Events

PUF held its inaugural Fortnightly Top Innovators 2023 conference October 10-12 at the historic Willard Hotel.

The PUF team honors 17 individual innovators or teams of innovators, in categories such as reliability, transmission tech, and grid ops.

“As we gather for the 139th time this month in Savannah, AEIC is still very much guided by our forebearers’ vision to work collaboratively, gather information, and exchange ideas to benefit all members.”

“Operating in an underground environment is different. The equipment must be rated differently, must be able to function in fully submerged environments, and be reliable to do that, so this equipment was built with that idea in mind.”

“We have several of our distribution feeders that are a hundred percent connected solar on the distribution feeder. Today, we don’t have any way of energy management on the distribution feeder, so the battery storage will enable us to do energy management on those distribution feeders.”

“The goal of this testing is to enable newer projects by looking at signals and controlling devices such as relays for when we want to interconnect DERs onto our grid and see how they would impact our systems.”

“The most rewarding part has been the partnerships and leadership role PSE has taken. We wanted this Clean Buildings Law to be successful – so many of us in Energy Efficiency are here because we are trying to help save the planet – and reducing GHGs in buildings is one of the reasons.”

“We started with idle mitigation systems because EV options are limited on medium and heavy truck chassis. With the aggressive goals we have by 2025 and 2030, we had to find another way to achieve those targets and the idle mitigation systems count toward the goals.”

“The two pieces are for wind generation for drivetrains and solar module performance. The system of analytics we have created is a dashboard screen for an entire site. We could expand that to an entire fleet. By pre-alarming on a wind turbine, the display will indicate an anomaly through statistical analytics. Allowing for inspection and repair prior to the unit coming offline for a fault.”

“ The System Operations team supported the development of the measurement and validation data from the system peak load offset contributions. As we move from development into implementation, our team will establish the DER forecast and schedule events.”