[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 22, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72203-72204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-30125]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. AD12-5-000]
Voltage Coordination on High Voltage Grids; Notice of Reliability
Workshop Agenda
As announced in the Notice of Staff Workshop issued on November 8,
2011, the Commission will hold a workshop on Thursday, December 1,
2011, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to explore the interaction between
voltage control, reliability, and economic dispatch. In addition, the
Commission will consider how improvements to dispatch and voltage
control software could improve reliability and market efficiency. This
event will consist of two panels of industry participants. The first
panel will address how entities currently coordinate economic dispatch
and voltage control. The second panel will address the capability of
existing and emerging software to improve coordination and optimization
of the Bulk-Power System from a reliability and economic perspective.
The agenda for this workshop is attached. Members of the Commission may
attend the workshop.
Commission conferences are accessible under section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations, please
send an email to [email protected] or call toll free 1-(866) 208-
3372 (voice) or (202) 208-1659 (TTY), or send a FAX to (202) 208-2106
with the required accommodations.
Information on this event will be posted on the Calendar of Events
on the Commission's Web site, http://www.ferc.gov, prior to the event.
For more information about this conference, please contact: Sarah
McKinley, Office of External Affairs, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8368,
[email protected].
Dated: November 16, 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Staff Workshop on Voltage Coordination on High Voltage Grids
December 1, 2011
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Agenda
9-9:15 a.m.--Greeting and Opening Remarks by David Andrejcak.
9:15-11:30 a.m.--Current approaches and challenges to analyzing
voltage support and reactive margin during operations planning and
real-time.
Presentations: Panelists will be asked to describe how their
companies currently coordinate the dispatch of reactive resources to
support forecasted loads, generation and interchange transactions
during operations planning and real-time. Panelists should address the
following in their presentations:
a. Describe the pre-scheduling and real-time processes that involve
the commitment or dispatch of reactive resources from a reliability
perspective. What applications or tools are used to evaluate reactive
or voltage support needs from this perspective?
b. Describe the pre-scheduling and real-time processes that involve
the commitment or dispatch of reactive resources from an economic
perspective. What applications or tools are used to evaluate reactive
or voltage support needs from this perspective?
c. Explain whether and how pre-scheduling, real-time and post
analysis evaluations are performed on the bulk electric system or on
lower voltage systems to maximize opportunities for additional
reliability or economic transactions.
d. Describe the situations where the dispatch of reactive resources
may limit System Operating Limits or whether and how more transactions
could be supported.
e. Describe how reactive power needs of the distribution system or
loads are coordinated or optimized.
Panelists:
Khaled Abdul-Rahman, California Independent System
Operator
Xiaochuan Luo, ISO New England
Wes Yeomans, New York Independent System Operator
Dave Zwergel, Midwest ISO
Chantal Hendrzak, PJM Interconnection
Bruce Rew, Southwest Power Pool
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.--Lunch Break.
1-4 p.m.--The next generation of voltage support and reactive
margin applications used during operations planning and real-time.
Presentations: Panelists will be asked to describe capabilities of
the present and anticipated future software that can be used as
decision tools to help system operators optimize voltage support
resources to preserve and protect
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reliability and support market-based economic transactions. Panelists
should address the following in their presentations:
a. What are the objectives of software products available to
industry that optimize the system for operations planning and real-
time? (Minimize losses, maximize transfer capability, and/or minimize
production costs?)
b. Describe the system optimization software products currently
used or tested in industry. Discuss how widely these are used in
industry.
c. Describe how these software products are evaluated and validated
using a post analysis process.
d. What effort is involved in implementing the application for use
in industry?
e. Discuss whether the application can be used on an
interconnection-wide, Balancing Authority or local distribution system
basis and, if so, how the application would be utilized.
f. Discuss whether the applications can be used to optimize
reactive power resources in the distribution system or loads and
coordinate with higher voltage systems.
Panelists:
Kedall Demaree, Alstom
Rod Sulte, GE
Soorya Kuloor, Gridiant
Marija Ilic, New Electricity Transmission Software
Solutions (NETSS)
Dan French, Siemens
4:00-4:30 p.m.--Summary Remarks by David Andrejcak.
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