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Webinar: Accelerating and Scaling Up GETs
May 16, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
Featured Speakers: Erik Ela, Technical Executive and Program Manager, EPRI; Justin Bell, Principal Technical Leader, EPRI; Anna Lafoyiannis, Technical Leader, EPRI
About the Webinar: There is a renewed interest in technologies to improve the utilization and efficiency of transmission networks
with strong support from DOE and FERC. GETs are Grid-Enhancing Technologies which are hardware and/or software that increase the capacity, efficiency, reliability, or safety of existing transmission lines. GETs may reduce congestion costs, improve integration of renewables, increase capacity, and provide grid service applications. If you are curious about what the buzz is and what they might do for your organization, attend this webinar! EPRI will introduce the types of GETs, focusing especially on dynamic line ratings, followed by the integration considerations, markets and incentives to scale these technologies.
About the Speakers:
Erik Ela is a Technical Executive and Program Manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). In his role, he provides technical leadership in several areas including electricity market design and operations, renewable energy and emerging technology integration, bulk power system operations, frequency control and essential reliability services, and generation planning. At EPRI, Dr. Ela facilitates the R&D collaborative group of technical experts of North America’s Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and EPRI’s utility and ISO/RTO focused Market Operations and Market Design Advisory Group to discuss research needs in technical areas facing the industry. He leads innovative projects on how utilities and ISOs can operate the power system more efficiently and reliably. Prior to joining EPRI in 2014, Dr. Ela worked for several years with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) as a senior research engineer and before that for the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO). He has been involved in several working groups as a senior member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society, CIGRE, NERC, and ESIG, including as the chair of the IEEE Power System Economics Subcommittee, chair of ESIG’s system operations and market design working group, associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, and part of NYISO’s Environmental Advisory Council. Dr. Ela received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering.
Justin Bell is a Principal Technical Leader at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He conducts research in both theoretical and applications areas and has contributed to over one hundred technical reports. His research focuses on increasing transmission capacity and risk management; however, his work also includes cross cutting topics such as inspection & assessment, material science, climatology, and HVDC. He currently leads EPRI’s research on testing and validation of dynamic line ratings (DLR) and ambient adjusted ratings (AAR). Justin is an active member in standards development with IEEE and CIGRE, he also regularly collaborates with National Labs, NATF, and regional working groups such as the NY-ATWG. Prior to joining EPRI in 2012 Justin was a student at MCLA and UND where he studied particle physics and astrodynamics, respectively.
Anna Lafoyiannis is a Technical Leader at EPRI, where her research focuses on strategic decision-making to support long-range resource and transmission planning. Before joining EPRI, she was supervisor of reliability assurance at Ontario’s IESO, where she developed its capacity market and set specifications for long-term contracts. She also held leadership roles at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), including a term as chair of NERC’s Reliability Assessment Subcommittee. Anna holds a B.A.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Waterloo and M.Eng. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with an emphasis on Sustainable Energy from the University of Toronto.
Moderator: James Okullo, Director of System Planning, ESIG
Registration Cost: FREE
Q&A Session: We will be using the Slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
