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Explore the challenges and innovations in the power system industry, the need for continual innovation, and the role of policy-making in technology decisions. Discover new uses of synchronized data, enhanced distribution systems, and the importance of collaboration among industry, government, and universities in educating the next generation of power engineers.
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Technology Transformation: Power System Challenges Dennis Ray Executive DirectorPower Systems Engineering Research Center Woodrow Wilson Energy ForumMarch 8, 2007
Key Points • Innovation is happening with PCS (pretty cool stuff). • Challenges facing the industry will require continual innovation. • People are going to be needed • to work on innovations • to make innovations work • Policies interact with technology innovation decisions – sometime positively, sometimes not.
Distribution Generation Transmission Objectives Obtain a coordinated restoration plan Constraints Measurements Operator experience More Efficient Restoration Plans
Transmission Distribution Substation Distribution Customers Microgrid Demand Response Robust generation & transmission Microgrid Enhanced Distribution Advanceddistribution is used to provide local reliability and flexibility, robustness of T&D and promote the use of demand response, CHP and renewable intermittent resources.
Role of Policy-Making in Technology Innovation • Are regulators really bystanders? • What about the clash of good intentions? • Keep costs low objectives and legal requirements for allowing only prudently occurred costs • Flexibility to take technology risks and support research • What about state/regional planning? • Forecasts of generation, loads, resources, transmission, etc. to determine investment needs. • Where does a technology vision fit in?
Conclusions • Collaboration among industry, govern-ment, and universities is needed to educate the next generation of power engineers. • Regulators should consider how their everyday decisions influence industry decisions to take technology risks. • Industry and policy-makers should have more conversations about technology vision alternatives, and the influence of policy on those alternatives.