BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Pacific BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240406T140438Z UID:C3D9A7EA-8E9B-4209-B84F-5F1F3AA61797 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20240403T071500 DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20240404T163000 DESCRIPTION:The theme of the NWESS 2024 conference is “Making a Resilient Northwest Grid”.\n\nNWESS 2024 is a 2 day symposium that focuses on a w ide range of topics and provides information on how to best address some o f the most pressing energy issues facing our region.\n\nThe symposium is a n industry driven conference\; the topics are suggested and voted on by th e Industry. The symposium is a combination of presentations and discussion s.\n\nKey Note Speakers to open the conference\n\n- Mike Haynes\, Assistan t General Manager\, Seattle City Light - Waiting for the Green Light\n\nTo pics to be presented at NWESS 2024 include:\n\n- Day Ahead Markets (Compar e and Contrasting)\n- How Markets Impact Reliability\n- Energy Storage Dev elopment\n- Pacific Northwest Resource Adequacy\n- Virtual Power Plants\n- Maps and DER Hosting Capacity\n- A 25 MW Substation Battery Installation\ n- Substation Security Designs\n- Protection & Control of Inverter Dominat ed Systems\n- Transmission Line Dynamic Line Ratings – Development\, Ope ration & Use\n\nNWESS is sponsored by the electric energy industry in the Pacific Northwest\, the IEEE and the Electrical Energy program at the Univ ersity of Washington.\n\nUniversity of Washington\, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering\n\nPacific Northwest National Laboratory\n\nBonnevill e Power Administration\n\nElectric Power Systems Inc\n\nSnohomish County P UD\n\nPuget Sound Energy\n\nSeattle City Light\n\nPeninsula Light\n\nTacom a Power\n\nAgenda: \nThe NWESS 2024 full program and agenda with speaker b iographies and abstacts is available at [NWESS 2024 Agenda](https://nwess. ece.uw.edu/agenda-2/)\n\nParking: The closest option is the [central parki ng garage](https://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/central-plaza-garage-c01-c02 -c03-c04-c05-c06)\, entrance on 15th Ave NE and NE 41st.\n\nPublic transpo rtation: Consider using the link light rail to the [U-district station](ht tps://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/stops-stations/u-district-station) .\n\n1315 NE Campus Parkway\, Seattle\, Washington\, United States\, 98105 LOCATION:1315 NE Campus Parkway\, Seattle\, Washington\, United States\, 98 105 ORGANIZER:memrick@ieee.org SEQUENCE:87 SUMMARY:Northwest Energy Systems Symposium (NWESS) 2024 - Making a Resilien t Northwest Grid URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/385895 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The theme of the NWESS 2024 conference is <strong>&ldquo\;Making a Resilient Northwest Grid&rdquo\;.</strong>&nbsp\; </p>\n<p>NWESS 2024 is a 2 day symposium that focuses on a wide range of t opics and provides information on how to best address some of the most pre ssing energy issues facing our region.</p>\n<p>The symposium is an industr y driven conference\; the topics are suggested and voted on by the Industr y. The symposium is a combination of presentations and discussions.</p>\n< p>Key Note Speakers to open the conference&nbsp\;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Hayn es\, Assistant General Manager\, Seattle City Light - Waiting for the Gree n Light</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Topics to be presented at NWESS 2024 include:</p>\ n<ul>\n<li>Day Ahead Markets (Compare and Contrasting)</li>\n<li>How Marke ts Impact Reliability</li>\n<li>Energy Storage Development</li>\n<li>Pacif ic Northwest Resource Adequacy</li>\n<li>Virtual Power Plants</li>\n<li>Ma ps and DER Hosting Capacity</li>\n<li>A 25 MW Substation Battery Installat ion</li>\n<li>Substation Security Designs</li>\n<li>Protection &amp\; Cont rol of Inverter Dominated Systems</li>\n<li>Transmission Line Dynamic Line Ratings &ndash\; Development\, Operation &amp\; Use</li>\n</ul>\n<p>NWESS &nbsp\; is sponsored by the electric energy industry in the Pacific Northw est\, the IEEE and the Electrical Energy program at the University of Wash ington.</p>\n<p><strong>University of Washington\, Dept. of Electrical &am p\; Computer Engineering</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Pacific Northwest Nation al Laboratory</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Bonneville Power Administration</st rong></p>\n<p><strong>Electric Power Systems Inc</strong></p>\n<p><strong> Snohomish County PUD</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Puget Sound Energy</strong>< /p>\n<p><strong>Seattle City Light</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Peninsula Ligh t</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Tacoma Power</strong></p><br /><br />Agenda: <b r /><p>The NWESS 2024 full program and agenda with speaker biographies and abstacts is available at <a href="https://nwess.ece.uw.edu/agenda-2/">NWE SS 2024 Agenda</a></p>\n<p style="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>Parking: </s trong>The closest option is the&nbsp\;<a href="https://www.washington.edu/ maps/#!/central-plaza-garage-c01-c02-c03-c04-c05-c06" data-saferedirecturl ="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washington.edu/maps/%23!/centra l-plaza-garage-c01-c02-c03-c04-c05-c06&amp\;source=gmail&amp\;ust=17039729 45631000&amp\;usg=AOvVaw3R-4GimKiIlb2xZ39mTglO">central parking&nbsp\;gara ge</a>\, entrance on 15th Ave NE and NE 41st.</p>\n<p style="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>Public transportation: </strong>Consider using the link lig ht rail to the&nbsp\;<a href="https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/st ops-stations/u-district-station" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google. com/url?q=https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/stops-stations/u-distr ict-station&amp\;source=gmail&amp\;ust=1703972945631000&amp\;usg=AOvVaw3Nk EEgzL-AE47xmDNREjAv">U-district station</a>.&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR