Panel Session: Crowdsourcing a Grid-Enhancing Technologies Application Guide (slides)

Grid Enhancing Technologies are well-established, commercialized offerings, but few grid operators learn to use them in standard training. In recent years, the need is clear for aggregation of industry best practices and establishment of a comprehensive, third-party GETs Application Guide, to inform both technical and regulatory audiences. This panel for will discuss topic areas, level of detail, audience-specific needs, and effective stakeholder education, an important step in the development of such a Guide, as it allows for open dialogue and industry collaboration in a public setting.

A mix of panelists from system operators, utilities, renewable energy developers, load-serving entities, and government agencies will provide insight on a range of use cases. Spanning both planning and operations time horizons, experts will discuss reliability-driven thermal overloads, bridge projects, outage management for economic and reliability impact, servicing load growth, and mitigating challenges of series compensation.