Detailed Real-World Benefits of Distributed Energy Resources (DER)

1. DER Stack Benefits
   1. What are DERs?
   2. What are all the benefits provided by DERs, and where are they located on the electric system?
   3. How to think of DER benefits in their natural categories?
2. DER Energy Market Benefits
   1. Given forecasts of LMPs, how do DERs ensure marginal energy cost reduction at a location?
   2. Given forecasts of capacity prices, how does DER help in a zone?
   3. Given forecasts of A/S prices, how does DER help?
   4. How do DERs reduce the cost of network and local transmission charges?
   5. Given forecasts of electric and natural gas demand, how do DERs reduce future demand?
   6. How to quantify the overall impact of DERs on the effects of the wholesale price on retail sales?
3. DER Transmission System Benefits
   1. How does DER avoid or defer transmission upgrades?
   2. How do DERs reduce network and local transmission line losses?
4. DER Distribution System Benefits
   1. How does DER avoid or defer distribution upgrades?
   2. How do DERs avoid or defer distribution system operational costs?
   3. How do DERs reduce network and local distribution system losses?
   4. How do DERs avoid or incur administration costs by distribution utilities?
5. DER Utility Costs
   1. What is the capital & operating costs to the utility to accommodate DERs on the T&D system?
   2. What is the cost to the utility to provide grid support services such as power factor correction, VAR optimization?
6. Externalities from DERs
   1. Given forecasts of RPS Compliance costs, how does DER help?
   2. How do DERs benefit resiliency during emergency events on the grid?
   3. How do DERs provide a role in the reduction of carbon emissions?

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Dr. Randell Johnson

Dr. Johnson has expertise and experience in the Valuation, Design, Procurement, and Operations of Grid Batteries and Distributed Energy Resources. Dr. Johnson has been involved in the Energy Storage Road Map for the Maldives, New York Energy Storage Road Map, Massachusetts State of Charge Study, MISO Energy Storage Study, and numerous other energy storage studies. Dr. Johnson is inventor of the Acelerex integrated resource planning software and has also developed microgrid control software. He was selected by the World Bank to study 100% carbon-free grids with energy storage and the software is selected by the multiple international agencies for increasing penetration of renewables with storage. He is expert at power markets and valuation of energy storage to maximize utilization of existing transmission systems and co-optimization of other resources. A Harvard Business Case has been written for energy storage that includes methods pioneered by Dr. Johnson.

Dr. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MS in Economics from Cass Business School, UK, and a Utility Corporate Finance Certificate for Gas and Electric Utilities from UConn Business School. Dr. Johnson has background in strategy, regulatory finance, economic optimizations, quantitative finance, electricity and energy markets, public policy, technical grid design, real-time optimizations, and high-performance computing.

Rao Konidena

Ras has domestic and international experience presenting and writing opinion pieces on distributed energy resource (DER) and energy storage topics. International regulators received the training, including Central America, Colombia, Denmark, East Africa, Mexico, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Most recently, Rao was with Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) as Principal Advisor for Policy Studies, working on energy storage and distributed energy resources. At MISO, Rao worked in management and non-management roles around reliability planning, resource adequacy, resource forecasting, economic planning, compliance, and policy functions. Rao has broad expertise in DER topics, including wholesale market compensation mechanisms for DER services, Value of DER, DER forecasting, DER regulation, and planning for DER. 

Including fifteen years at MISO, Rao has two decades of utility, consulting, and manufacturing industry experience. Rao has an Electrical and Electronics Engineering Bachelors’ degree from Bangalore University. His graduate school thesis was on the economic analysis of photovoltaics and fuel cells from the University of Texas at Arlington. Rao also has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

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