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Sunday | September 22, 2013 |
8:30-9:00 |
Breakfast Session |
9:00-12:00 |
Short Course 1 - Smart Grid Implementations and Lessons Learned
Lead Instructor: Ernst Camm, S&C Electric Company |
9:00-12:00 |
Short Course 2 - Cyber-Physical Security for Smart-Grid: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations
Lead Instructor: Saman Zonouz, University of Miami |
12:00-1:00 |
Lunch Break |
1:00-4:00 |
Short Course 3 - Smart Grid Roadmap Creation
Lead Instructor: Doug Houseman, EnerNex |
1:00-4:00 |
Short Course 4 - Distribution Automation -- System Modeling and Advanced Applications
Lead Instructor: Jiyuan Fan, GE Digital Energy |
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Monday | September 23, 2013 |
8:00-8:30 |
Breakfast Session |
8:30-9:15 |
Keynote Session: An Energy Tsunami: What Can Islands Teach Us On What’s Coming if We Don’t Change?
Chair: Gerry M. Stokes, Associate Laboratory Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Speaker: Steve Johanns, CEO, Veriown Energy |
9:15-10:45 |
Plenary Session: Smart Grid Innovations in Illinois
Chair: Joshua Milberg, Vice President, Willdan Energy Solutions
Mary Heger, Chief Information Officer & Vice President of Information Technology, Ameren
Jason Blumberg, CEO & Managing Director, Energy Foundry
Bob Greenlee, Legal Counsel, Illinois Science and Technology Coalition
Wanda Reder, Vice President of Power System Services, S&C Electric
Karen Weigert, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Chicago |
10:45-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:00-12:30 |
Panel Session: Solar Energy Deployment
Chair: Mark Handy, President and CEO, Kenjiva Energy Systems
Sharon Feigon, CEO, I-GO Car Sharing
Jeremy Jones, Chief Technology Officer, SoCore
Jeff Smith, Principal, Energy and Utilities, West Monroe Partners, LLC
Bradley Klein, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law & Policy Center
Harry Ohde, Assistant Director IBEW-NECA Technical Institute
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11:00-12:30 |
Panel Session: Driving Demand Response in Commercial Buildings
Chair: Heather Langford, Director, LEED, U.S. Green Building Council
Sila Kiliccote, Acting Leader of the Grid Integration Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
James Fine, Senior Economist, Environmental Defense Fund
Michel Kamel, CEO, MelRok
Scot Duncan, CEO, Enerliance |
11:00-12:30 |
Panel Session: Impact of EV Charging on Energy and Transportation Systems
Chair: Kuilin Zhang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University
On Distributed Charging Control of EVs at Residence with Power Network Constraints
Wann-Jiun Ma and Vijay Gupta, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Ufuk Topcu, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
A Corridor-Centric Approach to Planning Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
Yu (Marco) Nie and Mehrnaz Ghamami, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University
A Framework for Investing the Impact of EV Charging on Distribution Systems with the Integrated Modeling and Simulation of Transportation Network
Wencong Su, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Modeling PEV Charging Behavior in an Integrated Activity-Based Demand and Dynamic Network Modeling Framework
Kuilin Zhang, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University |
12:30-1:30 |
Lunch Break |
1:30-3:00 |
Plenary Session: Virgin Islands Solar PV Initiative
Chair: Phil Fisher, President, New Generation Power, U.S. Virgin Islands
Senator Craig W. Barshinger, 30th Legislature, U.S. Virgin Islands
Chairman, Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection
Hugo Hodge, Jr. CPQ, Executive Director, Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority
Heru Oforii-Atta, Special Advisor, Caribbean Green Technology Center, University of the Virgin Islands
Courtney Mayes, Energy Manager, University of the Virgin Island |
3:00-3:15 |
Coffee Break |
3:15-5:00 |
Panel Session: Smart Grid Communications
Chair: Jim McClanahan, Senior Principal of Energy & Utilities Practice, West Monroe Partners
Deb Burton, Director of Utility, Verizon
Tony Burge, Manager of Midwest Utilities Team, Siemens
Craig Newman, VP of Sales, Airspan Networks
Dan Frein, Senior Consultant, West Monroe Partners
Tim Valin, Manager, West Monroe Partners |
3:15-5:00 |
Panel Session: Will Smart Grid Mean New Jobs?
Chair: Marcia Lochmann, Director of College Partnerships, Illinois Green Economy Network
Michael Abba, Director, Smart Grid Integration & System Improvement, Ameren Illinois
Kathleen Thigpen, Senior Training Specialist, Smart Grid Project Management Office, ComEd
Christopher Reese, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, Lewis and Clark Community College
Jeff Oder, Director of Sustainability, Lake Land Community College |
3:15-5:00 |
Paper Session: Demand Response
Chair: Michael I. Henderson, Director of Regional Planning & Coordination, ISO New England
Demand shaping through load shedding and shifting using day-ahead and real-time prices
Rodrigo Carrasco, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Ioannis Akrotirianakis and Amit Chakraborty
Siemens Corporation, Princeton, NJ, USA
Multistage Stochastic Optimal Operation of Energy-Efficiency Building with CHP System
Ping Liu and Yong Fu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA
Evolving Integration of Demand Response
Jeremy Laundergan, Director, Utility Services Consulting, EnerNex, Knoxville, Tennessee USA
Modeling and Stability Analysis of Multi-Energy Complementary Small Power System
Chen Shuyong, China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing, China
Ji Xiaodong, Northeast Dianli University, Jilin, China |
5:15-6:30 |
Networking Reception |
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Tuesday | September 24, 2013 |
8:00-8:30 |
Breakfast Session |
8:30-9:15 |
Keynote Session: Microgrid Evolution in Distribution Service Restoration After a Blackout
Chair: Jianhui Wang, Argonne National Laboratory
Speaker: Steve Pullins, President, Horizon Energy Group |
9:15-10:45 |
Plenary Session: Microgrids: A Utility's Friend or Foe?
Chair: Shay Bahramirad, System Integration Engineer, S&C Electric
Math Bollen, R&D Manager of STRI, Professor, University of Luleo Sweden
Mark McGranaghan, Vice President of Power Delivery and Utilization, EPRI
Anuradha Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist, MIT
Steve Pullins, President, Horizon Energy Group
Thomas Basso, National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
10:45-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:00-12:30 |
Panel Session: Wind Energy from the windy city
Chair: Harry L. Holtz III, founder/chair, Chicagoland Wind Council
Joseph Reisinger, Vice President-Product Management, Broadwind Energy
Nicolai Schousboe, Jeff Smith, Nate Kipnis, Jonathan Nieuwsma, Citizens’ Greener Evanston (Evanston Offshore project)
Dan McDevitt, President & CEO, Nordex USA, Inc.
Steve Spethmann, Supply Chain Director, Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation |
11:00-12:30 |
Panel Session: Grid Modernization for Power System Enhancement
Chair: Dan Gabel, Manager, Smart Grid and Technology, ComEd
Michelle Blaise, VP Engineering and Project Management, ComEd
Mike McMahan, VP AMI Implementation, ComEd
Carol Bartucci, Director IT, ComEd |
11:00-12:30 |
Panel Session: Clean Energy Manufacturing
Chair: Lin Li, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
Just-For-Peak: Buffer Inventory For Peak Electricity Demand Reduction of Manufacturing Systems
Lin Li, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
Manufacturing Scheduling for Electricity Cost and Peak Demand Reduction in a Smart Grid Scenario
Fu Zhao, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Cost benefit analysis of solar and wind local power generations for greenhouse gas emission mitigation
Chris Yuan, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Smart Grid Vision for Computing
Dan McCaugherty, President and CEO, Athena Sciences Corporation
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12:30-1:30 |
Lunch Break |
1:30-3:00 |
Plenary Session: Electricity Market and Regulations
Chair: Luciano De Castro, Northwestern University
Jeff Orcutt, Policy Advisor, Illinois Commerce Commission
Lynne Kiesling, Northwestern University
Joseph Paladino, Senior Advisor, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, US DOE
Paul Alvarez, President, Wired Group |
3:00-3:15 |
Coffee Break |
3:15-5:00 |
Panel Session: Aging Infrastructure and Asset Management (SB) |
3:15-5:00 |
Panel Session: Smart Grid Consumer Education and Workforce Training
Chair: Deborah J. Buterbaugh, Energy Project Specialist, US DOE
Jo Winger de Rondon, Vice President, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL)
Victoria Busch, AMI Strategic Communications Executive, Ameren
Program Director, Illinois Science & Energy Innovation Foundation (ISEIF)
David Kolata, Executive Director, Illinois Citizens Utility Board (CUB)
Kathleen Thigpen, Senior Training Specialist, Exelon |
3:15-5:00 |
Paper Session: Microgrids
Chair: Doug Houseman, Vice President of Innovation and Technology, EnerNex
Microgrid as a Platform: A Holitic Approach to Campus Energy Solution Design
Stephen F. Schneider, Vice President & Chief Solutions Architect, SAIC
An Examination of Microgrids as a Form of Energy Generation Decentralization
Paul Rodriguez and Ryan Franks, National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Still Plenty of Room at the Bottom: Development of a Mesh Microgrid Network and Microclimate for Nalanda University
Jeffrey Boyer and Sachin Anand, dbHMS, Chicago, IL
Dichotomous Markov Noise Technique to Model Wind Power Uncertainty in Microgrid Operation
A. Kargarian, S. Yarahmadian, M. Sepehrifar, and Y. Fu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University |
5:15-6:30 |
Networking Reception |
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Wednesday | September 25, 2013 |
8:00-8:30 |
Breakfast Session |
8:30-9:15 |
Keynote Session: Building Resilience into the Smart Grid
Chair: Peter Sauer, Grainger Chair in Electrical Engineering
Speaker: William H. Sanders
Interim Department Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois |
9:15-10:45 |
Plenary Session: Increasing Adoption: Intelligent And Trustworthy Smart Grid
Chair: Tim Yardley, Assistant Director - Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois
Brian Deal, Director SEDAC , University of Illinois
Tom Glennon, Director of Engineering, Honeywell Building Solutions
Ralph Muehleisen, Principal Building Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
TBD- Representative from BOMA Chicago
TBD - Representative from an Illinois Utility |
10:45-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:00-12:30 |
Panel Session: Big Data in Smart Grids
Chair: Spencer Zirkelbach, S&C Electric
Mel Gehrs, Data Scientist, Silver Spring Netwroks
Dan Rosanova, Senior Architect at West Monroe Partners
Jessica Bian, Director of Performance Analysis, NERC
Paul Myrda, Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute |
11:00-12:30 |
Panel Session: Advanced Electric Vehicle Technology
Chair: Wencong Su, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Power Electronics with Electrified Automobile Systems
Kevin Bai, Kettering University
Unplugging the Electric Car
Chris Mi, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Impacts of EV's on Distribution Reliability and Mitigation Techniques
Visvakumar Aravinthan, Wichita State University
Model Predictive Control-based Power Dispatch for Distribution Systems Considering Plug-in Electric Vehicle Charging Uncertainty
Wencong Su, University of Michigan-Dearborn |
11:00-12:30 |
Paper Session: Power System Operation and Control
Chair: Mohammad Khodayar, Southern Methodist University
Enabling Efficient, Responsive and Resilient Buildings: A collaboration between the United States and India
Chandrayee Basu and Girish Ghatikar, Grid Integration Group, EETD
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, United States
Unit Commitment with Variable Wind Generation: A Game Theoretical Approach
Prateek Bansal, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Wei Wei, Shengwei Mei, Senior Member, IEEE and Feng Liu
Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronic Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
A New Probabilistic Production Simulation Method of Renewable Energy Generator Farm integrated with ESS
Jinhwan Jang, Jintaek Lim, Sunghun Lee, Yeonchan Lee, and Jaeseok Choi, Department of Electrical Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea
Development of Real Time Radar Visual Style Information System of Power System Integrated Health Index
Jintaek Lim, Jinhwan Jang, Jaeseok Choi, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea
Hongseok Choi, Korea Power Exchange, Seoul, South Korea
Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Post-Hurricane Transmission Network Outage Management
Ali Arab, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Amin Khodaei, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Suresh K. Khator, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Kevin Ding, CenterPoint Energy, Inc., Houston, TX, USA
Zhu Han, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA |
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