[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 46 (Thursday, March 7, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16555-16556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04805]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. AD10-12-015]


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 9, 10, and 11, 2024 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 
26, 2024.
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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 including climate change and extreme weather in 
short-term load forecasting and in long-term planning models, including 
novel methodologies for assessing capacity accreditation, energy 
adequacy, correlated outages, and weather-related derates and outages. 
Software advances to integrate probabilistic models into system 
planning models, whether scenario-based or stochastic, to better 
account for low-probability, high-impact events, such as extreme 
weather events.
    (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, 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\ 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).
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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) Other improvements in algorithms, model formulations, or 
hardware advancements 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

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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 3, 2024. 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 April 19, 2024 
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.\5\ 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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    Speakers are encouraged to submit new findings and novel work to 
ensure that the conference reflects the latest research. Presentations 
that only repeat similar content from previous years' conferences may 
be rejected. 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 July 1, 2024. Before 1:00 p.m. EDT on July 
8, 2024, 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 8, 2024 will 
be posted to the Commission website before the conference. Any updated 
presentation materials submitted after 1:00 p.m. on July 8, 2024 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 12, 2024.
    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.
    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 and 
Innovation, [email protected]
Monica Ferrera, Office of Energy Policy and Innovation, 
[email protected]

    Dated: February 29, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-04805 Filed 3-6-24; 8:45 am]
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