The Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation is offering two short courses on Smart Grid on the morning of Monday, September 24th. The courses will be taught by some of the world’s foremost Smart Grid experts and are open to all Great Lakes Symposium attendees for an additional fee.
Short Course 1 - Introduction to Smart Grids and Smart Grid Roadmaps
Short Course 2 – The Smarts Behind Smart Grid: How Today’s Grid is Evolving for the 21st Century
Short Course 3 - Microgrids – Designing Their Role in Smart Grid
Additional information and links to register are below.
Short Course 1 - Introduction to Smart Grids and Smart Grid Roadmaps
When: September 24, 2012 | 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Cost: $200
One of the first steps after education in grid modernization is creating a roadmap, a high level view of what the future vision of the grid should be and what the key steps are in achieving those goals. EPRI pioneered the Roadmap with their Intelligrid Methodology and CEATI expanded on it with their Distribution Technology Roadmap. Both efforts have had significant improvements made this year with new versions of the supporting documents due in early 2013. This course will cover the following topics:
- What is Smart Grid
- Why do we need to modernize the grid – with specific focus on the situation we find ourselves facing in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Ontario.
- What regulatory drivers exist that will force changes in the grid design and operations.
- What is the relationship between smart grid and smart grid roadmaps.
- Introduction to Smart Grid roadmaps
- Introduction to Use cases and the existing library of use cases.
- Introduction to the NIST conceptual architecture and its business services library.
- Using Use Cases to create a smart grid roadmap.
- Developing specific requirements for a project from use cases.
- Using TOGAF to create a smart grid architecture.
- Using the roadmap in your organization to promote grid modernization.
- Discussion of some of the smart grid roadmaps that have been done to date and their impact on the organizations that built time.
About the Instructor
Doug Houseman has extensive experience in the energy and utility industry and has been involved in projects in more than 30 countries. He is routinely invited to speak at international events in the industry and has been widely quoted in a number of international publications. Doug was named part of the World Generation Class of 2007, one of 30 people in the global utility and energy industry so named. Doug was the lead investigator on one of the largest studies on the future of distribution companies and for the last five years has been working with more than 100 utilities and manufacturers, 50 governments, 5 international agencies/NGOs.
Short Course 2 – How Today’s Grid is Evolving for the 21st Century
When: September 24, 2012 | 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Cost: $200
This course will provide a fundamental understanding of the DOE’s seven defining traits of a smart grid and the technologies, applications, and market drivers that are making the modernization of today’s electrical system possible. Attendees will also learn about the security, communication and regulatory challenges that are affecting the implementation of the smart grid.
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Electric System Overview (generation, transmission, distribution)
- Aging infrastructure
- DOE’s Seven Defining Traits of a Smart Grid
- Consumer Participation
- Accommodate both Central & Distributed Generation & Storage
- Enable New Products, Services, and Markets
- Power Quality
- Optimization of Assets
- Anticipating & Responding to System Disturbances
- Operating Resiliency to Attacks & Natural Disasters
- Smart Grid Technologies
- Distribution Automation (DA)
- Energy Storage
- Volt/VAR Optimization
- Phasor Measurement Units
- Community Energy Storage
- Microgrids & Islanding
- Demand Response
- Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI)
- Applications & Drivers
- Renewable Energy
- Smart Home
- Other Topics
- Smart Grid Regulatory Environment
- Communications to Enable & Support the Smart Grid
- SCADA (including protocols)
- Centralizes vs. Distributed Intelligence
- Cyber Security Concerns & Consideration
- Summary & Key Points
About the Instructor
Jim McClanahan, Director of Product Support & Field Services
Jim McClanahan joined S&C Electric Company in early 2010, bringing more than two (2) decades of electric utility and telecommunications experience to the company. He leads S&C’s Product Support & Field Services team within the Power System Services division. This role includes services supporting S&C’s leading-edge products but additionally includes a broad range of offerings which provide S&C’s utility customers with complete solutions for their needs in addition to the solid product support they have traditionally received.
Short Course 3 - Microgrids – Designing Their Role in Smart Grid
When: September 24, 2012 | 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Cost: $200
The tutorial introduces the concept and role that Microgrids will play in the evolution of the smart grid. The course material is based on the ongoing implementation of a utility Microgrid and a planned customer-owned Microgrid. Students will be introduced to Microgrid concepts, drivers that influence the Microgrid, as well the projected market for Microgrids. The course will address Microgrid design aspects, engineering considerations, and architectures based on developed used cases. The attendee will leave with an understanding of the key aspects pertaining to designing and implementing a Microgrid.
- The case for microgrids
- Considerations
- Use cases and technical architecture
- Technical Architecture
- Microgrid design
- Microgrid marketplace
- Overview of a customer-owned Microgrid
- Conclusion
About the Instructor
Steven W. Pullins, President, Horizon Energy Group.
Steven Pullins has more than 30 years of utility industry experience in operations, maintenance, engineering, and renewables project development. He previously led the nation’s Modern Grid Strategy for DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. He has worked with more than 20 utilities in Smart Grid strategies, renewables strategies, power system optimization, operations transformation, and RTO/ISO operational processes. Horizon Energy Group is focused on Smart Grids and actively architecting and designing microgrid and energy storage solutions. Mr. Pullins is the vice-chair of the IEEE PES Intelligent Grid Coordinating Committee, a member of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, and the OpenSG (Smart Grid) group. He holds a BS and MS in Engineering. Horizon Energy Group was named a Company to Watch in the book, “Perfect Power” by former Motorola Chairman, Bob Galvin, and former EPRI CEO, Kurt Yeager. Two Horizon partners listed as one of the “Top 100 Movers and Shakers in the Smart Grid Movement” by GreenTech Media.
