As we transition into spring, we are delighted to share the progress and achievements of our research program over the past quarter. Your unwavering support has been instrumental in driving our initiatives forward, and we are excited to update you on our recent activities and milestones. In this newsletter, you will find updates on the following:
Winter Advisory: Insights and recommendations from our latest advisory session
New TO&P Website and 2024 Annual Review: We just launched our new user-friendly website. It provides all the information from our annual reviews, and more!
CIGRE Green Book on Power System Dynamics: Our team had a key role in this important new book
Protection and Controls Task Force Meeting: Key outcomes and action items from our dedicated task force
👀One last reminder to please keep an eye out for new supplemental project launches. If you would like to join any of our supplemental offerings or learn more, please join the launch webcast or reach out to the TO&P team.👀
Thank you for your continued support and commitment to our mission. We look forward to achieving even greater success together in the coming months.
Best regards,
The Transmission Operations and Planning Team
2025 WINTER ADVISORY
It was great to see many of you in Charlotte for our 2025 Winter Advisory Meetings. Thank you for your great participation in helping guide our R&D, share industry challenges, and needs and support technology transfer of the research. For those of you unable to attend, or who attended virtually, we missed you!
The roundtable discussions focused on the use of AI in operations and planning, highlighting various use cases such as AI for interconnection, business efficiency, modeling/simulation and forecasting. Participants also explored the implications of regulations and the value delivery of EPRI's research and technology transfer.
💡Key sessions included leveraging AI in operations and planning, managing inverter-based resources (IBRs) in operations, and enhancing resilience in operations. The meeting emphasized the importance of integrating power electronics-based resources, addressing large load interconnections, and developing robust compliance verification frameworks. Additionally, the event featured discussions on technical support for regulatory compliance, special studies for transmission planning, and the future of integrated planning and operations.
Want to relive advisory? Check out the materials at the links below for you to download. As a reminder, you must be logged in to access the materials.
You can also read our summary slide deck, showing the roundtable feedback and summaries of each session. For those who were there, this may help jog your memory and please reach out with any follow up. For those who weren’t there but want to hear more about any of the discussions, please reach out to us or any of the EPRI team.
📅Please save the date for the next advisory meeting in Houston, Texas from September 8th – 10th, More details are at the end of the attached deck.📅
📆We are also thrilled to announce the upcoming workshop "Navigating HVDC Integration: Technologies, Operation, and Control," cohosted with Southwest Power Pool (SPP). This event will focus on the benefits and challenges of integrating HVDC systems in North America, the EU, and other parts of the world. Attendees will gain valuable insights into HVDC projects, technical challenges, and industry requirements. You'll have opportunities to collaborate with peers, share strategies, and stay updated on the latest HVDC technology trends. PDH will also be available for registered in-person attendees.
Event Details:
Date: June 10-11, 2025 (in-person, no remote option)
Location: Westminster, CO
Registration: Open to all, with no fees.
For more details and to register, please visit the official website atHVDC Workshop 2025
We are excited to share our new Transmission Operations and Planning website. We invite you to check it out to learn more about each of our research areas, access our deliverables, and learn more about how to engage with us. If you prefer to access materials in print form, you can find a summary of all our 2024 deliverables in our Annual Report.
Kudos to EPRI staff: Zia Emin, Inalvis Alvarez Fernandez, Aboutaleb Haddadi, Adrian Kelly, Parag Mitra & Deepak Ramasubramanian, who recently contributed to the development of a new CIGRE Green Book.
This new Green Book serves as a reference guide for practicing engineers worldwide, helping them to understand, model, and analyze various forms of system stability with greater confidence.
It covers perspectives from power system operations, planning, and grid connections, and aims to equip engineers to address any identified instabilities.
While the primary focus is on practicing engineers in the power industry, the book is also designed to be relevant and timely for researchers and academics. It includes the latest and emerging trends, research needs, and forecasts on how dynamic phenomena and analysis approaches will evolve in future power systems.
Additionally, it explores how disciplines outside of power engineering can contribute to more timely and efficient decision-making, acknowledging that significant research and development are still needed during the energy transition
Protections Task Force Meeting
The annual EPRI Grid Protection Task Force meeting for projects P37.103, P40B, and P173A was held on March 12th and 13th in Charlotte. EPRI staff were joined by over 30 grid protection experts for many lively discussions, including sessions on:
IBR modeling, ride-through challenges, and protection impacts
Hands-on demos of EPRI’s new AI Protection Assistant for ASPEN OneLiner, Protection Settings Peer Review Tool, and Short Circuit Model Conversion Tool
Lessons learned from recent blackouts in Balkan states, Sri Lanka, and Chile
Theory vs reality for power swing protection settings and testing
Tools and methods for training the next generation of protection engineers
For information about this and future protection events please contact Sean McGuinness at smcguinness@epri.com
MISSED A PROJECT SET KICK-OFF?
All TO&P funders are invited to listen to our webcasts. Recordings for past meetings can be found on the program cockpits listed above.
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Talk to Us in Person!
We always love seeing our members in person. Come say hello if you are attending any of the following events:
EPRI-NATF Transmission Resilience Summit in Austin, TX (May)
ESIG Forecasting & Markets Workshop in Nashville, TN (June)
IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting in Austin, TX (July)
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