Open Systems International. Evolution Training & Interest Group Lunch. Nathan Grahl () has worked with Great River Energy for 11 years. We already had a plan because it was already a priority. Great River Energy's system performed well in June 2021 despite temperatures repeatedly reaching above 90 degrees Fahrenheit. We believe in the importance of being authentic and professional and look for sponsorship opportunities that share our values. Since Winter Storm Wesley, Great River Energy has reviewed its pole specifications and inventory levels to enhance pole availability during emergency storm events. Payments for energy and any other products will be made by GRE directly to the member-consumer. These findings include utility responses to a recent SEPA EV managed charging survey, the growth of managed charging capable equipment vendors over the past two years, new case studies, and an updated overview of managed charging open standards both for the EV charging equipment and for automaker telematics.
Do not apply for both. While other battery technologies employ expensive and rare metals, iron is one of the safest, cheapest and most abundant minerals on Earth – and it is found in Minnesota's Iron Range. At Great River Energy, resilience is a journey that is never complete. We're just validating our designs and looking ahead to make sure we are designing them for tomorrow's ice loading.
Co-Chair Allison Hamilton. Taking the data from the MDMS and integrating it into the coop's GIS showed at a glance where the greatest concentrations of problem meters were located. After years of working in newspapers and magazines, Reinhart has spent the past five years working with Minnesota electric cooperatives, including Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association. Together, these cooperatives provide retail electric service to more than 720, 000 member-owners across Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin. Two-and-a-half years after the retirement of the Elk River Energy Recovery Station, the power plant site now resembles how it likely looked a century ago. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. We carefully consider and evaluate each sponsorship proposal against our organization's goals by following sponsorship guidelines. For their inconvenience – which is often not much of an inconvenience at all – the member receives a reduced electric rate from their electric cooperative. Every resource in Great River Energy's power supply portfolio played a role in serving its member-owner cooperatives. Factor 1: GRE's long-term planning enables a flexible contract. Running in California, Arizona and Ontario, Canada, the pilot yielded interesting answers to the following questions: Do customers care about TOU rates? Troubleshooting and warranty questions.
The utility's effort to ensure system resiliency has intensified over the last several years. Woodruff said the co-op is making sure if an asset is damaged or out of service, there is a plan in place to cover it. We strive to make sound investments with the right sponsorships, enabling us to provide community support and promote Great River Energy throughout the communities we serve and where we have facilities. Resiliency asset management.
Bob Donaldson, Duke Energy. Providing added reliability as we transition to cleaner electricity. By limiting the charging of electric vehicles to the off peak hours we are able to pass the savings to the end use member and charge them roughly half of the retail rate. Hear from industry experts on new trends and current programs using voice automation to support Demand Response and utility customer engagement.
Co-Chair Justin Chamberlain. SEPA has worked diligently with our members for the past three years to develop relevant and practical EV content. This presentation will provide an overview of progress to date on the Rewards project and discuss steps it takes to go from designing an integrated DER strategy all the way through selecting DER technologies, implementing a coordinated DER control platform, and working with customers to control distributed technologies to help them save money on time differentiated TOU/demand based rate plans while also serving grid needs. Drive Electric Minnesota partnership charged up, rolling, and welcoming newcomers. Co-presented by Beneficial Electrification League with PLMA. The Future of Distributed Energy Resources.
"We are working to develop GRE's definition of acceptable risk and mitigate all assets that fall below the acceptable risk level. Projected to decrease. With the new deal, Connexus will have greater flexibility to procure and build their own DERs to provide local, green electricity that supports beneficial electrification, while minimally impacting rates for other GRE members to "keep them whole. In addition, the 436-mile high-voltage, direct-current transmission system that delivered the plant's energy to Minnesota was contracted to provide a dedicated pathway for the planned 400-megawatt Discovery Wind project. A member-consumer with an eligible DG Resource may also sell capacity to GRE. Herter Energy Research Solutions. Control center employees responded to 746 phone calls and 918 radio calls during the height of the storm. "Hopefully my participation brought some understanding about the risk from a distribution perspective, and I was able to learn some more methods that could be utilized. We're just getting started. Connexus becoming a customer of GRE. This agreement is possible because Connexus has the scale to build its own expertise and capabilities. A DG Resource is eligible if it meets all of the following criteria: - It is an operable, permanently installed or mobile generation system serving the member-consumer at the same site that the member-consumer receives retail electric service from the AR Member; - It is connected in parallel to the AR Member's distribution system and normally operates in an extended parallel configuration; - It is fueled by: - Natural gas, - Renewable fuel, - Another similarly clean fuel, or. Grid North Partners is an evolution of CapX2020.
How does management at the grid-edge change the utility-customer relationship? DTE has a very similar program. Having this detailed information proved particularly helpful during Arrowhead Cooperative's work planning process. Beneficial Electrification's Role in Meeting New Load Management Challenges. "As its transmission system ages and old assets are replaced with new ones, it provides an opportunity to build resilience into the designs to meet the weather of tomorrow, not just today.
It is not enough to offer incentive dollars; rather programs must use marketing and technical expertise to instill confidence in nascent markets for advanced DR and DG projects. The team talked about many fire-prevention options, including fire-wrapping poles, sensors to detect fire, using electronic controls to minimize energizing lines that may cause a fire and increased right-of-way clearing. Each cooperative serves a unique membership with its own specific needs and expectations. C) Compliance with any required interconnection agreement. After we learn about Voice Assistance, there's much more… We'll hear from Brian Kirchman from ComEd about their latest innovative voice assistance pilot, Essie Snell from E-Source about his research across the country, and ecobee and Google about their latest products that incorporate these skills. They detail the processes and procedures the co-op follows during major events. Add to this the rapidly changing landscape for distributed energy resources (DERs), and it's no surprise that co-ops are entering a period of unprecedented innovation and experimentation. Member receives $100 rebate for first-time enrollment. In order for the transition to work, National Grid needed to develop a program that's not only fair and exciting for customers, but could also maintain flexibility to react to anticipated step changes in market dynamics, asset deployment, technology and software improvements, and the regulatory environment in the coming years. Members of Dakota Electric Association who are on the dual fuel load management program are encouraged to make sure they have adequate supplies of their secondary fuel source this winter. Co-Chair Christine Riker. Leading the way forward.
This approach, however, begs the question as to whether it would be prudent for utilities to try to directly control potentially millions of customer-owned systems. For example, there may be alternate sources that can serve the distribution substation. PLMA Awards Program. While the transition from BYOT to BYOD is a popular idea, few utilities have seized the opportunity and implemented programs that include multiple device classes on such a short timeline. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is the United States' authority on electric reliability. Each and every day, GRE looks a day ahead at market conditions and decides if load control will be necessary or beneficial for capacity or pricing needs. They are: Program Pacesetters: Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Olivine for Excess Supply Demand Response Program; Portland General Electric and Enbala for Distributed Flexibility at Scale; and Indiana Michigan Power and Tendril for Residential Integrated Demand Side Management Approach. Although the utility had the technology and data available to solve the problem, it did not have the data analytics resources to use them to their full advantage.
A Joint Session of the Connected Devices and Customer Engagement Interest Groups. We know this pricing is very important to you and it is extremely important to us. However, it suspected some of the meters had load control receivers that were not operating as intended. The team is determining if there are projects that could be done to help ease that burden in critical situations. Arrowhead Cooperative's member-consumers will enjoy an overall lower cost of purchased power for the entire cooperative—a long-term cost savings that will help to control rates for the membership. Although it costs slightly more than traditional equipment, this conductor has an asymmetrical shape designed to shed ice and causes continuous rotation.