Electricity System Operability and Reliability Under Increasing Complexity: Proceedings of a Workshop (2025)
Chapter: Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
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Workshop Agenda
ELECTRICITY SYSTEM OPERABILITY AND RELIABILITY UNDER INCREASING COMPLEXITY: A WORKSHOP
Purpose
The key focus of this workshop is to understand how to maintain and improve the operational integrity of the U.S. electricity grid while it integrates increasing quantities of distributed, complex elements.
Workshop sessions will consider advances in technologies, energy equity and affordability imperatives, market mechanisms, as well as policy and regulatory frameworks as they pertain to supporting the electricity system’s operational integrity.
This workshop will convene leaders from government, industry, academia, and nongovernmental organizations with the aim of forging relationships and opening communication channels for collaborative work toward building a more robust and flexible electricity system in the face of these challenges. A written proceedings will be produced, published, and disseminated to document and distribute the ideas presented during this workshop.
MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2024
Purpose
- Outline major technical changes occurring across the electricity system—load is increasingly uncertain, generation increasingly intermittent, the system is growing increasingly distributed and complex.
- Explore the changing electricity system landscape from market adoption, consumer, and equity perspectives.
All Times Are Eastern Daylight Time
| 8:30 |
Welcome
Lecture Room Brent Heard, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, National Academies Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Planning Committee Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 8:35–10:30 |
Session 1: What Keeps Grid Operators Up at Night?
Lecture Room Keynote: Gene Rodrigues, Department of Energy Panel presentations followed by moderated discussion with Mark Lauby, North American Electric Reliability Corporation
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| 10:40–11:00 |
Mid-Morning Coffee Break
East Court |
| 11:00–1:00 |
Session 2: How Do We Compensate DERs and Keep the Lights on? Markets, Equity, and Consumer Adoption Lenses
Lecture Room Keynote: Sue Tierney, Analysis Group Panel presentations followed by moderated discussion with Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Planning Committee Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| 1:00–2:00 |
Lunch
East Court |
| 2:00–3:30 |
Session 3 (pt. 1): Moderated Breakout Sessions and Conversations
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| 3:30–4:00 |
Afternoon Break
East Court |
| 4:00–5:30 |
Session 3 (pt. 2): Reconvene and Report-Out Key Insights from Breakouts
Lecture Room |
| 5:30 |
Reception
East Court |
TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024
Purpose
- Discuss navigating varied policy realities, regulatory jurisdictions, and legal considerations across the electricity system.
| 8:45 AM |
Welcome
Lecture Room Brent Heard, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, National Academies Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Planning Committee Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 8:55–10:30 |
Session 4: How Do We Regulate a Complex Electricity System with Increasing Distributed Energy Resources?
Lecture Room Panel presentations followed by moderated discussion with Janet Gail Besser
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| 10:30–11:00 |
Mid-Morning Coffee Break
East Court |
| 11:00–12:30 |
Session 5 (pt. 1): Moderated Breakout Sessions and Conversations
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| 12:30–1:30 |
Lunch
East Court |
| 1:30–2:45 |
Session 5 (pt. 2): Reconvene and Report-Out Key Insights from Breakouts
Lecture Room |
| 2:45–3:00 |
Closing Remarks
Lecture Room Brent Heard, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, National Academies Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 3:00 | Adjourn Workshop |
