Optimized Distribution Systems for Renewables

Some of the leading companies, venture firms, and Stanford researchers who are pioneering smart grid technologies discuss the latest smart grid research and offer insights into architectures that could improve grid reliability and reduce the stress caused by the intermittency of renewables.

Agenda

• 9:00 Welcome
  Stacey Bent, Director, TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Stanford University
  Amit Narayan, Director, Smart Grid Research in Modeling & Simulation, Stanford University
  Ram Rajagopal, Assistant Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
  Intro Slides (PDF)

• 9:15 The Smart Grid Ecosystem
  Paul De Martini, Managing Director, Newport Consulting Group
  Slides » (PDF)

• 9:45 State of the Art of Smart Grid
  Robert Sherick, Manager of Power System Technologies & Consulting Services, Southern California Edison

• 10:05 Role of ISO/RTO in Distribution Management; Overview of DR Markets and New Emerging Markets
  Paul Sotkiewicz, Chief Economist, Market Services Division, PJM Interconnection
  Slides » (PDF)

• 10:45 GridSpice
  Amit Narayan, Director, Smart Grid Research in Modeling & Simulation, Stanford University
  Slides » (PDF)

• 11:10 Wide Area Control of the Power Grid
  Kevin Tomsovic, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  Slides - Part 1 (PDF)
  Slides - Part 2 (PDF)

• 11:35 Sensors, Wind Modeling & Stochastic Dispatch
  Ram Rajagopal, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

• 1:00 Panel: Killer Apps for the Smart Grid
  Panel moderator: Chris Knudsen, Chief Technology Officer, AutoGrid Systems
  Panelists:

  • Kannan Tinnium, Power Systems Platform Leader, GE Global Research

  • Robert Sherick, Manager of Power System Technologies & Consulting Services, Southern California Edison

  • Steve Vassallo, General Partner, Foundation Capital

• 1:45 Gridonomics: An Holistic Overview on the Interaction of Economics, Policy and Technology in the New Energy Ecosystem
  Leonardo von Prellwitz, Strategy & Business Development - Smart Grid, Cisco
  Slides » (PDF)

• 2:05 Measuring the Competitiveness Benefits of a Transmission Investment Policy: The Case of the Alberta Electricity Market
  Frank Wolak, Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University
  Slides » (PDF)

• 2:45 Panel: Big Data Analytics for the Smart Grid
  Panel moderator: Paul De Martini, Managing Director, Newport Consulting Group
  Panelists:

  • Christopher Couper, Distinguished Engineer, Energy and Utilities Industry, IBM

  • Jeffrey Taft, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Smart Grid Architect, Cisco Systems

  • Marianne Dickerson, Sr. Director, Electric T&D Business Technologies, PG&E, IT organization

• 3:30 Will Distributed Generation Make the Electrical Distribution Systems Unstable?
  Dimitry Gorinevsky, Electrical Engineering, and Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

• 3:50 Smart sensing, state estimation, and control for enhanced smart grid reliability
  Andrea Goldsmith, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  Slides » (PDF)

• 4:10 Operation Planning for Electrical Power Networks
  Javad Lavaei, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  Slides » (PDF)

• 4:30 Optimization
  Stephen Boyd, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

• 4:50 Student Presentation and Poster Session
  Bethany Corcoran, Geroid O' Brien, Junjie Qin, Raffi Sevlian, Eric Stoutenberg, Han-I Su, Nicole Taheri, Yue Zhao