Success Factors for Sustainable Electrical Energy Delivery and Decarbonization

Abstract

. Resilient, reliable and efficient electrical grid operation is critical to society. The electrical power and energy industry is changing rapidly to meet the demands of the society and address decarbonization needs. New technologies offer significant opportunities for realizing a resilient and sustainable energy future. Identifying the best strategies to ensure reliable, resilient, and cost -effective delivery of electrical power energy is needed to set a path to decarbonization to address climate change. Those strategies include integration of renewable energy resources and electrical storage and together with electrification of transportation and innovative approaches to building climate control are critical ingredients of any energy future. It is critical to ensure that inverter-based resources like solar PV and battery energy storage systems have the capability to provide essential reliability services to the electric power system. We have to than taking more aggressive to adapt, including equipment we now is a renewed understanding value just but that enables and recognize the contributions of renewable energy resources, energy storage, and electrification in achieving reliability, and safety targets. We in making business and technical decisions that will allow us to optimally and cost-effectively manage the grid. This presentation will discuss success factors for sustainable electrical energy delivery in the context of industry trends and transformation drivers and opportunities for grid modernization with technologies for the changing nature of electricity delivery and decarbonization. Abstract. In this age of climate crisis, stakeholders are recognizing the need to integrate larger quantities of advanced energy technologies, from renewable generation to electrified transportation. Electric utilities the world over are challenged to integrate new technologies while limiting impacts to grid reliability. Further, the expectation of more frequent and intense weather events will drive the need for smart grid investments that provide greater energy resilience. Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) is developing and deploying technologies that enable increased penetration of low- carbon technologies, mitigate the effects of climate change, and enable higher levels of resilience, helping the communities in the utility’s service territory adapt to a changing environment. Many of these technologies are being demonstrated in Chicago where ComEd is installing the Bronzeville Community Microgrid (BCM). Within the BCM ComEd is deploying the first utility- operated microgrid cluster, serving 7 MW of load, that is being used as a living laboratory to demonstrate advanced technologies that support the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs). Together, these technologies ensure that ComEd can provide clean power, supporting communities to meet their goals. partnership and a controller that enables to operate as a resource. This technology is being demonstrated with 750 kW of and 500 kW/2MWh is demonstrating a distri buted linear estimation capability that supports the integration of DER. Abstract. Metrology is at the heart of the present development of intelligent grids: there is no such thing like an intelligent grid without measurements. This presentation will highlight the significant contributions metrology presentl y is making to the development of intelligent grids, with an outlook to the challenges that still lie ahead. This will among others cover the calibration of PMUs and digital instrumentation for grid monitoring and control, ensuring correct metering under h ighly polluted grid conditions, measurement of power quality up to the supraharmonics range, testing of grid components at increasingly high grid voltage levels, and reliable efficiency measurements of power transformers and reactors. The challenges are un precedented, with needs for traceability of digital instrumentation, for on - site measurement in grids and at test sites, and for metrology support to data analytics aiming to turn the vast amounts of grid measurement data into actionable information for grid operators.