Elevate Energy Consulting

From all of us at Elevate Energy Consulting, Happy National Engineers Week to the engineers working diligently to enable a reliability, resilient, sustainable, affordable, and safe grid of the future! #elevate #uplift #innovate #reinvent #collaborate #celebrate

Elevate Energy Consulting is thrilled to have played a small part in supporting The AES Corporation to test the #PSCAD models for these new hybrid resources to meet the Hawaiian Electric interconnection requirements. The battery energy storage system (#BESS) components are grid-forming, which adds to the excitement for these projects. Congrats to #AES and #HECO for their hard work and diligence integrating high levels of inverter-based resources (#IBR) while ensuring high levels of islanded grid reliability!

ERCOT NOGRR 245 activities are in full force and the Elevate Energy Consulting 🏔️ team is tirelessly working on assessing the ride-through capabilities of over 50+ plants in Texas! This is no small feat - it requires ongoing collaboration with the OEMs, IBR unit-level assessments, balance of plant relay assessments, PSCAD simulations, and deep understanding of IBR dynamics and controls. I'm extremely impressed with the focus, attention to detail, technical rigor, and dedication the #Elevate team has put in thus far to "get this right" to maximize IBR ride-through capabilities across multiple Resource Entities' fleets to meet the impending April 1 deadlines. ⚡ ERCOT released the updated DocuSign today with final details on materials that must be provided by April 1. ⚡ The packet also included templates for the IVRTCR and IFRTCR reports that must be submitted for any exemptions and extensions. ⚡ The packet also included an FAQ with additional details and answers to questions. ⚡ ERCOT also issued a Market Notice with the details and instruction for submittal. ⚡ The workshop previously scheduled for Feb 26 was postponed to March 10, leaving only 3 weeks between that final workshop and the April 1 deadline. ⚡ Careful attention to modeling (PSCAD, PSSE, TSAT) is needed to meet the obligations. Elevate Energy Consulting has developed a software-enabled workflow for effectively managing all these sites and their documentation, and working collaboratively with our clients. Kudos to all our clients who are working collaboratively with us on this innovative way of transforming how we do business more effectively and efficiently. 🙌 #Elevate #Grid💪 #Innovate #Uplift #Transform Market Notice: https://lnkd.in/g8v4x_AJ 📞 If you need to "phone a friend", feel free to reach out to me or Farhad Yahyaie and we'd be happy to provide support!

⚡ Elevate Energy Consulting continues to grow and we are looking for someone to join our Engineering and Compliance Services team. This role will have the opportunity to work on a myriad of projects ranging from leading industry efforts related to large loads and data centers, to advanced monitoring technology adoption and implementation, to event analysis, to protection system evaluations and modeling, to operational readiness efforts related to inverter-based resources, to NERC/FERC regulatory compliance projects, to advanced automations. So many opportunities to take on exciting and innovative projects, learn new skills, and be part of industry initiatives! Kyle Thomas is not only an inspiring leader to work with, he's also one of the best human beings I know. A valuable unique perk for this role, in my books. Come be a part of the amazing work we're doing at Elevate Energy Consulting! 🏔️

📣 Grid Forming (#GFM) in the News! Salt River Project recently released a Business Practice on Grid Forming (#GFM) Battery Energy Storage System (#BESS) Specification and Simulation Test Procedures, effective February 14, 2025. 🔹The Business Practice emphasizes the rapid growth of inverter-based resources (#IBR) that SRP is experiencing, and recognizes the need to maintain high levels of grid stability and reliability. 🔹#SRP is "adopting #GFM technology for #BESS on a case-by-case basis” and the Business Practice serves as the technical requirements for SRP to test performance against for applicable interconnections. 🔹The Business Practice applies to “to any standalone BESS or the BESS component of a co-located facility where SRP specifies that the BESS shall operate in GFM mode.” 🔹The functional specification mirrors the #NERC specification closely and the simulation test procedures are a simplified version of the NERC tests, using one test system and simulation test with pass/fail criteria defined. 🔹IBRs are expected to meet other SRP IBR performance specifications and allows for exemptions requested by the interconnection customer for any challenges meeting those requirements (considering that SRP has adopted many parts of IEEE 2800-2022 already), allowing flexibility and reasonableness to the interconnection process. 🔹SRP will review the submitted GFM #model and accompanying simulation test report to ensure all pass/fail criteria are met. Interconnection customers can resubmit models and simulation test reports to address any issues identified. 📈 This is a major milestone in the path toward GFM adoption, particularly in a region expecting very high instantaneous IBR penetration within the decade.   Source: https://lnkd.in/gVTY9JQN

Anyone out there responsible for or working on ERCOT NOGRR 255 "High Resolution Data Requirements"? Elevate Energy Consulting 🏔️ is doing some work in this area to ensure Resource Entities have disturbance monitoring capabilities that comply with the requirements set forth - sequence of events recording, digital fault recording, dynamic disturbance recording, retention and reporting requirements, location selection, equipment selection, configuring triggers and measurements, etc. 💻 We have a streamlined process for assessing sites in terms of disturbance monitoring capability, determining possible gaps, and identifying effective ways to leverage existing infrastructure and equipment to meet the requirements. ⌛ Partial compliance was required December 2024 and full compliance is required by December 2025. 🛠️ These efforts are very similar in nature to the upcoming #NERC PRC-028 requirements and we can support in this area as well.

ESIG with support from Elevate Energy Consulting, and in collaboration with Berkeley Lab and EPRI, is supporting the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiative to facilitate the Forum for the Implementation of Reliability Standards for Transmission (FIRST) as part of the DOE’s Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X). Join us Tuesday, February 25, for our next meeting to discuss power quality and protection requirements, particularly Clauses 8 and 9 of IEEE 2800-2022. ‼️PLEASE NOTE ‼️ ESIG is hosting the February 25 meeting and requires separate registration, even if you have registered on the DOE platform in the past. Please register for the February 25 meeting here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5ycRZXC Mark your calendar for the upcoming i2X FIRST Meeting: 📆 March 17th, 2025 hybrid half-day event during ESIG Spring Workshop, Austin, Texas 🖥️ Visit the DOE i2X FIRST website for meeting materials, recordings, future meeting details and agendas 👉 https://lnkd.in/eY8v_6VD FIRST convenes North American independent system operators, regional transmission operators, utility staff, generator developers and owners/operators, consultants and original equipment manufacturers interested in advancing the implementation of updated interconnection clean energy standards. The Forum is a series of monthly, interactive, virtual meetings comprised of expert presentations and industry discussions. Each meeting, focused on a specific technical aspect of the standards, addresses the rationale behind the requirements, technology readiness, best practices for conformity assessment and monitoring, and technical challenges and implementation gaps.

We are excited to announce that Nicholas Giffin is joining #Elevate as a Lead Engineer in our Power System Studies and Modeling team! Nick has over 20 years of experience in transmission and distribution system planning and operations. He has worked on a wide range of real-world, practical utility planning and operations projects. Examples include operational support during the commissioning of (#GFM) #HVDC, studying proposed interconnections of modern inverter-based resources (#IBRs) using #PSCAD, #NERC compliance support, complete redesigns of Remedial Action Schemes (#RAS), and managing synchronous generator stability issues in #PSS®E. Nick has most recently been involved in distribution system planning studies, which enables #Elevate to expand our offerings to distribution system studies and studying the impacts of #DERs, transportation electrification, virtual power plant (#VPP) impacts, and conventional distribution planning. Nick has tremendous experience from American Transmission Company (#ATC) and Madison Gas and Electric (#MGE) and is a registered Professional Engineer in Wisconsin. Fun fact: Nick recently "ran across a lake" - you'll have to ask him about it sometime! 🏃♂️

Anyone looking for exciting projects, creating innovative solution, cool PSSE and PSCAD modeling and studies, and want to work with Farhad Yahyaie and his team of rockstars? Join us at Elevate Energy Consulting! We offer competive salary, full benefits, 401k access, home office and personal wellness perks, and a very flexible work schedule. Did I mention we are hiring folks in Canada? 🇨🇦 ❄️

🗞️ Grid forming (#GFM) battery (#BESS) work in the news Source: https://lnkd.in/g_2qRA-S