Foundational Support Systems Webinars
Presented by: Srikanth Chandrasekaran, Senior Director, IEEE SA
IEEE SA is at the forefront of developing standards for the smart grid, starting with the smart grid vision documents in collaboration with the IEEE Smart Grid Initiative that was developed more than 10 years ago focusing on five key aspects of Smart Grid implementation. IEEE-SA has more than 100+ key standards in the area of smart grid and also participated in the development of the "US NIST Framework of Standards and Protocols for the Smart Grid".
The talk will focus standards from IEEE focus that range across the spectrum from Substation Automation, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, IoT/Communication Protocols, and Advanced Metering Infrastructure to name a few and encompasses the end-to-end implementation that includes power and energy generation and transmission, communications and information technology. IEEE SA is also focused on standards implementation through the IEEE Conformity Assessment Program (ICAP) and that talk will cover some of the key certification programs focused around Smart Grid.
Presented by: Doug Houseman, Grid Modernization Lead, Burns & McDonnell
If we assume that The Green New Deal and Transactive Energy are will happen, we need to realize that no one is ready for what will happen in the next decade.
In a project to determine how many devices will play in the future grid, the numbers were staggering. This presentation will go thru what will be contributing to big data going forward and what that means from an aggregate number of data points, and requirements for processing, and the required system latency if we move to electrification, transactive energy, and 100% renewables. Simply staggering gaps exist between what happens today and what needs to happen.
Presented by: Abedalsalam "Salam" Bani-Ahmed, Lead Engineer, Power Systems Cybersecurity at Eaton Corporation
With the increasing communication agents and the massive deployment of cyber devices over a wide area of electrical power components, cybersecurity challenge elevates to a higher level as the susceptibility of attack increases. Cybersecurity by design dictates the preparedness of the critical infrastructure in response to a cyber-attack. This webinar introduces the state of the art and best practices in cyber incident management and system resilience against potential cyber-attacks, and highlighting the concept of cyber resilience and the principle of cybersecurity by design.
Presented by: Prof. Amro M. Farid, Associate Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Dakota Thompson, LIINES Ph.D Candidate in Systems Engineering, and Wester C.H. Schoonenberg, Doctoral Research Assistant in the Laboratory for Intelligent Integrated Networks of Engineering Systems (LIINES), at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.
Modern life has grown to be extremely dependent on electric power. As the world’s services increasingly electrify, the resilience of the electric power grid is more important than ever. Current methods of studying electric power grid resilience generally fall in one of two categories: (1) N-1 type contingency analysis, and (2) network science methods based upon graph connectedness. The latter use “lightweight” graph models while the former is particularly computationally intensive. Though these methods provide valuable complementary insights, there is a new need for analytical tools that balance analytical insight with computational complexity.
This webinar discusses a set of new resilience measures based upon the application of hetero-functional graph theory to electric power systems. These measures are of particular relevant to the grid’s architectural transformation as it comes to accommodate distributed generation at the grid periphery. Furthermore, the webinar will discuss some of the key differences between existing resilience measures and the newly introduced measures.
Presented by: Prabir Barooah, Associate Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineer, University of Florida
Energy storage is needed to help the power grid of the future in balancing the highs and lows caused by intermittent renewables such as solar and wind. Flexible demand – such as air conditioning – can provide the same service as batteries by manipulating their demand around a nominal baseline so that the increase and decrease of demand appears like charging and discharging of a battery. The advantage of these “virtual batteries” over real batteries is their low cost, since only a change in software is needed. A challenge in the effective use of both real and virtual batteries is coordination: a large number of them need to be coordinated so that together they supply what the grid needs. At the same time, the Quality of Service (QoS) of each consumer – on whose premises a flexible load or a battery resides - must be maintained within strict, pre-negotiated, bounds. In this webinar, we will describe methods for coordinating a large number of energy storage and flexible demand resources, and discuss the pros and cons of these methods. ile maintaining and enhancing grid reliability with high penetrations of renewable energy resources.
Presented by: Junbo Zhao, Ph.D, Assistant Professor (Research) at Virginia Tech University
With the increasing penetration of intermittent renewable energy, responsive loads, and microgrids, the power system has been subject to different types of dynamics. Consequently, the static state estimation (SSE) used in today’s energy management systems may be unable to capture these dynamics in an operational environment. As a result, new monitoring tools need to be developed, such as dynamic state estimation (DSE). The capability of DSE to accurately capture rapid dynamic changes in system states plays an important role in power system control and protection. Thanks to the widespread deployment of phasor measurement units, the development of a fast and robust DSE becomes possible. This webinar will present a comprehensive view of the DSE, in terms of its motivations, concepts, implementation and utilization. The similarities and differences between DSE and other existing estimation methods will be clarified as well.
Presented by: Steven E. Collier, Director, Smart Grid Strategies, Milsoft Utility Solutions
Part 2 : The Smart Grid Emerges
Carl Sagan said, “You have to know the past to understand the present”. Most everyone knows something about the emerging smart grid. However, not everyone knows the whole story about how and why the smart grid began. It is not only fascinating, but also useful to understand the underlying causes that led to the emergence and continuing development of a smart grid. It’s all about changing technologies and business models. In Part 2 of this webinar we will discuss how disruptive new technologies have emerged to produce, store, and manage energy, both on the supply side and the demand side, resulting in much more complexity in the operations of the electric grid. We will examine how information and communications technologies are enabling a smart grid which will ultimately become a cyber physical system.
Presented by: Steven E. Collier, Director, Smart Grid Strategies, Milsoft Utility Solutions
Part 1 : Eroding the Foundations of the Legacy Electric Grid
Carl Sagan said, “You have to know the past to understand the present”. Most everyone knows something about the emerging smart grid. However, not everyone knows the whole story about how and why the smart grid began. It is not only fascinating, but also useful to understand the underlying causes that led to the emergence and continuing development of a smart grid. It’s all about changing technologies and business models. In Part 1 of this webinar we will examine why and how the foundations of the century old legacy electric grid have eroded, beginning in the 1970s in the aftermath of the OPEC oil embargo. Longstanding favorable economics, acceptable reliability, stable monopoly business model, and standard utility operations were adversely affected.
Presented by: Alan M Ross, Vice President of Reliability, SD Myers
The application of Reliability Engineering disciplines and principles provides a unique perspective to a Smart Grid. In this webinar we will look at how technology, UIoT, Machine Learning and Condition Based Monitoring can positively affect the long-term reliability of the Grid. While reliability engineering starts at the design phase for asset management decisions, an even greater impact will be on the system those assets comprise. For the most part we are redesigning systems, not designing from scratch, adding technological advances while integrating wide-scale DER and DR into the grid.
Presented by:
Jason Iacobucci, President, PowerRunner, LLC
Keith P. Hock Director Transmission Technical Services and Operations Planning, Ameren Services
Thursday, June 7, 2018 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET
Leveraging recent investments in AMI, Ameren Illinois began aggregating hourly service point load forecast data by voltage (loss) class vs. the hourly system load to determine the loss factors per voltage class for every hour of the day. Not only does this innovative approach reduce the time it takes to perform a loss study from more than a year to seconds, but it more accurately accounts for real losses across the system. This innovative approach to system loss studies will be essential to utility planning efforts, particularly in the siting and integrating DER on the distribution grid.
Ameren has filed new tariffs for calculating distribution system losses by voltage class with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC). This innovative approach will virtually eliminate the need to perform traditional loss studies, and the ICC Staff view the methodology as a more equitable approach to socializing the cost of technical losses and related distribution system unaccounted for energy (DUFE).