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Dated: March 31, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Increasing Market and Planning
Efficiency Through Improved Software;
Notice of Technical Conference
Increasing Real-Time and Day-Ahead
Market Efficiency Through Improved
Software
Take notice that Commission staff
will convene a technical conference on
June 23, 24, and 25, 2014 to discuss
opportunities for increasing real-time
and day-ahead market efficiency
through improved software. A detailed
agenda with the list of and times for the
selected speakers will be published on
the Commission’s Web site 1 after May
7, 2014.
This conference will bring together
experts from diverse backgrounds and
experiences, including electric system
operators, software developers,
government, research centers, and
academia for the purposes of
stimulating discussion, sharing
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information, and identifying fruitful
avenues for research concerning the
technical aspects of improved software
for increasing efficiency. This
conference is intended to build on the
discussions initiated in the previous
Commission staff technical conferences
on increasing market and planning
efficiency through improved software.
As such, staff will be facilitating a
discussion to explore research and steps
needed to implement approaches to
market modeling which appear to have
significant promise for potential
efficiency improvements in the
following areas: Stochastic modeling;
optimal transmission switching;
alternating current (AC) optimal power
flow modeling; and use of active and
dynamic transmission ratings.
In particular we solicit proposals for
presentations on topics and questions
such as the following:
(1) Stochastic modeling for unit
commitment and operating reserves:
• Given the difficulty in formulating
and solving full-scale stochastic unitcommitment problems, what interim
steps might be taken to more
intelligently incorporate information
about uncertainty into unit-commitment
and dispatch?
• How can uncertainty be described
in a manageable set of scenarios or
constraints that improve unitcommitment and dispatch while
allowing good solutions to be achieved
in the required timeframe?
• If a stochastic unit-commitment
model is used, how should prices be
calculated, given that the stochastic
unit-commitment formulation no longer
produces as part of its solution a single
set of deterministic shadow prices for
power at each location?
• How would a stochastic day-ahead
unit commitment mechanism alter
current market software for other
processes (for example, reliability unitcommitment processes)?
• What steps toward better
incorporation of uncertainty into unitcommitment might be taken over the
next 5 to 10 years?
• What methods can be used to
calculate requirements for contingency
reserves and regulating reserves?
Æ How can reserves calculations more
completely capture the uncertainty and
variability of the system, including
forecast error?
Æ How can outage probability be
captured in contingency reserve
calculations, and how good is the
available data?
Æ What methods can be used to
determine reserve zones?
(2) Optimal transmission switching:
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• Simple optimal direct current (DC)
transmission switching appears to
represent a potentially solvable
technical problem using existing
computational resources if transmission
operators optimize only a small number
of transmission switch positions. It is
less clear whether transmission
switching model formulations that
include realistic representations of
reliability requirements are solvable.
What is the performance of these more
complex model formulations?
• What additional computational
impediments, if any, exist to
implementing optimal transmission
switching over a small number of
switches while maintaining reliability?
• What steps toward optimal
transmission switching might be taken
over the next 5 to 10 years?
(3) AC optimal power flow modeling:
• What is the current state of
computational capability with respect to
dependably solving AC optimal power
flow problems, including analysis of
power system reliability?
• Discussions during previous
conferences have centered on concerns
that current system data quality might
not allow for an AC optimal power flow
model to be properly formulated and
solved. What are the specific data
concerns, and what needs to be done to
address them? What accuracy of
solutions is appropriate?
• What steps toward use of AC
optimal power flow modeling might be
taken over the next 5 to 10 years?
(4) Transmission limit modeling:
• Previous presentations examined
the use of post-contingency analysis
when determining transmission ratings,
including consideration of availability
of ramping capability. How can (or
have) adaptive transmission ratings
been implemented?
• Previous presentations also
examined how transmission ratings
might be updated in real time in
response to ambient conditions. How
have such dynamic transmission ratings
been implemented?
• What are the data or computational
challenges associated with
implementing adaptive or dynamic
transmission ratings?
• How can inter-temporal
considerations regarding transmission
line loadings and limits be incorporated
into economic dispatch algorithms?
(5) What improvements have occurred
in linear programs, nonlinear programs
and mixed integer programing (MIPs)
for faster and/or better solutions?
(6) What new and more efficient
approaches to loop flow and joint
dispatch have been developed? How
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much inefficiency exists in the current
process?
Discussion of these topics should
highlight any advances made since last
year’s conference and provide context
for any proposals or presentations on
best practices, other analyses of current
operations with respect to these and
related topics, and provide opportunity
to discuss existing practices that need
improvement.
The technical conference will be held
in conference rooms 3M–2, 3M–3, and
3M–4 at the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission headquarters, 888 First
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. All
interested participants are invited to
attend, and participants with ideas for
relevant presentations are invited to
nominate themselves to speak at the
conference.
Speaker nominations must be
submitted on or before April 16, 2014
through the Commission’s Web site 2 by
providing the proposed speaker’s
contact information along with a title,
abstract, and list of contributing authors
for the proposed presentation. Proposed
presentations should be closely related
to the topics discussed above. Speakers
and presentations will be selected to
ensure relevant topics and to
accommodate time constraints.
Although registration is not required
for general attendance by United States
citizens, we encourage those planning to
attend the conference to register through
the Commission’s Web site.3 We will
provide nametags for those who register
on or before June 19, 2014.
Due to new security procedures, we
strongly encourage attendees who are
not citizens of the United States to
register for the conference by June 2,
2014, in order to avoid any delay
associated with being processed by
FERC security.
The Commission will accept
comments following the conference,
with a deadline of July 31, 2014.
There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on
the Web site that enables subscribers to
receive email notification when a
document is added to a subscribed
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC
Online service, please email
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call
866 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
202 502–8659.
A WebEx will be available. Off-site
participants interested in listening via
teleconference or listening and viewing
the presentations through WebEx must
2 The speaker nomination form is located at
https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/realmarket-6-23-14-speaker-form.asp.
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register at https://www.ferc.gov/whatsnew/registration/real-market-6-23-14form.asp, and do so by 5:00 p.m. EST
on June 16, 2014. WebEx and
teleconferencing may not be available to
those who do not register.
FERC conferences are accessible
under section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973. For accessibility
accommodations please send an email
to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free
(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502–
8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208–
2106 with the required
accommodations.
For further information about these
conferences, please contact:
Sarah McKinley (Logistical
Information), Office of External
Affairs, (202) 502–8004,
Sarah.McKinley@ferc.gov.
Daniel Kheloussi (Technical
Information), Office of Energy Policy
and Innovation, (202) 502–6391,
Daniel.Kheloussi@ferc.gov.
Dated: March 28, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
clarification on written submissions as
necessary to understand the matters in
dispute. The Panel will limit all input
that it receives to the specific study or
information in dispute and will focus on
the applicability of the study or
information to the study criteria
stipulated in 18 CFR 5.9(b). If the
number of participants wishing to speak
creates time constraints, the Panel may,
at its discretion, limit the speaking time
for each participant.
If you have any questions, please
contact Bill Connelly, Dispute
Resolution Panel Chair, at
william.connelly@ferc.gov or (202) 502–
8587.
Technical Conference
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2014.
Time: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. (EDT).
Place: Northfield Mountain Visitor
Center, 99 Millers Falls Road (Route 63),
Northfield, MA 01360.
Dated: March 31, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Notice of Dispute Resolution Panel
Meeting and Technical Conference
On March 28, 2014, Commission staff,
in response to the filing of a Notice of
Study Dispute by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (FWS) on March 13,
2014, convened a single three-person
Dispute Resolution Panel (Panel)
pursuant to 18 CFR 5.14(d).
The Panel will hold a technical
conference at the time and place
identified below. The technical
conference will address the study
dispute regarding the need to quantify
the entrainment of American shad eggs
and larvae into the Northfield Mountain
Pumped Storage Project (P–2485) as
requested by FWS in its study request
filed on March 4, 2014.
The purpose of the technical session
is for the disputing agency, applicant,
and Commission to provide the Panel
with additional information necessary
to evaluate the disputed study. All local,
state, and federal agencies, Indian tribes,
and other interested parties are invited
to attend the meeting as observers. The
Panel may also request information or
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Strom, Inc.; Notice of Petition for
Declaratory Order
Take notice that on March 24, 2014,
Strom, Inc. pursuant to section 207(a)(2)
of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission’s (Commission) Rules of
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207
(2013) filed a Petition for Declaratory
Order seeking to utilize a new portable
LNG liquefication technology (‘‘LNG/
B’’) to convert Natural Gas purchased
from FERC regulated companies. The
LNG will be utilized by U.S.
corporations and/or exported pursuant
to Strom’s export applications
submitted to the U.S. Department of
Energy-Fossil Fuel Section, and in
accordance with section 3 of the NGA.
Strom contends that since this is a
portable system and not a LNG terminal
as defined by the NGA and not a facility
as defined by law, that no FERC permit
is required. Strom contends that any
permit should be issued by the State
Commission in Florida and/or local
jurisdictions. Strom also contends that it
is a third party marketer of a product
regulated by FERC under the NGA.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. AD10-12-005]
Increasing Market and Planning Efficiency Through Improved
Software; Notice of Technical Conference Increasing Real-Time and Day-
Ahead Market Efficiency Through Improved Software
Take notice that Commission staff will convene a technical
conference on June 23, 24, and 25, 2014 to discuss opportunities for
increasing real-time and day-ahead market efficiency through improved
software. A detailed agenda with the list of and times for the selected
speakers will be published on the Commission's Web site \1\ after May
7, 2014.
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This conference will bring together experts from diverse
backgrounds and experiences, including electric system operators,
software developers, government, research centers, and academia for the
purposes of stimulating discussion, sharing information, and
identifying fruitful avenues for research concerning the technical
aspects of improved software for increasing efficiency. This conference
is intended to build on the discussions initiated in the previous
Commission staff technical conferences on increasing market and
planning efficiency through improved software. As such, staff will be
facilitating a discussion to explore research and steps needed to
implement approaches to market modeling which appear to have
significant promise for potential efficiency improvements in the
following areas: Stochastic modeling; optimal transmission switching;
alternating current (AC) optimal power flow modeling; and use of active
and dynamic transmission ratings.
In particular we solicit proposals for presentations on topics and
questions such as the following:
(1) Stochastic modeling for unit commitment and operating reserves:
Given the difficulty in formulating and solving full-scale
stochastic unit-commitment problems, what interim steps might be taken
to more intelligently incorporate information about uncertainty into
unit-commitment and dispatch?
How can uncertainty be described in a manageable set of
scenarios or constraints that improve unit-commitment and dispatch
while allowing good solutions to be achieved in the required timeframe?
If a stochastic unit-commitment model is used, how should
prices be calculated, given that the stochastic unit-commitment
formulation no longer produces as part of its solution a single set of
deterministic shadow prices for power at each location?
How would a stochastic day-ahead unit commitment mechanism
alter current market software for other processes (for example,
reliability unit-commitment processes)?
What steps toward better incorporation of uncertainty into
unit-commitment might be taken over the next 5 to 10 years?
What methods can be used to calculate requirements for
contingency reserves and regulating reserves?
[cir] How can reserves calculations more completely capture the
uncertainty and variability of the system, including forecast error?
[cir] How can outage probability be captured in contingency reserve
calculations, and how good is the available data?
[cir] What methods can be used to determine reserve zones?
(2) Optimal transmission switching:
Simple optimal direct current (DC) transmission switching
appears to represent a potentially solvable technical problem using
existing computational resources if transmission operators optimize
only a small number of transmission switch positions. It is less clear
whether transmission switching model formulations that include
realistic representations of reliability requirements are solvable.
What is the performance of these more complex model formulations?
What additional computational impediments, if any, exist
to implementing optimal transmission switching over a small number of
switches while maintaining reliability?
What steps toward optimal transmission switching might be
taken over the next 5 to 10 years?
(3) AC optimal power flow modeling:
What is the current state of computational capability with
respect to dependably solving AC optimal power flow problems, including
analysis of power system reliability?
Discussions during previous conferences have centered on
concerns that current system data quality might not allow for an AC
optimal power flow model to be properly formulated and solved. What are
the specific data concerns, and what needs to be done to address them?
What accuracy of solutions is appropriate?
What steps toward use of AC optimal power flow modeling
might be taken over the next 5 to 10 years?
(4) Transmission limit modeling:
Previous presentations examined the use of post-
contingency analysis when determining transmission ratings, including
consideration of availability of ramping capability. How can (or have)
adaptive transmission ratings been implemented?
Previous presentations also examined how transmission
ratings might be updated in real time in response to ambient
conditions. How have such dynamic transmission ratings been
implemented?
What are the data or computational challenges associated
with implementing adaptive or dynamic transmission ratings?
How can inter-temporal considerations regarding
transmission line loadings and limits be incorporated into economic
dispatch algorithms?
(5) What improvements have occurred in linear programs, nonlinear
programs and mixed integer programing (MIPs) for faster and/or better
solutions?
(6) What new and more efficient approaches to loop flow and joint
dispatch have been developed? How
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much inefficiency exists in the current process?
Discussion of these topics should highlight any advances made since
last year's conference and provide context for any proposals or
presentations on best practices, other analyses of current operations
with respect to these and related topics, and provide opportunity to
discuss existing practices that need improvement.
The technical conference will be held in conference rooms 3M-2, 3M-
3, and 3M-4 at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission headquarters,
888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. All interested participants
are invited to attend, and participants with ideas for relevant
presentations are invited to nominate themselves to speak at the
conference.
Speaker nominations must be submitted on or before April 16, 2014
through the Commission's Web site \2\ by providing the proposed
speaker's contact information along with a title, abstract, and list of
contributing authors for the proposed presentation. Proposed
presentations should be closely related to the topics discussed above.
Speakers and presentations will be selected to ensure relevant topics
and to accommodate time constraints.
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Although registration is not required for general attendance by
United States citizens, we encourage those planning to attend the
conference to register through the Commission's Web site.\3\ We will
provide nametags for those who register on or before June 19, 2014.
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\3\ The registration form is located at https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/real-market-6-23-14-form.asp.
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Due to new security procedures, we strongly encourage attendees who
are not citizens of the United States to register for the conference by
June 2, 2014, in order to avoid any delay associated with being
processed by FERC security.
The Commission will accept comments following the conference, with
a deadline of July 31, 2014.
There is an ``eSubscription'' link on the Web site that enables
subscribers to receive email notification when a document is added to a
subscribed docket(s). For assistance with any FERC Online service,
please email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 866 208-3676 (toll
free). For TTY, call 202 502-8659.
A WebEx will be available. Off-site participants interested in
listening via teleconference or listening and viewing the presentations
through WebEx must register at https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/real-market-6-23-14-form.asp, and do so by 5:00 p.m. EST
on June 16, 2014. WebEx and teleconferencing may not be available to
those who do not register.
FERC conferences are accessible under section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations please
send an email to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free (866) 208-
3372 (voice) or (202) 502-8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208-2106
with the required accommodations.
For further information about these conferences, please contact:
Sarah McKinley (Logistical Information), Office of External Affairs,
(202) 502-8004, Sarah.McKinley@ferc.gov.
Daniel Kheloussi (Technical Information), Office of Energy Policy and
Innovation, (202) 502-6391, Daniel.Kheloussi@ferc.gov.
Dated: March 28, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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