G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Experiences Operating a 2GW Grid with up to 100% Distributed PV
The South Australian power system is a 1-3GW grid that separates about once per year from the rest of the Australian National Electricity Market, and …
G-PST Releases Vision for the Control Room of the Future Report
G-PST’s founding system operators worked with the Electric Power Research Institute to prepare a report summarizing the status of control room operations and technology.
Vision for the Control Room of the Future Report
Control rooms are a key element of electricity network operation. While the look and feel of the control rooms has maintained some consistency throughout history, …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Use of Probabilistic Resource Adequacy Methods
Resource adequacy methods, metrics and tools have been challenged by recent events across the world. As the economy decarbonizes and electrifies, ensuring a reliable and …
Pillar 1 Research Workshop – Resource Adequacy, Future Services, Grid-Forming Capabilities
The G-PST Consortium’s Pillar 1 (System Operator Research and Peer Learning) organized a one-day workshop on November 10th, 2022, that focused on three topics with …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Update on Changing Role of Resources and Growth of Utility Scale Storage
Featured Speaker: Robert Kott, Operations Policy Manager, California Independent System Operator
This presentation provides an update on the current state of supply resources for the California …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Operating the System Towards Zero Carbon
National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) plays a very important role of ensuring that Great Britain has the essential energy it needs by making sure …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Wind and Solar Power Forecast Management
As of May 31, 2022, ERCOT has integrated about 35,755 MW of wind and 11,669 MW of solar capacity on its grid. ERCOT currently receives …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Impedance Scan Tools for Stability Analysis of IBR Grids
Dynamic stability is a major concern in operating power systems with high levels of inverter-based resources (IBRs). Dynamic stability problems in IBR grids manifest as …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Fostering the Use of AI for Power System Transformation
What is the current state of AI, and how can it be employed for power system transformation? In this panel discussion, researchers …
Pillar 1 Welcomes Contributions to Newly Released Research Repository
Pillar 1 has developed an extensive Research Repository, which details current and recent research projects from around the world that are well-aligned with the Inaugural …
Inverter-Based Resource (IBR) Research Team Stability Tools Inventory: Status and Needs
The Tools and Models workstream is focused on identifying critical gaps in the capabilities of current tools and models in use by system operators and …
System Needs and Services for Systems with High Inverter-Based Resource (IBR) Penetration
The Pillar 1 Needs and Services workstream is focused on managing the evolution of power systems’ transition from largely synchronous to IBR-driven. Under the leadership …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Use of AI and Big Data in the Control Room
The need for data driven decision tools to support the grid operator in the future is increasing. The operator needs to monitor and control an …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Inertia Monitoring
As shares of inverter-based resources increase, fewer synchronous generators may be online at any given time. Inertial response available from synchronous machines after a sudden …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Project EDGE / DER Marketplace Demonstration
Project EDGE is an innovative, first of its kind trial demonstrating a proof-of-concept Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Marketplace to inform current and future reforms in …
CSIRO, AEMO, and G-PST Release Research Roadmap to Support Australia’s Energy Transition
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency and a Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium regional lead organization, released a …
Open Discussion with Global Power System Operators: The AI Opportunity
In this webinar, representatives from power system operators around the world share their impressions of the opportunities, challenges, bottlenecks, and on-the-ground realities associated with several …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Designing a Future-oriented Control Center System for Successful Energy Transition
With the initiative “60 to 100 due 2032” it is the goal of 50Hertz to integrate sufficient renewable energy sources into the grid to obtain …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Managing Grid Stability in a High IBR Network
Featured Speaker: Julian Leslie, Head of Networks and Chief Engineer – National Grid Electricity System Operator
This session will focus on the operation of the GB …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Research Agenda for Transformed Power Systems
Featured Speakers: Mark O’Malley, Chief Scientist, ESIG and Julian Leslie, Head of Networks and Chief Engineer – National Grid Electricity System Operator
As the power system …
Enabling Power System Transformation Globally – A System Operator Research Agenda for Bulk Power System Issues
This article, originally published in the November/December 2021 issue of IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, outlines the G-PST Consortium’s research agenda, which intends to advance …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Weak Grid Connection of IBR, Why Are We Still Talking About This?
Featured Speaker: Sebastian Achilles, Managing Director Power Systems Operation and Planning, GE Energy Consulting
Operation of Inverter Based Resources (IBR) in weak grid conditions is a …
Accelerating Power System Transformation through Technical Innovation | COP26
Deep decarbonization of the power sector is one of the most important levers for tackling climate change and setting a credible path to reaching net-zero. …
Unlocking Grids to Decarbonize Power Systems Globally | COP26
As part of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the G-PST Consortium hosted a session, at the U.S. Center, that brought together power …
COP26 Policy Brief: The Intersection of Resource Adequacy and Public Policy
This brief was prepared with substantial input from subject matter experts from several of the Global Power System Transformation Consortium’s founding system operators. Resource adequacy …
System Needs and Services for Systems with High IBR Penetration
This publication was produced by the Services Group within the Inverter Based Resources (IBRs) Research Team of G-PST. It is designed to underpin, inform, …
Transforming the Grid: Personal Experiences
What happens when a country commits to a nationally determined contribution (NDC), but the country’s grid system operator is not confident it can meet those …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Connect Faster: Improving Renewable Energy Integration With Modular Power Flow Control
Featured Speaker: Michael Walsh, Chief Commercial Officer, Smart Wires
Modular power flow control provides a uniquely effective approach to help renewable generation developers and asset owners …
Inverter Based Resources Research Team Stability Tools Inventory: Status and Needs
The Tools and Models workstream of the Inverter Based Resources (IBR) Research team developed this interactive presentation that analyzes a wide range of tools, categorized …
New Focused Research Team Launched
To increase the impact of its activities, the RAG developed several focused research teams with the aim of providing some fundamental underpinnings to the more …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: STATCOM Strategy and Application in East Germany
Featured Speakers: Cornelius Heck, Dr. Florian Sass and Roman Hinz, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH
With the political decision to phase out all coal, lignite and nuclear power …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Survey of Grid-Forming Inverter Applications
Featured Speaker: Julia Matevosyan, Lead Planning Engineer, ERCOT
Grid-Forming technology is viewed as one of the necessary enablers for high penetration of inverter based resources. While …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Is “Grid Forming” Enough: What Do Electricity Grids Need From IBR?
Featured Speaker: Tim Green, Professor, Co-Director of the Energy Futures Laboratory (EFL), Imperial College London
The replacement of electro-mechanical machines by inverter-based resources (IBR) is fundamentally …
Inaugural Research Agenda Released
This document summarizes the outputs from a nine-month consultation process led by the Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium’s Research Agenda Group – which consists …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Going the Distance: Moving AC Power from Large Inverter-Based Generation Pockets to Load Centers
Featured Speakers: Nick Miller, Principal, HickoryLedge LLC & Matthew Richwine, Founding Partner, Telos Energy
Webinar Abstract: Getting the power from large areas of high-quality wind and …