy US East\, Pattern Energy Group \nOvercoming Market Barriers for Transmission Connected Thermal Energy Storage\nMichael Walsh\, RedoxBlox (Ireland) \nPlanning for the Interconnection of Large EV Charging Stations\nCora Walter\, Project Manager\, E-mobility\, Con Edison\nDavid Sohmers\, Section Manager\, Electric Vehicles and Distributed Generation Engineering\, Con Edison \nLarge Loads as a Grid Resource\nAndrew Reimers\, Director of R&D and Regulatory Affairs\, Lancium (Canada) \nInterconnection Process and Reliability Requirements for Large Loads in ERCOT\nAgee Springer\, Manager\, Large Load Integration\, ERCOT
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/2023-fall-technical-workshop/
LOCATION:HYATT REGENCY LA JOLLA\, 3777 La Jolla Village Dr.\, San Diego\, CA\, 92122\, United States
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