Foundational Support Systems Webinars
Presented by: Dr. Santi Martínez Farrero and Mr. Ramon Gallart Fernández - Estabanell Energia, S.A.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 | 1:00 – 2:00pm ET
The management of packets of electricity will change the way the electricity is distributed.
The outcome of the SRG project will allow utilities to interconnect energy between a variety of actors, including prosumers, consumers, distributed generators and energy storages, to enable multi-directional power flows. Such power flows are managed by an innovative hierarchical management tool, enabling the optimization of the operation of the rural grid while both isolated and connected to the main distribution grid. In the power plane of the architecture, power flows are controlled by exploiting the flexibility provided by a variety of wired and wireless communication technologies that helps to cope with geographical restrictions, along with an innovative so called Intelligent Distribution Power Router (IDPR) device. This device, which is based on power electronics and secondary batteries, permits to actually route power between each of the phases of the three-phase distribution system
Presented by: Rafael de Sá Ferreira & Luiz Augusto Barroso- PSR
Thursday, November 3, 2016 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET
This webinar will provide an overview of the current state of development of Smart Grids (SG) in Latin America (LatAm), and future perspectives for the region.
Focus will be given to some of the largest power systems in LatAm, which have been attracting a significant parcel of investments in the region: Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru.
The webinar will cover the following topics:
- Drivers for SG in LatAm: The particular characteristics of Latin American economies and power systems often result in drivers for SG development that differ substantially from these verified in the US or Europe. These drivers will be examined.
- Technological focus of SG development in LatAm: In light of the discussion on drivers, the SG technologies and solutions typically considered as priorities in the countries will be reviewed, as well as the technological mix that is likely to be in the spotlight in the future.
- SG investment framework: The agents taking the lead in deployment of SG technologies and solutions will be identified, their business models will be assessed, and the main financing mechanism for SG projects in LatAm will be examined.
- Regulatory and policy frameworks for SG in LatAm: The regulatory incentives and barriers for deployment of SG technologies and solutions will be assessed, and likely future developments will be discussed.
Presented by: John F. Kelly, PEER Program Specialist - Green Business Certification Institute
Thursday, October 27, 2016 | 1:00 – 2:00pm EDT
The electricity sector faces game-changing conditions driven by higher expectations from local governments and electricity customers, technology advances, and new policies that emphasis performance and customer participation. What if utilities chose to leverage microgrids and a more distributed framework; taking advantage of customer investment and new utility services to make the system better while increasing returns? This presentation will introduce a utility microgrid approach and standard as a means for addressing these industry forces.
The Performance Excellence in Electricity Renewal (PEER) standard and rating system can serve as a standard, guide, specification, and education tool. This microgrid approach begins by dividing vast utility territories into a network of manageable customer centric nodes (i.e. utility microgrids) that leverage nested private microgrids and customer distributed resources. The PEER standard is then utilized to optimize each utility and private microgrid for the benefit of the customer, utility and ratepayer.
Presented by: Professor Laurent El Ghaoui, EECS and IEOR Departments, UC Berkeley
Thursday, September 15, 2016 | 4 – 5:00pm ET
This webinar, by IEEE Smart Grid Experts, Laurent El Ghaoui and Stephanie Jumel, will provide an overview of data science, including machine learning and optimization, and present a few applications in the context of Smart Grid. It will describe work done in collaboration with different units at EDF and with support from the Siebel Energy Institute. Some of the topics reviewed include a) text analytics for business intelligence on smart grid applications; b) advanced machine learning and optimization for co-generation intra-day plant management, and c) optimal design of complex smart grid systems using surrogate models.
Presented by: Izham Zainal Abidin, Associate Professor - Centre for Power System Research, Universiti Tenaga Nasional
Thursday, August 25, 2016 | 9:00am – 10:00am ET
Smart Grid is the current technology adaptation that combines Communication, Network and Power System components with the target to ensure a Resilient, Robust and Secure Power System Network. This presentation will focus more on Smart Grid Technologies implementation and its issues from the Malaysian perspective.
This webinar will also cover the way forward from Malaysian researchers and research institution into Smart Grid. It is hoped that by the end of this presentation, audience will have an appreciation on Smart Grid, Roll-Out issues and how this will impact the utility and its customers.
Presented by: Yenhaw Chen, Deputy Director - Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
Thursday, August 4, 2016 | 9:00am – 10:00am ET
In Taiwan, in corresponding to the policy of reducing CO2 emission, reforming current energy structure, and saving energy, the National Energy Program (NEP)- Smart Grid General Project Phase 1 was implemented. The objectives of this project are meant to enhance the robustness of the power grid, reduce greenhouse gas emission, increase the penetration rate of renewable energy and develop smart grid industry in Taiwan.
This webinar will introduce the positioning of the Smart Grid General Project among overall smart grid development, the results of Phase 1, the smart grid technology commercialization process of Phase 2, and the promotion model with collaboration between industry, universities and research units.
Presented by James E. Gover, Professor Emeritus - Kettering University
Monday, July 25, 2016 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET
Grid charging of electric vehicles can be deployed to help offset some of the revenues lost from increasing the use of solar power and soften the rapid increase in non-solar generation that will occur after sunset.
This webinar addresses the various policies of companies, governments (federal, state and city), universities and professional societies that can be deployed to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles in the USA.
Presented by: Dr. Jeffrey D. Taft - Chief Architect for Electric Grid Transformation, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Thursday, June 23, 2016 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET
This webinar will describe the discipline of Grid Architecture as it has been defined in the work done for the US Department of Energy over the last two years. The presentation will cover basic definitions and terms and the purpose, scope, and value of Grid Architecture, followed by a discussion of the shift in paradigms necessary to deal with the complexity of grid modernization. An overview of core principles and methods will provide an understanding of how grid architecture work is actually performed and what kinds of work products are created in the process.
The presentation will then illustrate the use of this discipline for practical grid modernization problems, and show some recent results and architectural insights developed during the recent work done for DOE and the utility industry.
Finally, we will conclude with brief remarks on the future work to be done and then accept questions from the audience.
Presented by: Dr. Hui Ma and Professor Tapan Saha - University of Queensland, Australia
Thursday, June 2, 2016 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm ET
Partial discharge (PD) is a localized breakdown in the insulation system of high voltage (HV) apparatus. PD measurement has been adopted for online condition monitoring and diagnosis of HV apparatus. However, PD is a complicated phenomenon and stochastic in nature. It is still a challenging task to de-noise the measured PD signals, extract representative features from measurement data, and identify PD sources (i.e. insulation defects) that cause discharge inside HV apparatus.
In this webinar we present a general framework of applying signal processing and pattern recognition techniques to PD signal analysis. Within this framework, we discuss a number of representative algorithms for PD signal de-noising, dimensionality reduction and feature extraction, multiple PD source separation, and PD source classification in the context of online PD measurement. Case studies using datasets collected from PD measurements in laboratory and at field are presented to demonstrate the applicability of various signal processing techniques in PD signal analysis.
Presented by Avnaesh Jayantilal and Ethan Boardman - GE Grid Solutions
Thursday, April 28, 2016 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET
Regulatory initiatives to decarbonize our ecosystem have led to the growth of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), which include Solar-PV, Energy Storage, Demand Response and Electric Vehicles. DER growth has also been led by new innovative technologies. Moreover, recent grid restoration experiences from major storms have shown the potential of DER to provide emergency electricity service. DER is also revolutionizing how consumers value electricity service and reliability. DER provides new opportunities to optimize real-time transmission and distribution grid operations.
This webinar will present the challenges and opportunities of DER for real-time grid operations, and will share lessons learned from recent Advanced Distribution Management Solutions (ADMS) and Distributed Energy Resource Management Solutions (DERMS) deployment projects in integrating, scheduling and dispatching of DER.