Please join us for a half-day workshop on November 8, 2018 on Microgrid Development in Pennsylvania – Case studies on Systems Integration and Controls.
Date: November 8, 2018
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Location: Penn State at The Navy Yard Building 661, 4960 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, PA 19112
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Agenda
8:30 a.m. — Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. — Program Begins:
- National Renewable Energy Lab's (NREL) microgrid facilities capabilities
- How Understanding Energy Use Patterns Can Inform Interconnected Grid, Smart-Grid and Microgrid Operations
- Panel #1 – Microgrid Sites (Navy Yard, Reading, Quakertown)
- Panel #2 – Systems Integration
- NSF Engineering Research Center Collaboration and Discussion
- Meeting Wrap-Up and Next Steps
12:45 p.m. — Conclude; Boxed Lunches Provided
Event Presentations and Panel Discussion
Presentations
- NREL Microgrid Systems Integration and Controls research activity; NREL facilities for microgrid testing and computational modelling
Bill Kramer, Principal/Lead Research Engineer, Energy Systems Integration Facility, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - How Understanding Energy Use Patterns Can Inform Interconnected Grid Smart-Grid and Microgrid Operations
Scott Wagner, Associate Research Professor, Penn State at the Navy Yard
Panel #1: Pennsylvania microgrid opportunities
Quakertown, Reading, Navy Yard Smart Grid, and Penn State 7R building-scale microgrid
Panelists:
- James Freihaut, Director, Mid-Atlantic CHP TAP and Professor of Architectural Engineering, Penn State
- Kevin Wright, Co-founder and President, ProtoGen
- Rudy Terry, Director of Smart Grid Operations, The Philadelphia Navy Yard
- Phil Gonski, Project Manager, Burns Engineering, Inc
Panelists will be asked to discuss their projects and the issues they have faced regarding systems integration, communications and controls
Panel #2: Microgrid Systems Integration, Communications and Controls issues/gaps
Panelists:
- Karl Zimmerman, President and CEO, Energy IQ
- Len Wenger, TDX Global Solutions, Senior Director Business Development
- Bob Kirslis, Eaton
- Bill Kramer, Energy Systems Integration Facility, NREL
Panelists will be asked to join the first group and discuss challenges, opportunities short and longer-term solutions to the issues presented
NSF Engineering Research Center – opportunity for collaboration discussion
- Led by Dr. Sez Atamturktur, Head of the Department of Architectural Engineering, Penn State
Wrap Up and Next Steps
- Led by Sez Atamturktur and James Freihaut
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