This is a draft of the event agenda. It’ll be finalized shortly.
DAY 1
| Day 1 – Wednesday April 3rd, 2024 | |||
| Start | End | Presentation | Speaker |
| 7 : 15 | 8 : 00 | Registration Begins Light Breakfast at 7:15am |
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| 8 : 00 | 8 : 15 | Welcome & Opening Remarks | NWESS Chair – John |
| 8 : 15 | 9 : 45 | Keynote, Waiting for the Green Light | Mike Haynes,
Interim GM&CEO, Seattle City |
| 9 : 45 | 10 : 30 | TBA | TBA |
| 10 : 30 | 10 : 45 | BREAK | |
| 10 : 45 | 11 : 20 | Understanding the Organized Markets in the West | Laura Trolese
The Energy Authority |
| 11 : 20 | 12 : 00 | How Do The Markets Impact Reliability? | Cuong Nguyen
Puget Sound Energy |
| 12 : 00 | 1 : 00 | LUNCH + OPEN DISCUSSION ROOM? NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY? | |
| 1 : 00 | 1 : 45 | Energy Storage—Development of Electro-mechanical Storage (fuel cells) | Vincent Sprenkle
Pacific Northwest National Lab |
| 1 : 45 | 2 : 30 | Virtual Power Plant | Franco Albi
Portland General Electric |
| 2 : 30 | 2 : 45 | BREAK + BREAKOUT SESSION? | |
| 2 : 45 | 3 : 30 | Overview of 25 MW Battery Storage
(overview, cost integration, performance, decision making) |
Scott Gibson
Snohomish PUD |
| 3 : 30 | 4 : 00 | Technical Consideration of 25 MW Battery Storage
(P&C, SCADA, Specifications Operations?, modes of operation (e.g. regulation reserves, voltage, frequency, etc.), what NERC/WECC stds apply) |
Scott Gibson
Snohomish PUD |
DAY 2
| Day 2 – Thursday April 4th, 2022 | |||
| Start | End | Presentation | Speaker |
| 7 : 15 | 8 : 00 | Light Breakfast | |
| 8 : 00 | 8 : 45 | Discussion on Importance of Maps
(Humidity Maps, Fire Maps, Vehicle Location, Equity Maps, Asset Management, Outage Maps, GIS, Load & DER Hosting Capacity) |
Amy Grice
Peninsula Light Company |
| 8 : 45 | 9 : 30 | Public Power Safety Shutoff and Preparing for Wildfire Conditions
(Reg Flag Events and Defense Strategies) |
Joe Lake International Wildfires Risk Mitigation Consortium (IWR&C) |
| 9 : 30 | 10 : 00 | BREAK + BREAKOUT SESSION | |
| 10 : 00 | 10 : 45 | Security ( Substation) – is anyone changing designs |
Sofia Weir Pierin, Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) Rob Seifken, Safeguards3 |
| 11 : 45 | 11 : 30 | The Future of P&C of Inverter-Dominated Systems | TBA,
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. |
| 11 : 30 | 12 : 00 | Grid Modernization Strategy Across PSE
(not just about modernization but all the work that everyone does) |
Reid Shibata
Puget Sound Energy |
| 12 : 00 | 1 : 00 | LUNCH | |
| 1 : 00 | 1 : 45 | Western Resource Adequacy Program | TBA |
| 1 : 45 | 2 : 00 | BREAK | |
| 2 : 00 | 2 : 45 | Transmission—Development, Operation, and Use of Dynamic Line Ratings |
Gage Marek
Bonneville Power Administration |
| 2 : 45 | 3 : 30 | Electrification in Sub Saharan Africa | June Lukuyu
University of Washington |
| END | |||
Updated Jan 2nd, 2024
