Northwest Energy Systems Symposium (NWESS) 2024 – Making a Northwest Resilient Grid

The theme of the NWESS 2024 conference is “Making a Northwest Resilient Grid”. NWESS 2024 is a 2 day symposium that focuses on a wide range of topics and provides information on how to best address some of the most pressing energy issues facing our region. The symposium is an industry driven conference; the topics are suggested and voted on by the Industry. The symposium is a combination of presentations and discussions. Key Note Speakers to open the conference – Mike Haynes, Assistant General Manager, Seattle City Light – Waiting for the Green Light Topics to be presented at NWESS 2024 include: – Day Ahead Markets (Compare and Contrasting) – How Markets Impact Reliability – Energy Storage Development – Pacific Northwest Resource Adequacy – Virtual Power Plants – Maps and DER Hosting Capacity – A 25 MW Substation Battery Installation – Substation Security Designs – Protection & Control of Inverter Dominated Systems – Transmission Line Dynamic Line Ratings – Development, Operation & Use NWESS is sponsored by the electric energy industry in the Pacific Northwest, the IEEE and the Electrical Energy program at the University of Washington. University of Washington, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Bonneville Power Administration Electric Power Systems Inc Snohomish County PUD Puget Sound Energy Seattle City Light Peninsula Light Tacoma Power Agenda: The NWESS 2024 full program with speaker biographies and abstacts is available at (https://nwess.ece.uw.edu/agenda-2/) Parking: The closest option is the (https://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/central-plaza-garage-c01-c02-c03-c04-c05-c06), entrance on 15th Ave NE and NE 41st. Public transportation: Consider using the link light rail to the (https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/stops-stations/u-district-station). April 3 Day 2 7:15—8:00 Registration: Light Breakfast at 7:15am – Provided 8:00—8:15 Welcome & Opening Remarks 8:15—9:45 Keynote, Waiting for the Green Light Mike Haynes, Interim GM&CEO, Seattle City Light 9:45-10:30 TBA 10:30-10:45 Break – Refreshments Provided 10:45-11:20 Understanding the Organized Markets in the West Laura Trolese, The Energy Authority 11:20-12:00 How Do The Markets Impact Reliability? Cuong Nguyen, Puget Sound Energy 12:00-1:00 Lunch -Provided 1:00-1:45 Energy Storage—Development of Electromechanical Storage Vincent Sprenkle, Pacific Northwest National Lab 1:45-2:30 Virtual Power Plant Franco Albi, Portland General Electric 2:30-2:45 Break – Refreshments Provided 2:45-3:30 Overview of 25 MW Battery Storage Scott Gibson, Snohomish PUD 3:30-4:00 Technical Consideration of 25 MW Battery Storage Scott Gibson, Snohomish PUD April 3 Day 2 7:15—8:00 Light Breakfast – Provided 8:00—8:45 Discussion on Importance of Maps Amy Grice, Peninsula Light Company 8:45—9:30 Public Power Safety Shutoff & Preparing for Wildfire Conditions Joe Lake, International Wildfires Risk Mitigation Consortium 9:30-10:00 Break – Refreshments Provided 10:00-10:45 Security (Substation) Sofia Weir Pierin, Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center Rob Seifken, Safeguards3 10:45-11:30 The Future of P&C of Inverter-Dominated Systems TBA, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. 11:30-12:00 Grid Modernization Strategy Across PSE Reid Shibata, Puget Sound Energy 12:00-1:00 Lunch – Provided 1:00-1:45 Western Resource Adequacy Program TBA 1:45-2:00 Break 2:00-2:45 Transmission—Development, Operation&Use of Dynamic Ratings Gage Marek, Bonneville Power Administration 2:45-3:30 Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa June Lukuyu, University of Washington 1315 NE Campus Parkway, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98105