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Featured Topics
POWER SYSTEM
BASICS
- Working of the interconnected grid
- Basic power flow concepts
- Role of loads and their curtailments
- System planning and operations
- Reactive support
- Ancillary services
- Transmission control and security coordination
- Reliability concepts and reliability economics
- The smart grid
- Transmission expansion and investment
EVOLVING ELECTRICITY MARKETS
- Fundamental market concepts
- Electricity market design and the role of auctions
- Forward markets
- Balancing markets and ancillary service markets
- Congestion management
- Price spikes
- Transmission access pricing and services
- Effective asset utilization
- Impacts of carbon legislation/regulation and trade mechanisms
- Meeting of future regional transmission needs
- Market monitoring and compliance enforcement
- Seams issues
- Energy Reliability Organization
- PUHCA repeal aftermath
- Implementation on new FERC Orders
- Role of renewable energy projects
TRANSMISSION BUSINESS MODELS
- Who does what?
- Transmission business structures
- Regional transmission organizations (RTOs)
- Independent system operators (ISOs)
- Independent system operators (TSOs)
- Who controls the tariff?
- What is the changing role of regulators?
- Who is responsible for reliability and for supply demand balancing?
- Who manages markets?
- Who does planning and expansion?
- Who monitors markets?
- Merchant transmission projects
- Regulatory initiatives
- Integration of renewable and demand resources
- Roles of distributed energy resources, including storage
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