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Technology Transformation: Power System Challenges

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).

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Technology Transformation: Power System Challenges

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  1. Technology Transformation: Power System Challenges Dennis Ray Executive DirectorPower Systems Engineering Research Center Woodrow Wilson Energy ForumMarch 8, 2007

  2. Key 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.

  3. Synchronized System-Wide Sensing

  4. New Uses of Synchronized Data

  5. Vegetation Management through Intelligent System Monitoring

  6. Distribution Generation Transmission Objectives Obtain a coordinated restoration plan Constraints Measurements Operator experience More Efficient Restoration Plans

  7. Integration of Plug-In Hybrids

  8. Transmission Distribution Substation Distribution Customers Microgrid Demand Response Robust generation & transmission Microgrid Enhanced Distribution Advanceddistribution is used to provide local reliability and flexibility, robustness of T&D and promote the use of demand response, CHP and renewable intermittent resources.

  9. Role 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?

  10. Conclusions • 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.

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