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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. AD10–12–005]
Increasing Market and Planning
Efficiency through Improved Software;
Supplemental Agenda Notice
Take notice that the 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.
This conference will bring together
diverse experts from public utilities, the
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software industry, government, research
centers and academia and is intended to
build on the discussions initiated in the
previous Commission staff technical
conferences on increasing market and
planning efficiency through improved
software.
The agenda for this conference is
attached. If any changes occur, the
revised agenda will be posted on the
calendar page for this event on the
Commission’s Web site 1 prior to the
event.
Dated: May 23, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Introduction (3M–2).
Richard O’Neill, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Washington, District of Columbia).
9:00 AM .......
Session M1 (Meeting Room 3M–2).
Overcoming Computational Challenges on Large Scale Security Constrained Unit Commitment Problems—MISO and ALSTOM’s
Experience with MIP Solver.
Yonghong Chen, MISO (Carmel, Indiana).
Xing Wang, Qianfan Wang, Alstom Grid (Redmond, Washington).
Experiences of Operation Efficiency Evaluation and Improvement at PJM.
Hong Chen, PJM Interconnection (Audubon, Pennsylvania).
Day-Ahead and Short-Term Unit Commitment OPF with Voltage Stability Constraints.
Khaled Abdul-Rahman, Enamul Haq, Jun Wu, California ISO (Folsom, California).
Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Bigwood Systems, Inc. (Ithaca, New York).
Reserve Requirement Calculator in SPP Integrated Marketplace.
Jie Wan, Alstom Grid (Redmond, Washington).
Casey Cathey, Southwest Power Pool (Little Rock, Arkansas).
11:00 AM .....
Break.
11:15 AM .....
Session M2 (Meeting Room 3M–2).
Optimizing Wind Generation in ERCOT Nodal Market.
Resmi Surendran, Hailong Hui, ERCOT (Taylor, Texas).
Chien-Ning Yu, ABB/Ventyx (Santa Clara, California).
Wind Dispatch Using Do-Not-Exceed Limit.
Tongxin Zheng, Eugene Litvinov, Jinye Zhao, ISO New England (Holyoke, Massachusetts).
12:15 PM .....
Lunch.
1:30 PM .......
Session M3 (Meeting Room 3M–2).
Estimation of the Secure Range for Dynamic Interchange Adjustment.
Slava Maslennikov, ISO New England (Holyoke, Massachusetts).
Yuri Makarov, Pavel Etignov, PNNL (Richland, Washington).
Topology Control Algorithms Simulations in PJM with AC Modeling.
Pablo Ruiz, Xiao Li, Bruce Tsuchida, The Brattle Group (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Michael C. Caramanis, Evgeniy Goldis, Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts).
C. Russ Philbrick, Polaris Systems Optimization (Shoreline, Washington).
Aleksandr Rudkevich, Newton Energy Group (Newton, Massachusetts).
Richard D. Tabors, Across The Charles (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
On the Use of Operating Parameters in Defining Marginal Cost and Minimizing Uplift.
Paul Sotkiewicz, PJM Interconnection, LLC (Audubon, Pennsylvania).
3:00 PM .......
Break.
3:30 PM .......
sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
8:30 AM .......
Session M4 (Meeting Room 3M–2).
Operational and Practical Considerations for Stochastic Unit Commitment Solutions.
Nivad Navid, Todd Ramey, Dhiman Chatterjee, MISO (Carmel, Indiana).
Performance-based Regulation Compensation Improve PJM Market Efficiency.
Ying Xiao, Alstom Grid (Redmond, Washington).
Paul Sotkiewicz, PJM Interconnection, LLC (Audubon, Pennsylvania).
Performance-Based Pricing of Frequency Regulation in Electricity Markets.
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Alex Papalexopoulos, Panagiotis Andrianesis, ECCO International (San Francisco, California).
5:00 PM .......
Adjourn.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
8:15 AM .......
Arrive and welcome (3M–2)
8:30 AM .......
Session T1–A (Meeting Room 3M–2)
On Deployment Barriers and Research Challenges for Stochastic Unit Commitment.
Jean-Paul Watson, Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
A Comparison of Various Unit Commitment Techniques Dealing with Uncertainty.
Daniel Kirschen, Yury Dvorkin, Yishen Wang, Ting Qiu, Hrvoje Pandzic, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington).
An Improved Stochastic Unit Commitment Formulation to Accommodate Wind Uncertainty.
Canan Uckun, Audun Botterud, Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, Illinois).
John R. Birge, University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois).
Economic Impacts of Wind Covariance Estimation on Power Grid Operations.
Cosmin Petra, Mihai Anitescu, Victor Zavala, Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Illinois).
Session T1–B (Meeting Room 3M–4).
Full AC Network Integrated Core Solver for the SuperOPF Framework.
Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Bin Wang, Patrick Causgrove, Bigwood Systems, Inc. (Ithaca, New York).
Graph-Theoretic Algorithm for Arbitrary Polynomial Optimization Problems.
Javad Lavaei, Ramtin Madani, Ghazal Fazelnia, Abdulrahman Kalbat, Columbia University (New York, New York).
Somayeh Sojoudi, New York University (New York, New York).
Moment-Based Relaxations of Optimal Power Flow Problems.
Daniel Molzahn, Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Local Optima and Bounds in Optimal Power Flow Problems.
Kenneth McKinnon, Edinburgh University (Edinburgh, United Kingdom).
Waqquas Bukhsh, Technical University of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark).
10:30 AM .....
Break.
10:45 AM .....
Session T2–A (Meeting Room 3M–2).
Robust Reserve Modeling for Wind Power Integration in Ramp-Based Unit Commitment.
German Morales-Espana, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) (Madrid, Spain).
Ross Baldick, University of Texas (Austin, Texas).
Javier Garcia-Gonzalez, Andres Ramos, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid, Spain).
Concepts and Practice Using Stochastic Programs for Determining Reserve Requirements.
Robert Entriken, Eamonn Lannoye, Aidan Tuohy, EPRI (Palo Alto, California).
Garret LaBove, Russ Philbrick, PSO.
Edward Lo, CAISO.
Larsen Plano, PG&E.
SCUC and SCD Software for Fully Coordinated Regional Power Markets.
Assef Zobian, Cambridge Energy Solutions (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Kurt Glaesemann, Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, Washington).
12:15 PM .....
sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
1:30 PM .......
Session T2–B (Meeting Room 3M–4).
Establishing a Consistent State of the European Electricity Transmission Network by Merging.
Non-synchronised Data from Several Countries with an AC Optimal Power Flow.
Maxime Fender, Artelys (Montreal, Canada).
Mireille Chevallier, Rte (Versailles, France).
Sylvain Mouret, Pierre Girardeau, Manuel Ruiz, Artelys (Paris, France).
Operating Beyond PV Curve Limits.
Marija Ilic, Jeffrey Lang, NETSS, Inc (Sudbury, Massachusetts).
Sanja Cvijic.
Stochastic Optimal Power Flow with Uncertain Reserves from Flexible Loads.
Johanna Mathieu, Siqian Chen, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Maria Vrakopoulou, Goran Andersson, ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland).
Lunch
Session T3–A (Meeting Room 3M–2).
A Stochastic Electricity Market Clearing Formulation with Consistent Pricing Properties.
Victor Zavala, Mihai Anitescu, Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Illinois).
Stochastic Modeling at Multiple Timescales.
Hongyu Wu, Erik Ela, NREL (Golden, Colorado).
Multistage Robust Unit Commitment with Affine Policies and Efficient Algorithms.
Sun Xu, Alvaro Lorca, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia).
Tongxin Zheng, Eugene Litvinov, ISO New England (Holyoke, Massachusetts)
Session T3–B (Meeting Room 3M–4).
Model-Predictive Cascade Mitigation in Electric Power Systems With Storage and Renewables.
Mads Almassalkhi, Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Multi-time-step Chance Constrained Generation Re-dispatch.
Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University (New York, New York).
Michael Chertkov, Scot Backhaus, Russell Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico).
Quantifying the Trade-off Between Secure and Economic Operation of Power Systems Under Uncertainty.
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Maria Vrakopoulou, John Lygeros, Goeran Andersson, ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland).
Kostas Margellos, UC Berkeley (Berkeley, California).
3:00 PM .......
Break.
3:30 PM .......
Session T4–A (Meeting Room 3M–2).
Scenario Reduction for Scalable Stochastic Unit Commitment.
Sarah Ryan, Yonghan Feng, Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa).
Cesar Silva-Monroy, Jean-Paul Watson, Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
David L. Woodruff, University of California Davis (Davis, California).
Stochastic Models for Generation Unit Commitment.
Tim Schulze, The School of Mathematics (Edinburgh, United Kingdom).
Kenneth I.M. McKinnon, The University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom).
A Scalable Decomposition Algorithm for Solving Stochastic Transmission and Generation Investment Planning Problems.
Francisco Munoz, Jean-Paul, Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Session T4–B (Meeting Room 3M–4).
Computational Performance of the Current-Voltage (IV) Linearization of the ACOPF: Before Extensions.
Anya Castillo, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland).
Transmission Switching with the Current-Voltage (IV) Linearization of the ACOPF.
Paula Lipka, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California).
Evaluating High Penetrations of Off-Shore Wind using SMART–ISO.
Warren B. Powell, Hugo P. Simao, Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey).
Computational Study of Security Constrained Economic Dispatch with Multi-period Rescheduling.
Michael Ferris, Yanchao Liu, Feng Zhao, University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin).
6:00 PM .......
Adjourn.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
8:45 AM .......
Arrive and welcome (3M–2)
9:00 AM .......
Session W1–A (Meeting Room 3M–2)
Distributionally Robust Congestion Management with Dynamic Line Ratings.
Feng Qiu, Jianhui Wang, Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Illinois).
Real Time Dynamic Path Limit Computation for Market Efficiency and Grid Reliability.
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Naresh Acharya, Chaitanya Baone, Santosh Veda, GE Global Research (Niskayuna, New York).
Implementation Of Dynamic Thermal Ratings in the Operational Environment.
Kwok Cheung, Alstom Grid (Redmond, Washington).
Hongxia Wu.
Identifying, Modeling and Utilizing The Hidden Capacity in the Transmission Network.
Richard Tabors, Tabors Caramanis Rudkevich (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Adam Rousselle, Utility Risk Management Corporation (New Hope, Pennsylvania).
Aleksandr Rudkevich, Newton Energy Group (Newton, Massachusetts).
Michael Seelhof, Tabors Caramanis Rudkevich (New York, New York)
Session W1–B (Meeting Room 3M–4).
Stochastic Operations Toolkit for Power Systems with High Penetration of Solar Energy.
Cesar Silva-Monroy, Jean-Paul Watson, Francisco Munoz, Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
Richard Chen, Ali Pinar, Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California).
Andrew Mills, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California).
Use of Cloud Computing in Power Market Simulations.
Aleksandr Rudkevich, John Goldis, Newton Energy Group (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Richard Tabors, Lorna Omondi, Tabors Caramanis Rudkevich (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Incorporating Intra-hour Market Pricing.
Gary Dorris, Ascend Analytics, LLC (Boulder, Colorado).
Facilitating Appropriate Compensation of Electric Energy and Reserve Through Standardized Contracts.
Leigh Tesfatsion, Deung-Yong Heo, Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa).
Break.
11:15 AM .....
sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
11:00 AM .....
Session W2–A (Meeting Room 3M–2).
Concentric Relaxations and Transmission Switching.
Jim Ostrowski, Mike Hare, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee).
Jianhui Wang, Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Illinois).
Probabilistic Security Analysis of Optimal Transmission Switching.
Daniel Kirschen, Pierre Henneaux, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington).
Session W2–B (Meeting Room 3M–4).
Experience Solving the RTO Unit Commitment Test System.
Stephen Elbert, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, Washington).
Stochastic Look-ahead Dispatch with Intermittent Renewable Generation via Progressive Hedging and L-shaped Method.
Yingzhong (Gary) Gu, Le Xie, Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas)
12:15 PM .....
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Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on June 20, 2014.
[FR Doc. 2014–12635 Filed 5–30–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP14–491–000]
sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
KKR NR I Mineral Holdings II L.P.; KKR
NR I–A Mineral Holdings II L.P.; KFN
NR Mineral Holdings II L.P.; Premier
Natural Resources II, LLC; Notice of
Petition for Declaratory Order
Take notice that on May 21, 2014,
KKR NR I Mineral Holdings II L.P., KKR
NR I–A Mineral Holdings II L.P., KFN
NR Mineral Holdings II L.P., and
Premier Natural Resources II, LLC
(collectively, the ‘‘Petitioners’’),
pursuant to Rule 207(a)(2) of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s
(‘‘Commission’’) Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207(a)(2) (2013),
filed A Petition for Declaratory Order
finding that the Index 301 Pipeline, as
operated by the Petitioners, is gathering
and not subject to the Commission’s
jurisdiction under Section 1(b) of the
Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C. 717(b).
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).
Protests will be considered by the
Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed on or before the
comment date. On or before the
comment date, it is not necessary to
serve motions to intervene or protests
on persons other than the Applicant.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 5 copies
of the protest or intervention to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE., Washington, DC
20426.
This filing is accessible on-line at
https://www.ferc.gov, using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for
review in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room in Washington, DC.
There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the
Web site that enables subscribers to
receive email notification when a
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Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. EL14–54–000]
Great River Energy; Notice of Petition
for Partial Waiver
Take notice that on May 16, 2014,
pursuant to section 292.402 of the
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission’s (Commission)
regulations, 18 CFR 292.402, Great River
Energy (Great River), on behalf of itself
and its twenty ‘‘all-requirements’’
electric distribution cooperative
member-owners (collectively,
Participating Members) 1 filed a petition
for a partial waiver of certain obligations
imposed on Great River and the
Participating Members under sections
292.303(a) and 292.303(b) of the
Commission’s Regulations 2
implementing section 210 of the Public
Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978,
as amended.3
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).
1 The Participating Members joining in this
petition include all of Great River’s ‘‘allrequirements’’ members which members purchase
substantially all of their electric requirements from
Great River, including: Arrowhead Cooperative;
BENCO Electric Cooperative; Brown County Rural
Electrical Association, Connexus Energy;
Cooperative Light & Power; Dakota Electric
Association; East Central Energy; Goodhue County
Cooperative Electric Association; Itasca-Mantrap
Cooperative Electrical Association; Kandiyohi
Power Cooperative; Lake Country Power; Lake
Region Electric Cooperative; McLeod Cooperative
Power Association; Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative;
Nobles Cooperative Electric; North Itasca Electric
Cooperative; Runestone Electric Association;
Stearns Electric Association; Steele-Waseca
Cooperative Electric; and Todd-Wadena Electric
Cooperative. Great River has eight other members
who are not ‘‘all-requirements’’ members of Great
River and who are not Participating Members for
the purpose of this petition.
2 18 CFR 292.303(a) and (b).
3 16 U.S.C. 824a–3.
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Protests will be considered by the
Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed on or before the
comment date. On or before the
comment date, it is not necessary to
serve motions to intervene or protests
on persons other than the Applicant.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 5 copies
of the protest or intervention to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE., Washington, DC
20426.
This filing is accessible on-line at
https://www.ferc.gov, using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for
review in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room in Washington, DC.
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.
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on June 6, 2014.
Dated: May 23, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014–12637 Filed 5–30–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Notice of Commission Staff
Attendance
The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Commission) hereby gives
notice that members of the
Commission’s staff will attend the
following meeting related to the
Midcontinent Independent System
Operator, Inc. (MISO)—PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) Joint and
Common Market Initiative (Docket No.
AD14–3–000):
MISO/PJM Joint Stakeholder
Meeting—May 28, 2014.
The above-referenced meeting will be
held at: PJM Training Center, 2750
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. AD10-12-005]
Increasing Market and Planning Efficiency through Improved
Software; Supplemental Agenda Notice
Take notice that the 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.
This conference will bring together diverse experts from public
utilities, the software industry, government, research centers and
academia and is intended to build on the discussions initiated in the
previous Commission staff technical conferences on increasing market
and planning efficiency through improved software.
The agenda for this conference is attached. If any changes occur,
the revised agenda will be posted on the calendar page for this event
on the Commission's Web site \1\ prior to the event.
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\1\ https://www.ferc.gov/industries/electric/indus-act/market-planning/2014-conference.asp.
Dated: May 23, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Monday, June 23, 2014
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8:30 AM................ Introduction (3M-2).
Richard O'Neill, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Washington, District of Columbia).
------------------------------------------------------------------------
9:00 AM................ Session M1 (Meeting Room 3M-2).
Overcoming Computational Challenges on Large
Scale Security Constrained Unit Commitment
Problems--MISO and ALSTOM's Experience with
MIP Solver.
Yonghong Chen, MISO (Carmel, Indiana).
Xing Wang, Qianfan Wang, Alstom Grid
(Redmond, Washington).
Experiences of Operation Efficiency Evaluation
and Improvement at PJM.
Hong Chen, PJM Interconnection (Audubon,
Pennsylvania).
Day-Ahead and Short-Term Unit Commitment OPF
with Voltage Stability Constraints.
Khaled Abdul-Rahman, Enamul Haq, Jun Wu,
California ISO (Folsom, California).
Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Bigwood Systems, Inc.
(Ithaca, New York).
Reserve Requirement Calculator in SPP
Integrated Marketplace.
Jie Wan, Alstom Grid (Redmond, Washington).
Casey Cathey, Southwest Power Pool (Little
Rock, Arkansas).
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11:00 AM............... Break.
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11:15 AM............... Session M2 (Meeting Room 3M-2).
Optimizing Wind Generation in ERCOT Nodal
Market.
Resmi Surendran, Hailong Hui, ERCOT (Taylor,
Texas).
Chien-Ning Yu, ABB/Ventyx (Santa Clara,
California).
Wind Dispatch Using Do-Not-Exceed Limit.
Tongxin Zheng, Eugene Litvinov, Jinye Zhao,
ISO New England (Holyoke, Massachusetts).
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12:15 PM............... Lunch.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1:30 PM................ Session M3 (Meeting Room 3M-2).
Estimation of the Secure Range for Dynamic
Interchange Adjustment.
Slava Maslennikov, ISO New England (Holyoke,
Massachusetts).
Yuri Makarov, Pavel Etignov, PNNL (Richland,
Washington).
Topology Control Algorithms Simulations in PJM
with AC Modeling.
Pablo Ruiz, Xiao Li, Bruce Tsuchida, The
Brattle Group (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Michael C. Caramanis, Evgeniy Goldis, Boston
University (Boston, Massachusetts).
C. Russ Philbrick, Polaris Systems
Optimization (Shoreline, Washington).
Aleksandr Rudkevich, Newton Energy Group
(Newton, Massachusetts).
Richard D. Tabors, Across The Charles
(Cambridge, Massachusetts).
On the Use of Operating Parameters in Defining
Marginal Cost and Minimizing Uplift.
Paul Sotkiewicz, PJM Interconnection, LLC
(Audubon, Pennsylvania).
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3:00 PM................ Break.
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3:30 PM................ Session M4 (Meeting Room 3M-2).
Operational and Practical Considerations for
Stochastic Unit Commitment Solutions.
Nivad Navid, Todd Ramey, Dhiman Chatterjee,
MISO (Carmel, Indiana).
Performance-based Regulation Compensation
Improve PJM Market Efficiency.
Ying Xiao, Alstom Grid (Redmond,
Washington).
Paul Sotkiewicz, PJM Interconnection, LLC
(Audubon, Pennsylvania).
Performance-Based Pricing of Frequency
Regulation in Electricity Markets.
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Alex Papalexopoulos, Panagiotis Andrianesis,
ECCO International (San Francisco,
California).
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5:00 PM................ Adjourn.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
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8:15 AM................ Arrive and welcome (3M-2)
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8:30 AM................ Session T1-A (Meeting Room 3M-2)
On Deployment Barriers and Research Challenges
for Stochastic Unit Commitment.
Jean-Paul Watson, Sandia National
Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
A Comparison of Various Unit Commitment
Techniques Dealing with Uncertainty.
Daniel Kirschen, Yury Dvorkin, Yishen Wang,
Ting Qiu, Hrvoje Pandzic, University of
Washington (Seattle, Washington).
An Improved Stochastic Unit Commitment
Formulation to Accommodate Wind Uncertainty.
Canan Uckun, Audun Botterud, Argonne
National Laboratory (Lemont, Illinois).
John R. Birge, University of Chicago
(Chicago, Illinois).
Economic Impacts of Wind Covariance Estimation
on Power Grid Operations.
Cosmin Petra, Mihai Anitescu, Victor Zavala,
Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne,
Illinois).
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Session T1-B (Meeting Room 3M-4).
Full AC Network Integrated Core Solver for the
SuperOPF Framework.
Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Bin Wang, Patrick
Causgrove, Bigwood Systems, Inc. (Ithaca,
New York).
Graph-Theoretic Algorithm for Arbitrary
Polynomial Optimization Problems.
Javad Lavaei, Ramtin Madani, Ghazal
Fazelnia, Abdulrahman Kalbat, Columbia
University (New York, New York).
Somayeh Sojoudi, New York University (New
York, New York).
Moment-Based Relaxations of Optimal Power Flow
Problems.
Daniel Molzahn, Ian Hiskens, University of
Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Local Optima and Bounds in Optimal Power Flow
Problems.
Kenneth McKinnon, Edinburgh University
(Edinburgh, United Kingdom).
Waqquas Bukhsh, Technical University of
Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark).
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10:30 AM............... Break.
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10:45 AM............... Session T2-A (Meeting Room 3M-2).
Robust Reserve Modeling for Wind Power
Integration in Ramp-Based Unit Commitment.
German Morales-Espana, Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH) (Madrid, Spain).
Ross Baldick, University of Texas (Austin,
Texas).
Javier Garcia-Gonzalez, Andres Ramos,
Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid,
Spain).
Concepts and Practice Using Stochastic Programs
for Determining Reserve Requirements.
Robert Entriken, Eamonn Lannoye, Aidan
Tuohy, EPRI (Palo Alto, California).
Garret LaBove, Russ Philbrick, PSO.
Edward Lo, CAISO.
Larsen Plano, PG&E.
SCUC and SCD Software for Fully Coordinated
Regional Power Markets.
Assef Zobian, Cambridge Energy Solutions
(Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Kurt Glaesemann, Northwest National
Laboratory (Richland, Washington).
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Session T2-B (Meeting Room 3M-4).
Establishing a Consistent State of the European
Electricity Transmission Network by Merging.
Non-synchronised Data from Several Countries
with an AC Optimal Power Flow.
Maxime Fender, Artelys (Montreal, Canada).
Mireille Chevallier, Rte (Versailles,
France).
Sylvain Mouret, Pierre Girardeau, Manuel
Ruiz, Artelys (Paris, France).
Operating Beyond PV Curve Limits.
Marija Ilic, Jeffrey Lang, NETSS, Inc
(Sudbury, Massachusetts).
Sanja Cvijic.
Stochastic Optimal Power Flow with Uncertain
Reserves from Flexible Loads.
Johanna Mathieu, Siqian Chen, University of
Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Maria Vrakopoulou, Goran Andersson, ETH
Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland).
12:15 PM............... Lunch
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1:30 PM................ Session T3-A (Meeting Room 3M-2).
A Stochastic Electricity Market Clearing
Formulation with Consistent Pricing
Properties.
Victor Zavala, Mihai Anitescu, Argonne
National Laboratory (Argonne, Illinois).
Stochastic Modeling at Multiple Timescales.
Hongyu Wu, Erik Ela, NREL (Golden,
Colorado).
Multistage Robust Unit Commitment with Affine
Policies and Efficient Algorithms.
Sun Xu, Alvaro Lorca, Georgia Institute of
Technology (Atlanta, Georgia).
Tongxin Zheng, Eugene Litvinov, ISO New
England (Holyoke, Massachusetts)
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Session T3-B (Meeting Room 3M-4).
Model-Predictive Cascade Mitigation in Electric
Power Systems With Storage and Renewables.
Mads Almassalkhi, Ian Hiskens, University of
Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Multi-time-step Chance Constrained Generation
Re-dispatch.
Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University (New
York, New York).
Michael Chertkov, Scot Backhaus, Russell
Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los
Alamos, New Mexico).
Quantifying the Trade-off Between Secure and
Economic Operation of Power Systems Under
Uncertainty.
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Maria Vrakopoulou, John Lygeros, Goeran
Andersson, ETH Zurich (Zurich,
Switzerland).
Kostas Margellos, UC Berkeley (Berkeley,
California).
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3:00 PM................ Break.
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3:30 PM................ Session T4-A (Meeting Room 3M-2).
Scenario Reduction for Scalable Stochastic Unit
Commitment.
Sarah Ryan, Yonghan Feng, Iowa State
University (Ames, Iowa).
Cesar Silva-Monroy, Jean-Paul Watson, Sandia
National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New
Mexico).
David L. Woodruff, University of California
Davis (Davis, California).
Stochastic Models for Generation Unit
Commitment.
Tim Schulze, The School of Mathematics
(Edinburgh, United Kingdom).
Kenneth I.M. McKinnon, The University of
Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom).
A Scalable Decomposition Algorithm for Solving
Stochastic Transmission and Generation
Investment Planning Problems.
Francisco Munoz, Jean-Paul, Sandia National
Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
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Session T4-B (Meeting Room 3M-4).
Computational Performance of the Current-
Voltage (IV) Linearization of the ACOPF:
Before Extensions.
Anya Castillo, Johns Hopkins University
(Baltimore, Maryland).
Transmission Switching with the Current-Voltage
(IV) Linearization of the ACOPF.
Paula Lipka, University of California,
Berkeley (Berkeley, California).
Evaluating High Penetrations of Off-Shore Wind
using SMART-ISO.
Warren B. Powell, Hugo P. Simao, Princeton
University (Princeton, New Jersey).
Computational Study of Security Constrained
Economic Dispatch with Multi-period
Rescheduling.
Michael Ferris, Yanchao Liu, Feng Zhao,
University of Wisconsin (Madison,
Wisconsin).
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6:00 PM................ Adjourn.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
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8:45 AM................ Arrive and welcome (3M-2)
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9:00 AM................ Session W1-A (Meeting Room 3M-2)
Distributionally Robust Congestion Management
with Dynamic Line Ratings.
Feng Qiu, Jianhui Wang, Argonne National
Laboratory (Argonne, Illinois).
Real Time Dynamic Path Limit Computation for
Market Efficiency and Grid Reliability.
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Naresh Acharya,
Chaitanya Baone, Santosh Veda, GE Global
Research (Niskayuna, New York).
Implementation Of Dynamic Thermal Ratings in
the Operational Environment.
Kwok Cheung, Alstom Grid (Redmond,
Washington).
Hongxia Wu.
Identifying, Modeling and Utilizing The Hidden
Capacity in the Transmission Network.
Richard Tabors, Tabors Caramanis Rudkevich
(Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Adam Rousselle, Utility Risk Management
Corporation (New Hope, Pennsylvania).
Aleksandr Rudkevich, Newton Energy Group
(Newton, Massachusetts).
Michael Seelhof, Tabors Caramanis Rudkevich
(New York, New York)
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Session W1-B (Meeting Room 3M-4).
Stochastic Operations Toolkit for Power Systems
with High Penetration of Solar Energy.
Cesar Silva-Monroy, Jean-Paul Watson,
Francisco Munoz, Sandia National
Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
Richard Chen, Ali Pinar, Sandia National
Laboratories (Livermore, California).
Andrew Mills, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (Berkeley, California).
Use of Cloud Computing in Power Market
Simulations.
Aleksandr Rudkevich, John Goldis, Newton
Energy Group (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Richard Tabors, Lorna Omondi, Tabors
Caramanis Rudkevich (Cambridge,
Massachusetts)
Incorporating Intra-hour Market Pricing.
Gary Dorris, Ascend Analytics, LLC (Boulder,
Colorado).
Facilitating Appropriate Compensation of
Electric Energy and Reserve Through
Standardized Contracts.
Leigh Tesfatsion, Deung-Yong Heo, Iowa State
University (Ames, Iowa).
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11:00 AM............... Break.
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11:15 AM............... Session W2-A (Meeting Room 3M-2).
Concentric Relaxations and Transmission
Switching.
Jim Ostrowski, Mike Hare, University of
Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee).
Jianhui Wang, Argonne National Laboratory
(Argonne, Illinois).
Probabilistic Security Analysis of Optimal
Transmission Switching.
Daniel Kirschen, Pierre Henneaux, University
of Washington (Seattle, Washington).
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Session W2-B (Meeting Room 3M-4).
Experience Solving the RTO Unit Commitment Test
System.
Stephen Elbert, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory (Richland, Washington).
Stochastic Look-ahead Dispatch with
Intermittent Renewable Generation via
Progressive Hedging and L-shaped Method.
Yingzhong (Gary) Gu, Le Xie, Texas A&M
University (College Station, Texas)
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12:15 PM............... Adjourn.
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