EPCC 11 Workshop Technical Topics
#1 - System Operations
Operations under disturbance conditions – objectives, processes, command chain; Integrated system operations, competition/cooperation among partners, information sharing; Convergence of protection and control, dynamic information networks; Balancing unpredictable patterns of renewable generation; Managing reversed flow directions; Monitoring and control of voltage profiles;
#2 – Operations Planning
Increased system dimensionality, volatility and uncertainty; New constraints; Different levels of detail required in operation planning and control; Need for stochastic security assessment and enhancement tools; Flexible network topology; PMU based preventive and emergency control;
#3 - Market Functions
Additional requirements due to increased local or dispersed renewables penetration; Faster, sub-hourly markets; Renewables forecast and market integration; Measured and unmeasured renewables production, and impact on security analysis; Balancing market optimization algorithms; Interoperability of balancing market solvers with the EMS; Accommodation of renewables in bidding regimes;
#4 – Technology Issues
Control algorithms and technologies to utilize high speed resources for stabilization - renewables, fast storage; Synthetic voltage dynamics, governor response, inertia; Integrated control of high speed system resources - inverter based renewables and large scale fast grid connected storage; Siting fast speed energy resources; Modeling of new grid elements: HVDC, wind parks, batteries, etc., Gap between R&D and real life implementation;
#5 – Vendors Panel
Vendors will present most recent developments in control center design and implementation; Presentations will be followed by Q&A sessions addressing vendors key challenges and other topics of interest including the impact of intermittent renewables on control center design and performance of system operators, and coexistence of control center solutions with substation automation, outage management and other corporate systems.