ESIG - 2023 ESIG Fall Tech Workshop

Introduction / Keynote / Opening Plenary: Grid Enhancing Technologies



Welcome
Mark Ahlstrom, President, ESIG Board of Directors & NextEra Energy Resources
Keynote Comments
Allison Clements, FERC Commissioner
Industry Overview
Charlie Smith, Executive Director, ESIG
Opening Plenary Session: Grid Enhancing Technologies
Grid Enhancing Technologies
Chair: Julia Selker, Executive Director, WATT Coalition
Grid Enhancing Technologies – Status and Prospects
Ken Donohoo, Consultant
A GETs Business Case
Julian Leslie, Head of Networks, National Grid ESO (UK)
Dynamic Line Rating
Brian Berry, Chief Product Marketing Officer, Ampacimon
System Reconfiguration
Pablo Ruiz, Sr. Consultant, The Brattle Group, and CEO/CTO, NewGrid
Advanced Power Flow Control
Frank Kreikebaum, CTO, Smart Wires

Session 2: IBR and GFM Studies and Tools



Chair: Jason MacDowell, Chief Systems Integration Officer, ESIG & GE Energy Consulting
EMT Inverter-Based Resource Plant Modeling- How Consultants, Developers, OEMs, and Grid Operators Can Create Best Practices Together
Kelsey Ciemny, Senior Power Systems Engineer, Telos Energy
Different Types of Fast Frequency Response from IBRs
Jin Tan, Principal Engineer, NREL
System Services from GFM Wind and STATCOMs
Xiongfei Wang, Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Benefits of GFM in West Texas Using Generic Models
Yunzhi Cheng, Manager, Operations Stability Analysis, ERCOT

Session 3: Building Sector Decarbonization in Energy Systems Modeling



Building Sector Decarb in Energy Systems Modeling
Chair: Sean Morash, Principal, Telos Energy
Opportunity for HVAC in the Building Sector
Lieve Helsen, Professor, KU Leuven (Belgium)
Targeting New Heat Pump Customers and Quantifying Impacts on Demand Flexibility
Brian Gerke, Director, Forecasting & Methods, Recurve
Impact of Building Electrification on the Electric System of the Future
Erik Delarue, Associate Professor, KU Leuven (Belgium)
Strategy for Building Electrification and Gas Decommissioning in CA
Ari Gold-Parker, Associate Director, Energy and Environmental Economics (E3)

Session 4: Grid Code Interconnection Requirements Assessment



Chair: Jens Boemer, Technical Executive, EPRI
Compliance Assessment Process
Babak Badrzadeh, Technical Director – Power Systems, Aurecon (Australia)
Generator Grid Code Compliance Using Simulation Models
Jan-David Schmidt, Senior Engineer R&D, Energynautics GmbH (Germany)
German Grid Code Compliance Assessment Practice
Jens Fortmann, Professor, Wind Energy and Grid Integration HTW Berlin (Germany)
Grid Code Compliance – A Vendor Perspective
Sebastian Achilles, Managing Director Power Systems Operation and Planning, GE Power

Session 5: Transmission and Interconnection



Chair: Josh Novacheck, Transmission Planning Engineer, NextEra Energy Resources
IBR Grid Connection Studies – Lessons Learned
Babak Badrzadeh, Technical Director – Power Systems, Aurecon (Australia)
DOE i2x Roadmap for Queue Management and Cost Allocation
Will Gorman, Research Scientist, LBNL
CAISO Interconnection Process Enhancements
Danielle Osborn Mills, Principal, Infrastructure Policy Development, CAISO
Integrating Transmission , Interconnection and RA Planning
Rob Gramlich, President, Grid Strategies

Session 6: GFM Developments



Chair: Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG
Value of GFM DER in High Penetration Scenarios
Deepak Ramasubramanian, Technical Leader, EPRI
Future Role of Hybrid Simulations in Assessing the Dynamic Stability of IBR Dominated Power Systems
Wallace Kenyon, Power Systems Simulation Lead, encoord
NGESO Experience with Inertia Monitoring and Measurements
Julian Leslie, Head of Networks, National Grid ESO (UK)
Parallel Operation of GFM and GFL IBR with Synchronous Machines
Shahil Shah, Principal Engineer, NREL
Transient Stability of GFM
Behrooz Bahrani, Associate Professor, Monash University (Australia)

Session 7: Market Topics



Chair: Bethany Frew, Group Manager, Capacity Expansion & Electricity Markets Group, NREL
System Services for a 100% Renewable Power System
Mark O’Malley, Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems, Imperial College (UK)
The Value of Modeling DA/RT Uncertainty in Market Simulations
Sasha Kuzura, Research Associate, The Brattle Group
Assessing Nodal Adequacy of Large VRE Power Systems with New Adequacy Metrics Reflecting RA Contributions of G, T & D
Selin Yanikara, Polaris Systems Optimization
Advances in Energy Storage Modeling for Improved Market Efficiency
Nikita Singhal, Senior Technical Leader, EPRI

Session 8: Transmission – From DER to HVDC



Chair: James Okullo, Director of System Planning, ESIG
Interregional Transfer Capability Study
William Lamanna, Senior Engineer, NERC
HVDC Transmission`s Role in the Energy Transition
Henry Abrams, Manager, Renewable Electrical Engineering, Invenergy
Challenges Connecting the Interconnections
Mike Spector, Director of Transmission & Interconnection, Grid United
HVDC Planning and Operations in CAISO
Ebrahimi Rahimi, Sr. Advisor – Transmission Planning, CAISO

Session 9: Power Systems Planning and Operations



Chair: Aidan Tuohy, Director, EPRI
System Operation with High Shares of Renewables
Caixia Wang, Senior Engineer, SGERI (China)
Realistic Modeling of Energy Storage Dispatch and Ancillary Service Provisions
Arne Olsen, Senior Partner, Energy + Environmental Economics (E3)
Modeling the Value of Existing Pumped Storage Hydro in a High Renewable Future –
Genevieve de Mijolla, Technical Leader, EPRI
Operational Readiness for Inverter-Based Resources
Scott Anderson, Director – Operational Readiness, Salt River Project
Operations Challenges Driven by Oscillatory Modes in the Southern African Region
Bonginkosi Sibeko, Chief Engineer, National Operations, ESKOM (South Africa)
Large Scale Renewable Energy Integration in the Northeast China Grid
Du Shibo, Senior Engineer, State Grid Northeast Power Dispatching and Control Center

Closing Plenary Session: Planning Implications with Large Loads



Chair: Allison Holly, Director of Strategy US East, Pattern Energy Group
Overcoming Market Barriers for Transmission Connected Thermal Energy Storage
Michael Walsh, RedoxBlox (Ireland)
Planning for the Interconnection of Large EV Charging Stations
Cora Walter, Project Manager, E-mobility, Con Edison
David Sohmers, Section Manager, Electric Vehicles and Distributed Generation Engineering, Con Edison
Large Loads as a Grid Resource
Andrew Reimers, Director of R&D and Regulatory Affairs, Lancium (Canada)
Interconnection Process and Reliability Requirements for Large Loads in ERCOT
Agee Springer, Manager, Large Load Integration, ERCOT

Tutorial: High Fidelity IBR



Tutorial: High Fidelity IBR Generic Model Development and Validation for Planning, Operating and Protection Studies
Moderator: John Seuss, Technology Manager, US Department of Energy
Jens Boemer, Technical Executive, EPRI
Deepak Ramasubramanian, Technical Leader, EPRI