2023 Fall Technical Workshop

All of the presentations from our 2023 Fall Technical Workshop held in San Diego can be downloaded below.

To view recordings of each of these sessions, please visit our YouTube channel and select the 2023 Fall Technical Workshop playlist.

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Tutorial I: HVDC Transmission

Moderator: James Okullo, Director of System Planning, ESIG

Overview of HVDC Technology, its Capabilities, Use Cases, Operational and Markets Benefits, Misconceptions, Technology and Supply Chain Barriers
Johannes Pfeifenberger, Principal, The Brattle Group
Chandra Mohan Sonnathi, Lead HVDC Specialist, DNV

HVDC Fundamentals and State-of-the-Art: A Vendor Perspective
Eugen Starschich, Lead Engineer HVDC, Siemens Energy

HVDC Transmission Case Study
Henry Abrams, Manager, Renewable Electrical Engineering, Invenergy

Power from the Prairie Project Economic Assessment
Jinxiang Zhu, Consulting Director, Hitachi Energy

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Tutorial II: High Fidelity IBR Generic Model Development and Validation for Planning, Operating and Protection Studies

Moderator: John Seuss, Technology Manager, US Department of Energy

Download Tutorial Presentation
Jens Boemer, Technical Executive, EPRI
Deepak Ramasubramanian, Technical Leader, EPRI

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Introduction/Opening Comments

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