1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions Overview and Summary of Current Research Presentation for PSERC Annual Retreat August 9, 2001
Joe Eto
CERTS Program Office
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory –

2. Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions
Created in 1999 to research, develop, and disseminate electric reliability technology solutions
Goal is to protect and enhance the reliability of the U.S. electric power system under the emerging competitive electricity market structure
Currently funded by DOE EERE/Office of Power Technologies and California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research program
Performers include: 4 Nat’l Labs (LBNL, ORNL, PNNL, SNL); NSF’s Power Systems Engineering Research Center – consortium of 10 universities; Electric Power Group; Southern California Edison
Staff to DOE Power Outage Study Team to investigate Summer 1999 outages

3. CERTS Management Steering Committee
Vikram Budhraja, Electric Power Group, Chair
Mark Levine, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Vice-Chair
Marilyn Brown, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Carl Imhoff, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Robert Thomas, Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Marjorie Tatro, Sandia National Laboratories

4. CERTS Industry Advisory Board
VIKRAM S. BUDHRAJA - Chair
President
Electric Power Group
MICHEHL R. GENT
North American Electric Reliability Council
TERRY M. WINTER
Chief Executive Officer
California Independent System Operator
PHILLIP G. HARRIS
President and CEO
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.
BRUCE A. RENZ
former VP Energy Delivery Support
American Electric Power
Chair, AEIC Electric Reliability Committee
EPRI Research Advisory Council
MARSHA SMITH
Commissioner, Idaho PUC
Chair, NARUC Electricity Committee
JOSE DELGADO
President and CEO
American Transmission Company
RICK A. BOWEN
Executive Vice President
Dynegy
PAUL BARBER
Sr. Vice President, Transmission & Engrg.
Citizens Power
DALE T. BRADSHAW
Senior Mgr., Power Delivery Technology
Tennessee Valley Authority
JOHN D. WILEY
Provost & Vice Chancellor, Academic
University of Wisconsin

5. Funding Summary by Research Performer

6. Real-Time Grid Reliability Management
Lay groundwork for transition of the electric power grid from passive response to active anticipation and mitigation of disturbances
Develop and demonstrate operational decision support tools for system operators and security coordinators
Research and develop measurement and controls for advanced detection of and automatic responses to potential problems to ensure system reliability

7. Reliability and Markets
Science-based contributions to the understanding of the impact and role of market forces in ensuring system reliability
Develop and demonstrate enabling technologies and techniques for price-responsive load
Develop tools to assist participants and policymakers better understand and improve the design and operation of markets
Analyze the reliability-related impacts of market operations

8. Distributed Energy Resources Integration
System integration tools and techniques to permit reliability-enhancing operation of large numbers of small (< 1 MW) distributed energy resources in the distribution system
“Microgrid” operation and control
System reliability impacts and coordination
Focus on integration issues beyond current scope of IEEE P 1547

9. CERTS Contributions to Summer 2001 Electricity Reliability
Demonstration of Reliability Management tools at North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) for ACE Compliance Monitoring and AIE Compliance Monitoring
Demonstration of Reliability Management tools at CAISO for VAR Management; Post-Disturbance Analysis using Phasor Measurements
Demonstrations of Load as a Reliability Resource through projects funded by CEC under AB 970 and CAISO for development of load participation programs
Evaluation of Micro-grids through field tests at UC Irvine
Analysis of market design features of NE-ISO, PJM, and CAISO
Technical support for WSCC performance tests and model validation

10. Funding Summary by Research Area

11. Research Organization
Real Time Grid Reliability Management - C. Imhoff
Reliability Adequacy Tools – C. Martinez
System Security Management Tools – P. Sauer
Advanced Measurement and Controls – J. Dagle
Reliability and Markets – R. Thomas
Market Tools – F. Alvarado
Reliability Impacts of Market Operations – F. Alvarado
Distributed Energy Resources Integration – M. Tatro
MicroGrid – R. Lasseter/A. Akhil
Load as a Resource – M. Brown/M. Levine
Demonstrations – J. Kueck/J. Eto
Strategic Initiatives – V. Budhraja

12. DOE Transmission Grid Study
National Energy Policy (NEP) directed the Secretary of Energy to examine the benefits of establishing a national electrical grid, identifying major transmission bottlenecks and remedies to remove them
CERTS will organize and provide technical support to DOE team leading the study
Study will develop issue papers and hold public workshops on key policy issues
Issues likely to include: need determination; permitting and siting; business models for investment and operation; operating and interconnection policies; reliability management and oversight; deployment of new technologies
Final report is due Dec. 31, 2001