Webinar: VG Plant Model Development and Validation

Featured Speakers:
Ryan Quint is the Senior Manager of Advanced Analytics and Modeling at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The AAM group supports NERC and the utility industry in understanding emerging reliability issues and the changing bulk power system performance through advanced system analysis, modeling, modeling improvements, and collaboration with stakeholders. Ryan coordinates a number of NERC technical groups focused on power system stability, transmission planning, interconnection-wide modeling, dynamic load modeling, power plant model verification and testing, inverter-based resources, and synchrophasors. Ryan has also worked at Dominion Virginia Power and Bonneville Power Administration. He received his PhD from Virginia Tech and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Virginia.

Bob Zavadil is Co-Founder, Executive Vice President of Power Systems Consulting at EnerNex. As a co-founder of EnerNex, Mr. Zavadil is responsible for developing and overseeing the company’s power system engineering consulting business.

He has worked on electric power system issues for wind generation for over 25 years.  Clients include wind turbine designers and manufacturers, project developers and operators, transmission service providers and ISOs, and research and development organizations including NREL and EPRI.

From 1989 to the summer of 2003, Mr. Zavadil served in various consulting and product development capacities for Electrotek Concepts and its parent company, WPT.

Mr. Zavadil began his career in the electric power industry in 1982 as a special studies engineer in the Transmission and Distribution Engineering Division of the Nebraska Public Power District.

He is a member of the IEEE Power & Energy, Power Electronics, and Industrial Applications Societies, and serves as Vice-Chair of the IEEE PES Wind and Solar Power Coordinating Committee.

Moderator: Jason M. MacDowell, Director, GE Energy Consulting

Registration Cost: Free

Additional Information: This webinar will address the state-of-the-art related to VG modeling and modeling practices, and current activities underway in NERC and UVIG to address these issues. It is intended for transmission planners and modelers, equipment manufacturers, modeling experts, and software providers. Among the topics to be covered are VG technology overview and modeling capabilities; utility experience with integration and modeling of VG; powerflow and dynamics modeling practices; dynamic model verification for VG resources; interconnection modeling requirements; and developing a path forward for consistent and accurate modeling of VG. With the proliferation of utility-scale VG, predominantly wind and solar, it is important that the utility industry share expertise and lessons learned related to modeling and verification of models used to represent these resources in bulk power system (BPS) studies.