Notice2025-02226
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 5, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9021-9022]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02226]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. AD10-12-016]
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 July 8, 9, and 10, 2025 to discuss opportunities for
increasing real-time and day-ahead market and planning efficiency
through improved software. A detailed agenda with the list of
presentation dates and times for the selected speakers will be
published on the Commission's website \1\ and in eLibrary after April
16, 2025.
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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 experts from diverse
backgrounds including electric power system operators, software
developers, 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:
(1) Software for improving the resource adequacy process,
including: software for improving computational tractability of
resource adequacy and ease of use of resource adequacy tools, software
for improving the fidelity of representing generators and loads in
resource adequacy modeling, software for evaluating trade-offs between
generation and transmission, software for implementing and evaluating
new reliability metrics like expected unserved energy (EUE), software
for implementing novel resource adequacy accreditation methods, and
software for including climate change and extreme weather impacts on
resource adequacy.
(2) Software for improving the efficiency of the interconnection
process, including improved interconnection studies, software for
automating parts of the interconnection process, software for
expediting power flow analyses related to interconnection, etc.
(3) Software for implementing advanced computing methods such as
artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning into existing or novel
applications for improving real-time and day-ahead market and planning
efficiency.
(4) Software related to grid-enhancing technologies, such as those
described in Docket Nos. AD19-19 \2\ and AD19-15,\3\ including optimal
transmission switching, power flow controls, any software related to
implementing the Commission's rulemaking regarding line ratings in
Order No. 881,\4\ and any software related to dynamic line ratings as
described in the Commission's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on
dynamic line ratings in Docket No. RM24-6-000.\5\
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\2\ Grid-Enhancing Technologies, 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).
\5\ Implementation of Dynamic Line Ratings, 187 FERC ] 61,201
(2024).
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(5) Software for improving the performance of generating resources'
ability and incentives to follow dispatch instructions and for
eliminating unnecessary make-whole payments, including software for
ensuring that product awards reflect prevailing transmission
constraints and capabilities of resources to deliver awarded products.
(6) Software for better modeling and computation of resources with
distinct operating characteristics such as storage resources, multi-
stage/multi-configuration resources, hybrid resources, aggregations of
Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) (including DER Management Systems,
or DERMS), and others. Presentations on this topic should focus on
alternative formulations and solution methods for market models.
(7) Approaches to addressing challenges, such as delays, associated
with deploying software to implement market reforms or operational
improvements to wholesale electricity markets.
(8) Other improvements in algorithms, model formulations, hardware
advancements, or other related approaches that may allow for
improvements to the bulk power system in market efficiency and enhanced
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 10, 2025. 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 21, 2025
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.
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In previous years, the Commission has received nominations for more
presentations than could be accommodated, and we anticipate that may be
the case this year as well. Speakers are encouraged to submit new
findings and novel work to ensure that the conference reflects the
latest research. Presentation selections may prioritize nominations
that cover topics beyond the research covered in previous years'
conferences. If a nomination builds on previous years' presentation(s),
authors are encouraged to explain in their abstract what new ground is
being covered. Presentation proposals that involve many of the same co-
authors and have similar contents may be combined into a single
proposal for one presentation.
All presentations materials (e.g., presentation slides) are due no
later than 5:00 p.m. EDT on June 30, 2025. Before 1:00 p.m. EDT on July
7, 2025, Commission staff will work with presenters to provide quality
assurance that their presentation materials are prepared, formatted
correctly, and ready for delivery during the conference. All
presentation materials submitted before 1:00 p.m. on July 7, 2025 will
be posted to the Commission website before the conference. Any updated
presentation materials submitted after 1:00 p.m. on July 7, 2025 will
be posted to the Commission website after the conference; however, the
live conference may use presentation material versions submitted prior
to the deadline rather than late submissions.
The Commission will accept comments following the conference, with
a deadline of August 10, 2025.
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#d99f9c8b9a96b7b5b0b7bc8aaca9a9b6abad99bfbcabbaf7beb6af"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="367073647579585a5f585365434646594442765053445518515940">[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#b6d7d5d5d3c5c5dfd4dfdadfc2cff6d0d3c4d598d1d9c0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f9989a9a9c8a8a909b9095908d80b99f9c8b9ad79e968f">[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#a8fbc9dac9c086e5cbe3c1c6c4cdd1e8cecddacb86cfc7de"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="77241605161f593a143c1e191b120e371112051459101801">[email protected]</span></a>
Monica Ferrera (Technical Information), Office of Energy Policy and
Innovation, (202) 502-8687, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b7fad8d9ded4d699f1d2c5c5d2c5d6f7d1d2c5d499d0d8c1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a8e5c7c6c1cbc986eecddadacddac9e8cecddacb86cfc7de">[email protected]</span></a>
Dated: January 29, 2025.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-02226 Filed 2-4-25; 8:45 am]
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