Lecture: April 25, 2011
Energy Management Systems for Power Grid
Ken Caird, General Electric Energy
Bio
Ken Caird has over 35 years’ experience in the Electric Utility automation field.
He started his career as a Protection and Control engineer at a major Canadian Utility. After 15 years at the utility, Ken became Director of R&D at a substation automation start up that became the #1 supplier of substation automation products in North America. After the company grew to $80 million dollars it was acquired by General Electric.
Ken is responsible for the high level architectural design for GE’s Smart Grid System offering. This includes interoperability requirements between GE’s products used in Smart Grid solutions and legacy systems used by GE’s utility customers. Ken is also responsible for developing requirements and working with external System Integrators to provide interoperability between utility real time network operational systems and IT based enterprise systems.
Ken is the U.S. national country representative on the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standards Management Board (SMB) Smart Grid (SG) #3. Ken is also leading the IEC SMB SG #3 Architecture Task Team developing a database linking Smart Grid business and architectural requirements to IEC standards.
Abstract
This talk deals with the role of an Energy Management System (EMS) in the overall Smart Grid. Why an EMS is needed will be discussed and its importance to the overall reliability and efficiency of the electric grid. The NERC operating regions will be explain as well as the NERC requirements placed on electric operating authorities. We will look at key operating functions such as monitoring and control, generation control, load forecasting, load balancing and the economic factors in generation and transmission of electricity. We will also discuss key security and reliability factors which must be maintained during normal and dynamic system operations. How operators are trained for all emergency events will also be discussed. Finally we will look at the future of EMS’s and where the technology is going.
Lecture Notes
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