Notice2023-03007
Increasing Market and Planning Efficiency Through Improved Software; Notice of Technical Conference: Increasing Real-Time and Day-Ahead Market and Planning Efficiency Through Improved Software
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February 13, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 29 (Monday, February 13, 2023)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03007]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. AD10-12-014]
Increasing Market and Planning Efficiency Through Improved
Software; Notice of Technical Conference: Increasing Real-Time and Day-
Ahead Market and Planning Efficiency Through Improved Software
Take notice that Commission staff will convene a technical
conference on June 27, 28, and 29, 2023 to discuss opportunities for
increasing real-time and day-ahead market and planning efficiency
through improved software. A detailed agenda with the list of and times
for the selected speakers will be published on the Commission's website
\1\ and in eLibrary after April 14, 2023.
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\1\ <a href="https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/electric/power-sales-and-markets/increasing-efficiency-through-improved-software">https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/electric/power-sales-and-markets/increasing-efficiency-through-improved-software</a>.
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This conference will bring together and encourage discussion
between experts from diverse backgrounds, including electric power
system operators, software developers, and professionals from
government, research centers, and academia. The conference will bring
these experts together for the purposes of stimulating discussion,
sharing information, and identifying fruitful avenues for research on
improving software for increased efficiency and reliability of the bulk
power system.
This conference will build on discussions at prior conferences in
this proceeding by focusing on topics identified as important to market
efficiency in those conferences. Broadly, such topics fall into the
following categories:
Topics for presentations at the conference will include:
(1) Advances in power market software that can shorten day-ahead
and real-time market solve times. This might include taking advantage
of multiple cores and/or graphics processing units, reducing model
granularity and/or the number of modeled constraints in places where it
has little impact (especially in the day-ahead markets), migrating to
higher-performance computing solutions, more efficient unit commitment
formulations, and any other approaches to shortening day-ahead and
real-time market solve times.
(2) Software related to implementing grid-enhancing technologies,
such as those described in Docket Nos. AD19-19 \2\ and AD19-15,\3\
including optimal transmission switching, dynamic transmission line
ratings, power flow controls, and any software related to implementing
the Commission's recent rulemaking regarding line ratings in Order No.
881.\4\
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\2\ Electric Transmission Incentives Policy under Section 219 of
the Federal Power Act, Docket No. AD19-19-000.
\3\ Managing Transmission Line Ratings, Docket No. AD19-15-000.
\4\ Managing Transmission Line Ratings, Order No. 881, 177 FERC
] 61,179 (2021).
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(3) Software advances to help with the transition to increased use
of probabilistic models in system planning and operations, whether
scenario-based or stochastic, to better account for low-probability,
high-impact events, such as extreme weather events, which are
increasingly common. This could include software that improves resource
adequacy and transmission planning models through means such as using
down-scaled climate change scenarios in such models. This could also
include software that improves forecasting of loads and generation
during extreme weather events.
(4) Software and/or market designs that better represent and
improve power markets' ability to meet emerging system needs. Among
emerging needs described in recent Commission proceedings,\5\ key
examples include flexibility to manage increasing uncertainty in the
operational and day-ahead and real-time time frame. Examples of
software and/or market designs that improve power markets' ability to
meet these and other emerging system needs include dynamic demand
curves for existing reserve products, new reserve products, multi-
interval market clearing, more granular market clearing (e.g., 15-
minute day-ahead markets), stochastic market clearing, improvements in
forecasting and visibility, novel constraint relaxation hierarchies,
and others.
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\5\ See Modernizing Wholesale Electricity Market Design, Docket
No. AD21-10-000.
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(5) Software for better modeling and computation of resources with
distinct operating characteristics such as storage resources, hybrid
resources, aggregations of DERs, and others, including software that
addresses challenges such resources pose to current market-clearing and
dispatch algorithms.
(6) Other improvements in algorithms, model formulations, or
hardware that may allow for increases in market efficiency and enhanced
bulk power system reliability.
The conference will take place in a hybrid format, with presenters
and attendees allowed to participate either in person or virtually.
Further details on both in-person and virtual participation will be
released prior to the conference.
Attendees must register through the Commission's website on or
before June 2, 2023. Access to the conference (virtual or in-person)
may not be available to those who do not register.
Speaker nominations must be submitted on or before March 24, 2023
through the Commission's website by providing the proposed speaker's
contact information along with a title, abstract, and list of
contributing authors for the proposed presentation. Proposed
presentations should be related to the topics discussed above. Speakers
and presentations will be selected to ensure relevance to those topics
and to accommodate time constraints.
The Commission will accept comments following the conference, with
a deadline of July 28, 2023.
There is an ``eSubscription'' link on the Commission's website that
enables subscribers to receive email notification when a document is
added to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance with any FERC Online
service, please email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#01474453424e6f6d686f64527471716e737541676473622f666e77"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e8aeadbaaba7868481868dbb9d9898879a9ca88e8d9a8bc68f879e">[email protected]</span></a>, or call (866) 208-
3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502-8659.
FERC conferences are accessible under section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations please
send an email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0a6b69696f797963686366637e734a6c6f7869246d657c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aacbc9c9cfd9d9c3c8c3c6c3ded3eacccfd8c984cdc5dc">[email protected]</span></a> or call toll free (866) 208-
3372 (voice) or (202) 502-8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208-2106
with the required accommodations.
For further information about these conferences, please contact:
Sarah McKinley (Logistical Information), Office of External Affairs,
(202) 502-8004, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c497a5b6a5acea89a78fadaaa8a1bd84a2a1b6a7eaa3abb2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ebb88a998a83c5a688a08285878e92ab8d8e9988c58c849d">[email protected]</span></a>
Alexander Smith (Technical Information), Office of Energy Policy and
Innovation, (202) 502-6601, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ebaa878e938a858f8e99c5b886829f83ab8d8e9988c58c849d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="70311c1508111e1415025e231d19041830161502135e171f06">[email protected]</span></a>
Dated: February 7, 2023.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-03007 Filed 2-10-23; 8:45 am]
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