2024 Fall Technical Workshop

Presentations from our 2024 Fall Technical Workshop held in Providence can be downloaded below.

Recordings of workshop sessions are now available on the ESIG YouTube Channel.

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Breakthrough Energy/ESIG/GPST Integrated Planning Workshop

Workshop Chair: Debra Lew, Executive Director, ESIG

Overview of Breakthrough Energy Initiative on Integrated Planning
Rajeev Ram, Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Integration of Economic and Reliability Tools and Data
Moderator: Carlo Brancucci, CEO, encoord

MISO’s Renewable Integration Impact Assessment (RIIA)
Jordan Bakke, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessments, MISO

Discussion Panelists (Download Panelists’ Slides):
Peter Markussen, Managing Director, Energinet (Denmark)
Jason Frasier, Senior Manager of Transmission Planning, NYISO
Xiaoyao Zhou, Engineering Compliance Manager, NG ESO (UK)
Kelsey Allen, Principal Engineer, SPP

Integration of Generation, Transmission, Distribution, and Load
Arne Olson, Senior Partner, Energy + Environmental Economics (E3)

LA100: The Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study
Paul Denholm, Senior Research Fellow, NREL

Discussion Panelists:
Ken Aramaki, Director T&D Planning, Hawaiian Electric Company
Angie Bond-Simpson, Senior Director of Resource Management, Salt River Project
Chris Clack, Vice President, Integrated Energy Systems Planning, Pattern Energy Group (Download Presentation)
PJ Martin, Vice President of Integrated System Modeling and Analytics, Xcel Energy

2024 Fall Technical Workshop Introduction / Opening Remarks

Opening Remarks
Mark Ahlstrom, NextEra Energy & ESIG Board of Directors’ President

Keynote: The Challenges of Orchestrating a Successful Clean Energy Transition Across Multiple Jurisdictions
Gordon van Welie, ISO-NE, President and CEO

Industry Overview
Debra Lew, Executive Director, ESIG

Opening Plenary Session: The Promise and Challenges of Offshore Wind

Session Chair: Jian Fu, Program Manager of Systems Integration, Wind Energy Technologies Office, DOE

Offshore Wind Developments in Europe
Antje Orths, Chief Engineer, Energinet (Denmark)

NYISO Planning for Integration of Offshore Wind
Jason Frasier, Senior Manager of Transmission Planning, NYISO

Offshore Wind in the US
Christian Bjøl, Head of Offshore Project Development in Regions America, Ørsted

Mitigating Stability Issues with Offshore Wind
Xiaodong Liu, Manager of Transmission System Planning, Eversource

West-Coast Offshore Wind and Transmission Study and Atlantic Offshore Transmission Action Plan
Travis Douville, Wind Energy Grid Integration Lead, PNNL

Session 2: FERC Order 1920 – Methods and Compliance for Regional Transmission Planning

Session Chair: Aaron Bloom, Executive Director Transmission, NextEra Energy

Overview of FERC Order 1920
Matt Christiansen, General Counsel, FERC

How Does the New England States’ Agreed-to Long-Term Transmission Planning (LTTP) Process Advance Order 1920 Objectives?
Monica Gonzalez, Regulatory Counsel, ISO-NE

Order 1920 and Planning for Multi-Value Transmission in New England
Ben D’Antonio, Manager of Transmission Strategy & Economic Analysis, Eversource

How Does LRTP Fit in With 1920 and What Gaps Still Exist?
Jennifer Curran, Senior Vice President of Planning and Operations, MISO

Methods and Compliance for 1920
Hannes Pfeifenberger, Principal, The Brattle Group

Session 3A: Modeling, Protection and Application of GFM Technology

Modeling, Protection, Application of Advanced Grid Services from IBRs
Session Chair: Deepak Ramasubramanian, Senior Technical Leader, EPRI

Introduction of WECC-Approved Dynamic GFM Models
Wei Du, Solar Subsector Manager, PNNL
Deepak Ramasubramanian, Senior Technical Leader, EPRI

GFM Inverter Interoperability Through Hardware Testing
Jing Wang, Researcher, NREL

Technology Updates Associated with GFM Wind Testing
Ignacio Vieto, Senior Engineer, GE Vernova

Protection of Inverter-dominated Power Systems
Ulrich Muenz, Principal Research Scientist, Siemens

Session 3B: Carbon Tracking and Emissions Transparency

Carbon Tracking and Emissions Transparency
Session Chair: Liz Mettetal, Director, Energy & Environmental Economics (E3)

SPP Plans for GHG Designs
Jim Gonzalez, Technical Director of Market Policy and Operations, Southwest Power Pool

CAISO Plans for GHG Designs
Sylvie Spewak, Senior Policy Developer, CAISO

24/7 Carbon-free Energy Solutions
Allegra Reister, Data and Software Climate Solutions, Google

Locational Marginal Emission Rates
Emma Naden, Associate, Tabors Caramanis Rudkevich

Session 4A: Planning and Interconnection of Large Loads

Session Chair: Sam Morris, Manager of Load Forecasting and Analysis, ERCOT

Session Introduction and ESIG Large Loads Task Force Kick-Off
Sam Morris, Chair of ESIG LLTF

Large Loads: Interconnection, Planning and Reliability Considerations
Julieta Giraldez, Director, Integrated Grid Planning, Electric Power Engineers
Ahmed Rashwan, Director – Transmission Planning and Operations, Utilities, Electric Power Engineers

Long-term Impact of Large Load Growth in ERCOT
Pengwei Du, Supervisor, Economic Analysis & Long-Term Planning Studies, ERCOT

Interconnection and Integration of Large Loads
Pooja Shah, Chief of Staff for Power Delivery and Grid Transformation, Georgia Power Company
Harish Sharma, Chief Engineer, Transmission Planning – Stability and Special Studies, Southern Company Services

Session 4B: Distribution System Resilience and the Role of DERs

Session Chair: Obadiah Bartholomy, Manager of Distributed Energy Resources, SMUD

Improving Distribution Grid Resilience by Optimally Planning and Operating DERs
Fei Ding, Manager, Grid Automation and Controls Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Accelerating Interconnection of DERs to Enable Electrification and Grid Resilience
Jim Gaughan, Director of Distribution Planning, Con Edison

Innovating Utility and Regulatory Processes to Improve Distribution Resilience
Rich Sedano, Senior Director, Regulatory Assistance Project

Analytical Tools to Assess the Role of DERs in Improving System Reliability and Resilience
Elli Ntakou, Manager of System Resiliency and Reliability, Eversource

Session 5A: Reliability with High levels of IBRs

Session Chair: Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG

CAISO Reliability Issues
John Phipps, Executive Director of Grid Operations, CAISO

NESO Perspective
Xiaoyao Zhou, Engineering Compliance Manager, NESO (Great Britain)

Insights, Consensus, and Disagreement in the Power Systems Community About Dynamic Simulation Tools Necessary for Stability
Jacob Kravits, Research & Development Lead, encoord

Grid Stability Services: Demonstrating a New Framework on a Large, High IBR System
Matt Richwine, Co-Founder, Telos Energy

Small-Signal Stability Analysis of Black-Boxed IBRs: A Frequency-Domain Tool
Behrooz Bahrani, Associate Professor, Monash University (Australia)

Session 5B: 100% Clean Energy or 100% Clean Electricity: The Importance of Energy Sector Coupling

Session Chair: Elaine Hart, Founder, Moment Energy Insights

Integrated System Planning Perspective
Chris Clack, Vice President, Integrated Energy Systems Planning at Pattern Energy Group

Findings from the Low Carbon Resources Initiative Net-Zero 2050
Geoff Blanford, Senior Technical Executive, EPRI

Energinet Pathways
Peter Markussen, Managing Director, Energinet (Denmark)

Learnings from ADP
Ryan Jones, Co-founder, Evolved Energy Research

Session 6: Cutting Edge Practices in Integrated Planning

Session Chair: Juha Kiviluoma, Principal Scientist, VTT

Integrating Across Generation, Transmission and Distribution at Eversource
Digaunto Chaterjee, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Eversource

HECO’s Integrated Grid Plan
Ken Aramaki, Director T&D Planning, Hawaiian Electric Company

Salt River Project’s Integrated System Plan
Angie Bond-Simpson, Senior Director of Resource Management, Salt River Project

EPRI ISSP Initiative
Dheepak Krishnamurthy, Technical Leader, EPRI

Session 7A: Advances in Resource Adequacy

Session Chair: Bethany Frew, Group Manager, NREL

Results from EPRI RA Initiative
Aidan Tuohy, Director of Transmission Operations and Planning, EPRI

IEA Wind Recommended Practices
Hannele Holttinen, OA Task 25 of IEA Wind (Finland)

Prince Edward Island – Resource Adequacy Stress from Rapid Electrification
Scott Harper, CEO, WEICan (Canada)
Derek Ellis, Director of Sustainability, Dept of Environment, Energy, and Climate Action, Prince Edward Island

ERCOT and PUCT – Triple Metrics for Resource Adequacy
Pete Warnken, Senior Manager, Resource Adequacy, ERCOT

Session 7B: Finding Flexibility in Demand

Demand Response Participation in Wholesale Markets
Session Chair: Derek Stenclik, Co-founder, Telos Energy

Half of Demand in the Future will be Flexible!
Peter Markussen, Managing Director, Energinet (Denmark)

Xcel’s Plans for Load Flexibility and its Long-term Role in Meeting Future Goals
Zach Pollock, Director of Grid Strategy and Emerging Technology, Xcel

Learning from Success: How Utilities and DER Solutions Providers Achieve Outstanding Customer Enrollment in Demand Flexibility Programs
Akhilesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Energy Associate, The Brattle Group

Understanding the Reliability Value of Distributed Energy Resources
Selin Yanikara, Energy Research Analyst, Enelytix

Session 8A: EMT Practices and Applications

Session Chair: Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG

EMT Practices in ONS
Bruno Pestana Rosa, Electrical Studies Engineer, Planning Department, ONS

EMT Practices in ISO-NE
Brad Marszalkowski, Supervisor of Resource Integration, ISO-NE

EMT Studies: Industry Uptake and How to Make Them More Manageable
Andrew Isaacs, Vice President, Electranix (Canada)

NERC EMT Task Force Update
Aung Thant, Engineer, Inverter-Based Resource Specialist, NERC

Session 8B: Interregional Transmission

Session Chair: Joshua Macey, Associate Professor, Yale Law School

NERC Interregional Transfer Capability Study
John Moura, Director of Reliability Assessment, NERC

Transmission Resilience Study Part 2
Derek Stenclik, Co-Founder, Telos Energy

Resource Adequacy Benefits of Interregional Transmission
Brian Sergi, Research Engineer, NREL

Astrape North Plains RA Study
Kris Zadlo, President and CTO, Grid United

Session 9: Closing Plenary on Gas-Electric Coordination

Session Chair: Paul Sotkiewicz, President and Founder, E-Cubed

Gas-Electric Coordination in New England
Stephen George, Director of Operational Performance, Training and Integration, ISO-NE

Integrating Across the Gas and Electric Sectors at Eversource
Digaunto Chatterjee, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Eversource

Supporting Electrification Through Cross Commodity Planning
Natasha Deschene, VP of Electric Asset Management and Engineering, National Grid

New York/New England Gas Pipeline Study
Phil Fedora, Vice President of Reliability Services and Chief Engineer, NPCC