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Utility/Lab Workshop on PV Technology and Systems
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Utility/Lab Workshop on PV Technology and Systems

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Solar Electric Power Association

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Salt River Project

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U.S. Department of Energy

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Sandia National Laboratories

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Electric Power Research Institute

 

November 8 – 9, 2010

The Tempe Mission Palms Hotel

Tempe, AZ

 

Agenda (Subject to change)

Monday, Nov. 8 

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.  Registration and Box Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Welcome from DOE (Kevin Lynn) and SEPA (Christy Herig)

  • Preliminary identification of the Utility Issues (brainstorm session)
Interoperability of Solar Systems on the Grid
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Effect of PV System Operations and the Utility’s Tools of Choice

  • Grid Operation Issues (Abraham Ellis, SNL)
  • Utility Tools and design modifications (Steve Steffel, Pecpo Holdings)
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Distribution System Models

  • Suite of Models and Ability to Model DR (Ben Kroposki, NREL)
  • Modeling with DEW (Hawk Asgeirsson, DTE)
  • PV Modeling for Distribution System Impact Assessment using OpenDSS (Jeff Smith, EPRI)
4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Inverter Intelligence in the Smart Grid

  • Intelligent Inverters and Other Hardware (Ward Bower, SNL)
  • Grid Integration Case Studies (Utility or EPRI, TBD)

Tuesday, Nov 9

Operations and Planning – maximize investment while minimizing risk
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Testing to insure performance and ROI

  • Questions Utilities Should Ask to Mitigate PV Technology Risk (John Wohlgemuth, NREL)
  • Utility Acceptance Testing (Ray Hudson, BEW)
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Design and Siting of PV installations

  • Design of PV Systems – Model Accuracy and Limitations (Josh Stein, SNL)
  • Application of PV systems models (Nate Blair, NREL)

 
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Solar Resource Data – It’s Not Just TMY Anymore

  • Recent advancesw in solar resource variability and forecasting (Dave Renee, NREL)
  • PV Variability and Solar Forecasting (Jan Kleissl, UC San Diego)
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Field experience with PV

  • A Survey of PV Field Experience (Dirk Jordan, NREL)
  • Long Term PV Installation O&M (Christy Herig, SEPA )
  • Recent O&M research (Nadav Enbar, EPRI)

Reaching High Penetration
2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Efforts to Better Understand How to Reach High-Penetration (Kevin Lynn, DOE)

 

Discussion/Review (Review preliminary identification of the utility issues – where are the gaps? Identify metrics for definition of high penetration.)

~ 5:00 Adjourn Workshop

 

There is no registration fee for this event.

 

The Temple Mission Palms Hotel is located at 60 East Fifth Street, Tempe, Arizona 85281. Call 480.894.1400 or visit http://www.missionpalms.com/ for more information.

 

For more information, contact Christy Herig at 202.559.2020 or cherig@solarelectricpower.org.

 

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