Advanced Energy Group

MARCH 14, 2019 - Chicago Advanced Energy Q1

Resiliency, Critical Infrastructure and Microgrids

Breakfast presentations:

Stefan Schaffer, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Chicago

Brien Sheahan, Chairman and CEO, Illinois Commerce Commission

Jake Edie, Manager—EPC Proposals, S&C Electric

Jim Kavicky, Program Manager, Infrastructure Resilience, Argonne National Laboratory

Joyce Coffee, President, Climate Resilience Consulting

Winning Problem Statement:

Lack of a constructive and flexible regulatory environment that enables innovation and learning - Brien Sheahan

Winning 12-Month Action Plan from Table 2:

A plan to develop regulatory sandboxes hosted by key energy users, presentable to the Governor’s energy team, that would strengthen decision making and understanding of regulators by modeling, simulating and testing different scenarios for building Benefit-Cost models for such issues as microgrids and non-wires alternative programs.

Willing to join the 2019 CAE Q1 Task Force?

Sign up for the Task Force by adding your information to this form. Chairman Brien Sheahan has expressed an interest in co-authoring a piece in collaboration with the task force on the necessity of regulatory innovation to address growing need for resiliency.

Next Q2 CAE Stakeholder Series: Smart Buildings & Grid Modernization: May 22-23, 2019

Non-member Registration Link.

Members will receive a custom invitation.

CAE Q1 Reward Sponsor:

Resources:

Dinner and Breakfast Stakeholders: Attendee List

Elizabeth Kocs: CAE Q4 2018 Mobility & Transportation Task Force Update

CAE Q1 Slido Results

• WAE Q1 Slido Results

• BAE Q1 Slido Results

• NYAE Q1 Slido Results

• SFAE Q1 Slido Results

CAE Q1 AEG Blog Post: A More Resilient Chicago, by Bridget Hardy, AEG Fellow Alumna

What will have the greatest impact on Chicago's resiliency planning?

Further Resources: 

• resilient.chicago.gov

• Schneider Electric

  • Montgomery County Case Study: https://www.schneider-electric.us/en/download/document/998-20473354_GMA-US/

  • Montgomery County Case Study Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dL6Kxx96Sc

  • Montgomery County Interview Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCPjb4x3eGQ

• Securing Army installations with energy that is resilient, affordable, and sustainable, NARUC

• Crisis Event Response and Recovery Access (CERRA) Effort, NARUC

• Public Purpose Microgrids, NARUC

  • Key Sources and References about Public Purpose Microgrids

• Full list of presentations from NARUC’s 2019 Winter Policy Summit

• Microgrid Knowledge, Connections Made at CAE Q1 Meeting Lead To First-Ever Utility Microgrid PEER Gold Certification, May 25, 2018.

• Microgrid Guidebooks, S&C Electric

  • Is a Microgrid Right for You? 

  • How to Build a Microgrid

  • The Short- and Long-Term Care of Your Microgrid

• Microgrid Cybersecurity: Protecting and Building the Grid of the Future, S&C Electric

• Case Studies of Microgrid Projects, S&C Electric

  • Ameren’s Microgrid: S&C Builds Ameren a Microgrid To Study Distribution Use Cases

  • Oncor’s Microgrid: S&C Engineers Overcome Real-World Challenges Constructing a Groundbreaking Microgrid

  • Illinois Institute of Technology Microgrid: Smart Microgrid Goal: Perfect Power

  • City of Borreo Springs: S&C Provides Community Energy Storage to Smooth Solar Power in California

  • Catalina Island: Island Energy Storage Reduces Air Pollution Emissions

  • Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam: Spiders I Microgrid

  • Fort Carson: Spiders II Microgrid

  • Camp H.M. Smith: Spiders III Microgrid

  • Santa Rita Jail

  • Village of Minster

  • City of Field and Golden

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