[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 2, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11700-11701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-04376]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. AD10-12-013]


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 21, 22, and 23, 2022 to discuss opportunities for 
increasing real-time and day-ahead market efficiency of the bulk power 
system 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 May 20, 2022.
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    \1\ https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/electric/power-sales-and-markets/increasing-efficiency-through-improved-software.
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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:
    (1) Software for better modeling and computation of storage 
resources and distributed energy resources (DERs), especially software 
that addresses challenges such resources pose to current market-
clearing and dispatch algorithms.
    (2) Software advances to help with the transition to increased use 
of probabilistic models in system planning, whether scenario-based or 
stochastic, to better account low-probability, high-impact events, such 
as extreme weather events, which are increasingly common.
    (3) Improvements to the ability to identify and use flexibility in 
the existing systems in ways that improve bulk power system reliability 
and economic efficiency, including transmission constraint relaxation 
practices, ramp management, and improving resources' responsiveness to 
dispatch instructions.
    (4) Representations of uncertainty that increase market efficiency 
and lead to better understanding of events that could impact 
reliability of the bulk power system, including: 15-Minute unit-
commitment and day-ahead market intervals; stochastic modeling; 
software for forecasting and enhancing visibility into changing system 
conditions; improved modeling approaches to energy and reserve 
dispatch; and software for managing uncertainties in variable energy 
resource output.
    (5) Software related to 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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    (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 
DERs, and others. Presentations on this topic should focus on 
alternative formulations and solution methods for market models.
    (7) Improvements to the representation of physical constraints that 
are either not currently modeled or currently modeled using 
mathematical approximations, including voltage and reactive power 
constraints, stability constraints, fuel delivery constraints, and 
constraints related to contingencies.
    (8) Software that enables the calculation of prices that better 
reflect costs of operation and that provide better incentives for 
efficient market entry and market exit.
    (9) Other improvements in algorithms, model formulations, or 
hardware that may allow for increases in market efficiency and enhanced 
bulk power system reliability.
    Within these or related topics, we encourage presentations that 
discuss modeling best practices, existing modeling practices that need 
improvement, any modeling advances newly achieved, or perspectives on 
increasing market efficiency through improved power systems modeling.
    The conference will take place virtually via WebEx, with remote 
participation from both presenters and attendees. Further details on 
remote attendance and participation will be released prior to the 
conference.
    Attendees must register through the Commission's website on or 
before June 10, 2022.\5\ WebEx connections may not be available to 
those who do not register.
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    \5\ The attendee registration form is located at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SHFLFKV.
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    Speaker nominations must be submitted on or before April 22, 2022 
through the Commission's website \6\ 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 relevant topics and to 
accommodate time constraints.
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    \6\ The speaker nomination form is located at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S3M89MK.
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    The Commission will accept comments following the conference, with 
a deadline of July 29, 2022.
    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 [email protected], 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 [email protected] 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. This notice is issued and published 
in accordance with 18 CFR 2.1.
    For further information about these conferences, please contact:

Sarah McKinley (Logistical Information), Office of External Affairs, 
(202) 502-8004, [email protected].
Alexander Smith (Technical Information), Office of Energy Policy

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and Innovation, (202) 502-6601, [email protected].

    Dated: February 24, 2022.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-04376 Filed 3-1-22; 8:45 am]
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