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 …
Sienna Modeling Framework
The Sienna modeling framework is designed to build, solve, and analyze scheduling problems and dynamic simulations for quasi-static infrastructure systems.
As energy …
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 …
Power System Oscillations in High Renewable Power Systems: One Example Event and Guide Review
December 17, 2024
As the energy landscape shifts toward low-emission sources like wind and solar, grid operators face new questions in maintaining power system stability and …
Unlocking Renewable Forecasting Potential in Vietnam’s Energy Future
December 4, 2024
This event explores the critical role of renewable energy forecasting in Vietnam’s evolving power sector. As the country integrates large-scale solar, rooftop PV, …
What Is Power System Curtailment?
Most practitioners are familiar with the curtailment of variable renewable energy (VRE) resources like wind and solar photovoltaics as a reduced production of power relative …
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 …
Benefits of Open Source Software: A Power System Operator Perspective
September 26, 2024
Power system operators share many core software needs, but often also require bespoke solutions for their unique operating conditions. In other industries, open …
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 …
Control Center of the Future Assessment for XM Colombia
Created by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) under the Global Power System Transformation Consortium, this report provides …
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 …
Control Center of the Future Assessment for Sulawesi Power System in Indonesia
In Indonesia, the Sulawesi power system, operated by Indonesia’s state electricity provider, PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), will soon undergo rapid change with pending near-term …
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: 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 …
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). …
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 …
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 …
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: 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 …
EirGrid Achieves 75% Variable Renewable Energy Generation Trial on Ireland Power System
EirGrid, the grid system operator for Ireland, alongside its partner …
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 …
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 …
Control Center of the Future Assessment for Peru’s System Operator
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: 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 …