Program « EMT Workshop @ Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Organizers: Suman Debnath, Kemal Celik, Alireza Ghassemian, Aung Thant

Event Contact: Suman Debnath, 865-341-1467 (office); 319-855-0685 (mobile); debnaths@ornl.gov

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Time (ET)	Event	Lead
8:00 am – 9:00 am	Badging, Introductions, Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:15 am	Opening Remarks	Philip Bingham (ORNL)
9:15 am – 9:45 am	Keynote	John Seuss (DOE SETO)
9:45 am – 10:10 am	NERC Presentation	Aung Thant (NERC)
10:10 am – 10:35 am	ESIG Presentation	Julia Matevosyan (ESIG)
10:35 am – 10:45 pm	Break
10:45 am – 12:45 pm	Technical Session 1 (IBR Modeling & Simulation) Session Chair: Aung Thant	ORNL-Suman Debnath/Jongchan Choi EPRI-Jens Boemer NREL-Jin Tan Enernex-David Mueller/Mariana Kamel
12:45 am – 1:15 pm	Working Lunch – Q&A Session
1:15 pm – 3:15 pm	Technical Session 2 (Interconnection Studies) Session Chair: Nilanjan Chaudhuri	ERCOT-Jonathan Rose CAISO-Ebrahim Rahimi SCE-Maya Beskar NERC-Aung Thant
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Breakout Session & Wrap-Up: Discuss next set of challenges to perform EMT simulations and modeling challenges
5:00 pm	Adjourn

Presentations:

John Seuss – Overview of Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO) Funding Efforts Related to Emerging Challenges of Electromagnetic Transient (EMT) Simulation of Solar Technologies
Aung Thant – North American EMT Strategy: Widespread Adoption of EMT Modeling to Support BPS Reliability Studies across North America
Suman Debnath & Jongchan Choi – High Fidelity Modeling of Large-scale PV plant (IBR) for EMT Simulations
Jens Boemer – Emerging Needs for a Generic IBR Model in EMT Domain
Jin Tan – EMT Simulations for Hawaii Oscillation Events
David Mueller & Mariana Kamel – Industry Based Experience with EMT Modeling of Inverter Based Resources (IBR)
Jonathan Rose – Before Clicking Run: Quality and Goals of EMT
Ebrahim Rahimi – EMT Studies in CAISO
Maya Beskar – Grid Forming Battery Energy Storage System for Black Start Studies
Aung Thant – EMT Model Life Cycle: Where we need to go

Time (ET)	Event	Potential Speakers
8:00 am – 9:00 am	Badging, Introductions, Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:15 am	Day Two Introduction	Madhu Chinthavali/Rick Raines (ORNL)
9:15 am – 9:45 am	Keynote/Panel Session	Alireza Ghassemian (DOE OE)
9:45 am – 10:15 am	System Operator Talk	Casey Cathey (SPP)
10:15 am – 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am – 12:45 pm	Technical Session 3 (Planning & Screening Studies) Session Chair: Marcelo Elizondo	SPP-Harvey Scribner ORNL/PNNL-Suman Debnath/Marcelo Elizondo PSU/ORNL-Nilanjan Chaudhuri/Phani Marthi ISO-NE-Xiaochuan Luo
12:45 am – 1:15 pm	Working Lunch: Q&A Session Optional GRID-C Tours
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm	Technical Session 4 (EMT Simulation Tools: Algorithms, Hands-On)	Manitoba Hydro-PSCAD-Rohitha Jayasinghe-Karl Dirks EMTP-Henry Gras Opal-RT/Hypersim-Aditya Ashok
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm	Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Breakout Session & Wrap-Up: Discuss next set of challenges in generation interconnections studies and other planning studies
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	GRID-C Tours
5:00 pm	Adjourn

Presentations:

Casey Cathey – SPP IBR Integration Challenges
Harvey Scribner – SPP IBR Integration Challenges
Suman Debnath & Marcelo Elizondo – EMT & EMT-TS Hybrid Simulation: HVdc Scenarios Planning in US
Nilanjan Chaudhuri & Phani Marthi – EMT Simulation of PV Plant
Xiachuan Luo – EMT-TS Hybrid Simulation and Cloud-hosted EMT Simulation
Rohitha Jayasinghe & Karl Dirks – Introduction to PSCAD/EMTDC for Wide Area Modeling
Henry Gras – Simulation of very large grids in EMTP
Aditya Ashok – Leveraging Real-Time EMT Simulation Technology to Accelerate Large-Scale IBR Integration