TITLE: Securing the Supply Chain
Content: Webinar
Date: 12-15-2020
The POWERGEN+ series brings together the energy community through live content, match making, networking and an engaging virtual experience for those looking for perspective and discussion on current and future issues affecting the generation market.
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POWERGEN+ Series

Season 4: O&M, Cybersecurity and the Digital Plant

Ep 4 - Securing the Supply Chain
Date: December 15, 2020
Overview: In an effort to protect the industry from cyber attacks, an executive order was signed in May 2020 - Securing the United States Bulk Power System. As a result, it banned the purchase and installation of some equipment for power plants and transmission systems. This session speaks more in depth on this topic.
Season 3: Destination 2050: Achieving Zero Carbon and Reliability

Ep 3 - Cordova, Alaska Case Study: A Hybrid Microgrid
Date: November 10, 2020
Overview: Cordova, Alaska is a remote community that can be reached only by plane or boat; it is not connected to major electric transmission lines or highways. Consequently, the CEC established a hybrid microgrid to enable the adoption of renewable power from two new hydroelectric projects. Watch the session to find out more.

Ep 4 -
The Role of CHP in Mission Critical Facilities
Date: November 10, 2020
Overview: Medical centers, universities and manufacturing facilities are among those energy users that are utilizing combined heat and power systems to ensure their supply, cut costs and maintain reliability. This sessions tackles: How is this resource best implemented to meet multiple needs?
Season 2: Renewables and Energy Storage

Season 1: Pushing the Power Generation Envelope

Ep 2 - EPA-ACE Compliance Planning
Date: September 29, 2020
Overview: In this session, LG&E and Vistra Energy discuss their experiences with fleetwide EPA-ACE studies, while Black & Veatch provide a perspective summarizing some of the most interesting heat rate improvement findings across more than 80 EPA-ACE projects that have undertaken since 2018.
Keynote 1; Day 1 - Storage Solutions for a Change in Power
Date: September 29, 2020
Overview: The industry is facing a dual challenge of providing affordable, reliable energy while moving toward a zero-carbon grid. In this session, Mitsubishi Power Americas CEO Paul Browning discuss where we are in this transition, and how we can move forward with one solution in particular: storing power.

Ep 4 - Surviving the Storm - Resiliency, Backup and Balancing
Date: September 30, 2020
Overview: Mission-critical facilities don’t have the option for prolonged outages, so local or on-site power must be in place to bridge the gap in the event of a major electric transmission outages. This webinar explores how two utilities are using gas fired reciprocating engine technology to achieve these goals.
Keynote 1; Day 2 - Onsite Standby Power
Date: September 30, 2020
Overview: In this webinar, keynote speaker, Kurt Summers, speaks on how emergency, stand-by gen-sets and engines provide grid resiliency and keep mission-critical services up and running even during destructive events such as storms. Summers is President of the Electrical Generating Systems Association.
DISTRIBUTECH+ Series

Season 4: Cybersecurity and Digital Grids

Ep 2 - Best Practices for Ensuring the Cybersecurity of Utility Transmission Grid Assets
Date: December 17, 2020
Overview: As digitalization of the distribution grid marches on, along comes increased risk of cyberattacks. This session presents an overview of overall cybersecurity best practices for distribution utilities and offer methods for identifying — and subsequently securing — the weakest link in the system.
Ep 3 - What If Utilities Could Identify, Mitigate, and Recover from a Cyberattack in Minutes instead of Months?
Date: December 18, 2020
Overview: Introducing MOSIACS -- More Situational Awareness for Industrial Control Systems. This new technology focuses on detection, visualization, analysis, decision support, mitigation, recovery and information sharing for a cyber attack- based control system. This presentation provides results from recent field tests using the technology.
Ep 4 - Establishing a Protocol for Supply Chain Cybersecurity in the Energy Industry
Date: December 18, 2020
Overview: It has been determined by the highest office of the U.S. that utility supply chains are at risk of cyberattack. How should the industry identify at risk equipment and subsequently replace it? In this panel, experts from utilities and the government will discuss how to establish a protocol for supply chain cybersecurity in the US.
Season 3: Grid Resiliency - Planning and Response

Ep 2 - Modernizing for Reliability: One Utility’s Story
Date: November 12, 2020
Overview: This session discusses what motivates a utility to overhaul an existing distribution automation scheme that has proven successful; what roadblocks must be overcome in order to implement an enhanced fiber-based distribution automation scheme and; secondary benefits to the grid provided by using fiber optic communication.
Ep 3 - How New Technology Can Improve Utility Vegetation Management
Date: November 13, 2020
Overview: There are four large components of utility vegetation management (UVM): data collection, data analysis, strategic planning, and implementation. This session highlights innovations in data acquisition and analysis and showcases how one utility implemented a sweeping plan for better UVM.
Ep 4 - Developing appropriate tariffs for integrating microgrid services
Date: November 13, 2020
Overview: Microgrids are often designed to export energy and provide resource adequacy and ancillary to support project economics, and program and/or tariff mechanisms should be considered to qualifying microgrids. This panel provides insight into multi-customer microgrid interconnection and coordination with utilities, highlighting two recently filed utility tariffs in California and Hawaii.
Season 2: Renewables, Energy Storage and How Utilities are Preparing for a Sustainable Future

Season 1: Utility of the Future

Ep 2 - Innovative Solutions for Engaging Customers
Date: September 23, 2020
Overview: Today, utility customers expect their utility to engage with them proactively through programs, apps, and other initiatives. This session highlights how one utility is approaching customer engagement today and showcase how utilities can use data that they already have to better serve their customers.
Keynote 1; Day 2 - Driving Innovation for the Interconnected Utility
Date: September 23, 2020
Overview: Utilities are aggressively pursuing the widely accepted three “D”s – digitalization, decentralization, and decarbonization. To enable this rapid energy system transition, industry stakeholders must expand the equation to include the two “I”s – innovation and interconnection.
Ep 3 - Carbon Reduction in an Uncertain World
Date: September 24, 2020
Overview: The economic and social consequences of today’s uncertain world have impacted almost every aspect of utility operations, as customers struggle to pay bills. In this panel discussion, utility executives speak on how they are approaching carbon reduction and climate change.

Keynote 1; Day 2 - Sparking Change: The E-Mobility Revolution
Date: September 24, 2020
Overview: Utilities must prepare now to ensure they are able to meet EV charging needs. Thor Hinckley, Sr. Program Manager at Forth, a nonprofit organization advocating for transportation electrification, presents a keynote speech detailing the various ways in which e-mobility is set to take off and how utilities can prepare.
Hydro+ Series


Ep 5: Water and Environment: Midwest Environmental Issues
Date: July 16, 2020
Overview: With a large number of FERC relicensings coming up in the Midwest of the U.S. in the next few years, owners will be busy working through any number of environmental issues. Many of these issues are common, while some are unique to the Midwest. Our panelists share their Midwest experiences with resolving environmental issues during relicensing.
Ep 7: Equipment and Tech: Updating Aging Systems
Date: September 9, 2020
Overview: With many hydroelectric plants worldwide being 50 or more years old, aging of equipment is an ongoing concern. Consequently, many hydro project owners have developed unique approaches to solve their problems. During this webcast, two technical papers are presented, focused on the theme of updating aging systems.
Latest Content

Securing the Industrial Control Systems Network in the Modern Digital Substation
Date: September 14, 2020
Overview: Trends like IoT, Big Data and Digitalization continue to open the electric utility industry to more possibilities, more efficiency, but also more risk.
In this webinar, experts explain how cybersecurity is about more than technology and why securing the Industrial Control System of your substation is important.


Digital Twins: Why Every Utility Should Take Note
Date: April 22, 2020
Overview: Grid modernization and technological advancement are not mutually exclusive efforts. To become a data-driven grid operator, utilities must advance digitally and that is a continuous process. The need to reduce and even eliminate discipline and data silos is reaching a critical mass.

Grid Modernization: A Simplified Path to Distribution Optimization
Date: January 29, 2020
Overview: Reducing costs and support for Volt/VAR and non-wires alternatives (NWA) programs drive utilities towards visibility of network conditions and optimal operations. Distribution Optimization - This webinar displayed how easy it can be to get accurate, comprehensive circuit profiles for planning activities with the right tools and technology.

Utility Cloud Journey: Security & Business Case Foundation
Date: January 28, 2020
Overview: This webcast unpacks how Utilities are reconsidering historic approaches to IT and OT systems management to confront business challenges. “Digitalization, decentralization, decarbonization and democratization (4D) mega forces continue to drive challenges and opportunities in the global utility sector.”