Electrical & Computer Engineering Seminar
John Meyer, P.E. and Senior Market Solutions Architect, NYISO
&
Devin Hodoroski, Electrical Engineering Sophomore at Clarkson University
Will present a talk entitled:
A Testbed for New York’s Electricity System Decarbonization Study: Production Simulation and Capacity Expansion
SC160
Friday, October 7, 2022
4pm
Abstract: The New York State (NYS) electric system is transitioning toward having a significant proportion of its generation produced by renewable resources and operating many new energy storage assets. Through New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) and other policy goals, the state has committed to reforming the electric system in a way that aims to achieve nation-leading renewable energy goals and a zero-emission energy infrastructure. The existing electric system was conceived under the central generating station model, where the electricity supply is comprised mostly of large fossil, nuclear, and hydro stations and the original wholesale electric market design as a result was determined with this pretext. However, in the future NYS electric system generation resources may become more intermittent in their output and sparser in location. This presents some new challenges for how the commitment and dispatch decisions are made by the market software at the Independent System Operator (ISO). This research has developed (1) methods to model the unit commitment and economic dispatch operations of the NYS transmission system as a production cost model; (2) a long-term base load forecasting model, which factors in climate change; and (3) methods for long-term capacity expansion to predict the build and retirement of generation and storage assets as influenced by state policy goals, load forecast scenarios, and other factors. In future research, this modeling capability will be leveraged to theorize an energy reserve ancillary service to accommodate large amounts of intermittent generation and load uncertainty through robust optimization methods. As well, strictly public data sources and open-source mathematical programming models are being used to provide an openly available NYS electric system model for other researchers.
Bio: John Meyer, P.E. is a Senior Market Solutions Architect at NYISO, where his current work includes wholesale market design integration of Distributed Energy Resources and Hybrid Storage Resources. He is also an Electrical Engineering graduate student at Clarkson University and holds a dual B.S. in Nuclear Engineering/ Engineering Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. His professional experience includes power plant operations, power generation controls software design, power generation equipment performance, unit commitment/economic dispatch optimization software design, energy market design, and capacity expansion modeling.
Bio: Devin Hodoroski is a sophomore student currently pursuing his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at Clarkson University, where his research is advised by Professor Leo Yazhou Jiang. His current research deals with factoring climate change into a load forecasting model.
Also on zoom: https://clarkson.zoom.us/j/93976800999?pwd=ZENHWURZYWlEeCswNC84SEJSZ25UUT09
Meeting ID: 939 7680 0999
Passcode: 284621
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