Webinar | Part 2 | Digital Twin: Ensuring Stability and Reliability of Tomorrow's Power Grid | OPAL-RT Learning Journey

Title: Bulk Power System Modeling and Studies in the Face of a Changing Resource Mix

Description: As the grid continues to undergo significant changes in its resource mix towards increasing levels of inverter-based technologies, transmission planning and operations organizations are faced with developing accurate models such that suitable reliability studies can be conducted. The evolving grid is experiencing new challenges related to decreasing system inertia, lower short-circuit strength, faster grid dynamics, and new inverter technologies. This presentation will provide a brief landscape overview and share some perspectives of efforts needed to ensure bulk power system reliability and resilience under these rapid changes.

Biography: Ryan Quint is a Senior Manager at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation where he supports the electric utility industry tackle emerging reliability risks and grid transformation topics for the bulk power system. Ryan leads a number of industry efforts focused on integrating inverter-based resources to the bulk power system, ensuring reliability with increasing amounts of distributed energy resources, and incorporating cybersecurity into traditional system planning, operations, and design practices. Ryan received his PhD from Virginia Tech and worked at the Bonneville Power Administration and Dominion Virginia Power prior to joining NERC in 2015.​