Prof. Lingling Fan presented this morning at the ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group) workshop on oscillation behaviors from inverter-based resources ranging from communications delays, interactions with grid impedance, and other factors. What I found intriguing was Dr. Fan’s concluding slide and remarks. Making abstractions, reasoning, and simplifying and constructing feedback systems help reveal underlying mechanisms. ?? Understanding the underlying drivers of these oscillations at their core can help then develop ???mitigations and put them into action effectively. ??Advanced computing power can help us move the needle. I think the core value-add is putting all this computing power to work in areas that minimize repetitive and redundant work and enable smart people to more effectively THINK about creative solutions.
Elevate Energy Consulting
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Elevating the electricity sector through the clean energy transition
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Elevate Energy Consulting is dedicated to elevating the electricity sector through the clean energy transition. We specialize in renewables integration, advanced power system modeling and studies, grid planning and operations, NERC and regulatory compliance, grid transformation strategy, and technical management consulting. We bring a wealth of skills, expertise, and extensive experience to support clients across the electricity ecosystem. Our team includes thought leaders that have a proven track record of driving tangible enhancements to grid reliability, improving operational efficiency, ensuring regulatory compliance, and developing innovative solutions to highly complex challenges during the clean energy transition.
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https://www.elevate.energy/
Elevate Energy Consulting的外部链接
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- 公用事业
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- 2-10 人
- 总部
- Spokane
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- 私人持股
- 创立
- 2023
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- Renewables Integration、Regulatory Compliance、Inverter-Based Resources、Dynamic Modeling、Transmission Planning、Power System Dynamics and Controls、Grid Reliability and Resilience、Emerging Technologies、Thought Leadership和Stakeholder Engagement
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US,Spokane
Elevate Energy Consulting员工
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Farhad Yahyaie
Head of Power System Studies and Modeling at Elevate Energy Consulting | Ph.D., P.Eng., SMIEEE
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Nicholas Giffin
Lead Engineer - Power System at Elevate Energy Consulting
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Jiecheng "Jeff" Zhao
Renewable | Electrical Planning, Protection & Market | Ph.D | P.E. | IEEESM
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Ana M. Ospina
Senior Power System Engineer
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Packed room at the kickoff plenary of the ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group) Spring Workshop! Always great hearing Venkat Tirupati, P.E. share the transformation and innovations going on in the ERCOT footprint across Texas on the load side, distributed energy resources, clean energy resources, transmission backbone plans, and all the systems, networks, tools, processes, and people that make it all happen.
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?? A very compelling call to action for grid forming (#GFM) battery energy storage adoption at scale. Tangible benefits for grid operators, renewables developers, regulators, and policymakers. Less stability risks, better resilience to future unknowns during the changing resource mix, strong interoperability between OEMs, higher IBR hosting capacity, less curtailment. ?? Kudos to the forward-leaning entities (both transmission and generation) who are driving adoption - keep it up. Let us know how Elevate Energy Consulting can assist in building a reliable and resilient system that fully leverages the capabilities of modern #IBR technology - GFM is ready for primetime, in my books. ?? Thank you to GridLab and ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group) for funding this important, pragmatical, informative work using real world OEM-supplied GFM models on real-world systems in the ATC system. ? A tremendous honor to work collaboratively with this amazing study team. Shout out to Farhad Yahyaie, Andrew Isaacs, Lukas Unruh, Julia Matevosyan, Casey Baker, Michael Marz, Damien Sommer, and many others on the ATC team who made this project happen! Brief: https://lnkd.in/g5ZzmQtg Webinar: https://lnkd.in/gxYzT_Rx
?? NEW ESIG BRIEF FOR DECISIONMAKERS ?? "A Call to Action for a Stable Energy Transition: Grid-Forming Battery Energy Storage Systems" Grid-forming batteries widely deployed in a typical power system increase reliability as well as lower costs for additional solar and wind. The deployment of grid-forming battery technology can also enable more solar and wind resources to connect to the grid at lower cost. The incremental cost to developers and utilities of incorporating grid-forming technology in newly connecting batteries is notably lower than alternative solutions such as synchronous condensers, STATCOMs, must-run synchronous machines, renewables curtailment, or transmission infrastructure. While grid-forming batteries are commercially available and are deployed globally, U.S. deployment is lagging. This brief summarizes a study that quantitatively demonstrated the benefits of grid-forming batteries when deployed in a typical interconnected bulk power system. The results of this study showed that GFM BESS operated stably in strong grids, including when near grid-forming batteries from other manufacturers and near batteries with less advanced inverters, and would be able to help defer more costly solution options, serving as a bridge to long-lead-time solutions like transmission infrastructure build-out. Read more from ESIG's Benefits of GFM BESS Project Team ?? https://lnkd.in/esERJ_g2 GridLab | Elevate Energy Consulting | Electranix Corporation
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?? NEW ESIG BRIEF FOR DECISIONMAKERS ?? "A Call to Action for a Stable Energy Transition: Grid-Forming Battery Energy Storage Systems" Grid-forming batteries widely deployed in a typical power system increase reliability as well as lower costs for additional solar and wind. The deployment of grid-forming battery technology can also enable more solar and wind resources to connect to the grid at lower cost. The incremental cost to developers and utilities of incorporating grid-forming technology in newly connecting batteries is notably lower than alternative solutions such as synchronous condensers, STATCOMs, must-run synchronous machines, renewables curtailment, or transmission infrastructure. While grid-forming batteries are commercially available and are deployed globally, U.S. deployment is lagging. This brief summarizes a study that quantitatively demonstrated the benefits of grid-forming batteries when deployed in a typical interconnected bulk power system. The results of this study showed that GFM BESS operated stably in strong grids, including when near grid-forming batteries from other manufacturers and near batteries with less advanced inverters, and would be able to help defer more costly solution options, serving as a bridge to long-lead-time solutions like transmission infrastructure build-out. Read more from ESIG's Benefits of GFM BESS Project Team ?? https://lnkd.in/esERJ_g2 GridLab | Elevate Energy Consulting | Electranix Corporation
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Very timely and important study. In the U.S. HECO, MISO, SRP, ERCOT, SPP have either finalized or are currently in the process of developing interconnection requirements for GFM BESS! Check this ESIG webresource for GFM specifications and projects globally https://lnkd.in/gMhUpwwg. Big shout out to Elevate Energy Consulting and Electranix Corporation for leading this study, to ATC for allowing the study to be conducted on real system cases, which certainy contributes to the credibility of the study findings, to GridLab for supporting this important work and to ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group) members that actively contributed to this work!
?? NEW ESIG BRIEF FOR DECISIONMAKERS ?? "A Call to Action for a Stable Energy Transition: Grid-Forming Battery Energy Storage Systems" Grid-forming batteries widely deployed in a typical power system increase reliability as well as lower costs for additional solar and wind. The deployment of grid-forming battery technology can also enable more solar and wind resources to connect to the grid at lower cost. The incremental cost to developers and utilities of incorporating grid-forming technology in newly connecting batteries is notably lower than alternative solutions such as synchronous condensers, STATCOMs, must-run synchronous machines, renewables curtailment, or transmission infrastructure. While grid-forming batteries are commercially available and are deployed globally, U.S. deployment is lagging. This brief summarizes a study that quantitatively demonstrated the benefits of grid-forming batteries when deployed in a typical interconnected bulk power system. The results of this study showed that GFM BESS operated stably in strong grids, including when near grid-forming batteries from other manufacturers and near batteries with less advanced inverters, and would be able to help defer more costly solution options, serving as a bridge to long-lead-time solutions like transmission infrastructure build-out. Read more from ESIG's Benefits of GFM BESS Project Team ?? https://lnkd.in/esERJ_g2 GridLab | Elevate Energy Consulting | Electranix Corporation
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Join us at ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group) next week for an informative in-person U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) i2X FIRST event talking about standardization for new resources and how this helps build a reliable and resilient future electric grid! #doe #gridreliability #resilience #i2x #esig #workshop #ibr
ESIG with support from Elevate Energy Consulting, and in collaboration with Berkeley Lab and EPRI, is supporting the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiative to facilitate the Forum for the Implementation of Reliability Standards for Transmission (FIRST) as part of the DOE’s Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X). Join us Monday, March 17, in Austin, Texas, before the ESIG Spring Technical Workshop, for the i2X Hybrid Workshop: Interconnection Standards Workshop with the Focus on Post-commissioning Conformity Assessment. This half-day hybrid (in-person and online) event will focus on Post-commissioning Conformity Assessment with applicable interconnection requirements, specifically learning from the draft IEEE P2800.2. Learn more and register for the March 17th meeting here ?? https://lnkd.in/eHXdwAc4 ??? Visit the ESIG website for meeting materials, recordings, future meeting details and agendas ?? https://lnkd.in/ejUS8sZx FIRST convenes North American independent system operators, regional transmission operators, utility staff, generator developers and owners/operators, consultants and original equipment manufacturers interested in advancing the implementation of updated interconnection clean energy standards. ? The Forum is a series of monthly, interactive, virtual meetings comprised of expert presentations and industry discussions. Each meeting, focused on a specific technical aspect of the standards, addresses the rationale behind the requirements, technology readiness, best practices for conformity assessment and monitoring, and technical challenges and implementation gaps.
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?? The transmission reliability impacts of generator retirement/replacement is a topic that is increasingly coming up in resource plans. There are existing and emerging techniques to save customers??millions of dollars. Ryan Quint has prepared this excellent explainer for anyone looking to avoid the money pits often caused by mishandled generator retirements. https://lnkd.in/gPFcfguf
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Kyle Thomas, VP of Engineering and Compliance Services, will be attending the DTECH Data Centers & AI conference in May and participating in a discussion with Scott Anderson (Salt River Project) and moderated by Uzma Siddiqi (Seattle City Light). The discussion will focus on an interesting paradigm: How can we apply our learnings from handling integration of inverter-based resources (#IBRs) to the rapid rise in data center loads across the system? There are some stark similarities and lessons to be applied, when one steps back and things about the situation more broadly. Kyle will be sharing some of our thoughts at Elevate Energy Consulting and what we are learning working with a diverse set of stakeholders on this topic. He is supporting and leading subgroups for both the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group) Large Load Task Forces, and we recently wrapped up collaborating with WECC on a Large Load Risk Assessment aimed and spotlighting key areas that the utility industry must address in the coming years to ensure a reliable and resilient bulk power system. DTECH: https://lnkd.in/gZcsrSC3 Panel: https://lnkd.in/gS9Mp8QU WECC Large Load Risk Assessment: https://lnkd.in/gDV3ThDq
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Our “Inverter-Based Resource (#IBR) Risk Assessment” focused on the need for transmission providers and transmission planners to proactively improve interconnection requirements and procedures to keep pace with technological change. We need performance-based requirements that fully leverage the capabilities of modern inverters, that minimize the historical risks that legacy IBRs presented, and to adequately provide grid services such as frequency response, dynamic voltage control, and even grid forming (#GFM) capabilities to help stabilize a future grid. ?? There is regulatory progress being made, but the pace of IBR interconnections far outpaces the regulatory framework’s ability to keep up with change. And the standards revisions being made are not comprehensive. They do not adequately provide IBR developers, equipment manufacturers, and other stakeholders with a clear picture of how IBRs should be configured to support BPS reliability. What are examples of what we’ve seen? ? IBR plants configured at commissioning with controls disabled or set improperly. ? IBR voltage droop settings that are illogical for supporting grid stability. ? IBR frequency response settings that are so slow that they don’t provide support during the periods of need. ? IBR current injection settings disabled. ? IBR balance of plant relays set well within the IBR unit capabilities. ? IBR unit protections set unnecessarily. ? IBR plant data recording devices disabled or misconfigured. ??? All of these issues are fixable?, and the best-in-class inverter OEMs and developers do everything they can to minimize these types of issues. But they exist. And this is why transmission providers need to play an active role in defining these types of requirements and holding IBR developers accountable (collaboratively) by requiring proof that requirements are met heading into commercial operation. ?? The best way to enact these changes? Improve Facility Interconnection Requirements documents, which each transmission provider is required to have per existing NERC requirements. The NERC standards are not detailed enough to address these issues. Make these specifications specific to your system and easy to interpret by developers, so that all parties are rowing in the same direction. ? This is a big step in helping expedite the interconnection process for new resources! ?? Reach out for support in any of these areas – IBR requirements development; IEEE 2800-2022 adoption; complying with existing requirements; IBR model development, verification, or validation; developing or passing IBR model tests; forensic event analysis and disturbance monitoring; ride-through assessments; etc. Our team of experts is helping #elevate industry in all these areas! IBR Report: https://lnkd.in/gpnBy5Uy
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?? Over the next couple months, the Elevate Energy Consulting team will be sharing their insights and learnings from some of their exciting projects. Our first post in the series is authored by Goodarz Ghanavati, PhD, Principal Engineering in our Power System Studies and Modeling team. ?? Goodarz has been working collaboratively with a renewable developer to support building and testing PSCAD? models for multiple solar + battery hybrid plants in Hawaii. These models must pass a stringent set of model and performance requirements established by Hawaiian Electric. These tests include ride-through profiles, voltage and frequency response characteristics, and grid forming (#GFM)-specific tests such as withstanding the loss of the last synchronous machine and, in some cases, blackstart tests. Key Insights: ?? Careful model development, tuning, and testing along with working with the developer on site design and the equipment manufacturers on product configuration have been critical to helping the client meet these requirements quickly and effectively. ?? Automation speeds up turnaround time, bringing maximum value to the client working through the interconnection process. Check out the blog post here! https://lnkd.in/grQ3sRyb