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This issue focuses on the protection and control technologies for microgrids. The guest editor is Professor Ali Hooshyar from the University of Toronto, a world-recognized expert in protection and control. Professor Hooshyar invited industry and academic experts to offer six feature articles and two columns to share with the readers.

The 2024 Industry Expert was Sharma Kolluri. He presented on Major Trends & Challenges in Evolving Grid – Utility Perspective during the CEP Luncheon held on July 23rd at the 2024 IEEE PES General Meeting in Seattle, Washington.

Get familiar with Steady State, Dynamics and Transient Analysis of power systems and why utilities run these studies. Be familiar with T&D operations and how Grid Enhancing Technologies might play a role in T&D operations. Get insights on advanced PMU data analytics with machine learning with practical use cases. Learn about the OpenFMB architecture and the need for data interoperability.

The IEEE Std 2800 was published in April of 2022. Since then, the industry is working on the adoption of this standard and may have questions regarding the origination, details, and interpretation of some of the included requirements. The objective of this tutorial is to inform the target audience with details and the origination of specified requirements and help answer their questions. This may further help in the faster adoption of this standard.

This tutorial describes the aims and objectives of resource adequacy assessment. Compare the modelling assumptions underlying common approaches to resource adequacy assessment; Interpret and critically evaluate a variety of resource adequacy metrics. Discuss current challenges and recent developments in the field of resource adequacy.

As renewable energy penetration grows, these systems become both more critical to the reliability of the grid and a larger target for cyberattacks. These systems were not all designed and deployed for today’s threats, and adversaries are capable of changing their tactics swiftly.

Attendees will learn tools and techniques used to conduct EMT studies for interconnecting renewable energy projects. Attendees will also gain an understanding of real-world experience studying high inverter-based resource systems using EMT studies. Lastly, attendees will gain useful knowledge related to NERC activities in this area, and the changing regulatory requirements around EMT modeling/studies, model quality, and model verification activities.

The learning objectives of this tutorial are: Review the impact of power converters on grid performance. Introduce the operating principles of grid-forming converters. Discuss the implementation mechanisms and specifications of these converters. Examine the performance of GFM converters under adverse grid conditions. Present the small-signal modeling of GFM converters. Analyze the impact of GFM converters on grid stability. Discuss the effect of GFM converters on transient stability.

Get familiar with the fundamentals of harmonic modeling of Inverter Based Resources based on voltage source inverters, unique challenges and differences compared to those based on line commutated inverters, and related aspects of computational complexity. Learn how to perform harmonic assessment of IBRs connected to transmission and distribution systems for interconnection studies and how to design passive harmonic filters.

The intent of the tutorial is to introduce IEEE 1547-2018. The student will not leave the tutorial with a ‘working knowledge’ of IEEE 1547, but rather will have better understanding of where to follow-up and continue learning to meet specific work needs.