Control Room of the Future Implementation Council – March 2025 Meeting Summary
The Control Room of the Future (CROF) Implementation Council, under the Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST), convened virtually on March 27, 2025. Building upon …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar: Comprehensive Study of Impact of IBR Controls on Transmission Line Protection Elements
March 27, 2025
Featured Speakers: Brian K. Johnson, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Endowed Chair in Power Engineering and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar: Reliable Energy Forecasting for Power System Operations
February 27, 2025
Featured Speakers: Akylas Stratigakos, Research Associate, Imperial College London; Wangkun Xu, Research Associate, Imperial College London
Short-term energy forecasting, from a few minutes to …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar: CIGRE Green Book “Power System Dynamic Modelling & Analysis in Evolving Networks”
January 22, 2025
Featured Speakers: Babak Badrzadeh, Managing Director, Etik Energy; Zia Emin, Technical Executive, EPRI
This webinar provides a summary of all chapters of the CIGRE …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar: IBR-driven Sub-synchronous Oscillations
November 21, 2024
Featured Speakers: Balarko Chaudhuri, Reader in Power Systems, Imperial College London
About the Webinar: Increasing shares of inverter-based resources (IBRs) present unprecedented grid stability challenges. …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar: GFM Technology Adoption in ERCOT – Status Update
November 12, 2024
Featured Speakers: Shun Hsien (Fred) Huang, Director of Operations Support, ERCOT
About the Webinar: The ERCOT grid has experienced significant growth of IBRs in the …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar: ENTSO-E Grid Stability Initiatives: How is Grid Stability Ensured in a Changing Power System?
October 28, 2024
Featured Speakers: Knut Styve Hornnes, Special Adviser, R&D and Innovation, Statnett
About the Webinar: With a rapidly evolving power system, stability challenges have evolved as …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar: Delivering MCCS – Software and Modular Control Center System of the Future
October 10, 2024
Featured Speakers: Mirko Pracht, Head of Digitalization of System Operations and Product Director, Asset & System, 50Hertz, Arya Fazilat, Advisor for Digitalization of …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar: Diagnosis and Mitigation of Observed Oscillations in IBR-Dominant Power Systems: A Practical Guide
September 11, 2024
Featured Speaker: Nick Miller, Principal, HickoryLedge LLC
About the Webinar: The increasing use of inverter-based resources (IBRs) has led to oscillations with a wider range …
Advanced Grid Solutions
Advanced grid solutions are comprised of advanced transmission technologies and grid enhancing technologies. In this webinar, experts will provide participants with insights into eight advanced …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar: Including High Impact Events in System Planning Scenarios
August 14, 2024
Featured Speaker: Derek Stenclik, Founding Partner, Telos Energy
About the Webinar: This webinar delves into the critical aspects of enhancing power system reliability through comprehensive …
Emergency Management Industry Benchmarking Summary
In 2023, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) Emergency Preparedness Team engaged G-PST partners to undertake a benchmarking activity whereby the AEMO internal arrangements would …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar: Market Products for System Stability
May 15, 2024
Featured Speaker: Edward Farley, Senior Market Development Lead, National Grid ESO
About the Webinar: Stability services are vital for the safe and secure operation …
Emerging Global Practices for Inertia Needs Assessment and Real-Time Monitoring
Around the world, power systems are increasingly incorporating inverter-based resources (IBRs). As synchronously connected generating units are displaced by these new resources, the short-timescale frequency …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: A Framework for Quantifying Supply and Demand for Grid Stability Services
April 17, 2024
Featured Speakers: Matthew Richwine, Founding Partner, Telos Energy and Nicholas Miller, Principal, HickoryLedge LLC
About the webinar: As the grid transitions from synchronous machinery to …
Future of Inertia March 2024 Summit – Materials and Outcomes
Many of today’s power systems rely on inertia, or the natural tendency of generators synchronized to the system frequency to stay in motion, …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Evaluating Major Contingencies and Conditions with Potential to Cause Power System Disruptions
March 4, 2024
Featured Speakers: Luke Robinson, Group Manager – Modelling & Engineering, AEMO & Daniel Fracalossi, Senior Engineer – Grid Performance & Integration, AEMO
About the …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Advances in the Use of Probabilistic Resource Adequacy Methods
February 27, 2024
Featured Speaker: Aidan Tuohy, Director, Transmission Operations and Planning, EPRI
About the Webinar: Ensuring resource adequacy – a measure of whether the current, or …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Imbalance Reserve Product to Manage Uncertainty Between Day-ahead and Real-Time Markets
Featured Speaker: James Friedrich, Lead Policy Developer, CAISO
About the Webinar: This presentation highlights the California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) new “imbalance reserve product”. This product …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Advances in the Use of Wind and Solar Forecasting
Featured Speaker: Amber Motley, Director, Short Term Forecasting, California ISO
This webinar focuses on the importance of renewable energy forecasting to grid operations with high penetrations …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Developing an EMT Study and Analysis Environment for 100% Inverter Based Power System
Featured Speaker: Jun Bum Kwon, Senior Engineer, Energinet
About the Webinar: A significant amount of power electronics interfaced devices (PEIDs) will be integrated into the Danish …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: European Experience with “Connect and Manage”
Featured Speaker: Mark Norton, Vice President of Business Development, Smart Wires
About the Webinar: In the drive towards a targeted decarbonized power system by 2050, it …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Advances in the Use of Wind and Solar Forecasting
Featured Speaker: Amber Motley, Director, Short Term Forecasting, California ISO
About the Webinar: This webinar from October 19, 2023, focuses on the importance of renewable energy …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: GFM Technology Implementation Council – Status and Outlook
The GPST system operators and core leadership team have identified six enablers to meeting a collective target of operating a GW scale transmission system with …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Distributed Restart – Restoration of the Future
The Distributed ReStart project launched in 2019 as a partnership between National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), SP Energy Networks (SPEN) and TNEI (a specialist …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Look Ahead Security Assessments – Operations Radar to Navigate High IBR Waters in Journey to Net Zero
The power system transition towards decarbonization introduces many technical challenges and increased operational complexity. In Ireland and Northern Ireland, a small synchronous power system with …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Cloudy with a Chance of Blackouts or Full of Hot Air
This presentation focuses on the evaluation of weather events in long-term power system planning, considering the changing dynamics of the energy transition. It also covers …
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 …
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 …
Inaugural G-PST Forum Convenes to Discuss Strategy and Direction
G-PST’s philosophy relies on the inclusivity of a globally distributed, cross-disciplinary group of individuals across the electricity industry, including researchers, students, practitioners, educators, regulators, and …
CSIRO and G-PST Develop Research Roadmap to Support Australia’s Energy Transition
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, is working in partnership with the Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST) and …
G-PST Inaugural Research Agenda
This document, released in March 2021, summarizes the outputs from a nine-month consultation process led by the Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium’s Research Agenda …
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 …
Pillar 5 Develops Portal to Aggregate Open-Source Power System Software
G-PST’s Open Tools and Data Pillar developed an open-source tool portal to help filter, visualize, and identify open-source power systems software capabilities. This portal is …
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 …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Developing an Engineering Framework to Support Australia’s Energy Transition
Featured Speaker: Christian Schaefer, General Manager, Energy Systems Engineering, Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
Australia is a world leader in the rate of adoption of renewable …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Frequency Control in a 100% Inverter Based Grid
Featured Speaker: Deepak Ramasubramanian, Senior Engineer Scientist, EPRI
The changing resource mix of the bulk power system, particularly the increasing deployment of wind power and solar …
G-PST Research Agenda Group Maps Out the Research Frontier for System Operators
Representatives from leading global technical institutes and the G-PST Founding System Operators are actively defining near-term applied research priorities and programs to support system operators …