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The audio-slide productions of PSERC tele-seminars are publicly available. By clicking on a title below, a web-streaming version of the tele-seminars will begin. The audio-slide productions provide the audio and synchronized slides from the tele-seminar. These audio-slide productions are best viewed with Internet Explorer. The slides alone are available on the PSERC website, or browse to the webcast site. The tele-seminars are categorized by the following topics:
Power Markets and Policy Tele-Seminars
Demand Response via Real-Time Pricing to Increase Use of Operational Wind Energy Generators (08-07; May 6, 2008)
Speaker: Ramteen Sioshansi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2005 states that it is now U.S. policy to modernize the grid by creating a Smart Grid that, in part, will integrate distributed resources and incorporate demand response. Real-time pricing (RTP) is a means for demand response that could be enabled by a Smart Grid. This seminar is on a study of how RTP can make the use of wind energy more efficient in a power system.
Designing CO2 Trading Markets for the Power Sector: Does It Matter Who Gets the Allowances and Who Must Comply? (08-05; April 1, 2008)
Speaker: Benjamin Hobbs, John Hopkins University
Carbon allowance trading has been implemented in the European Union, and will start in several eastern states in June. Meanwhile, several western states and Canadian provinces are negotiating the formation of a trading region for the West, and it appears likely that a federal system will emerge in the next Congress, if not before. Because of the potentially large costs that would result, as well as the large economic rents, from implementation of these systems, there has been intense political discussion of who should be responsible for compliance and how allowances should be distributed. In this seminar, I will discuss whether the answers to these questions are important from the point of view of overall economic efficiency.
The Efficiency of Uniform-Price Electricity Auctions: Evidence from Bidding Behavior in ERCOT
(08-03; March 4, 2008)
Speaker: Steve Puller, Texas A&M University
This tele-seminar will discuss evidence that bidders distort the efficient price signal. In many restructured wholesale electricity markets, transactions occur through frequently-repeated uniform-price auctions. For example, the ERCOT balancing market, and the day-ahead and real-time markets in the Northeast and Midwest U.S. use uniform-price auctions.
Agent-Based Test Beds for Power Industry Research, Teaching, and Training (08-01; February 5, 2008)
Speaker: Leigh Tesfatsion, Iowa State University
This talk will discuss the potential usefulness of agent-based test beds as research, teaching, and training tools for the exploratory study of wholesale power markets. An agent-based test bed is a computational rendering of a real-world process as a dynamic system of interacting agents.
The Electric Power Industry and Climate Change: Power Systems Research Possibilities (07-05; June 5, 2007)
Speakers: Judy Cardell, Smith College; and Tom Overbye, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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.
Models for Electric Transmission Property Rights (07-04; May 1, 2007)
Speaker: Ross Baldick, University of Texas at Austin
The presentation provided 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."
Markets for Reactive Power and Reliability (06-14; December 12, 2006)
Speaker: William Schulze, Cornell University
The FERC report on reactive power lays out issues and raises questions about market power. How markets should be organized, not only for reactive power but for real power and reliability, examine issues of market power through both simulation and experimental economics, including possible market designs drawn from the conceptual model, simulations, and experiments.
Carbon and Climate Issues for the Electric Power Sector (06-13; December 5, 2006)
Speaker: Jay Apt, Carnegie Mellon University
Increasing levels of greenhouse gases (GHG) - and the climate change they are causing - are real and they are a major problem. To stabilize concentrations, the world is going to have to reduce its emissions of CO2 and other GHGs by at least 90%. Public education about CCS and about alternative ways to reduce CO2 emissions needs to start now.
Trying to Maintain Generation Adequacy in "Deregulated" Markets (06-09; May 16, 2006)
Speaker: Tim Mount, Cornell University
The initial efforts to deregulate the electric utility industry in the USA occurred in states that had relatively high rates (the northeast and California). This seminar discussed how this predicament over generation adequacy in "deregulated" markets should be addressed.
Generation Adequacy via Call Options Obligations: Safe Passage to the Promised Land (06-02; February 7, 2006)
Speaker: Shmuel Oren, University of California at Berkeley
The call option approach relies on standard hedging instruments that a mature energy-only market can support without regulatory intervention. Energy call options provide intrinsic value to customers, since the generators who are paid for such options must pay back any windfall profits. This seminar will describe the rationale and mechanics of the proposed approach along with some variants and recent implementation experience.
Power Systems Tele-Seminars
An Online Dynamic Security Assessment Scheme Using Phasor Measurements and Decision Trees (Project S-27) (08-02; February 19, 2008)
Speaker: Vijay Vittal, Arizona State University
This talk describes an online dynamic security assessment scheme for large-scale interconnected power systems using phasor measurements and decision trees which was developed as a part of the PSERC project S-27.
The Case for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (07-10; December 4, 2007)
Speaker: Jerome Meisel, Georgia Institute of Technology
This seminar focused on the benefits of hybrid-electric powertrain technology to help achieve energy security.
Requirements and Mechanisms for Flexible and Robust Inter-Utility Data Sharing (07-09; November 6, 2007)
Speaker: Dave Bakken, Washington State University
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.
Integration of Renewable Resources (07-07; October 2, 2007)
Speaker: David Hawkins, California ISO
This seminar provided a brief overview of the CAISO work on Integration of Renewable Resources to meet California's 20 percent RPS target.
Nuclear Energy Renaissance in the U.S. (07-03; April 3, 2007)
Speaker: Jasmina Vujic, University of California at Berkeley
This presentation viewed 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 addresses possibilities of new nuclear power plant construction in the U.S. by 2010.
The Reliability Assessment Project (07-02; March 6, 2007)
Speaker: George Gross, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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. This project established a solid basis for linking economics, reliability and security.
Electric Power Industry in China (07-01; February 6, 2007)
Speaker: Hui Ren, University of Wisconsin at Madison, North China Electric Power University
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. This presentation provides an overview of China's electric power sector and how China is approaching the challenges it faces.
Optimizing Power System Restoration Resources and Actions (06-12; November 7, 2006)
Speaker: Chen-Ching Liu, Iowa State University
Restoration of a large and interconnected grid from a complete shutdown is a highly complex operation involving many technical and non-technical constraints. This presentation will draw on research using information from a case study.
Toward Optimal Operations (06-11; October 4, 2006)
Speaker: Paul Hines, Carnegie Mellon University
By "Operations" we mean the decisions made in real-time by human operators and computer-based controllers. This presentation summarizes the work done by Paul Hines for his Ph.D. and for PSERC project S-26, "The Risk of Cascading Failures" and funded in part by ABB Corporate Research.
The Threat of Hacking with Megawatts (April 25, 2006)
Speaker: Chris DeMarco, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Power grid vulnerability in remote configuration of generator controllers: the threat of hacking with megawatts.
Security Enhancement through Direct Non-Disruptive Load Control (06-07; April 18, 2006)
Speakers: Ian Hiskens, University of Wisconsin at Madison; and Vijay Vittal, Arizona State University
Significant enhancements in communications, metering and computer technologies have meant that coordinated control of massive numbers of diverse loads is becoming feasible. Our research has focused on the viability of load control for alleviating voltage collapse, and hence, for mitigating the possibility of cascading system failures.
Nuclear Energy: 1996, 2006, 2016 (April 10, 2006)
Speaker: Per Peterson, University of California at Berkeley
Overview of current events for nuclear energy, liquid salts for high temperature nuclear heat transfer, and nuclear waste management and Yucca Mountain.
Wide-Area Small-Signal Stability Controller (06-06; April 4, 2006)
Speaker: Mani Venkatasubramanian, Washington State University
Recent blackout events (such as the 1996 Western U.S. events, the 2004 Northeastern disturbance, and the 2004 Italian blackout) have demonstrated the need for new automatic controllers that respond to unforeseen operating conditions to keep power system problems from cascading into large-scale blackouts. Simulations showed that the controller could have stabilized oscillations before they became critically large in the Western U.S. blackout on August 10, 1996.
Real-Time Monitoring of Cascading Events (06-05; March 28, 2006)
Speaker: Mladen Kezunovic, Texas A&M University
This tele-seminar presents research results on new technologies for monitoring and control at the system and local levels.
Adaptive Islanding to Prevent Cascading Failure Events (06-04; March 21, 2006)
Speaker: Vijay Vittal, Arizona State University
Power systems are under increasing stress as market policies introduce new economic objectives for operation. The research issue is how to take advantage of the information from the slow coherency generator grouping method to island the system in a controlled way by tripping an identified set of transmission lines.
Visualization of Power Systems and Components (06-01; January 24, 2006)
Speaker: Tom Overbye, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The need for enhanced power system visualizations has been increasingly acute over the last decade as the size of power system models has grown. This project focused on the performance of formal human factor experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of power system visualizations.
Transmission and Distribution Technologies Seminars
Use of Composite Materials for High Temperature, Low Sag Conductors (07-06; September 4, 2007)
Speaker: Ravi Gorur, Arizona State University
The electrical and mechanical properties of composite materials are largely controlled by formulation and processing details. 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.
Risk-Based Resource Allocation for Distribution System Maintenance (06-10; September 5, 2006)
Speakers: James 'Jim' McCalley, Iowa State University; and Ward Jewell, Wichita State University
The existing state-of-the-art power system maintenance program offers three approaches for making decisions associated with identifying maintenance activities: condition-based maintenance (CBM); reliability-centered maintenance (RCM); and optimization techniques.
Detecting Circuit Breaker Status Errors in Substations (06-08; May 2, 2006)
Speaker: Ali Abur, Northeastern University
Detecting and identifying breaker status errors can be accomplished by a two stage procedure. Recently a new method, which can address this shortcoming, was proposed for topology error analysis.
Effects of Voltage Sags on Household Loads (06-03; February 21, 2006)
Speaker: George Karady, Arizona State University
Voltage sags pose a serious power quality issue for the electric power industry. Surveys were conducted to determine the type of equipment present in residential apartment complexes in Tempe, Arizona. The testing enabled assessment of the accuracy of standard "CBEMA" curves that allow prediction of the effect of voltage sags on equipment performance.
PSERC Contact Information:
Power Systems Engineering Research Center
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Box 878606
Tempe, AZ 85287-8606
Phone: 480-965-1643
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