Tuesday, October 12, 2021 (Day One)
Session 1: Introduction & Market Assessment
Presentation PDFs
- Opening and welcome remarks: Peter Lilienthal – Founder, HOMER Energy & Global Microgrid Lead, UL
- Three key trends in global microgrid markets: EaaS, C&I and EVs: Peter Asmus – Research Director, Guidehouse Insights
- Policies and programs driving (and hindering) microgrid adoption: Cameron Brooks – Executive Director, Think Microgrid
Session 2: Utility-scale Renewables: Hybridization of Front-of-the-meter Power Systems
Presentation PDFs
- Energy storage: The building blocks of a green grid: Christina Duong – Energy market specialist, UL
- All things are not equal: how and why to use different battery augmentation and dispatch strategies: David Mintzer – Lead Energy Storage, UL
- AC vs. DC coupling: An old debate renewed: Neha Sinha – Product leader for energy storage, GE Renewable Energy Hybrids
- Parametric Optimization of Energy Storage Resources to Drive Asset Value: Raafe Khan – Manager of Energy Storage, Pine Gate Renewables
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 (Day Two)
Session 3: Off-grid Systems and Their Expanding Role in Industrialized Countries
Presentation PDFs
- Basis for the future: Simulation of measured operational behavior of the microgrid in Cerros de Vera, Uruguay: Natalia Bitenc, Renewable and sustainability analyst at Mercados Aries, UPM – CIEMAT – UTE
- Engineering in a typhoon: Otteh Edubio, Service/project delivery team lead, OKRA Solar
- California’s largest utility mitigates fire risk with hybrid solar + storage remote grid: Michele Nesbit, Co-founder and COO, BoxPower
- The lowest place: Big, rural microgrids in the Dead Sea region: Elad Orian, Co-founder and general manager, Comet-ME
- Refugee camps: Modeling demand flexibility and tiered-resilience to reduce energy costs: Manojit Ray, Research scholar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Session 4: C&I Behind-the-meter Projects and EV Charging: Moving Toward a More Resilient, Mobile Electrified Future
Presentation PDFs
- EV charging: Design and feasibility of a hybrid-power charging station: Venkatesh Boddapati, Assistant professor, B.M.S. College of Engineering
- How fleet managers meet rapid EV charging timelines: Duncan Campbell, Vice president, Scale Microgrid
- EV charging feasibility study: Kwitonda Japhet, Master’s student, African Centre of Excellence in Energy for Sustainable Development, University of Rwanda
- Solar microgrids for resilience and cost reduction: Craig Lewis, Founder and executive director, Clean Coalition
- Snohomish County PUD Microgrid—using microgrids as a platform for V2G: Gaston Ortega, Business development lead, Grid Edge Solutions, Hitachi ABB Power Grids
- DER developers and utility collaboration to improve customer experience: Alexis Tubb, Manager, RMI
Thursday, October 14, 2021 (Day Three)
Session 5: Island Power: Renewables for Diesel-powered Utilities
Presentation PDFs
- Microgrid case study: Abaco Community Center, Bahamas: Leon DeSouza, Senior project manager, Clinton Climate Initiative, Clinton Foundation
- Navigating uncharted waters: Grid interconnections in Curacao: Michael Ginsburg, Vice president of Energy Transition, Bowman Consulting
- Harbledown Island: Lessons learned from a year of operations: Mike Murray, Co-founder and COO, Ageto Energy
- Wind turbine integration on a diesel-powered microgrid in the Greek islands: Martin Savaris, Corporate finance and strategy, EWT Direct Wind
- Island case studies: How energy management systems help optimize microgrids: Risto Paldanius, Vice president, Americas, Wärtsilä Energy
Session 6: Controls: Innovative Energy Resource and Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the Microgrid Revolution
Presentation PDFs
- Flow batteries in utility-scale solar + storage: Brian Ballek, Commercial analyst, Invinity Energy Systems
- From conventional to hybrid power plants and microgrids: Dino Ablakovic, Product manager for microgrids, Siemens Energy
- Energy system monitoring made easy: Dylan Spriggs, Power systems engineer, Blue Planet Energy
- Enabling a transactive energy marketplace: Grid-tied communication protocols: Christopher Wiacek, Head of global business development, PXiSE Energy
- Energy storage microgrids: how the control of microgrid energy can increase renewable energy penetration: Cyril Colin, CEO, Elum Energy
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