Technical Talk with RF

ReliabilityFirst (RF) offers a regularly scheduled monthly call to provide entities and stakeholders with a forum for addressing topics and questions relevant to reliability, resilience and security.   

While RF Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) will provide presentations and updates, they will not address entity-specific questions and issues. These types of questions can be handled offline by using the RF Assist Visit program. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mike Hughes, Entity Engagement Manager, 216-503-0617.  

Agenda

Oscillations in the power grid 

Courtney Fasca, Senior Reliability Consultant, External Affairs, Lew Folkerth, Principal Reliability Consultant, External Affairs, Kellen Phillips, Principal Analyst, Operational Analysis & Awareness, and Parimal Saraf, Principal Engineer, Engineering & System Performance, RF 

RF staff will discuss oscillations in the power grid from multiple angles based on each of their expertise, offering a beginner-friendly look at this rising reliability risk with the proliferation of inverter-based resources (IBRs). Learn more about small signal analysis, review real-world case studies, and current actions industry and the ERO Enterprise are taking to mitigate this risk.  

Lessons learned from international case studies 

Catherine Lewis, Energy Policy Analyst, External Affairs, RF 

Join us for another deep dive into several international case studies — from European blackouts to ongoing fuel crises, Catherine Lewis will recap what led to these events and discuss lessons learned: how to prevent these issues, mitigation strategies being employed, and what we can learn from these cases in the U.S.