[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 105 (Monday, June 2, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31321-31324]
[FR Doc No: 2014-12635]

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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\ http://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).
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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).
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12:15 PM...............  Lunch.
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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.

                            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.

                            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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