Engineering & Operation, Accounting, Customer Billing & Finance
Annual Conference & Trade Show
and Board of Directors Meeting
2021 Conference Agenda
Substation Section

Thursday, July 1, 2021 

Presiding

Brandon Gee, Alabama Power – Chairman

10:30 – 10:35

Welcome, Safety and Leadership Moment
Chairman - Brandon Gee, Alabama Power

10:35 – 11:05

Substation Physical Security Measures
DUKE ENERGY / Deborah Parker, Enterprise Program Manager
An overview of Duke’s tiered approach to adding additional physical security measures at substations based on their importance to the Grid.

11:05 – 11:50

SERC Operations and Planning Audit Trends 
SERC Reliability Corporation / Joel Rogers, Senior Compliance Auditor and Todd Curl, Senior Manager, Compliance Monitoring
The presentation will discuss the FAC-008-3 and PRC-005-6 standards, processes, violation trends, lessons learned, and recommendations.

11:50 – 12:30

NESC / NFPA Code Changes
SOUTHERN COMPANY / Jim Houston, Chief Engineer
NESC and NFPA Code Updates – Presentation on the proposed code and structure changes to the National Electric Safety Code for 2022.  NFPA 855 Code on Energy Storage and its impact on substations. 

12:30 – 2:00

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW / LUNCH BREAK

2:00 – 2:30

High Voltage Vacuum Breakers
PPL / Eric Rosenberger, Senior Engineer – T&S Engineering and Maintenance Standards
Overview of PPL’s recent experience and journey through transitioning to using non-SF6 high voltage circuit breakers including technologies assessment, vendor options, learnings, experiences and future expectations.

2:30 – 3:00

Oncor Pete
ONCOR ELECTRIC / Justin Patzig, Manager PETE Program
Overview and demo of the custom software tool that Oncor uses to track Transmission Projects. PETE is a one stop shop to view all data and track processes required during the full lifecycle of projects.

3:00 – 3:30

Health Analytics / Condition Based Monitoring
PECO ENERGY / Jeff Swiatek, T&S Principal Quantitative Engineer
Exploring the digital life of our transmission and substation assets to find stories that maximize O&M savings while improving reliability. This includes representing the digitally available data to give a clear picture of an asset’s life, determining population sets to deep dive into their data, and striving towards predicting future behavior.

3:30 – 4:00

End of Life Planning
ONCOR / Peter Babcock

4:00 – 4:30

Equipotential Ground / Bonding
EXELON / Ed Suarez, Manager, Safety, Support Services – ComEd and Randy Coleman, Manager of Equipment Standards & Fire Protection Engineering - PHI
Our Presentation will describe our journey on establishing equipotential work zones in substations: the myths of the industries, current industry practices and the why’s and how to establish an Equipotential Work Zone in Substations.

4:30

Adjourn

Friday, July 2, 2021

10:00 – 10:05

Welcome and Safety Message
Chairman - Brandon Gee, Alabama Power

10:05 – 10:45

Fancy Point 500 kV/230 kV Substation Expansion
ENTERGY / Matt Richards, Manager, Capital Projects
Discussing the unique challenges associated with performing a major substation expansion tied to a nuclear power plant.

10:45 – 11:20

Construction Oversight & Commissioning
ENTERGY / Nagendrakumar (Chintu) Beeravolu,  Construction/Engineering Manager, and Matt Richards, Manager, Capital Projects
This presentation will cover the challenges and lessons learned in the areas of construction, testing and commissioning oversight for the EPC contractor (Engineering Procure Construct) projects executed in Entergy’s system.

11:20 – 11:55

NERC Compliance Risk Mitigation Regarding Temp Batteries and Mobile Reactive Sources
ALABAMA POWER / Jeremy Morgan, Principal Engineer
Mobile substation equipment can be very effective at temporarily addressing system needs. When deploying these resources, one must consider the NERC compliance impact along with the engineering impact. In this session, we will talk about Temporary Batteries and Mobile Reactive Sources and the compliance risks that may arise when installing them on the Bulk Electric System.

11:55 – 12:00

Closing Comments and Adjourn
ALABAMA POWER / Brandon Gee

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