Presented by: Mark Siira

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Session prices vary based on IEEE membership. Each 80-minute session will be available for streaming for 1 year from purchase date. In addition, CEUs/PDHs will be available for purchase. To see all recorded tutorials and corresponding slides, please visit the IEEE Smart Grid Resource Center’s Education tab.

Tutorial Overview:
This tutorial is a review of standards development and IEEE Smart Grid Interoperability. The sessions will include an update on current status and application, including 2030 Series and 1547.3.   


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  • Smart Grid - Definition, History and Justifcation for the Guide
  • Interoperability – Definition, Needs, Perspectives And Applications
  • Link Between Power, Communications And Information, Technologies IEEE Smart Grid Interoperability, Reference Model (SGIRM)
  • Evolution of Standards Development
  • Application of SGIRM – Frequency Regulation

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  • Current Activites in Interoperability and Cybersecurity Standards
  • Regulatory Changes

 

Presented by: John McDonald, Smart Grid Business Development Leader, GE Grid Solutions

Participants will be familiarized with technological advancements beyond smart grid with a focus on Africa. The technological advancements include 2 key industry subjects. The first session will cover Asset Performance Management (APM), including minimizing outages through analytics and outage restoration techniques. The second session focuses on the convergence of IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operations Technology) within an electric utility to enable effective Enterprise Data Management. 

Presented in two sessions:

ASSET PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (APM)
Key Outage Cases in T&D, Intelligent Asset Strategies, Extending Useful Asset Life, Power Transformer Example: Traditional Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics (RM&D), Transformer Digital Twin, Minimizing Outages through Analytics: Outage Prediction, Network Connectivity, Storm Readiness, Vegetation Management, Outage Restoration Techniques - a Range of Values Manual: Control and Legacy Methods, Positive Step over Manual, Automation and Visualization, Digitally Enabled, APM Integration with ERP Architecture and other IT Systems
Stream Session 

IT/OT CONVERGENCE AND ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT
Data Access, Realizing Greater Value from Data, New Sources of Data - UAVs and Robots, Data Characteristics, Ad Hoc Survey Results, Recommendations

Stream Session

Presented by: Doug Houseman, Lucas McIntosh, Joey Nichols, Brad Jensen, Kory Sandven, Meghan Calabro & Francisco Neto

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Session prices vary based on IEEE membership. Each 80-minute session will be available for streaming for 1 year from purchase date. In addition, CEUs/PDHs will be available for purchase.

Tutorial Overview:

In the 1980s the Utility industry in North American made a great effort to create design and construction standards that could be used by everyone. Today, in many utilities if you open the construction standards books, the copyright date on the design standards is still from that era. Much has changed since the 1980s from renewables and DER to electric vehicles, and reliability requirements.  
 

This course is aimed at practitioners in the industry, regulators, and contractors who want to understand the impact on grid modernization of electrification, renewables, and other changes happening to the environment that the electric grid supports. With higher penetration of renewables and electric vehicles, lower voltage distribution circuits using small wire sizes are not adequate to the future. IEEE has completed updates to a number of international standards that also impacts grid design. The last major industry effort to update grid design standards and drawings was undertaken in the 1980s, prior to the existence of many of the issues that we face today. Discussion will include the history of how the current design standards (and drawings) were arrived at, the changes in issues and their direct impact on design standards, and recommendations for updating those standards will be discussed.  

 

This online tutorial will cover the following topics in each session:

Session 1 
  • This session will discuss history of design standards and how the changes to the environment the grid operates in/demands. Impact and new requirements in areas such as larger storms, renewables, increased electrifications and sensitive equipment.This session will discuss history of design standards and how the changes to the environment the grid operates in/demands. Impact and new requirements in areas such as larger storms, renewables, increased electrifications and sensitive equipment..

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Session 2 

  • Discussion will include the impact of factors such as reverse power flow on mechanical tap chargers and protection impacts existing equipment. Also, changes in various technologies such as microgrids, protection, and control systems, and some examples of IEEE Standards that have significantly changed will be covered

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Session 3 

  • This session will cover compatible units including areas such as drawings, costs and time of study. The 1980-1983 effort will be reviewed, and the needed effort to move to modern standards will be discussed.

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Session 4 

  • The final session will cover impact of changes of the grid, modular substations, and impact on work process. The discussion will include the importance of changing current ways of planning, and the importance of this effort. 

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Presented by: John McDonald, Smart Grid Business Development Leader, GE Grid Solutions

Participants will be familiarized with technological advancements beyond smart grid. The technological advancements include three key industry subjects. The first subject is Asset Performance Management (APM), including minimizing outages through analytics and outage restoration techniques. The second subject is Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS). The first session will introduce ADMS and the second session will discuss ADMS advanced real-time applications. The third subject is the convergence of IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operations Technology) within an electric utility to enable effective Enterprise Data Management. 

Presented in four sessions:

ASSET PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (APM)
Key Outage Cases in T&D, Intelligent Asset Strategies, Extending Useful Asset Life, Power Transformer Example: Traditional Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics (RM&D), Transformer Digital Twin, Minimizing Outages through Analytics: Outage Prediction, Network Connectivity, Storm Readiness, Vegetation Management, Outage Restoration Techniques - a Range of Values Manual: Control and Legacy Methods, Positive Step over Manual, Automation and Visualization, Digitally Enabled, APM Integration with ERP Architecture and other IT Systems
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ROLE OF ADMS IN SMART GRID
Standards and Regulations in Smart Distribution, Distribution Systems Overview, ADMS Overview, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)/Microgrids Integration Overview

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ADVANCED REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS IN ADMS
Real-time ADMS Applications: Topology Processing, Dispatcher Load Flow, Distribution State Estimator, Load Estimation, Fault Detection, Isolation, Restoration (FDIR), Distribution Reliability Indices, Integrated Volt/VAR Control, Contingency Analysis, ADMS Integration with Other Utility Systems: Outage Management System (OMS), Distributed Resource Management System (DRMS), Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI)

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IT/OT CONVERGENCE AND ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT
Data Access, Realizing Greater Value from Data, New Sources of Data - UAVs and Robots, Data Characteristics, Ad Hoc Survey Results, Recommendations

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Presented by: Abedalsalam (Salam) Bani-Ahmed,  Lead Engineer, Power Systems Cyber-Security, Eaton Corporation
 

Recent cyber-security incidents have caused severe power outages in distribution system operations, which have highlighted the importance and urgency of improving the resilience of the electric distribution systems. Unlike IT networks, vulnerability of Smart Grid (SG) infrastructure has a direct impact on the vulnerability of system assets and operational outage costs. SG infrastructure can be secure, but yet not safe. Recent trends in cyber-security solutions have a broader necessity, not only on communications security, but the resiliency to cyber-attacks. This webinar is intended to provide a list of cyber-security definitions and technical considerations of SG critical infrastructure.


Agenda

  • Overview and Definitions.
  • The Path from philosophy to science to corpo-reality.
  • Cyber-physical perspective (Requirements and developments).
  • Where to go (resources, targets), and how to go (backgrounds, starting point).
  • Conclusions.

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Presented by: Doug Houseman, Utility Modernization Lead, Burns and McDonnell

This series of recorded tutorials are now available for purchase on the IEEE Smart Grid Resource Center. Scroll down for detailed session agendas.

Session prices vary based on IEEE membership. Each 80-minute session will be available for streaming for 1 year from purchase date. In addition, CEUs/PDHs will be available for purchase. To see all recorded tutorials and corresponding slides, please visit the IEEE Smart Grid Resource Center’s Education tab.

This online tutorial will cover the following topics in each session: 

Session 1. What are the current and emerging requirements for communications?

  • Dispatch
  • Substations
  • Distribution
  • Physical Security
  • DER
  • IoT
  • Distributed Computing

Session 2. What are the classes of communications and how do I think about them ?

  • Field area networks (e.g. Mesh, Point to Multi-point, Cloud, etc.)
  • Private wireless networks (e.g. LTE, WiMax, micro-wave, etc.)
  • Public wireless networks (e.g. cellular, V-Sat, Micro-wave, etc.)
  • Wired networks (e.g. Fiber Optic, etc.)

Session 3. The big 4 issues – bandwidth, latency, security and reliability

  • How to determine bandwidth needs both now and in the future
  • How to determine latency requirements
  • How to think about security – it is not just encryption!
  • How to deal with reliability

Session 4. Considerations in communications network design, planning, operations and outage

  • Thinking about the 4 types of operation – blue sky, outage, recovery, firmware maintenance
  • Thinking about who is allowed on the utility network (e.g. do you put consumer owned equipment on the network directly?)
  • Physical considerations in communications design and planning (e.g. topology, weather, density of devices, etc.)
  • Playing in the unlicensed spectrum – lessons learned and how to think about the impact of sharing
  • The communications overlay of the grid – ghosts of communications outage on reliability and the impact of distributed computing
  • Hackers and why "fail useful" is critical
  • Other lessons learned

 

Presented by: Dr. Massoud Amin, Chairman, IEEE Smart Grid

This series of recorded tutorials are now available for purchase on the IEEE Smart Grid Resource Center. Scroll down for detailed session agendas.

Session prices vary based on IEEE membership. Each 80-minute session will be available for streaming for 1 year from purchase date. In addition, CEUs/PDHs will be available for purchase. To see all recorded tutorials and corresponding slides, please visit the IEEE Smart Grid Resource Center’s Education tab.

Tutorial overview:

Virtually every crucial economic and social function depends on the secure, reliable operation of power and energy infrastructures. Energy, electric power, telecommunications, transportation and financial infrastructures have become increasingly interdependent, posing new challenges for their resilient and efficient operation. All of these interdependent infrastructures are complex, geographically dispersed, non-linear, and interacting both among themselves and with their human owners, operators and users.

The end-to-end electric power network, grid communications and control systems are often thought to be much more securely protected than is actually the case, especially to malware and intrusions. Over the last two decades, power outages in the United States have increased in size and frequency. This trend is likely to continue as the number of energy consumers increase while infrastructure investment remains stagnant.These circumstances have highlighted the need to update the nation’s electric power grid to provide secure and reliable electricity for the future.

Both the importance and difficulty of protecting power systems have long been recognized. In the electricity sector, outages and power quality disturbances cost the economy more than $80 billion annually on average, and sometimes as much as $188 billion in a single year. Since 1995, the amortization and depreciation rate of old transmission investments has exceeded new construction expenditures. It has been apparent for over a decade that the grid is increasingly stressed, and that the carrying capacity or safety margin to support anticipated demand is in question.

The age of our power infrastructure – particularly underground city networks – is a major issue that should not be viewed in isolation. Instead, the power industry’s focus should be on a holistic asset management approach to address grid resilience. That focus should weigh the relative risks and benefits of maintenance, repair and replacement or retirement of the infrastructure’s various elements. These elements include thousands of transformers, line reactors, series capacitors, and transmission lines. A holistic approach also requires viewing the utility fleet of capital equipment as critical strategic assets impacted by age and external forces, possessing capabilities and characteristics that can be leveraged to improve reliability.

In addition, we’ll discuss selected material from the IEEE Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) report for the U.S. DOE, which are pertinent to these discussions and potential actions with the various stakeholder groups. The cost of developing and deploying a modernized stronger, more secure and smarter grid for the country is cost effective and should be thought of as an investment in the future – in a secure, reliable, and entrepreneurial future – that will pay back over many decades to come as the energy backbone of our 21st century economy.

This online tutorial will cover the following topics in each session:

Session 1

  • Asset management -- Overview/discussion of Chapter 4 of the IEEE QER Report
  • Aging Infrastructure Aging Infrastructure Upgrade/Retrofit Approaches – ROI with Risk Management
Session 2
  • Clean-slate Designs: Options and cost-benefits (including Micro-grids, district energy, CHP and more)
  • Energy Transition: Local to global changes and options forward

Session 3

  • Security (Cyber-physical, IT, OT and CI)
  • Security Methods/Approaches
  • Case studies

Session 4

  • Resiliency and assessments – broad array of destabilizers and countermeasures
  • Pertinent IEEE Standards
  • Case studies for Demand Response – innovative and unique programs
  • Holistic Systems’ Integration
  • Road Ahead, Recommendations and Next Steps