Integrated Planning: Assuring Stability in Modern Systems

This workshop is held by the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) and sponsored by Breakthrough Energy.

Learning Outcomes:

• How do we link economic and reliability planning?
• How do you know if your economic solutions are operationally stable?
• How do wind, solar and batteries change the fundamentals of operational reliability and how are they an integral part of the solutions?

This educational workshop is aimed at a broad industry audience. You do not need to be an engineer to learn the basics of operational reliability.

In Part 1 (i.e., Day 2), the importance of including stability as an integral part of planning, rather than treating it as an afterthought, will be discussed. The April 2025 event in Spain and Portugal will be used as an example to illustrate how economic solutions that lack operational stability may result in a blackout.The fundamentals of power system dynamics, including voltage stability and frequency stability/inertia, will also be covered and discussed.

In Part 2 (i.e., Day 2), recommendations for planning and modeling systems dominated by wind, solar, and batteries were discussed. The tools used were reviewed, and approaches for linking reliability tools to economic tools were examined.

Detailed Agenda for Part 1:

1. Traditions of Resource Planning with Stability as an Afterthought – What Are We Missing?  – Nick Miller, HickoryLedge LLC
2. Special Topic: The Iberian Blackout of April 28, 2025 – More Attention to Voltage! – Nick Miller, HickoryLedge LLC
3. Intro to Fundamentals of Stability and Power System Dynamics – Part 1  – Nick Miller, HickoryLedge LLC
4. Fundamentals of Voltage Stability & Dynamics – Part 2  – Sam Maleki, ElectroMentors
5. Fundamentals of Frequency Stability & Dynamics – Part 3  – Sam Maleki, ElectroMentors

Detailed Agenda for Part 2:

1. Planning (and Modeling) of IBR-dominant Systems – What is Different? – Alex Shattuck, ESIG
2. What Conditions are Studied and With What Tools? – Towards a More Holistic Process – Carlo Brancucci & Wallace Kenyon, encoord
3. Concluding Remarks – Where to Now? – Nick Miller, HickoryLedge LLC

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