October 2, Tuesday
Electricity: Physical Characteristics
Fluno Center,
Room 221
8:00 – 9:15
9:15 – 9:30
9:30 – 11:15
From Heat to Electricity-How we make Electricity in the U.S.
Jake Blanchard, College of Engineering, Chair of the Engineering Physics Department
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How much energy do we use
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What is the difference between energy and power
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Creating electricity
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AC/DC—what does this mean?
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How does a generator make electricity
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Start-up
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Black starts
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Who uses what
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Cost of electricity
Field Identification Guide to the Electric Industry
Ken Copp, American Transmission Company
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Recognizing a power line from a phone line
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Curtailments
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Substations, boosters, inter-tie, DC lines
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Line losses
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Technical language used in the field
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Line loading
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Power flows
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Buses
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Transmission basics
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Basics of LMP
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Step-up & step-down
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Congestion
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Counterflows
11:30 – 12:30
A Day in the Life of a Distribution Company
Merlin Rabb, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, a Subsidiary of Intgrys
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The New Responsibility (Opportunity)
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Physical characteristics
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A typical day in 1990
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A typical day in 2012
1:30 – 2:30
A Day in the Life of a Transmission Operator
Chuck Callies, Diaryland Power Cooperative
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What they do and why they do it
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Scheduling
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Forecasting
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Selling into the market
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Good days and bad days
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Transmission investment decisions
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Meeting renewable portfolio standards
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Planning and cost allocation
3:00 – 3:45
Regional Transmission Organizations: A Primer
William Malcolm, MISO
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What is an RTO
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History—why they came into being
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Roles
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RTO market products
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Current RTO initiatives
4:00 – 4:45
Advanced Metering--A Case Study in Piloting and Moving into Advanced Metering
Panel Discussion
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Standard vs. Smart Meters
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Automated meters
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Interval meters
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SCADA systems vs. Smart Grid
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Smart Grid models
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Self-healing
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Dynamic
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Super Smart Grid
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Short-run vision
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Long-run vision