Sunday Seminar 2:00 pm 6:00 pm Making Decisions in a Time-Critical Environment Doug Harrington, TEAM FORMATION 1
General Session, day, September 14, 2009 7:15 Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:00 Welcome Address KD, ATCLLC 8:05 Opening Remarks GG, EPRI 8:10 Keynote speaker from National Grid Christopher Root, Sr. VP Customer Operations, National Grid 8:30 Session G1: Embedded generation Chris Cooper and Doug Fairchild, HydroOne 9:15 Session G2: Findings of SA studies Dr. Erik Connors, SAtechnologies 10:00 Break 10:30 Session G3: Developing and Conducting Decision Making Games (DMGs) for System Operators 12:00 noon Lunch Doug Harrington, TEAM FORMATION 2
Breakout Sessions, day, September 14th, 2009 Time Breakout A Breakout B Breakout C Breakout D Breakout E 1:30 Managing Complexity Incidents 1 Ice Storm Recovery Distribution Distributed/Embedded Generation Topic B1: Developing and Topic B2: Incident Topic B3: NH ice storm Topic B4: Remote B5: Distributed Conducting Decision database demonstration Racking of Distribution generation Making Games Switchgear (DMGs) for System Operators Doug Harrington, TEAM FORMATION Dr. Arthur Beare, Beare Ergonomics and Rudolph Francin, ConEdison Dennis Mullen, PSNH Finley Ledbetter, Groupcbs Paul Myrda, EPRI 2:30 B6: Control Room Integration: Switching Our Focus Nabil Hitti, VP Transmission Network Operations at National Grid B7: Deriving Lessons Learned from Incident Reports Dr. Arthur Beare, Beare Ergonomics, and Dr. George Gela, EPRI Topic B8: Arkansas ice storm Lessons learned Brent Carr, AECC Topic B9: Feeder 1855 switching incident Marc Mellaly, Joe Flach, UI Topic B10: Embedded generation Chris Cooper and Doug Fairchild, HydroOne 3:30 Topic B11: Findings of SA studies Topic B12: Chernobyl: A Failure in Safe Operations Topic B14: Minimizing Transmission/Distribution ArcFlash Exposure Topic B15: Accommodating High Levels of Variable Generation Dr. Erik Connors, SAtechnologies Jon Sirney, Western Area Power Administration Dr. George Gela, EPRI John Moura, NERC 5:30-7:00 Happy hour 3
General Session, Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:15 Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:00 Session G4: Control room displays Rita Patterson Primate Technologies (P-Tech) 8:45 Session G5: Memorable Errors over 30 Years Kevin Dunham, Chugach Electric Assoc. Inc. 9:30 Session G6: The Evolution of Switchman Certification Steve Millican, OGE 10:15 Break 10:30 Session G7: Workload scheduling and outage planning Shannon, Janet, BPA 12:15 Lunch 4
Breakout Sessions, Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Time Breakout F Breakout G Breakout H Breakout I Tue 1:30 Control Room Workload and Shiftwork Administrative Incidents 2 B16: The Subconscious (Tacit) Domain and its Impact on Expertise: The Hidden Realm of Network Controllers' Minds Panos Lazanas, University of Johannesburg Topic B17: Work Planner Scheduler with our Transmission Field Services Topic B18: The Evolution of Switchman Certification Topic B19: Memorable Errors over 30 Years William Jackson, BPA Steve Millican, OGE Kevin Dunham Chugach Electric Assoc. Inc. Tue 2:30 Topic B20: Control Room Displays Topic B21: Shift Work And Circadian Rhythms Topic B22: Utility terminology versus specific jargon B23: Tracking Switching Incidents Rita Patterson from Primate Technologies Rita Patterson, Primate Technologies (P- Tech) and Joe Flach from United Illuminating; Dile Brooks, Alabama Power Co. Lee Harrison, Berkshire Harrison Steve Millican, OGE Tue, 3:30 pm General Closing Session, main meeting room 5