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• Inverter Reliability Workshop
  April 30, 2013 to May 1, 2013, Biltmore Hotel
  

  This symposium co-hosted by Sandia National Laboratories and the Electric Power Research Institute includes three separate workshops organized over one week.

  
  Map to Biltmore Hotel
  
• ECIS Climate Change and National Security Speaker Series
  May 1, 2013 to May 1, 2013,
  

  Dr. Richard Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor at the Department of Geosciences, and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Alley has traveled from Antarctica to Greenland to help learn the history of Earth's climate and whether the great ice sheets will fall in the ocean and flood our coasts. With over 225 scientific publications, he has been asked to provide advice to the highest levels of government, and been recognized with numerous awards including election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He hosted the recent PBS miniseries “Earth: The Operators' Manual,” and has been compared to a cross between Woody Allen and Carl Sagan for his enthusiastic efforts to communicate the excitement and importance of the science to everyone.

  
  
  
• PV Performance Modeling Workshop
  May 1, 2013 to May 2, 2013, Biltmore Hotel
  

  This symposium co-hosted by Sandia National Laboratories and the Electric Power Research Institute includes three separate workshops organized over one week.

  
  Map to Biltmore Hotel
  
• Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility Commissioning
  July 9, 2013 to July 9, 2013,
  

  On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 the U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, and Texas Tech University will host the commissioning of the Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. The SWiFT Facility is designed and built to enable rapid, cost-efficient testing and development of transformative wind energy technology with specific emphasis on improving wind plant performance.

  
  Map to Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility Commissioning
  
• 2013 Wind Plant Reliability Workshop
  August 13, 2013 to August 14, 2013, Albuquerque, NM
  
  Map to Albuquerque, NM
  

• 2013 ARPA-e Energy Innovation Summit
  February 25, 2013 to February 27, 2013, Washington, D.C.
  

  The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has hosted the Energy Innovation Summit for the past three years. It brings together the nation’s most innovative minds to team together on potential breakthroughs in energy technologies.

  
  Map to Washington, D.C.
  
• 2013 MIT Energy Summit
  March 1, 2013 to March 2, 2013, MIT Campus
  

  The MIT Energy Conference is an annual two-day conference that brings together leaders in industry, academia, government, and finance to deliver critical knowledge and independent analysis on emerging trends in energy technologies, policies, and markets.

  
  Map to MIT Campus
  
• ESTAP Webinar: Briefing on Sandia's Maui Energy Storage Study
  March 6, 2013 to March 6, 2013,
  
  
  
• Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility Commissioning
  July 9, 2013 to July 9, 2013,
  

  On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 the U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, and Texas Tech University will host the commissioning of the Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. The SWiFT Facility is designed and built to enable rapid, cost-efficient testing and development of transformative wind energy technology with specific emphasis on improving wind plant performance.

  
  Map to Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility Commissioning
  

• TedxABQ 2012: Engage Your Passion
  September 8, 2012 to September 8, 2012, Albuquerque, NM
  

  Mark Boslough will be giving a presentation at the TedxABQ 2012: Engage Your Passion called, “Betting on Global Warming.”

  
  Map to Albuquerque, NM
  
• ECIS Climate Change and National Security Speaker Series
  May 1, 2013 to May 1, 2013,
  

  Dr. Richard Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor at the Department of Geosciences, and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Alley has traveled from Antarctica to Greenland to help learn the history of Earth's climate and whether the great ice sheets will fall in the ocean and flood our coasts. With over 225 scientific publications, he has been asked to provide advice to the highest levels of government, and been recognized with numerous awards including election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He hosted the recent PBS miniseries “Earth: The Operators' Manual,” and has been compared to a cross between Woody Allen and Carl Sagan for his enthusiastic efforts to communicate the excitement and importance of the science to everyone.

  
  
  
• PV Performance Modeling Workshop
  May 1, 2013 to May 2, 2013, Biltmore Hotel
  

  This symposium co-hosted by Sandia National Laboratories and the Electric Power Research Institute includes three separate workshops organized over one week.

  
  Map to Biltmore Hotel
  

• EESAT 2011
  October 16, 2011 to October 19, 2011, San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
  

  The Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies or EESAT Conference is the premier forum for dissemination, review, and presentation of research and development, demonstration, and studies conducted around the globe on specific electrical energy storage applications and technologies, especially as they relate to the electricity grid.

  
  Map to San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
  
• Control System Design using Energy Storage to Improve Dynamic Performance in Large-Scale Electric Power Grids
  September 25, 2012 to September 25, 2012, Dreese Laboratories
  

  David A. Schoenwald
  Energy Storage & Transmission Analysis Department
  Sandia National Laboratories
  
  Abstract: This talk will present results on two applications of energy storage for the improvement of power system dynamic performance that will become necessary as more intermittent renewable energy sources are incorporated into the electric power grid. The first application is the design and implementation of a battery-based control system to reduce the variability of photovoltaic (PV) power output at the generation site. The control system is challenged with the task of reducing short-term PV output variability while avoiding the overworking of the battery, both in terms of capacity and amp capability. A full-scale implementation was deployed in a demonstration project, in partnership with an electric utility and a battery manufacturer. Both simulation and experimental results will be presented. The second application is the analysis and design of a decentralized control system to increase the damping associated with inter-area oscillation modes. These modes arise from the swinging of many generators in one part of the power grid against generators in another part of the grid. Analysis and simulation results for the control system design will be presented for both a reduced-order model of the WECC (Western Electricity Coordinating Council) and a full-scale PSLF (Positive Sequence Load Flow) model of the WECC.

  
  Map to Dreese Laboratories