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Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group Elects Four New Board Members
Read More: Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group Elects Four New Board MembersReston, Va. – The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) has elected four new members to its Board of Directors. These individuals serve as industry ambassadors for UVIG and collectively oversee and ensure the association’s operations and strategic growth plan. The newly elected board members are: Mike Casper, President and CEO, Jo-Carroll Energy; Will Kaul, Vice…
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Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group Publishes Wind Operating Practices Guidebook
Read More: Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group Publishes Wind Operating Practices GuidebookReston, Va. – The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) announced today it has published the Wind Operating Practices Guidebook (OPG). The guidebook is the industry’s first, and authored by actual wind turbine and wind plant operating professionals. The OPG is a principle-based document written by UVIG’s Operations & Maintenance User Group. It focuses on principles, processes…
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Blog: Zero Inertia Power Systems
Read More: Blog: Zero Inertia Power SystemsWith the increased penetration of renewable resources, and the available flexibility in terms of control provided by converter interfaced generation and load, it is not far-fetched to envision a future electric grid in which all sources of power and load are interfaced to the network through power electronic converters. Consequently, the system has zero inertia. …
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UVIG Announces 2017 Ross Newlin Annual Achievement Award Recipient
Read More: UVIG Announces 2017 Ross Newlin Annual Achievement Award RecipientReston, Va. – The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) announced Bob Young as the recipient of the 2017 Ross Newlin Annual Achievement Award for Variable-Generation Plant Operations and Maintenance. In 2012, the UVIG Board of Directors approved a resolution to name its Operations and Maintenance Annual Achievement Award after wind industry veteran Ross Newlin. Newlin,…
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Blog: Coast-to-coast planning studies – really?
Read More: Blog: Coast-to-coast planning studies – really?Although I was raised in Georgia and now live in Iowa, I “grew-up” professionally in California as a planning engineer for PG&E, 1985-1990, performing dynamic analysis of the Western Interconnection (WI). The nature of many WI dynamic problems is such that it is essential to model the entire WI when studying them, yet, computational barriers…
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UVIG Announces Annual Achievement Awards in Tucson, Arizona
Read More: UVIG Announces Annual Achievement Awards in Tucson, ArizonaAward Recipients Reflect UVIG’s Global Presence Tucson, Ariz. – The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group, (UVIG), honored a broad group of energy professionals for their contributions and accomplishments for the reliable and economic integration of renewable energy. The honorees are all recipients of UVIG’s 2017 Annual Achievement Awards. Mark Ahlstrom, President of the UVIG Board of…