technology transformation: power system challenges
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Technology Transformation: Power System Challenges. Dennis Ray Executive Director Power Systems Engineering Research Center. Woodrow Wilson Energy Forum March 8, 2007. Key Points. Innovation is happening with PCS (pretty cool stuff). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
PSERC
Technology Transformation: Power System Challenges
Dennis RayExecutive Director
Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Woodrow Wilson Energy ForumMarch 8, 2007
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PSERCKey Points
• Innovation is happening with PCS (pretty cool stuff).
• Challenges facing the industry will require continual innovation.
• People are going to be needed • to work on innovations• to make innovations work
• Policies interact with technology innovation decisions – sometime positively, sometimes not.
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PSERCSynchronized System-Wide Sensing
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PSERCNew Uses of Synchronized Data
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PSERCVegetation Management through
Intelligent System Monitoring
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PSERCMore Efficient Restoration Plans
Generation Transmission Distribution
Obtain a coordinated restoration
plan
ConstraintsMeasurements
Operator experience
Objectives
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PSERCIntegration of Plug-In Hybrids
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PSERCMicrogrid Enhanced Distribution
Advanced distribution is used to provide local reliability and flexibility, robustness of T&D and promote the use of demand response, CHP and renewable intermittent resources.
Demand Response
DistributionSubstation
Customers
Transmission
Microgrid
Distribution
Robust generation & transmission
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PSERCRole of Policy-Making
in Technology Innovation• Are regulators really bystanders?• What about the clash of good intentions?
• Keep costs low objectives and legal requirements for allowing only prudently occurred costs
• Flexibility to take technology risks and support research
• What about state/regional planning?• Forecasts of generation, loads, resources,
transmission, etc. to determine investment needs.
• Where does a technology vision fit in?
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PSERCConclusions
• Collaboration among industry, govern-ment, and universities is needed to educate the next generation of power engineers.
• Regulators should consider how their everyday decisions influence industry decisions to take technology risks.
• Industry and policy-makers should have more conversations about technology vision alternatives, and the influence of policy on those alternatives.