Late Breaking News – Extreme Weather: Lessons from Winter Storm Elliott and Planning Implications for Future Extreme Events

Date: Tuesday, 18 July 2023      8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: Windermere X 

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Role of Grid Planning to enable Net Zero future

Date: Tuesday, 18 July 2023      10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Windermere X 

The movement towards decarbonizing the grid in North America and many parts of the world has breathed new life into the energy landscape. At almost every level of jurisdiction, from federal to state, net-zero targets have been established. This collective effort emphasizes a learning-by-doing approach and requires distribution utilities to develop integrated distribution planning frameworks that effectively tackle current and future challenges, all while working towards the ambitious goal of achieving a net zero grid within the next two to three decades. It is important to establish a comprehensive framework for the  holistic approach to integrated distribution grids planning, taking into consideration the multifaceted aspects of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Electrification, transportation load, and customer participation. By integrating these crucial factors alongside conventional grid planning, the primary objective is to effectively meet the requirements of a decarbonized grid while ensuring the provision of flexibility resources that are both reliable and adequate.

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  • Shikhar Pandey, ComEd

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  • A. PAASO, ComEd
  • E. TAKAYESU, Southern California Edison (SCE)
  • C. LUEKEN, AESD. CHATTERJEE, Eversource

Transmission Advancement for Decarbonization

Date: Tuesday, 18 July 2023      1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

  • How Transmission should evolve to support decarbonization
  • Building out the transmission system to support renewable development
  • Offshore Wind/Solar
  • Energy Storage
  • Integrating inverter-based resources into the BPS
  • Responsibility for negative sequence injection (IEEE 2800)
  • Need for the advancement of transmission planning

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Communications & Cyber Security

Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2023     8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: Windermere X 

Power system environments are cyber-physical critical infrastructure with interdependent electrical and communications networks whose security and integrity underpin resilience. When engineered properly these technologies provide increased operational reliability helping to recover from storms and other outages with exponentially greater speed and help to facilitate a greener power grid. Additionally, newer technologies like IEC61850 are fundamentally changing the way we think about and design substations.  However, increasing cyber-physical threats along with technology and policy drivers heighten the importance of providing, accurate, timely, and actionable cyber-physical security information. This session will provide a forum for leading experts in power systems communication and cybersecurity to share the latest emerging challenges, opportunities, and results for integrating these technologies and securing critical energy delivery infrastructure. 

  • Communications infrastructure in support of the grid and IOT/development of the support grid
  • Cyber security (related to the above topic)
  • Challenges and opportunities for digital twin (IoT) / digitization

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Novel Approaches & Emerging Technologies to Support System Operation

Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2023      1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Windermere X

  • Tools for operating the new grid
  • Physics-informed machine learning for power systems
  • Move from SF6 to Vacuum tech
  • Role of AI to prevent and maintain the dynamic security of the power system

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Integration of DERs, EVs, and BTM Resources

Date: Thursday, 20 July 2023      8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: Windermere X

  • Infrastructure support of distributed generation
  • DER integration/EV charging/BTM impacts on system ops
  • How Distribution should evolve to support decarbonization
  • Energy storage
  • Not all generation is created equal

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