Coordinating the Grid Edge
Date: January 25, 2024
Topic: Coordinating the Grid Edge
Speaker: Hayden Reeve is a senior technical advisor at PNNL where he leads research into integrated energy sector analysis and coordinating the grid edge. Most recently this has focused on the integrated sector coupling analysis, integrated grid and market modeling, and advanced methods for coordinating distributed energy resources for improved grid flexibility. He has twenty years of experience assessing and developing advanced integrated energy solutions for grid-interactive efficient buildings, renewable generation, and aerospace energy systems. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.
Abstract: Grid operation is becoming more complex and challenging due to the electrification of heating and transportation loads, deployment of intermittent renewable generation, and the occurrence of extreme weather events. Distributed energy resources (DERs) can offer considerable flexibility for grid operation but also presents a key challenge: effectively and economically coordinating large numbers of DERs to provide grid services is non-trivial when they are neither owned nor directly controlled by grid operators. These growing challenges and opportunities show the need for a distribution system operator (DSO) that coordinates planning and operation of the distribution system in a similar fashion to how an independent system operator (ISO) coordinates the planning and operation of the transmission system. This presentation will overview PNNL’s research in the area of coordination frameworks suitable for DSOs that allows access to the distribution system for suppliers and users of electricity and makes sure owners of DERs operate their assets in ways that support safe and reliable operation of the electric grid. The presentation will provide an overview of the Distribution System Operator with Transactive (DSO+T) study that designed a transactive energy retail market coordination scheme and integrated it with an existing day-ahead and real-time competitive wholesale electricity market. The performance of this approach was evaluated on a large scale simulation of the ERCOT system.
Attendance was 5 Industry members and 25 Students.
