[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 10, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21555-21556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-8524]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. AD12-10-000]


Reactive Power Resources; Supplemental Notice of Technical 
Conference

    On February 17, 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) announced that a staff Technical Conference on Reactive 
Power Resources will be held on April 17, 2012, beginning at 9 a.m. 
(EDT) in the Commission Meeting Room at the Commission's headquarters, 
located at 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. The technical 
conference will be led by staff, and Commissioners may be in 
attendance. The conference will be open for the public to attend. 
Advance registration is not required, but is encouraged to facilitate 
the building security process. You may register at the following Web 
page: https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/reactive-power-4-17-12-form.asp.
    Attached to this supplemental notice is an agenda for the 
conference. If any changes are made, the revised agenda will be posted 
prior to the event on the Calendar of Events on the Commission's Web 
site, www.ferc.gov.
    The conference will be transcribed and available by webcast. 
Transcripts will be available immediately for a fee from Ace Reporting 
Company (202-347-3700 or 1-800-336-6646). A free webcast of the 
technical conference in this proceeding is also available. Anyone with 
Internet access interested in viewing this conference can do so by 
navigating to the FERC Calendar of Events at www.ferc.gov and locating 
this event in the Calendar. The event will contain a link to its 
webcast. The Capitol Connection provides technical support for the 
webcasts and offers the

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option of listening to the conferences via phone-bridge for a fee. If 
you have any questions, visit www.CapitolConnection.org or call (703) 
993-3100.
    FERC conferences are accessible under section 508 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations please 
send an email to [email protected] or call toll free 1-866-208-
3372 (voice) or 202-208-8659 (TTY); or send a fax to 202-208-2106 with 
the required accommodations.
    For more information on this conference, please contact Mary Cain 
at [email protected] or (202) 502-6337, or Sarah McKinley at 
[email protected] or (202) 502-8004.

    Dated: April 2, 2012.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
    The purpose of the technical conference is to examine whether the 
Commission should reconsider or modify the reactive power provisions of 
Order No. 661-A and examine what evidence could be developed under 
Order No. 661 to support a request to apply reactive power requirements 
more broadly than to individual wind generators during the 
interconnection study process.

Agenda for the Technical Conference on Reactive Power Resources

AD12-10

April 17, 2012
9 a.m.-9:15 a.m. Greeting and Opening Remarks.
9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Discussion of Reactive Power in Interconnection 
Studies.

This panel will discuss:
     Methods used to determine the reactive power requirements 
for a transmission system, and
     How system impact and system planning studies take into 
account changes in technologies connected to the system.
     What evidence could be developed to support a request to 
apply reactive power requirements more broadly than to individual wind 
generators during the interconnection study process.

Panelists:
     Noman Williams, Vice President--Transmission Policy, 
Sunflower Electric Power Corporation
     Yi Zhang, Senior Regional Transmission Engineer, 
California ISO
     Eric Laverty, Director of Transmission Access Planning, 
Midwest ISO
     Dmitry Kosterev, Electrical Engineer, Bonneville Power 
Administration
     Robert Jenkins, Director--Utility Interconnection, First 
Solar
     Kris Zadlo, Vice President, Invenergy
     Richard Kowalski, Director--Transmission Strategy and 
Services, ISO New England Inc.
     Warren Lasher, Director, System Planning, ERCOT, Inc.

12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Lunch Break.
1:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Discussion of Reactive Power Resources.

Discussion items will include:
     The technical and economic characteristics of different 
types of reactive power resources, including synchronous and 
asynchronous generation resources, transmission resources and energy 
storage resources;
     The design options for and cost of installing reactive 
power equipment at the time of interconnection as well as retrofitting 
a resource with reactive power equipment;
     Other means by which reactive power is currently secured 
such as through self-supply; and
     How a technology that is capable of providing reactive 
power but may not be subject to the generation interconnection process 
(e.g., FACTs) would be analyzed.

Panelists:
     Robert Nelson, Manager of Codes, Standards, and 
Regulations, Siemens Wind Turbines--Americas
     Kris Zadlo, Vice President, Invenergy
     Robert Jenkins, Director--Utility Interconnection, First 
Solar
     Michael Jacobs, Director Market and Regulatory Policy, 
Xtreme Power, Vice-Chair, Electricity Storage Association Advocacy 
Council
     Khaled Abdul-Rahman, Director, Power Systems Technology 
Development, California ISO
     Eric Laverty, Director of Transmission Access Planning, 
Midwest ISO
     Dmitry Kosterev, Electrical Engineer, Bonneville Power 
Administration
     Warren Lasher, Director, System Planning, ERCOT, Inc.
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