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San Diego Convention Center
April 10-13, 2023
Select Criteria: Tracks = Grid Connectivity Stage

Wednesday, April 12, 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL52
The presentation will explore the benefits of decentralization, including increased resilience and reduced dependence on centralized power generation. However, it will also address the challenges that come with decentralization, such as the need for improved grid management and coordination to ensure reliability and stability. The presentation will also discuss the... Read More
Speaker(s)
Author
Martin Milani
Chief Executive Officer
Sunverge
Track(s)

Wednesday, April 12, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL97
Speaker(s)
Speaker
Cameron Gilchrist
Senior Solutions Engineer
Anterix
Speaker
John Hughes
Director IT Network Engineering & Operations
Ameren
Speaker
Steve Ryan
Vice President of Ecosystem and Partnerships
Anterix
Track(s)
Sponsored by: 

Wednesday, April 12, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL25
5G enables new architectures and frameworks that support a dynamic, near real-time, end-to-end fabric to assist critical infrastructure operation in a continuously evolving environment. Embracing 5G technologies bridges the gap between energy stakeholders and computing/ML resources to enhance grid asset management through cohesive data integration and intelligent analytics. In this... Read More
Speaker(s)
Moderator
Xiaoyuan Fan
Panelist
Qiuhua Huang
Associate Professor
Colorado School of Mines
Panelist
Yilu Liu
Governor`s Chair/Professor
University of Tennessee/ORNL
Panelist
Mauricio Subieta
Chief Technology Officer
Nokia
Panelist
Luigi Vanfretti
Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Track(s)

Wednesday, April 12, 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Wednesday, April 12, 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL20
Due to evolving decarbonization and energy efficiency goals, utilities are actively looking for ways to optimally utilize premise-level assets like distributed energy resources (DERs) (e.g., solar and battery energy storage systems) and appliances like HVAC and electric water heaters to minimize or shift the energy consumption during demand response (DR).... Read More
Speaker(s)
Moderator
Shakil Hossan
Panelist
Xin Jin
Sensors and Controls Innovation Area Lead
NREL
Panelist
Sid Surya-Narayanan
Chief Engineer
Eaton Corp
Panelist
Xuan Wu
Panelist
Junbo Zhao
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Wednesday, April 12, 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL71
The presentation will highlight the key challenges facing solar integration, such as managing variable generation, integrating energy storage and advanced inverters, and developing new grid control systems. The presentation will also provide an overview of recent DOE initiatives in these areas, and discuss how these initiatives are working towards addressing... Read More
Speaker(s)
Speaker
Guohui Yuan
Program Manager, Systems Integration - Solar Energy Technologies Office
US Department of Energy
Track(s)

Wednesday, April 12, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL30
In this Panel we'll focus on new ways to manage Demand Resource flexible resources behind the meter and integrate DERs to participate in wholesale and distribution energy markets. The new approaches take advantage of the IoT revolution and inexpensive communications technology to respond to power grid state signals within a... Read More
Speaker(s)
Moderator
Alex Papalexopoulos
President & CEO
ECCO International
Panelist
Harris Eisenhardt
Market Design Specialist
NYISO
Panelist
Anthony Giacomoni
Manager, Advanced Analytics
PJM Interconnection
Panelist
Mladen Kezunovic
Professor
Texas A&M University
Panelist
Richard O'Neill
Distinguished Senior Fellow
Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
Panelist
Shmuel Oren
Professor
UC Berkeley
Track(s)

Wednesday, April 12, 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL85
The distribution system “machine” is unique in that changes at one point of the network often has electrical effects at other points of the network. This means the traditional source of the circuit – the circuit breaker or head-end of the circuit – is also the “edge” . Simple visualization... Read More
Speaker(s)
Author
John Eason
VP, Product & Market Development
Electrical Grid Monitoring
Track(s)
Sponsored by: 

Thursday, April 13, 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL84
This session will cover what V2G is and what is needed to implement it. The session will explore how V2G works and identify the key benefits it offers. Topics will also include V2G models for electricity and revenue flows in addition to the applications and challenges of V2G....
Speaker(s)
Speaker
Shawn Heurtevant
Western Regional Sales Manager
Hitachi Energy
Track(s)
Sponsored by: 

Thursday, April 13, 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL34
Digitalization is in a critical stage in electric utility industry. In the light of growing complexities in electric grid monitoring, operations and planning as grid evolves, utilities have increasingly adapted to technology and digitalization. Many utilities are turning to digital technologies to increase grid efficiency in operations and planning, to... Read More
Speaker(s)
Chair
Atena Darvishi
Manager, R&D
New York Power Authority
Panelist
Maria Kretzing
Director Of Innovation
Bidgely
Panelist
Varun Krishna
Senior Manager, Data Science
C3 AI
Panelist
Fabio Mantovani
VP, Ventures
New York Power Authority
Panelist
Rafael Ozaki
Country Business Unit CEO
Siemens Grid Software
Panelist
Reece Thompson
Business Development - North America, Energy & Utilities
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Track(s)

Thursday, April 13, 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL72
In this talk a holistic system planning approach to incorporate evolving grid-edge technologies into the energy grid will be discussed. The grid-edge technologies are rapidly transforming the energy landscape and have the potential to improve the reliability, resiliency, and efficiency of the energy grid. However, planning for these technologies can... Read More
Speaker(s)
Speaker
Elizabeth Cook
Director, Advanced Grid Systems + Grid Modernization Program
Duquesne Light Company
Track(s)

Thursday, April 13, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL38
Real-time (RT) simulation provides a high-fidelity simulation capability that also enables assessing the performance of an actual hardware in a close-to-real environment through Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulation. This additional fidelity, together with the advancements in the computational power of RT simulators in recent years, have led to a growing interest and... Read More
Speaker(s)
Chair
Aboutaleb Haddadi
Project Manager
EPRI
Panelist
Miguel Cova Acosta
Specialist Power Plant Solutions
Vestas
Panelist
Sheik Mohammad Mohiuddin
Power System Research Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Panelist
Jean Nicolas Paquin
Vice-President, Electrical Engineering and Expertise
OPAL-RT TECHNOLOGIES
Panelist
Kati Sidwall
Technical Marketing Lead
RTDS Technologies Inc.
Track(s)

Thursday, April 13, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

  • Room: Grid Connectivity Stage/Exhibit Hall
  • Session Number: PL41
Integration of renewable distributed energy resources and storage at the grid edge coupled with more efficient buildings and responsive loads are critical to advancing decarbonization efforts.  However, traditional electric system planning and operations are challenged with faster system dynamics and increased variability in supply and demand with more localized effects. ... Read More
Speaker(s)
Chair
James Ogle
Chief Electrical Engineer
PNNL
Panelist
Anamika Dubey
Assistant Professor
Washington State University
Panelist
John Gibson
Innovation Lab Director and Chief R&D Engineer
Avista
Author
Fares Al Jajeh
Power Systems Controls Specialist
Eaton
Author
Bryan Fazzari
Senior Engineer
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc
Author
Shiva Poudel
Power Systems Research Engineer
PNNL
Track(s)