Tuesday May 10, 2016
| Welcome and Introduction | Sandia and EPRI |
Distribution Modeling for Planning and Screening
| Solar in PG&E IRP planning | Tom Russell | PG&E | |
| Implementing Hosting Capacity Methods into Existing Planning Tools | Jeff Smith | EPRI | |
| Rapid QSTS Simulations for high-resolution comprehensive assessment of distributed PV | Robert Broderick | Sandia |
Technical and Policy Challenges of High Penetration PV on the Distribution System
| IEEE 1547 update | Tom Key | EPRI | |
| Technical challenges at high penetration, modeling, and mitigation | Michael Ropp | Northern Plains Power Technologies | |
| Necessity of Distribution System Monitoring with High Renewable Energy Integration | Hashem Mortazavi | Quebec University | |
| Arizona Public Service (APS) – Solar Partners Program | Sanket Adhikari | APS | |
| Integrated DER Planning Case Study: Customer Dispersion Analysis and Distribution System Impacts | Elizabeth Waldren | Black & Veatch |
Advanced Inverter Functionality (AIF)
| Opportunities and Challenges in Using Advanced Inverter Functionality | Rasool Aghatehrani | NRG | |
| Advanced Inverter Impacts and Methods to Determine Recommended Settings | Matt Rylander | EPRI | |
| Advanced Inverter Functions and Control of DER | Matt Reno | Sandia | |
| Lessons learned from PG&E’s Volt Var Optimization Pilot on High Distributed PV Penetration Feeders | Rustom Dessai | PG&E | |
| Advanced Inverter Functionality Requirements Across the U.S | Tom Tansy | SunSpec Alliance | |
| Advanced inverter roll out – The Hawaiian experience | John Berdner | Enphase |
Solar Variability Impacts to the Distribution System
| PV Geographic Smoothing Effect at Feeder, Substation, and System Levels | Michael McCarty | Solar City | |
| High Frequency Data For Distribution Grid PV Impact Studies: Importance and Availability | Matt Lave | Sandia |
Distributed Control and Operation Management with High PV Deployment Levels
| Increased penetration of PV in utility distribution systems with the Spirae Wave control platform | Mohit Chhabra | Spirae | |
| PV Inverter Island Detection Evaluation Using Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) Techniques | Barry Mather | NREL | |
| Enhancing grid stability by deploying advanced inverter control | Dean Schoeder | Trimark Associates |
