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| 07-01 | Electric Power Industry in China
Presentation Slides for Research Tele-seminar, Feb. 6, 2007.
China is experiencing a high rate of economic growth. That growth is accompanied by an increasing demand for energy that is resulting in considerable investment in new generation and electric delivery infrastructure. Along with this rapid development of the power industry, air pollutant emissions (e.g., SO2, NOx, and greenhouse gases) are on the rise. China is working hard to solve the challenge of developing the electric supply and delivery infrastructure to support economic growth in environmentally acceptable ways. Its strategies include (1) expanding supply and delivery capabilities, (2) renewing efforts to establish a power market that started in 2002, but was temporarily suspended due to power shortages, (3) applying technology innovations, such as renewable energy (solar, wind, etc.), efficient energy use technologies, and clean coal technologies, and (4) energy policy reform. The presentation will give provide an overview of China’s electric power sector and how China is approaching the challenges it faces. | Hui Ren | 2/6/2007 | 1.8M | PDF |
| 07-02 | The Reliability Assessment Project
Presentation Slides for Tele-Seminar, March 6, 2007.
This seminar summarizes the key aspects of the recently completed Reliability Assessment Incorporating Operational Considerations and Economic Aspects for Large Interconnected Grids Project. This project was conceived as an undertaking to bridge the developments in PSERC’s Markets and the Systems Research Stems, and focus on some of the pressing needs of the industry in the reliability arena in the restructured environment. The aim was to construct models with appropriate level of detail of the operational procedures and economic aspects, and use them to develop effective tools for evaluating the reliability and the associated economics of large bulk systems such as those of the RTO/ISOs. The project research team met this aim, and brought about advances in the modeling and the development of tools for reliability evaluation. Furthermore, the project established a solid basis for linking economics, reliability and security. | George Gross | 6/23/2008 | 594.6k | PDF |
| 07-03 | Nuclear Energy Renaissance in the U.S.
PSERC Research Tele-seminar on April 3, 2007.
This presentation will view the recent advances in nuclear energy technologies, reprocessing and spent fuel management, safety considerations and economics, and the new Global Nuclear Energy Partnership program envisioned by the Bush Administration. It will also address possibilities of new nuclear power plant construction in the U.S. by 2010.
View with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 or higher. | Jasmina Vujic | 4/3/2007 | 1.8M | PDF |
| 07-04 | Models for Electric Transmission Property Rights
PSERC Research Tele-seminar on May 1, 2007.
A property rights model for electric transmission is proposed. The establishment of these transmission property rights would permit the creation of financial rights that would support transmission investment and financial hedging of transmission risk. These financial rights would allow for forward trading of both energy and transmission in a unified power exchange, avoiding the division that exists in current markets between decentralized long-term energy trading and centralized long-term transmission trading. Such long-term trading could help support the financing of both generation and transmission assets. This presentation will provide a description of a proposed model for electric transmission property rights based on “border flow rights” with associated financial rights called “contracts for differences of differences.” The seminar slides are now available. | Ross Baldick | 5/3/2007 | 89.6k | PDF |
| 07-04a | Printer Formatted Version of Baldick Slides
| | 6/4/2007 | 66.9k | PDF |
| 07-05 | The Electric Power Industry and Climate Change: Power Systems Research Possibilities
Slides for PSERC Tele-Seminar on June 5, 2007
In response to increasing concerns over global climate change, this tele-seminar continues a PSERC discussion on possible research areas that PSERC can pursue related to interactions between the power industry and global climate change. The discussion will include possible research areas in the following categories:
• Interaction between the production of greenhouse gases and the production, consumption, and delivery of electricity.
• Extreme weather statistics and events, and the potential impact on power system blackouts and component failures.
• Electricity market issues that relate to climate change.
• Federal and state policies on climate change that affect the electric power industry.
• Long-range planning of the electric power and other industries with respect to climate change.
• Themes from previous PSERC research, including developing analysis tools, understanding risk and uncertainty, promoting interregional coordination, analyzing market design and behavior and integrating new technologies into the power system. | Judy Cardell and Tom Overbye | 6/4/2007 | 153.7k | PDF |
| 07-06 | Use of Composite Materials for High Temperature, Low Sag Conductors
Slides for the Tele-Seminar on Sept. 4, 2007
High performance composite materials based on continuous carbon fibers in an epoxy matrix and alumina (Al2O3) in an aluminum matrix are being introduced for overhead conductors as a means to increase current carrying capacity without violating sag criteria. The electrical and mechanical properties of these composite materials are largely controlled by formulation and processing details. Users need to be assured that critical properties are not affected by changes in formulation and processing. Both of these aspects that are under the control of the suppliers and known to constantly change in an effort to improve quality and reduce cost. There are no standards for the product and this technology is new. This seminar will highlight technical issues and work done under the PSERC project. | Ravi Gorur | 6/20/2008 | 2.5M | PDF |
| 07-07 | Integration of Renewable Resources
PSERC Tele-Seminar Slides for Oct. 2, 2007
This seminar will provide a brief overview of the CAISO work on Integration of Renewable Resources to meet California’s 20 percent RPS target. | David Hawkins, CAISO | 10/2/2007 | 878.8k | PDF |
| 07-08 | Reliability Based Vegetation Management Through Intelligent System Monitoring
You are invited to watch this Mediasite presentation: PSERC_10/16/2007. See: http://www.pserc.org/media_archive.html
Vegetation intrusion causes faults, momentary interruptions and sustained outages, and potential safety hazards to people and animals. Utilities spend significant resources managing vegetation. Most vegetation management programs for distribution systems are calendar-based. Because each feeder has a unique level of vegetation exposure and outage risk, uniform cycles cannot provide optimal reliability, especially for large systems with diverse geographies. Calendar-based cycles result in some feeders being trimmed more frequently than necessary without improving reliability, while other feeders are trimmed too infrequently and reliability suffers. | Dr. B. Don Russell, Carl L. Benner, Jeffery Wischkaemper | 5/20/2008 | 2.6M | PDF |
| 07-09 | Requirements and Mechanisms for Flexible and Robust Inter-Utility Data Sharing
Slides for PSERC tele-seminar on Nov. 6, 2007.
With the increase in the monitoring of status data at very high rates in high voltage substations and the ability to time synchronize these data with GPS signals, there is a growing need for transmitting this data for monitoring, operation, protection and control needs. The sets of data that need to be transferred and the speed at which they need to be transferred depend on the application – for example, slow for post-event analysis, near real-time for monitoring and as close to real-time as possible for control or protection. In this tele-seminar, we overview the requirements for the next-generation power grid’s communication infrastructure in the areas of flexibility and quality of service. We also overview technologies in the computer science field of distributed computing that can be brought to bear to help meet these requirements, yet to date have not been discussed in the context of grid modernization. Additionally, we argue against the industry trend of using either TCP/IP or web services for real-time data exchange for fast controls. Finally, describe GridStat, a novel middleware framework we have developed that is suitable for the power grid and its application programs. Test results demonstrate that such a flexible framework can also guarantee latency that is suitable for fast wide-area protection and control. | Dave Bakken | 11/17/2007 | 229.8k | PDF |
| 07-10 | The Case for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Slides for the PSERC Tele-seminar on Dec. 4, 2007.
This seminar will focus on the benefits of hybrid-electric powertrain technology to help achieve energy security. The pure battery-electric vehicle, known as a ZEV (zero-emission vehicle) uses no petroleum-based fuel, but has range limitations due to long refueling (i.e. recharging) times. The hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) now on the market all use only a single petroleum-based fuel with their batteries maintained around a high constant state-of-charge by electric energy generated from the IC engine and from regenerative braking. A methodology that involves a combination of these two technologies of ZEVs and HEVs is the only near-term solution that will significantly reduce oil consumption. This seminar examines the advantages of this technology. | Jerome Meisel | 6/23/2008 | 588.7k | PDF |
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