Agenda

The SEPA Grid Architecture Working Group leadership will present the plans for the rest of 2020 and for 2021, and discuss how Grid Architecture, and related activities such as their work on Grid Ontology, relate to utility needs.  

• Gerard Rendell
  Lead Business and Technical Consultant
  Duke Energy
  Speaker
• Ron Cunningham
  IT Enterprise Architect
  American Electric Power
  Speaker
• Ronald Melton
  Group Leader, Distributed Systems Group
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Speaker

A microgrid is a dynamic and complex system that represents a unique solution contributing to the clean energy transition of the electric power grid. The evolving customer and grid demands for more resilient, clean, and flexible energy have made microgrids a sought after tool in the energy toolbox. This session is intended to help stakeholders begin to unpack these concepts to fully realize the potential services and value propositions microgrids can provide. This approach to microgrids will be illustrated through tangible examples, sharing past work and on-going initiative.

• Jared Leader
  Manager, Advisory Services
  Smart Electric Power Alliance
  Speaker
• Gary Brinkworth
  Senior Advisor - Innovation & Research
  Tennessee Valley Authority
  Speaker
• Larisa Dobriansky
  Chief Business and Regulatory Innovations Officer
  General MicroGrids, Inc.
  Speaker
• John Gibson
  Chief R&D Engineer / Distribution Services Lead
  Avista Utilities
  Speaker

Transactive Energy describes a range of next-generation approaches to managing the grid; enabling high penetrations of DER supported by intelligent economic market structures, standards, and regulations. This session will highlight Non-Wires Alternatives as a way to integrate DER; transactive Energy, microgrids and smart buildings, Avista’s case study; and introduce the Energy Services Interface Task Force EV Managed Charging Implementation Guide featuring a roadmap for integrating and coordinating EV charging to provide grid services.

Speakers:

• Mark Knight, Principal Consultant, Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company

• Srinivas Katipamula, Staff Scientist, PNNL

• David Holmberg, Mechanical Engineer, National Institute of Standards & Technology

• Raymond Kaiser, Director, Energy Management Systems, Amzur Technologies

• David Holmberg
  Mechanical Engineer
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Speaker
• Mark Knight
  Principal Consultant
  Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc.
  Speaker
• Raymond Kaiser
  Director Of Energy Management Services
  Amzur Technologies, Inc.
  Speaker
• Srinivas Katipamula
  Staff Scientist
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Speaker

A few moments to revisit key lessons shared on Day 2 with SEPA’s Managing Director.

• Natalia Mathura
  Principal, Utility Business Models
  Smart Electric Power Alliance
  Speaker

Grab a drink and join us for some relaxed networking time. We’ll learn about our attendees and talk about the most important lessons from the sessions

• Spencer Schecht
  Smart Electric Power Alliance
  Session Lead

This panel session will provide a utility’s perspective on their top of mind cybersecurity concerns and their motivation to join SEPA’s Cybersecurity Working Group. In addition, the current activities of the cybersecurity working group will be briefly described. A follow up “continue the conversation” session will occur to have a more interactive discussion about the cybersecurity concerns/issues of SEPA’s membership.

• Ahmed Mousa
  Manager - Utility of the Future - Electric & Gas Asset Strategy
  PSE&G
  Speaker
• Michael Cohen
  Principal Critical Infrastructure Protection Systems Engineer
  MITRE
  Speaker
• Nelson Hastings
  Manger, Cybersecurity and Privacy Applications Group
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Speaker

The Testing & Certification Working Group convenes under a dynamic scope of smart grid standards to cultivate a flexible, interoperable future. Often the ‘unsung hero’, standards conformance and validation provide confidence for the end user by ensuring systems and projects will integrate and operate as designed. Join us to hear practical, interoperable commercial solutions from the industry and learn what public resources are available, including: best practices of utility DER project procurement with built-in interoperability, testing of communication devices for electromagnetic interference, and how the development of an interoperability profile is simplifying utility integration of EV fleet managed charging.

Speakers:

• Cuong Nguyen, Lead, Smart Grid Testing and Certification, National Institute of Standards and Technology

• Bill Colavecchio, General Manager, Electric Utility Services, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. 

• William Radasky, President, Metatech Corporation 

• Jaime Kolln, Senior Associate Electrical Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• Matthew Wallace, Distribution Standards Engineer, PPL Electric Utilities Company

• Bill Colavecchio
  General Manager, Electric Utility Services
  Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
  Speaker
• Cuong Nguyen
  Lead, Smart Grid Testing and Certification
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Moderator
• Jamie Kolln
  Senior Associate Electrical Engineer
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Speaker
• Matthew Wallace
  Distribution Standards Engineer
  PPL Electric Utilities Company
  Speaker
• William Radasky
  President
  Metatech Corporation
  Speaker

A final review of some of the big ideas, trends, and surprises from the final sessions.

• Ben Ealey
  Principal, Grid Integration
  Smart Electric Power Alliance
  Speaker