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SUMMARY:2026 Spring O&M Users Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The 2026 Spring O&M\, Generation Owners and Developer Users Group Meeting  will be held at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center. \n\n\n\nMembers of the ESIG O&M Users Group are invited to attend the 2026 Spring O&M Users Group Meeting. New this year: the new Developer Track will be focused on challenges associated with interconnection studies\, performance standards for IBRs\, and emerging best practices for ensuring reliable grid integration. \n\n\n\nThe meeting will feature a plenary session\, manufacturer-specific roundtables and tech talks. The roundtables provide the opportunity for frank and open discussion among users who share their information\, knowledge and experience. As a reminder\, participation in the roundtables is limited to employees of ESIG member organizations that own\, develop\, operate\, or maintain wind generation or solar equipment. The new Developer Track is also open to consultants that are ESIG members and actively working with generator developers\, owners and operators. \n\n\n\nEXPLORE AGENDA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Schedule\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpening Plenary: Strategic Operations\n\n\n\nHold on to your spreadsheets – the Spring 2026 plenary session will dive into best practices and lessons learned related to strategic operations of wind farms. Speakers will cover tradeoffs between centralizing procedures and enabling regional autonomy\, approaches to technician training and retention programs\, and strategies for building operational resilience in today’s market. After the presentations\, the audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and share their own insights. Don’t miss this engaging discussion about how to keep your teams (and turbines) spinning in sync. \n\n\n\nNew in Spring 2026: Parallel Track for Generation Owners and Developers\n\n\n\nESIG is launching a new parallel track within the O&M Users Group focused on convening asset owners and developers to discuss their experience and navigate challenges associated with interconnection studies\, performance standards and requirements\, inverter-based resource (IBR) performance\, and emerging best practices for ensuring reliable grid integration. \n\n\n\nBuilding on ESIG’s extensive experience in this area\, this track will help generator owners and developers navigate evolving IBR performance requirements such as IEEE 2800\, the IEEE 2800.2 verification and testing practices\, upcoming NERC standards (such as PRC-029) aligned with FERC Order 901 and other regional interconnection requirements. Participants will gain insight into the most current expectations for IBR capabilities\, performance verification\, and conformity assessment—areas where many stakeholders are now seeking practical guidance and clarity. This track will also draw from ESIG’s recent training course on interconnection study best practices\, model quality assessments\, and inverter-based resource simulation fundamentals. Click here to explore the materials from ESIG’s Interconnection Studies Short Course. \n\n\n\nDuring ESIG’s Spring O&M Users Group Meeting\,  we will host two days of discussion sessions focused on the real day-to-day challenges faced by engineers and asset owners\, offering practical methods that can be applied directly to ongoing projects. Most importantly\, this new O&M track is designed as a trusted\, practitioner-friendly space where generator owners and developers can openly share experiences\, challenges\, and lessons learned across the interconnection and commissioning lifecycle. The goal is to elevate collective understanding\, accelerate adoption of new standards\, and strengthen the industry’s ability to reliably integrate modern generation resources. \n\n\n\nDevelopers: Please spread the word and encourage your consultants to attend as well!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccommodations\n\n\n\nThe 2026 Spring O&M Users Group Meeting will be held at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center. \n\n\n\nThe special ESIG room rate is $249/night. The deadline to make your reservation is March 9\, 2026. We highly encourage you to book your room as soon as possible; if your plans change\, you can cancel your reservation within 48 hours of your arrival date with no penalty. Click here to book your room. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThanks to our sponsors!
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/2026-spring-om-users-group-meeting/
LOCATION:The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center\, 1 East Pershing Road\, Kansas City\, MO\, 64108\, United States
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Assessing Capacity Accreditation Choice on Resource Mix Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:Genevieve de Mijolla\n\n\n\nDownload the Presentation \n\n\n\nWatch the Recording \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Speaker: Genevieve de Mijolla\, Technical Leader\, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) \n\n\n\nModerator: James Okullo\, Director of System Planning\, ESIG \n\n\n\nAbout the Webinar: A variety of capacity accreditation methods are used in power system planning\, but the implications of choosing one approach over another for capacity expansion decisions are not always well understood. This webinar explores how different approaches to accrediting wind capacity influence planning outcomes\, using an iterative workflow that links capacity expansion and resource adequacy modeling. By comparing several capacity accreditation methods\, the discussion highlights how methodological choices can lead to meaningfully different capacity values and investment signals. The analysis also illustrates why system-wide wind capacity values can overlook important spatial and temporal adequacy considerations\, and how closer alignment between planning and adequacy assessments\, such as through regional capacity values\, can improve decision-making. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker: Genevieve de Mijolla is a Technical Leader at EPRI where she leads the Resource Adequacy Assessments project set. She joined EPRI in 2021\, and has since contributed to a number of projects\, most notably to EPRI’s “Resource Adequacy for a Decarbonized Future” initiative. She is also the chair of the IEEE Resource Adequacy Working Group. Prior to joining EPRI\, she worked for GE Energy Consulting on production cost modeling and renewable integration projects. She holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. \n\n\n\nQ&A for the webinar will be hosted on Slido. Click here to submit your questions. \n\n\n\nregister
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-assessing-capacity-accreditation-choice-on-resource-mix-outcomes/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Grid-Forming Control for Power System Oscillation Damping: Insights from Angle Stability before the Iberian Blackout of 2025
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Lijun Cai\n\n\n\nDownload the Presentation \n\n\n\nWatch the Recording \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Speaker: Dr. Lijun Cai\, Professor and Chair of Electrical Power Systems\, University of Rostock \n\n\n\nModerator: Debbie Lew\, Executive Director\, ESIG \n\n\n\nWebinar Abstract: The rapid growth of inverter-based renewable generation is fundamentally changing power system dynamics and creating new challenges for system stability and secure operation. On April 28\, 2025\, the Spanish and Portuguese power systems were disconnected from continental Europe\, providing a critical real-world case for examining these challenges.This work combines system-level disturbance analysis with control-oriented studies to assess the role of grid-forming (GFM) renewable generation in providing effective damping to the system oscillations. The analysis of the Iberian power system prior to the blackout reveals increasing local and inter-area oscillations\, rising tie-line stress\, and reduced damping margins. In addition\, the generation performance following the blackout is investigated to evaluate system behavior under stressed and recovery conditions.Complementary studies on virtual synchronous generator (VSG) control demonstrate that GFM-controls actively participate in the oscillations and can provide stabilizing effects comparable to\, or even exceeding\, those of conventional synchronous generators\, particularly when traditional power system stabilizers (PSS) are unavailable.The results indicate that GFM control can serve as a practical and scalable stability resource for future power systems. For utilities\, the findings support integrating GFM-based damping services into grid codes\, operational planning\, and dynamic security assessment. Furthermore\, coordinated deployment of GFM control\, damping-oriented controller tuning\, and enhanced blackstart and restoration strategies are identified as key measures to ensure secure and resilient operation of future renewable-dominated power systems. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker: Since 2018\, Dr. Lijun Cai has been a Professor and Chair of Electrical Power Systems at the University of Rostock\, Germany. His current research interests include large-scale power system stability analysis and control\, renewable energy integration\, HVDC system design (LCC and VSC)\, and large-scale energy storage technologies. \n\n\n\nThe Q&A for this session will be hosted on Slido. Click here to submit you questions.  \n\n\n\nregister
URL:https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-grid-forming-control-for-power-system-oscillation-damping-insights-from-angle-stability-before-the-iberian-blackout-of-2025/
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