Panels
The Panel Sessions will be held each day in three parallel tracks. Panelists are requested to use the IEEE PES Template for their presentations as well as to fill out a Consent Form releasing their presentations. Panelists are urged to follow PES Guidelines for preparing visuals and presentations.
Panel Program
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| Day 1 - Monday, April 24, 2017 | |
| 10:30 to 12:00 | Recent Trends and Developments in Grid Modernization Chair: Julio Romero Aguero, Quanta Technology The electric power systems around the world are undergoing an unprecedented transformation prompted by the need to comply with new technology deployment trends, environmental concerns, new weather patterns, changing consumer needs, and regulatory requirements. In the US, this evolution has been clustered and described under various terms, including smart grid, grid of the future, grid modernization, and utility of the future, which emphasize the need to build an intelligent grid that can be monitored and controlled in real-time to allow for providing a reliable, safe, and secure service and empower customers to actively participate and benefit from greater and more diverse market opportunities and services. Building this intelligent grid is a monumental task (particularly on the distribution and grid-edge sides which are vast and heterogeneous) that has led to the emergence of new concepts, technologies, and paradigms. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 10:30 to 12:00 | Quasi-Static Time Series (QSTS) Simulations for Distribution System Analysis Chair: Matthew Reno, Sandia National Laboratories Presentations and Panelists:
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| 10:30 to 12:00 | Development and Deployment of Microgrids and Nanogrids Chair: Ebrahim Vaahedi, OATI Energy industry is witnessing a proliferation of Microgrids and Nanogrids. This paradigm shift is the result of the benefits such as resiliency, reliability as well as economic and environmental benefits reinforced by such systems. This panel session will focus on a number of microgrid and Nanogrid projects discussing:
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| 1:00 to 2:30 | Provision of Grid Services from Microgrids: Challenges, Opportunities, and Risks Chair: Farrokh Rahimi, OATI The energy industry landscape is changing due to the increased penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), new technologies, and increased demand-side participation in retail and wholesale markets. These lead to operational challenges for bulk power and distribution operators, as well as prosumers, including Microgrid operators. This panel session will address the opportunities, challenges, and risks of using Microgrid capabilities to provide grid services for bulk power and distribution operation. The panelists will cover the following topics:
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| 1:00 to 2:30 | Grid Edge Resilience and Control Technologies with Microgrids and Self-Healing Functions Chair: Dongbo Zhao, Argonne National Laboratory Modern power systems are encountering significant changes due to the emerging of dynamic sources and loads, which further brings about the challenges of reliability, safety and control issues in the operation. The introduction and existence of DERs and DGs in electric grids has enabled but also resulted in problems with microgrid operation. With a vision into the future, these technologies are inevitably becoming critical in the power system: a) microgrid control, b) power system robustness/self-healing, and c) grid edge intelligence. This panel will cover the topics of how to enable a resilient operation of power system with the optimal balancing of these technologies. By covering this, multiple areas are to be discussed under the same scope, including future protection techniques, smart edge devices, microgrid controllers, and self-healing grid architectures. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 1:00 to 2:30 | International Smart Grid Developments Chair: Nader Farah, Esta International Speakers from Europe, Asia, and Latin America present the US audience a broad perspective of the international Smart Grid programs in their respective regions. European regulatory and policy initiatives have served as drivers and enablers of Smart Grid programs in Europe. Asian countries have undertaken a spectrum of innovative Smart Grid programs to meet regional needs. Smart Grid programs are at various stages of development and implementation in Latin America. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 3:00 to 5:00 | Industry Best Practices in Using Synchrophasor Technology This Panel Session, jointly organized by IEEE PES Cascading Failure Working Group and NASPI Task Teams, will bring together a team of industry experts from BPA, ERCOT, PJM, and SDG&E to share their experience in deploying and using synchrophasor technology in order to improve reliability of the smart grid and enhance wide-area situational awareness. The panelists will discuss importance and benefits of synchrophasor technology for wide area real-time monitoring, disturbance detection, prevention of major blackouts, automated real-time controls, integrating renewable resources, and improving power system modeling. Chairs: Marianna Vaiman, V&R Energy Systems Research, Inc.; and Michael Cassiadoro, Total Reliability Solutions, LLC Presentations and Panelists:
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| 3:00 to 5:00 | Innovations in Smart Grid Education Chair: Kenneth Lutz, University of Delaware Traditional power engineering curriculums for undergraduate and graduate students are changing to incorporate smart grid innovations. Such innovations include new grid technologies, communications and information technologies, cybersecurity, control, and big data. The topics discussed in smart grid engineering education will touch on all three themes of this ISGT conference. A major topic of technologies will cover smart grid enabling technologies, communications and information technologies, and consumer technologies that touch on the Enernet of Things. For utility and service provider topics, there will be discussions of how these new technologies can be used to improve grid operations and control. Cross-cutting topics include cybersecurity, new grid architectures, and grid control under new paradigms, such as transactive energy systems. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 3:00 to 5:00 | Technological Considerations for a Next Generation Distribution System Platform (DSPx) Chair: Joe Paladino, Technical Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy Over the past year, the U.S. Department of Energy has sponsored an effort to develop a taxonomy of functional requirements needed to enable the full participation of distributed energy resources with respect to grid planning, operations and market activities. These functional requirements were derived from the policy objectives of several states, including those state commissions involved with the project. The effort has included an examination of the technologies needed to enable these functions, including assessing their state of maturity, and has undertaken a systems architecture approach to develop considerations for rationally implementing DSPx functionality. In this session, the project team and key stakeholders involved with the effort will present their work and how it can be applied. Presentations and Panelists:
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| Day 2 - Tuesday, April 25, 2017 | |
| 10:30 to 12:00 | IIoT Analytics for Transmission Grid Asset Management Chair: John Lauletta, Exacter, Inc. IIoT sensor technology provide a number of opportunities for enhanced grid maintenance and management. However, there are challenges to address. This Panel will discuss Predictive Analytics, IIoT sensors, and present a case study demonstrating the opportunities conditions-based Predictive Maintenance enables. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 10:30 to 12:00 | Distribution System Planning Analysis Tools – Bridging the Gap between Current Capabilities and Future Needs Chair: Juliet Homer, PNNL As technological capabilities increase and distributed energy resources (DERs) become more and more common, new practices and tools are emerging that support increasingly detailed and complex distribution system planning. In this panel we will talk about bridging the gap between current capabilities and future needs when it comes to distribution system planning. The panel will talk about what is currently available, what is available in a developmental or nascent state and what is still on the horizon. Data needs and availability for varying levels of analysis will also be discussed. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 10:30 to 12:00 | Distribution System Operator (DSO) Cost Benefit Assessments Chair: Esa Paaso, ComEd Presentations and Panelists:
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| 1:00 to 2:30 | Advances in Transactive Energy Systems and Grid Architecture Chair:s Ron Melton, PNNL; and Christopher Irwin, DOE This panel will present results from U.S. Department of Energy projects on transactive energy systems and grid architecture. The material will include an overview of the Transactive Energy Systems road map being prepared by the GridWise Architecture Council and the work on a modeling and simulation environment for evaluating transactive energy systems. Grid architecture work on bulk power system market structure models and layered decomposition leading to a uniform model of transactive nodes will round out the presentations. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 1:00 to 2:30 | Opportunities and Challenges for PMU Implementation in Distribution Systems and Microgrids Chair: Sahar Hendabadi, ComEd Presentations and Panelists:
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| 1:00 to 2:30 | Power Grid of the Future Chair: Farrokh Albuyeh, OATI With the proliferation of renewable and variable sources of energy at the transmission level, and the increasing numbers of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such rooftop solar, storage, EVs, smart communities, as well as end-use customers’ capabilities to manage their demand at the distribution level, transmission and distribution grids are being operated in ways they were not originally designed for. At the system/transmission level, issues such as changing power flow patterns, decreasing inertial frequency response capabilities, and changing load patterns present new challenges to the transmission grid operators. These challenges are further exacerbated by the new regulatory requirements such as FERC NOPRs and orders that aim at breaking barriers for the participation of demand-side assets in wholesale energy markets. At the distribution/retail level, issues such as reversal of power flows, phase imbalances, voltage fluctuations etc., are keeping distribution grid operators occupied. The aging power grid infrastructure that dates back to early part of the 20th century is going through fundamental changes to meet the new requirements of the 21st century and beyond. New communications, and control technologies allowing improved visibility and controllability, along with new analytical and computing technologies providing for coordinated forecasting and scheduling of all conventional and unconventional assets are being rolled out to allow participation of all generation and load assets for the provision of energy and variety of ancillary services in support of transmission and distribution grid operations. This Panel Session will focus on the technical and operational aspects of the ongoing transmission and distribution grid transformation and discuss the current/future state. Also, the Panel will leverage industry, regulatory, standards, and technology/vendor and utility experiences; review the on-going initiatives, assess requirements and impacts, and present emerging scenarios and their challenges and benefits. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 3:00 to 5:00 | Advanced Distribution Management Systems Research and Development at the U.S. DOE Chairs: Eric Lightner, DOE; and Ron Melton, PNNL This panel will present updates on the U.S. DOE Advanced Distribution Management System Program. This program consists of five projects addressing different aspects of ADMS. The panel will include presentations by the leaders of each project with time for discussion of the collective set of projects and the DOE ADMS program. The projects include: Creation of an open platform for development of advanced distribution system planning and operations applications; an ADMS hardware testbed; demonstration of an advanced distribution system operations tool; creation of a framework for integrating information between EMS, DMS and BMS, and design of advanced control algorithms. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 3:00 to 5:00 | Smart Devices and Interoperability - DOE Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium Projects Chair: Benjamin Kroposki, NREL Presentations and Panelists:
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| 3:00 to 5:00 | Creating the Grid Operating System of the Future Chair: Doug Houseman, EnerNex Presentations and Panelists:
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| Day 3 - Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | |
| 10:30 to 12:00 | The Smart Energy Marketplace of the Future Chair: Alan Washburn, Burns & McDonnell This panel session will discuss what changes in technology, regulation, and business will be needed to enable a grid with very diverse distributed energy resources and a more open market. The framework for starting this discussion will be the recent notice of proposed rulemaking from FERC regarding the participation of electric storage resources and distributed energy resource aggregations in the RTO/ISO markets in conjunction with the results of several recent pilot programs. The pilot programs discussed will include PSE&G's Solar 4 All® Grid Security and Storm Preparedness solar plus battery pilot projects and PG&E's Energy Storage for Market Operations pilot program. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 10:30 to 12:00 | Innovative Research at the NIST Smart Grid Testbed Chairs:Chris Greer and Paul Boynton, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cyber-physical systems (CPS) can be described as smart systems that encompass computational and physical components - seamlessly integrated and closely interacting to sense and respond to the changing state of the real world. The Smart Grid is considered an example of a cyber-physical system. NIST performs vital research addressing many of the critical elements that make up the Smart Grid. A critical part of this research portfolio is implemented in a newly constructed Smart Grid Interoperability Testbed. The Smart Grid Interoperability Testbed facility creates a unique set of interconnected and interacting labs in several key measurement areas that will accelerate the development of Smart Grid interoperability standards by providing a combined testbed platform for system measurements, characterization of smart grid protocols, and validation of smart grid standards, all organized around the microgrid concept. In this Panel Session NIST CPS leadership discuss research activities at the Smart Grid Interoperability Testbed. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 10:30 to 12:00 | Military Smart Grid Technology Chair: Thomas Podlesak, U.S. Army (CERDEC) Presentations and Panelists:
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| 1:00 to 2:30 | Enabling Extreme Real-time Grid Integration of Solar Energy (Energise) Chair: Guohui Yuan, Department of Energy The panel will discuss the objectives, approaches, and expected outcomes of the recently launched R&D program by the DOE SunShot Initiative. The program aims to develop and demonstrate highly scalable distribution system planning and real-time operation solutions that seamlessly interconnect and integrate high penetration solar generation in the electricity grid. The envisioned ENERGISE solutions will require the extensive use of sensor, communication, and data analytics technologies to gather up-to-the-minute measurement and forecast data from diverse sources and perform continuous optimization analysis and active control for existing and new PV installations in real time. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 1:00 to 2:30 | Strengthening Energy Resilience on Military Installations Chair: David McGeown, McGeown Associates This session will be a discussion with the Army, Air Force, and Edison Electric Institute on how the military and the utility industry are developing centers of energy resilience. The conversation will explore how the government and utilities are cooperating to integrate Distributed Energy Resources (both renewable and alternative energy) and energy storage into new smart grid applications that support the Army mission and civilian authorities. The session will provide the audience with an overview of the Army and Air Force goals for energy security, and the procurements that have resulted in an array of innovative new projects with utilities and the private sector, including a 50MW generation plant at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. The panel will discuss how the utility industry’s cooperation with the Department of Defense is creating new approaches to business, integrated resource planning and distribution operations to meet these new demands. Presentations and Panelists:
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| 1:00 to 2:30 | Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity Issues for Power Grid Applications Chair: Jianhui Wang, Argonne National Laboratory Presentations and Panelists:
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