Keynote/Plenary Sessions
| Day 1 - February 20, 2018 | |
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| 8:00-8:30 am | Opening Session Speakers:
Location: Columbia 1, 2, 5, 7 |
| 8:30-10:00 am | Planning the Grid of the Future – Technology, Regulatory, and Market Trends, Challenges and Solutions Chair: Julio Romero Agüero, Vice President, Strategy & Business Innovation, Quanta Technology Speakers:
The electric power industry is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation. The distribution grid in particular is experiencing a remarkable evolution due to the integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), new customer loads, adoption of new technologies, and changing consumer expectations regarding resiliency, reliability and power quality. Modern transmission and distribution (T&D) systems are becoming increasingly dynamic and interrelated, changes in distribution grids are starting to affect transmission systems, and vice versa. The evolution of the T&D grid needs to be accompanied by the modernization of regulatory and electricity market frameworks to enable new products and services that provide additional benefits to consumers. This transformation of the T&D grid is affecting all aspects of the electric utility business, and classic and established methodologies for essential functions such as planning need to be revisited and updated, and new techniques and paradigms need to be introduced to address traditional and new challenges, as well as emerging concepts. This plenary panel will discuss trends, challenges, solutions and relevant industry activities aiming at planning the grid of the future, including technology, regulatory and market aspects. Location: Columbia 1, 2, 5, 7 |
| Day 2 - February 21, 2018 | |
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| 8:30-10:00 am | Grid Operation Evolution and Technology Requirements Chair: Ebrahim Vaahedi, Associate Vice President, OATI Speakers:
The electric power grid is going through fundamental changes as a result of a multitude of drivers including:
The future grid will face many technical operational challenges and provide many opportunities. This track will examine the changes required in the utility functions and the technology solutions to enable and facilitate the functions. Location: Columbia 1, 2, 5, 7 |
| Day 3 - February 22, 2018 | |
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| 8:30-10:00 am | Creating a Roadmap to Cybersecurity Compatible with Distributed Resources Chair: Bill Hederman, Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Speakers:
The Edison Electric Institute is currently exploring how to make progress on enhancing cybersecurity for its members, the investor owned utilities, as well as the entire North American grid. As they consider options for enhancing cybersecurity, it is evident that some measures could pose new challenges for distributed energy resources. Such challenges could relate to approval delays, technical challenges, and costs. In order to move with the speed necessary to provide the cybersecurity needed in the increasingly hostile cyberspace environment, EEI wishes to find consensus opportunities to advance rapidly. This panel will provide a venue for discussing some of the roadmap ideas and to hear the reactions of important stakeholders for any resolution of this issue. Location: Columbia 1, 2, 5, 7 |