Steven Broad, Energy Exemplar's VP, Product Management, will kick-start the event providing a brief agenda and program overview. 

As renewables, battery storage, and other technologies increase in grid penetration, reliability modeling is critical to successfully achieve SB100, AB1279, and other California emissions targets through 2045. This talk will overview the challenges, steps being taken, and potential solutions to ensure San Diego achieves these goals.

Our world’s reliance on fossil fuels is the biggest obstacle to cleaner, safer, accessible, and affordable energy. It’s time to focus on not just dreaming up, but simulating and proving all the possible solutions to our better energy future with data. Modeling technology is here to help pave the way.

It’s 2023 and we are long past seeing energy sectors as silos – gas, power, heat, etc. are all irrevocably linked. A change in one sector affects the other. So, let’s reflect that in our models and find optimal solutions to interconnected energy systems, to enhance overall performance and synergy. By coupling energy sectors, energy systems become more resilient, diverse, and less reliant on a single source of energy or infrastructure.  

This presentation will share insights from EPRI’s multi-year Integrated Strategic System Planning (ISSP) Initiative, which developed a novel modeling framework and analytical toolbox for more comprehensively planning across generation, transmission, distribution, and end-use systems for reliable, cost-effective, low-carbon electric power systems. Lessons learned from a demonstration study performed on the New York power system, which illustrates how the ISSP modeling framework can be applied in practice, will also be shared.

Meeting decarbonization goals will require innovative approaches, not only from a modeling perspective (co-optimization, unified energy modeling, etc.), but also from a process perspective.  Energy companies need to converge and integrate multiple business units within the enterprise in order to have a comprehensive view of their supply and consumption energy matrix.  Decarbonization can only be achieved with integrated modeling of transportation, distribution and primary energy fuel sources, together with conventional generation, transmission and storage resources.