Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Fundamentals
July 29-30, 2024 | Online :: Central Time
Grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) are essential for integrating more variable and distributed energy resources (VERs and DERs), especially where transmission capacity is limited. As part of non-wire alternatives (NWAs), GETs support robust grid expansion and improve overall grid performance.
This event will provide a comprehensive treatment of grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) – the hardware and software technologies that increase the capacity, efficiency, and/or reliability of the transmission grid installed on existing transmission infrastructure to give operators more situational awareness and control over the grid.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify GETs Hardware and Software:
- Hardware:
- Dynamic Line Rating (DLR)
- Power Flow Control Devices
- Static VAR Compensators (SVCs)
- Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS)
- Advanced Conductors
- Software:
- Advanced Grid Management Systems
- Predictive Analytics
- Real-time Monitoring and Diagnostics
- Grid Simulation Tools
- Hardware:
- Evaluate GETs Benefits:
- Capacity: Maximize existing infrastructure use.
- Efficiency: Reduce transmission losses and enhance power quality.
- Reliability: Improve grid resilience and fault response.
- Strategies for Implementation:
- Utilities: Integrate GETs with current infrastructure and local grids.
- Bulk Power Systems: Facilitate regional power transfers and renewable integration.
- ISOs: Enhance grid reliability and balance supply and demand.
- Assess Cost-Effectiveness:
- Identify scenarios where GETs are financially viable.
- Analyze specific cost-benefit cases.
- Address Deployment Challenges:
- Overcome technical, logistical, and regulatory barriers.
- Legislative and Regulatory Impact:
- Discuss new laws and regulations affecting GETs.
- Explore FERC’s role in promoting GETs adoption.
Monday, July 29, 2024 : Central Time
8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Log In and Welcome
12:30 – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch Break
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Course Timing
9:00 – 9:20 a.m. :: Overview and Introductions
9:20 – 10:30 a.m. :: Where Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Fit in the Broader Grid Health Context
- What are the grid deficiencies or constraints that GETs can (at least, partially) address?
- How to identify opportunities for GETs
- Wholesale electricity market context
- Vertically integrated/balancing area context
- Near-term and long-term functions
- Summary of prospective GETs value propositions
- Improved integration of distributed generation
- IEEE519 compliance (harmonics)
- Peak demand shaving
- Maintaining power quality requirements
- Maximizing asset life and performance
- Industrial load compensation
- Grid bridging
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. :: Morning Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. :: Exploring the GETs Technologies Landscape
- Hardware
- Power flow controllers – AC vs. DC
- Application of high-capacity cables and conductors
- Enhanced control capabilities
- Flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACTS) devices
- Advanced conductors
- Others
- Advanced inverters
- Syncrophasers
- Power electronics and software
- Dynamic line ratings (DLR) vs. ambient adjusted ratings (AAR) vs. static line ratings (SLR)
- Dynamic transformer ratings (DTR)
- Topology optimization
- Advanced power flow controls and other switching technologies
12:45 – 1:30 p.m. :: Break for Lunch
1:30 – 3:15 p.m. :: Measures Anticipated or Required for Broad GETs Deployment
- FERC’s possible role(s)
- Order 2023 (Improvements to Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreements, Docket No. RM22-14-000)
- Order 1920 (Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation, Docket No. R RM21-17-000)
- Recent ANOPR on Dynamic Line Rating (Implementation of Dynamic Line Ratings, Docket No. RM24-6-000)
- Transmission collaboration between agency and state regulatory commissions (FERC-NARUC TF)
- Federal legislative and regulatory initiatives
- DOE “Building Better Grid initiative”
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Advancing GETs Act legislation (pending)
- RTOs, transmission owners and utilities perspectives
- Challenges and hurdles for adoption and implementation
- State regulatory and legislative initiatives
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. :: Afternoon Break
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. :: GETs Attributes & Grid Applications
- Capabilities
- Power flow control
- Volt/VAR Optimization
- CVR
- Current phase balancing
- Harmonic mitigation
- VAR regulation and control
- Power factor correction
- Voltage stability
- Transient over/under voltage
- Frequency regulation
- Power factor control
- Sag mitigation
- Codes and standards
- Utility perspective
- ISO perspective
- Bulk power system deployment
- Energy storage
4:30 p.m. :: Course Adjourns for Day
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 : Central Time
8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Log In
9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Course Timing
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. :: Cost-benefit Analyses
- Estimating cost to implement
- Estimating timing to implement
- Estimating risks associated with implementation and failure to address congestion
- Estimating monetary value of system benefit
- Estimating social and reputational value
- Deferred infrastructure expenses
- CO2 reductions
- Impact on curtailment
- Gauging both short-term and long-term application values
- Assessing impact on generation projects
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. :: Morning Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. :: Under What Conditions or Scenarios Do GETs Make Sense – The Business Case
- Challenges to deployment and implementation
- What’s confirmed and what’s conjectural
- Case studies
12:15 p.m. :: Course Adjournment
Alex Al-Homsi, Business Manager, Smart Wires
Kamran Ali, Vice President – Transmission Planning & Analysis, American Electric Power (AEP)
Brian Berry, Technical Leader & Chief Product Officer, Ampacimon
Anders Bostrom, Lead Power Systems Engineer, Hitachi Energy
Leo Casey, Chief Technology Officer, Google X
Jay Caspary, Principal, TransGrid Advisors
Casey Cathey, Vice President – Engineering, Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
Elizabeth Cook, Vice President – Technical Strategy, Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (AEIC)
Rodica Donaldson, Vice President – Transmission Analytics, EDF Renewables North America
Dr. Wei Du, Staff Research Engineer & Solar Subsector Lead, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Alexina Jackson, Vice President – Strategic Development, AES
Xiao Li, Co-Founder & Director, NewGrid
Jason Marshall, Deputy Secretary & Special Counsel – Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Vishal Patel, Principal Manager – Strategy and Project Development, SCE
Hilary Pearson, Senior Director – Governmental & Regulatory Affairs LineVision
Julia Selker, Executive Director – WATT Coalition and Chief Operating Officer – Grid Strategies
Ahmad Tbaileh, R&D Power Systems Engineer, ISO New England
Toskiki (Bruce) Tsuchida, Principal, The Brattle Group
Charlie Vartanian, Senior Technical Advisor, Sandia National Laboratories
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Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Fundamentals
July 29-30, 2024 | Online
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Instructional Methods
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Requirements For Successful Completion Of Program
Participants must login for the entirety of the event to be eligible for continuing education credit.
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Course CPE Credits: 10.5
There is no prerequisite for this Course.
Program field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based
Advanced Preparation: None
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- Forecasting and analysis
- Transmission planning
- Intra-hour operations analysis and modeling
- Renewable energy planning
- State regulatory and commission staff
- Regulatory affairs
- Asset management
