Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Fundamentals

July 29-30, 2024 | Online :: Central Time

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Grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) are emerging as key elements to facilitate the integration and greater penetration of variable and distributed energy resources (VERs and DERs), especially under transmission-constrained conditions.  They can be considered part of a larger category of non-wire alternative (NWA) options that power systems can implement to bridge the gap for needed robust grid expansion and complement performance of the evolving grid.

This event will provide a comprehensive treatment of grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) – the hardware and software technologies that increase the capacity, efficiency, and/or reliability of the transmission grid installed on existing transmission infrastructure to give operators more situational awareness and control over the grid. 

Learning Outcomes

Attendees will gain practical skills and insights on how to:

• Identify GETs hardware technologies and software applications
• Evaluate the benefits that specific GETs technologies and applications can deliver to the grid on which it’s operating
• Examine how utilities, the bulk power system and transmission organizations (ISOs) can implement GETs
• Assess under what conditions or scenarios GETs make dollars and sense
• Estimate the costs associated with specific GETs technologies and applications
• Analyze challenges to GETs deployment and implementation
• Determine the prospective impact of proposed and recently enacted legislative and regulatory initiatives that will have a bearing on the advancement of GETs
• Review FERC’s possible role(s) to facilitate GETs adoption

Monday, July 29, 2024 : Central Time

 

9:00 – 9:20 a.m. :: Overview and Introductions

9:20 – 10:45 a.m. :: Where Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Fit in the Broader Grid Health Context

• What are the grid deficiencies or constraints that GETs can (at least, partially) address?
• How to identify opportunities for GETs
  • Wholesale electricity market context
  • Vertically integrated/balancing area context
• Near-term and long-term functions
• Summary of prospective GETs value propositions
  • Improved integration of distributed generation
  • IEEE519 compliance (harmonics)
  • Peak demand shaving
  • Maintaining power quality requirements
  • Maximizing asset life and performance
  • Industrial load compensation
  • Grid bridging

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. :: Morning Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. :: Exploring the GETs Technologies Landscape

• Hardware
  • Power flow controllers – AC vs. DC
  • Application of high-capacity cables and conductors
  • Enhanced control capabilities
  • Flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACTS) devices
  • Advanced conductors
  • Others
  • Advanced inverters
  • Syncrophasers
• Power electronics and software
  • Dynamic line ratings (DLR) vs. ambient adjusted ratings (AAR) vs. static line ratings (SLR)
  • Dynamic transformer ratings (DTR)
  • Topology optimization
  • Advanced power flow controls and other switching technologies

12:30 – 1:15 p.m. :: Break for Lunch

1:15 – 2:45 p.m. :: GETs Attributes & Grid Applications

• Capabilities
  • Volt/VAR Optimization
  • CVR
  • Current phase balancing
  • Harmonic mitigation
  • VAR regulation and control
  • Power factor correction
  • Voltage stability
  • Transient over/under voltage
  • Frequency regulation
  • Power factor control
  • Sag mitigation
• Utility / balancing area deployment
• Bulk power system deployment
• ISO deployment
• Codes and standards
• Storage

2:45 – 3:00 p.m.  :: Afternoon Break

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. :: Under What Conditions or Scenarios Do GETs Make Sense

• Challenges to deployment and implementation
• What’s confirmed and what’s conjectural
• Case studies

4:30 p.m. :: Course Adjourns for Day

Tuesday, July 30, 2024 : Central Time

 

9:00 – 10:15 a.m. :: Cost-benefit Analyses

• Estimating cost to implement
• Estimating timing to implement
• Estimating risks associated with implementation and failure to address congestion
• Estimating monetary value of system benefit
• Estimating social and reputational value
  • Deferred infrastructure expenses
  • CO2 reductions
  • Impact on curtailment
• Gauging both short-term and long-term application values
• Assessing impact on generation projects

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. :: Morning Break

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. :: Measures Anticipated or Required for Broad GETs Deployment

• FERC’s possible role(s)
  • NOPR “Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection” (RM21-17-000)
  • Transmission collaboration between agency and state regulatory commissions (FERC-NARUC TF)
• Federal legislative and regulatory initiatives
  • DOE “Building Better Grid initiative”
  • Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
  • Advancing GETs Act legislation (pending)
  • PNNL-NREL transmission system planning collaboration
  • Offshore wind transmission integration
  • BPA transmission IT capacity optimization
• RTOs, transmission owners and utilities perspectives
  • Challenges and hurdles for adoption and implementation
• State regulatory and legislative initiatives
  • New York
  • Illinois
  • Minnesota
  • Virginia

12:15 p.m. :: Course Adjournment

Brian Berry is Technical Leader & Chief Product Officer at Ampacimon, He has more than 14 years’ experience, with expertise as a technical leader, product manager, strategist, electrical engineer and line manager with an extensive background in product design and delivery for the energy sector. Prior to joining the firm in 2022, he was Founder and Managing Director of Reactive Technologies Ltd, Senior Power Systems Engineer at GE Energy Connections and Senior Engineer for Specialised Studies at Eskom.  He earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand.

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Rodica Donaldson is Vice President of Transmission Analytics at EDF Renewables North America, an independent power producer and service provider with 35 years of expertise developing and operating renewable energy projects.  In her current role, she heads a group responsible for forecasting and mitigating transmission congestion and curtailment risks for EDF Renewables assets.  She has worked for EDF since 2008.  Ms. Donaldson earned a Master of International Business from Paris Dauphine University after starting her studies at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.

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Jason Marshall, is Deputy Secretary & Special Counsel at the Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  He joined the division after serving for more than a decade at the New England States Committee on Electricity (NESCOE), an organization representing the New England Governors on regional electricity issues, including regulatory proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) serving most recently Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel. Previously, he was Counsel with the Regional and Federal Affairs Division of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and a Legal Counsel in the Massachusetts State Senate.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Marshall was an associate at Brown Rudnick LLP and a Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College and a Juris Doctor from the University of Connecticut School of Law. (invited)

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Julia Selker is Executive Director of the WATT Coalition.  Julia Selker is Executive Director of the WATT Coalition and Director of Policy and Strategy and Chief Operating Officer for Grid Strategies. She previously worked for the Business Council on Sustainable Energy, the technology start-up Faraday Grid, and interned with Congressman Peter DeFazio focused on energy and climate policy. Prior to coming to Washington, DC, Ms. Selker worked on the launch of Monterey Bay Community Power through the public relations agency Miller Maxfield, Inc., in Santa Cruz, California.  She also previously worked for the Bulleit Group, a San Francisco public relations agency. Ms. Selker earned a bachelors degree in physics from Reed College.

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Toskiki (Bruce) Tsuchida is Principal at the Brattle Group, where he specializes in the analysis of wholesale electric markets and modeling, including operations, valuations of transmission and generation assets, deliverability analyses, RTO cost benefit analyses, market power studies, and contract evaluations.  His experience spans a wide range of utility consulting projects, including the analysis of operations for power markets, ranging from integration studies for intermittent resources such as wind and solar power, ancillary service studies, operational logic studies, and analyses required for regulatory proceedings. Mr. Tsuchida has evaluated both transmission and generation assets and contracts for electric power markets throughout North America, as well as in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, and Saudi Arabia.  Prior to joining Brattle, he was a principal at Charles River Associates.  Mr. Tsuchida was also a project manager at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), where he oversaw international generation development projects and was the lead engineer for Southeast Asia generation units. While at TEPCO, he concentrated primarily on the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of thermal power plants.

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Charlie Vartanian has more than three decades of experience deploying advanced grid technologies, performing electric power system studies, and contributing to technical standards development. He currently consults to the Sandia National Laboratories supporting development of energy storage standards.  Mr. Vartanian previously worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric, DNV KEMA, UET, A123 Systems, Enron, the CA Energy Commission, and Southern California Edison. During his 15 years at SCE, his activities spanned grid planning studies through R&D projects including SCEs Chino and Catalina BESS projects. Mr. Vartanian is currently Secretary of the IEEE P1547.4 microgrid interconnection guide and is Secretary of the IEEE ESSBs Energy Storage Collaboration Team.  He earned a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

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Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Fundamentals

July 29-30, 2024 | Online

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Instructional Methods

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Requirements For Successful Completion Of Program

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Upon successful completion of this event, program participants interested in receiving CPE credits will receive a certificate of completion.

Course CPE Credits: 10.5
There is no prerequisite for this Course.
Program field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based
Advanced Preparation: None

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Who Should Attend

• Integrated resource planning
• Resource adequacy planning
• Strategic and long-range planning
• Forecasting and analysis
• Transmission planning
• Intra-hour operations analysis and modeling
• Renewable energy planning
• State regulatory and commission staff
• Regulatory affairs
• Asset management