OPTIMIZED DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEMS FOR RENEWABLES
April 25, 2012
Stanford University
Some of the leading companies, venture firms, and Stanford researchers who are pioneering smart grid technologies discuss the latest smart grid research and offer insights into architectures that could improve grid reliability and reduce the stress caused by the intermittency of renewables.
Agenda
9:00 Welcome
Stacey Bent, Director, TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Stanford University
Amit Narayan, Director, Smart Grid Research in Modeling & Simulation, Stanford University
Ram Rajagopal, Assistant Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Intro Slides (PDF)
9:15 The Smart Grid Ecosystem
Paul De Martini, Managing Director, Newport Consulting Group
Slides » (PDF)
9:45 State of the Art of Smart Grid
Robert Sherick, Manager of Power System Technologies & Consulting Services, Southern California Edison
10:05 Role of ISO/RTO in Distribution Management; Overview of DR Markets and New Emerging Markets
Paul Sotkiewicz, Chief Economist, Market Services Division, PJM Interconnection
Slides » (PDF)
10:25 Break
10:45 GridSpice
Amit Narayan, Director, Smart Grid Research in Modeling & Simulation, Stanford University
Slides » (PDF)
11:10 Wide Area Control of the Power Grid
Kevin Tomsovic, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Slides - Part 1 (PDF)
Slides - Part 2 (PDF)
11:35 Sensors, Wind Modeling & Stochastic Dispatch
Ram Rajagopal, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Panel: Killer Apps for the Smart Grid
Panel moderator: Chris Knudsen, Chief Technology Officer, AutoGrid Systems
Panelists:
Kannan Tinnium, Power Systems Platform Leader, GE Global Research
Robert Sherick, Manager of Power System Technologies & Consulting Services, Southern California Edison
Steve Vassallo, General Partner, Foundation Capital
1:45 Gridonomics: An Holistic Overview on the Interaction of Economics, Policy and Technology in the New Energy Ecosystem
Leonardo von Prellwitz, Strategy & Business Development - Smart Grid, Cisco
Slides » (PDF)
2:05 Measuring the Competitiveness Benefits of a Transmission Investment Policy: The Case of the Alberta Electricity Market
Frank Wolak, Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University
Slides » (PDF)
2:25 Break
2:45 Panel: Big Data Analytics for the Smart Grid
Panel moderator: Paul De Martini, Managing Director, Newport Consulting Group
Panelists:
Christopher Couper, Distinguished Engineer, Energy and Utilities Industry, IBM
Jeffrey Taft, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Smart Grid Architect, Cisco Systems
Marianne Dickerson, Sr. Director, Electric T&D Business Technologies, PG&E, IT organization
3:30 Will Distributed Generation Make the Electrical Distribution Systems Unstable?
Dimitry Gorinevsky, Electrical Engineering, and Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
3:50 Smart sensing, state estimation, and control for enhanced smart grid reliability
Andrea Goldsmith, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Slides » (PDF)
4:10 Operation Planning for Electrical Power Networks
Javad Lavaei, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Slides » (PDF)
4:30 Optimization
Stephen Boyd, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
4:50 Student Presentation and Poster Session
Bethany Corcoran, Geroid O' Brien, Junjie Qin, Raffi Sevlian, Eric Stoutenberg, Han-I Su, Nicole Taheri, Yue Zhao
5:15 Reception, NVIDIA Foyer