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, …
Regulatory and Legal – Establishing an Independent System Operator Series
November 3, 2023
This workshop is the fourth in a series of events dedicated to exploring the critical topic of Establishing an Independent System Operator (ISO). …
Planning and Operations – Establishing an Independent System Operator Series
October 31, 2023
This workshop is the third in a series of events dedicated to exploring the critical topic of Establishing an Independent System Operator (ISO). …
The Global Power System Transformation Consortium – Overview and Informational Materials
How are grid systems evolving? What is a system operator and why are their jobs so important? Who is G-PST and what does …
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 …
Market Design – Establishing an Independent System Operator Series
September 26, 2023
This workshop is the second in a series of events dedicated to exploring the critical topic of Establishing an Independent System Operator. It …
Institutional Design and Governance – Establishing an Independent System Operator Series
September 21, 2023
This workshop is the first in a series of events dedicated to exploring the topic of establishing an independent system operator (ISO). It …
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 …
Transforming the Global Power Sector: Open Data and Tools for Renewable Energy Integration
In a two-part webinar presented by the USAID-NREL Partnership and the G-PST Consortium’s Open Tools and Data Pillar, expert speakers introduced open-source …
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 …
Training the Workforce of the Future: Gender Equity Resources and Free Technical Teaching Materials for Power System Transformation
This USAID Clean EDGE Asia Power Sector Learning Series webinar featured speakers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), PLN Indonesia, …
Control Center of the Future Road Map for Peru’s System Operator, COES SINAC
Peru’s system operator, Comité de Operación Económica del Sistema Interconectado Nacional (COES), is embarking on a shift to higher wind and solar energy penetrations in …
G-PST/ESIG Webinar Series: Open-Source Tools for System Operators
System operators are interested and involved in the development and application of open-source tools, which is a focus of the G-PST Pillar 5 work. But …
Women in Power System Transformation and the Global Power System Transformation Consortium Present Free Teaching Materials for Global Public Use
Women in PST brings together leading institutions focused …
G-PST Community of Practice for Southeast Asia’s Power System Operators: Learning from Vietnam’s Experience on High Fluctuations of Variable Renewable Energy in the Grid System
Based on the current power sector landscape in the ASEAN region, this community of practice event explores Vietnam’s system operator experience managing growing amounts of …
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 …
Power System Oscillation Source Analysis Using OSLp Tool
Power system oscillations are a phenomenon of periodic energy exchange across the system’s different components. Oscillations are inherent to each power system and can pose …
New IEEE Standards Development for Distributed Energy Resources
G-PST’s Localized Technology Adoption Support Pillar and IEEE hosted a webinar to share ongoing standard development activities related to distributed energy resources (DERs) interconnection. The …
The G-PST Consortium: Unlocking Zero-Emission, Low-Cost, Secure, and Reliable Power Systems
This brief, published in advance of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), outlines the G-PST’s commitments to drive technical progress at all system …
Participate in the First-Ever Survey to Discover Digital Transformation Readiness of Energy Stakeholders
LF Energy, in collaboration with Linux Foundation Research and LF Training & Certification, and partners the G-PST Consortium, RWTH Aachen, and Zpryme, are conducting research …
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 …
Lessons Learned for Rapid Decarbonization of Power Sectors
In a collaborative report delivered for the Global Clean Energy Action Forum (September 2022), the G-PST Consortium, alongside several Clean Energy Ministerial workstreams and other …
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 …
System Operator Open-Source Tools and Data Motivation
System operators involved in G-PST Pillar 5 work have reported on the interest and involvement so far on open-source tools. This 1.5 page summary is …
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 …
Open-Source Power Systems Analysis Packages: Cross-package Coordination for System Planning
The Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST)’s Pillar 5, named “Open Data & Tools”, and LF Energy convened a group of developers from Réseau de …
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 …
Power System Sharing Series #9 – Organizational Structure of the Control Center of the Future
The ninth installment of the Power System Sharing Series was focused on the organizational structure of advanced control centers. This webinar was delivered for PLN …
IEEE 2800-2022 Update: New IEEE Interconnection Standard for Large-Scale Solar, Wind, and Energy Storage
This joint webinar for subject matter experts and academia doing research on large-scale solar, wind, and energy storage plants will provide an update on the …
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 …
Illustration of G-PST Teaching Material Through VSC-HVDC Example
G-PST’s Workforce Development Pillar 3 has embarked on developing the teaching material for the ‘forward-looking’ topics from the teaching agenda published last year. This webinar …
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 …
Control Center of the Future Assessment for COES Peru
Peru’s system operator, Comité de Operación Económica del Sistema Interconectado Nacional (COES), is embarking on a shift to higher wind and solar energy penetrations in …
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 …
Open-Source Power Systems Analysis Packages: Workflow and Benchmarking on Common Load Flow Problem
G-PST’s Pillar 5 and LF Energy convened a group of developers from Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE) France, the Fraunhofer Institute, the National Renewable Energy …
Open-Source Power System Software
The G-PST Consortium’s Pillar 5, led by VTT Finland with support from NREL, is developing an open-source tool portal to help filter, visualize, and identify …
RE Data Explorer
In collaboration with the G-PST Consortium, USAID and NREL have developed an open data platform, called RE Data Explorer, that provides publicly available high temporal …
Toward 100% Renewable Energy Pathways: Key Research Needs
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 …
July 2020 Donor Meeting
International agencies and multilateral and regional development banks, including World Bank, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), International …
Power System Operator Survey Toward Global Energy Transformation Summary Report
The IEEE Standards Association and the IEEE Power and Energy Society are working with the G-PST Consortium to assess viewpoints in the area of next-generation …
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 …
G-PST Inaugural Teaching Agenda
This document, released in March 2021, summarizes the outputs from a consultation process led by the Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium’s Teaching Agenda Group …
Women in Power System Transformation Fact Sheet
This fact sheet outlines the Women in Power System Transformation initiative, which is supported by the United States Agency for International Development and implemented by …
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 …
Global Power System Transformation Consortium: Goals and Progress on the Ground
Featured speakers:
- Dr. Karin Wadsack, G-PST Interim Secretariat Director and NREL Program Manager
- Dr. Hannele Holttinen, Partner, Recognis, Operating Agent, IEAWIND Task 25, and Pillar 5 …
Power System Sharing Series #8: Advanced Dispatcher Training Simulator Toward Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) Integration
The eighth installment of the Power System Sharing Series, focused on dispatcher training. This webinar was delivered for PLN Indonesia staff and stakeholders. Speakers include …
G-PST/PyPSA webinar: Open Data Initiatives for PyPSA Africa and PyPSA Earth
In 2022, the PyPSA Meets Africa initiative released the first prototype of PyPSA meets Africa (v0.0.1) and is now is focused on expanding globally …
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 …
Power System Sharing Series #7: Advanced Primary and Secondary Generation Control
The seventh installment of the Power System Sharing Series, focused on advanced primary and secondary generation control. This webinar was delivered for PLN Indonesia staff …
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
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
As part of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the G-PST Consortium hosted a session bringing together power sector leaders and several system …
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, …
Building an Open-Source Strategy at Power Grid Operators
This is the first event of a joint webinar series from the G-PST Consortium and LF Energy, where the emerging role of open source software …
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: Planning and Designing Denmark’s Future Energy Islands – a Large Scale 100% Inverter-based Offshore Power System
Featured Speaker: Christian Frank Flytkjær, Senior Manager, Grid Analysis, Energinet
To harvest wind energy efficiently, Denmark is constructing two energy islands. The energy islands will serve …
Power System Sharing Series #6: Advanced Forecasting of Short-term Load and Variable Generation
The sixth installment of the Power System Sharing Series, focused on forecasting. This webinar was delivered for PLN Indonesia staff and stakeholders. Speakers include experts …
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 …
Southeast Asia Community of Practice: Deep Dive on Advanced Renewable Energy Forecasting Techniques
This event focuses on deeper dive peer-learning and good practices to support advanced renewable energy forecasting and the role of advanced forecasting in power system …
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 …
Spine Toolbox: Data, Workflow and Scenario Management for Modelling
Spine Toolbox is an open-source software to manage data, scenarios and workflows for energy system modelling and simulation. You can have your local workflow, but …
Power System Sharing Series #5: Cybersecurity Based on ISOC Concepts
The fifth installment of the Power System Sharing Series, focused on cybersecurity. This webinar was delivered for PLN Indonesia staff and stakeholders. Speakers include experts …
IEEE Standard 1547: DER Requirements and Implementation to Interconnection Processes
This presentation introduces key concepts and functionality required for IEEE Std 1547 compliant distributed energy resources (DERs). The presentation also includes discussion of overall DER …
Cybersecurity for Electrical Utilities in India: Trends and Challenges
Many current trends make cybersecurity more of a concern for electrical grids and system operators. One of these trends is the increase of renewable energy …
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 …
Power System Sharing Series #4: Smart Defense System Scheme to Maintain System Stability
The fourth installment of the Power System Sharing Series, focused on smart defense scheme. This webinar was delivered for PLN Indonesia staff and stakeholders. Speakers …
Community of Practice: Tools and Case Studies for Inertia Monitoring and Calculation
System inertia has long been used by system operators to keep the frequency of the system from straying too far from normal. Historically, inertia from …
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 …
Landscape Analysis of Relevant Standards, Testing, and Certification Analysis
This publication provides a high-level view of the landscape of standards, and related testing and certification initiatives, relevant to the power and energy fields of …
Power System Sharing Series #3: The Grid Code Adaptation Toward VRE Integration
The third installment of the Power System Sharing Series, focused on grid code adaption. This webinar was delivered for PLN Indonesia staff and stakeholders. Speakers …
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 …
Bringing Renewables Onto the Grid – Session at Enlit Africa
Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium provides coordinated, holistic support and knowledge infusion for system operators pursuing clean energy transitions, including performing cutting-edge research; providing …
Open Source Tools for System Operators – Focus on Power Flow Tools
The rise of data science and scientific programming languages, such as Python and Julia, presents numerous opportunities for power system modernization and advanced analytics. In …
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 …
Power System Sharing Series #2: The Readiness of SCADA/EMA in Control Centers for VRE Integration
The second webinar in the series focuses on SCADA/EMS readiness for high penetrations of variable renewable energy. Speakers included experts from NREL, CAISO, EPRI, and …
Impact of Inverter Based Generation on Bulk Power System Dynamics and Short-Circuit Performance
Featured Speakers: Gary Kobet, Tennessee Valley Authority and Pouyan Pourbeik, PEACE®.
Electric power systems around the world are undergoing a historic change in their generation mix, …
Launch of the Global Power System Transformation Consortium
The G-PST Consortium hosted its formal launch event convened in association with U.S. Climate Action Week. Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Jennifer …
Power System Sharing Series #1: Industry and Researcher Perspectives on Control Center Upgrade Procurement
Featured Speakers: Hon. Zulkifli Zaini, PLN CEO; Mark McGranaghan, EPRI Europe; Haryanto WS, PLN Director; Hani Alarian, CAISO Exec Director; Roberto Bayetti, CAISO Director; Dede …
Workforce Development for Power System Transformation
Featured Speakers: Mark O’Malley, ESIG; Balarko Chaudhury, Imperial College London; Tim Green, Imperial College London; Vijay Vittal, Arizona State University; Julia Matevosyan, ERCOT; Sadie Cox, …
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 …
Designing Control Rooms to Support High Penetrations of Variable Renewable Energy
Featured Speaker: Evy Haryadi, PLN Indonesia; Adrian Kelly, EPRI Europe; Sadie Cox, NREL; Hongming Zhang, NREL
Webinar Abstract: As power systems continue to evolve, control rooms …
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 …
An Overview of the Global Power System Transformation Consortium
Leaders from champion institutions including the National Grid ESO, the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Imperial College London, the …
Opening Plenary Session: 100% Clean Energy – The Accelerating Demands
The Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium will be highlighted during the Opening Plenary Session: 100% Clean Energy – The Accelerating Demands of the workshop. …
Standards and Certification to Support System Operations White Paper
This document provides a high-level view of the landscape of standards, and related testing and certification initiatives, relevant to the power and energy fields of …