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 510 486 7284 – jheto@lbl.gov http://certs.lbl.gov

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

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

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

Funding Summary by Research Performer

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

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

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

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

Funding Summary by Research Area

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

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