2017 Electric Power Industry Conference Program

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

12th ANNUAL

Electric Power Industry Conference The Global Grid

NOVEMBER 13 & 14, 2017 Hilton Doubletree and Energy Innovation Center – Pittsburgh, PA

A special thank you to our sponsors

THE 12th ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Electric Power Industry Conference November 13 & 14, 2017 Hilton Doubletree and Energy Innovation Center, Pittsburgh, PA

The Global Grid Gregory Reed, PhD – Conference Chair

Brandon Grainger, PhD – Conference Co-Chair

Director, Center for Energy and the GRID Institute Director, Electric Power Systems Laboratory Professor of Electric Power Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Affiliate, Center for Energy and the GRID Institute Associate Director, Electric Power Systems Laboratory (Research) Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Dear Friends:

electricity reliability and sustainability in Pittsburgh, but also to improve the quality of life in our region. Our research through the DC-AMPS Program is supporting the development of exciting sites like Almono, Uptown Ecovation District, Riverfront 47, and Millvale, to name a few.

We are supporting our own campus by partnering with Pitt Facilities Management to help plan for the campus’ energy future. District Energy will continue to be a program that unites our research at GRID with what is needed in the community itself, and we look forward to seeing how the innovation we ourselves are researching can help Pittsburgh itself to better prepare for the grid challenges of the 21st century.

Welcome to the 12th Annual Electric Power Industry Conference (EPIC) at the University of Pittsburgh! On behalf of the conference committee, the Center for Energy, and the Swanson School of Engineering at Pitt, we thank you for your participation and support. We hope you enjoy the sessions we have planned, and we look forward to hearing your insights throughout the different sessions and networking opportunities.

We chose to expand our activities this year in a manner that is very symbolic of the growth that we ourselves have undergrown in Pitt’s electric power education, research, and outreach. The ‘Global Grid’ is both representative of the expansion of our networks and activities, but also our ambitions to grow. We’ve spent time in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, South Korea, and Japan to better understand how the newly established Pitt Energy GRID (Grid Research and Infrastructure Development) Institute can help to investigate and improve the problems associated with the energy transition abroad. We’ve also spent significant time over the past year, along with our students, travelling to places like Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland to learn about the cutting edge power systems and sustainability practices they are implementing.

We were thrilled to welcome ambassadors and state visitors from more than 30 countries, and to showcase how our research on microgrids in particular can help countries in more vulnerable locations. Partnerships and collaboration continue to be the keystone of our research success, and we are excited to see how the relationships we have been developing internationally can help us learn from, and collaborate with, many of our existing partners here locally.

The progress that we have made within our City continues to be an achievement that we ourselves are proud of here today. We’ve not only spent considerable time this year in Harrisburg helping the state to understand the future of energy in PA, but we’ve also spent significant time investigating how research developed within our labs can be applied within our City borders to improve not only the quality of

Our speakers this year reflect these two mutual goals: to continue to make strides in electric power research and education at a nationally and internationally-recognized level, and to continue to implement this innovation within our own borders. Mark McGranaghan, Vice President of Power Delivery & Utilization at the Electric Power Research Institute, will provide insights on the changing dynamics of the power delivery systems of the U.S., and give insights on the development of integrated energy networks today. Lidija Sekaric, Director of Strategy and Marketing at Siemens, will also give insights on the role of technology within these power systems, and discuss distributed energy systems including electrical and advanced control systems, and microgrids. Our graduate students and faculty members have some great work to share with you, and welcome the opportunity to discuss their work with you both today and long term after the conference is over. Our work here indeed seems to not stop, and we look forward to collecting your insights, revising our work, and sharing further successes with you over the next year.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank our many session speakers, panelists, moderators, corporate sponsors, and exhibitors – your contributions and participation are essential to the continued success of EPIC, and we look forward to collaborating with you as the years unfold.

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Schedule Monday, November 13 9:00 a.m. – REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING Pennsylvania Ballroom GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER POSTER SESSION Posters will be available for viewing at distinct locations throughout the hotel venue. The time frame is set aside specifically for when the students will be at their posters to present, discuss, and answer questions prior to the start of the conference.

10:00 a.m. – WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Gregory Reed, PhD – University of Pittsburgh

Session 1 Ohio Room

European Experiences with Grid Transition MODERATOR: Michael Rooney – University of Pittsburgh, Center for Energy Manager, District Energy Initiatives Speakers Zhe Chen, PhD – Aalborg University (Denmark) Professor, Department of Energy Technology

10:10 a.m. – CONFERENCE KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Anders Bostrom – ABB Power Grids: FACTS (Sweden) Lead Power Systems Engineer

Mark McGranaghan – Electric Power Research Institute Vice President, Power Delivery & Utilization

Timothy Kreukniet – EVBox Vice President of Business Development

11:00 a.m. – GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Niels Malskaer – Danish Embassy, Washington DC Commercial Advisor

MODERATOR: Brandon Grainger, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Presentations from Pitt Electric Power Engineering PhD and M.S. students providing overview of the group’s research activities, and introducing elements of the GSR poster session.

Session 2

12:30 p.m. – LUNCH Pennsylvania Ballroom

MODERATOR: Hashim Al Hassan – University of Pittsburgh PhD Candidate, Electric Power Systems Laboratory

1:45 – 2:30 p.m. – TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT Pennsylvania Ballroom

Speakers David Roop – Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Senior Engineer, Power Systems Engineering Services Division

Lidija Sekaric, PhD – Siemens Director, Strategy and Marketing for Distributed Energy Systems Former Director, DOE Sunshot Initiative

2:30 p.m. – TECHNICAL PROGRAM SESSIONS (CONCURRENT TRACKS) Three Rivers Ballroom

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Allegheny Room

International Perspectives on Infrastructure Design

Razvan Panati, PhD – Siemens Industry, Inc. Director, Power Conversion Infrastructure David Ortiz, PhD – Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Deputy Director, Office of Electric Reliability Kyle Thomas, PE – Dominion Energy Virginia Supervisor, Electric Transmission Operations

Session 3

4:30 – 6:00 p.m. – AFTERNOON-TO-EVENING BREAK

Monongahela Room

6:00 p.m. – STUDENT/INDUSTRY NETWORKING EVENT AND EVENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS Energy Innovation Center

Global Technology Developments MODERATOR: Patrick Lewis – University of Pittsburgh PhD Candidate, Electric Power Systems Laboratory Speakers Davianne Duarte, PhD – Intel Corporation Energy Solutions Architect Shimeng Huang, PhD – ANSYS, Inc. Research and Development Engineer Thomas Hawes – Direct Energy Director, Distributed Energy Enterprise Sales Russell Garcia – Johnson Controls Director, Higher Education for North America

All our students, both undergraduate and graduate who are studying in the electric power and energy fields, join with our industry partners, government sponsors, and other constituents who will have representation in an exhibit area for a networking reception.

EVENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS Covestro Bright Space – Energy Innovation Center Daniel Carnovale, PE – Eaton Manager, Power Systems Experience Center

Reception and Exhibits FOLLOWING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS Raceway at the Energy Innovation Center List of Exhibitors CannonDesign www.cannondesign.com CE Power www.cepower.net DC-NEXUS www.dc-nexus.com Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI) www.meppi.com/Pages/default.aspx National Energy Technology Laboratory www.netl.doe.gov Nayak Corporation, Inc. www.nayakcorp.com

NRG Energy Center Pittsburgh LLC www.nrg.com/business/large-business/thermal/projects/ pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/ University of Pittsburgh European Studies Center www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/ University of Pittsburgh Graduate Engineering Programs www.engineering.pitt.edu/graduate/ U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy www.energy.gov/office-fossil-energy Sargent Electric www.sargentelectric.com/

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Schedule Tuesday, November 14 8:00 a.m. – REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING Covestro Bright Space 9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Covestro Bright Space

DC Technology Symposium in Partnership with the EMerge Alliance 9:00 a.m. – INTRODUCTION

9:15 – 11:30 a.m.

Session Moderator Gregory Reed, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Director, Center for Energy and GRID Institute Panelists Bernd Wunder – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems & Device Technology Group Manager, DC Grids

Gregory Reed, PhD

Keiichi Hirose, PhD – NTT Facilities Executive Director

MORNING KEYNOTE ADDRESS Covestro Bright Space – Energy Innovation Center

Paul Savage – Nextek Power Systems Chief Executive Officer

Brian Patterson – EMerge Alliance President

Larisa Dobriansky, JD – General Microgrids, Inc Chief Business & Policy Innovation Officer Brian Reinhart – Cross-Sound Cable Company, LLC Director of Operations Brian Patterson – EMerge Alliance President

11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

OPEN DISCUSSION WITH Q&A 12:15 – 12:30 p.m.

CONFERENCE CHAIR CLOSING REMARKS 12:30 p.m.

CONFERENCE ADJOURNS WITH LUNCH

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Speaker Biographies GREGORY REED, PhD Director, Center for Energy and the GRID Institute, Director, Electric Power Systems Laboratory Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Gregory Reed is the Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Energy and the Energy GRID Institute; Director of the Electric Power Systems Laboratory in the Swanson School of Engineering at Pitt; and Professor of Electric Power Engineering in the Swanson School’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is also an inaugural member of the National Academies of Science and Engineering Energy Ambassador Program; the IEEE Power & Energy Society; the American Society for Engineering Education; the Engineering Society of Western Pennsylvania; and serves as Chief Science Advisor on the Board of Directors of the EMerge DC Alliance.

infrastructure development, renewable energy systems and integration; smart grid technologies and applications; and energy storage.

His research interests, teaching activities, and related pursuits include advanced electric power grid and energy generation, transmission, and distribution system technologies; power electronics and control technologies (FACTS, HVDC, and MVDC systems); micro-grids and DC

Reed earned his PhD in electric power engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (1997); his M.Eng.in electric power from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1986), and his B.S.E.E. with electric power concentration from Gannon University (1985).

Reed has 30 years of combined industry and academic experience in the electric power and energy sector, including positions in engineering, research & development, and executive management throughout his career with the Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, ABB Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., and DNV-KEMA. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 published papers and technical articles in the areas of electric power system analysis, the applications of advanced power systems and power electronics technologies, and power engineering education. He is an active member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and the American Society of Engineering Education

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Conference Keynote Address – Monday Morning MARK McGRANAGHAN Electric Power Research Institute Vice President, Power Delivery & Utilization Mark McGranaghan is Vice President of the Power Delivery and Utilization (PDU) Sector for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He leads the teams responsible for EPRI’s research involving technologies, systems, and practices for the power delivery system from the generator to the plug and for the devices and technologies that use the electricity.

Mark has been with EPRI since 2003 and has had a strong influence on EPRI’s research in the areas of power quality, advanced distribution systems, and the smart grid. He has worked closely with government and industry research organizations, both in the United States and International.

Prior to joining EPRI, Mark was with Electrotek Concepts (19982003) and McGraw-Edison/Cooper Power. Mark has BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Toledo and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught seminars and workshops around the world and is very active in standards development and industry activities. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Technology Spotlight – Monday Afternoon LIDIJA SEKARIC, PhD Siemens Director, Strategy and Marketing for Distributed Energy Systems Former Director, DOE Sunshot Initiative In her role as Director of Strategy and Marketing, Lidija provides strategic direction for Siemens business units on the topic of Distributed Energy Systems with strong focus on photovoltaic (PV) and thermal energy generation, energy storage, and electrical and advanced control systems, including microgrids.

Prior to joining Siemens she served in a variety of executive and advisory roles at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) where she managed a portfolio across

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all applied energy programs with recent focus on synchronizing renewables for integrated grid approaches. Her experience also includes serving as Director of the DOE SunShot Initiative where she led the near and long-term solar program strategy.

Lidija has nearly 15 years of strategic experience, technical knowledge and high achievements in industry and government, with expertise in domestic and international energy policy. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, she is a recognized leader in renewable energy technology and policy.

She holds a PhD and M.S. in Applied Physics from Cornell University, an A.B. in Physics from Bryn Mawr College and has served at the Executive Committee level on both the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the American Physical Society. She also holds 30 US patents and has over 40 scientific publications.

Conference Keynote Address – Monday Evening DANIEL CARNOVALE, PE Eaton Manager, Power Systems Experience Center Dan Carnovale is the Manager for Eaton’s Power Systems Experience Center where PQ problems are created and mitigated for demonstration and testing purposes. He has developed and teaches CEU certified technical seminars on Power Systems, Energy Management and Power System Analysis, and he has conducted several hundred Power Quality

site investigations for commercial, industrial and utility power systems: evaluating electrical issues and applying solutions.

Prior to Eaton, Dan worked for Westinghouse Engineering Services and ABB Power T&D where he performed Power Quality field investigations and electrical distribution system analysis.

Dan received his B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Gannon University in Erie, PA, his M.S. Degree in Power Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY and an MBA from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of Pennsylvania, California and Alaska, a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Conference Keynote Address – Tuesday Morning BRIAN PATTERSON EMerge Alliance President Brian T. Patterson is President and a founder of the EMerge Alliance. He is a 30 plus year veteran of the electrical and electronics industry, has an extensive technical and work history in electronics, fiber optics and building electrical systems technologies and holds multiple patents in those fields. He is currently Managing Director of B. L. Coliker Associates, a market and technology consulting firm. Prior positions include General Manger at Armstrong World Industries, Director of AMP Incorporated’s Fiber Optic Business, and President of an Electronic Interconnect Division of Kollmorgen Corporation.

He is the US National Council International Electrotechnical Commission’s System Evaluation Group 4 on Low Voltage (under 1500V) Direct Current. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association, the IEEE

Power and Energy Society, the Continental Automated Buildings Association, the Power Supply Manufacturer’s Association, and the UL/NEMA/EMerge ad hoc NFPA National Electrical Code task group on DC power. Mr. Patterson is also past chairman of the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Distributed Renewable Generation and Storage Distributed Energy Work Group Microgrid Subgroup.

Patterson has been a featured speaker at: US Green Building Council International, Lightfair International, American Institute of Architect, Applied Power Electronics, International Telecommunications Energy, International Electrotechnical Commission, International Facility Management Association, and numerous other national and international industry, government and academic forums. He is a professionally accredited course author and instructor for the American Institute of Architects, the US Green Building Council and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. He has also authored articles for major industry and professional trade magazines and is the official spokesperson of the EMerge Alliance.

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Session Moderator DR. BRANDON GRAINGER is currently a (research) assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), Swanson School of Engineering. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering with a specialization in power conversion. He also obtained his master’s degree in electrical engineering and bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (with minor in electrical engineering) all from Pitt. He was also one of the first original R.K.

Mellon graduate student fellows through the Center for Energy at Pitt.

Dr. Grainger’s research interests are in electric power conversion, medium to high voltage power electronics (HVDC and STATCOM), general power electronic converter design (topology, controller design, magnetics) and high power density design, power semiconductor evaluation (SiC and GaN) and reliability assessment, military power systems, DC system design and protection, fault identification techniques, and power electronics for microgrid applications.

Dr. Grainger has either worked or interned for ABB Corporate Research in Raleigh, NC; ANSYS Inc. in Southpointe, PA; Mitsubishi Electric in Warrendale, PA; Siemens Industry

in New Kensington, PA; and has regularly volunteered at Eaton’s Power Systems Experience Center in Warrendale, PA designing electrical demonstrations. In his career thus far, he has contributed to more than 40 articles in the general area of electric power engineering (emphasis on electric power conversion) and all of which have been published through the IEEE. Dr. Grainger is a member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), and Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and is an annual reviewer of various power electronic conferences and transaction articles. Dr. Grainger is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as the IEEE Pittsburgh PELS Chapter Chair for which the section has won numerous awards with his leadership.

PhD Students HASHIM AL HASSAN is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and expects to finish at the end of the year. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering, a concentration in power systems, and a minor in mathematics in 2010. He also graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Master’s degree in electrical engineering in 2014 with a research focus on HVDC fault location. Hashim was awarded full scholarships for the Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD degrees. His work experience includes ANSYS Inc. where he worked as a co-op testing engineer for two rotations and Eaton Corp. where he worked as a research and development intern for a full summer. His research work resulted in multiple publications

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and a patent (pending). His research interest includes, power system protection and control, HVDC, renewable energy integration, and microgrids. He is currently working on developing protection solutions and control techniques for microgrids. Hashim served as the representative for the graduate student body in the Tenure and Academic Freedom Committee of the University Senate at Pitt during the year 2014-2015. He actively volunteers at local conferences and science events such as IEEE ECCE, Intel ISEF, and Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering fair.

He is also a student member of the IEEE and IEEE Power and Energy Society, since 2012.

He is advised by Dr. Grainger and Dr. Mao.

ALVARO CARDOZA was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh with a concentration in electrical power engineering. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the

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University of Pittsburgh in the spring of 2012. In the summer of 2012, he interned at Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc. working in the Instrumentation and Controls division. He received his M.S. in electrical engineering in the summer of 2016 with research evaluating the benefits of directly integrating energy storage into DC-DC converters in order to suppress unstable photovoltaic transients. Alvaro’s research interests include renewable energy integration, microgrids, and power electronics.

Mr. Cardoza is an RK Mellon Fellow graduate student researcher, the Vice President of the Engineering Graduate Student Organization, the former Graduate Ambassador and Regional Graduate Representative for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, a graduate student representative on the

ECE Graduate Committee, a fellow of the NSF-funded Pitt-STRIVE, and a member of the Engineering Diversity Graduate Students Association. He is also a student member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society as well as the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He is advised by Dr. Kwasinski.

RUI HU is a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his B.S from Sichuan University, China in 2012 and M.S from Michigan Technological University in 2015. His research interests

include applications of renewable power and decentralized control of power electronic devices. Currently, he is working on a project related to a communication network dc microgrid and pursuing his PhD degree. Rui is a student member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society. He is advised by Dr. Kwasinski.

PATRICK LEWIS graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 2012, and with a Master of Science in 2014, both degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

He is now currently pursuing his doctorate also at the University of Pittsburgh focusing on power electronics engineering. Patrick’s work experience includes internships with Curtiss Wright and Mitsubishi Electric. From January 2010 through August 2011, he worked three rotations within three different departments at Curtiss Wright. For the summer of 2012,

he interned at Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. within their Power System Engineering Studies group (PSES). His master’s degree pertained to protection coordination design for MMC-based HVDC transmission. His current research interests include power electronics design, modeling and control, involving converter reliability and system stability for the applications of distributed renewable energy integration and microgrids. Mr. Lewis is a student member of IEEE PELS, IES, PES, and IAS, and he is an endowed R.K. Mellon graduate student fellow through the Center for Energy at the University of Pittsburgh.

He is advised by Dr. Grainger and Dr. Reed.

M.S. Students MATTHIEU BERTIN is a second year M.S student at the University of Pittsburgh, who is graduating in December 2017.

He’s a French exchange student in his final year of engineering at INSA de Lyon (Lyon, France) in the ECE department. He worked for five months between September 2015 and February 2016 for Sysnav, located in Vernon, France as an embedded software developer (sensor integration in embedded environments). His research interests are Power Electronics and Lightning Simulation.

He’s currently a research assistant under Dr. Grainger and a teaching assistant, also under Dr. Grainger, in the course “Introduction to Electrical Engineering” for Industrial Engineers.

His current research project focuses on

designing a control algorithm that optimizes the efficiency of a DC microgrid by changing the DC bus voltage with the variations of power electronics load conditions.

beginning to research multiple input, multiple output converters for solar DC microgrids, telecommunications, and military applications.

JACOB FRIEDRICH is from Sharon, PA. THOMAS COOK received his B.S. in 2017 from the University of Pittsburgh in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Electric Power Engineering. During his undergraduate years, he worked in the Student Electronic Resource Center at the University of Pittsburgh and helped to create a center dedicated to hands on undergraduate learning. His senior design project involved the creation of a low voltage, three phase power electronic converter for demonstrating Eaton Corporation’s trip units. He is

He earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Gannon University with Magna Cum Laude honors in 2016. Mr. Friedrich completed three separate internships at Delphi Automotive and one internship at Eaton. Currently, he is a second year M.S. student at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a graduate student fellow under the guidance of Dr. Grainger. He is a graduate research assistant and his research interests include power electronic topology design for photovoltaic and grid applications.

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M.S. Students (continued) SANTINO GRAZIANI is a second year

SAMANTHA MORELLO was born

JOSEPH PETTI is currently pursuing his

graduate student advised by Dr. Grainger. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Electrical engineering and a concentration in Electric Power. His research interest is in power electronic devices for pulsed power applications.

in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

She is currently pursuing her M.S. degree in electrical power engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology in 2016. Samantha has completed three internships at Arm EnerTech Associates (AETA), where she mainly dealt with automation, design, and generator protection. Ms. Morello also completed two internships at Duquesne Light Company (DLC) where she mainly focused on substation design, relay and control, and reclassified LiDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging) data using PLS-Cadd for various transmission lines.

Ms. Morello lastly completed an internship at Mitsubishi Electric Power Products as a power system studies engineer. She focused on performing both transient and stability studies for multiple utility companies.

Samantha’s research is system level, and involves microgrid protection for detecting upstream faults in a grid tied microgrid setting.

She is advised by Dr. Reed and Dr. Kerestes.

M.S. degree in electrical power engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He also attended the University of Pittsburgh for his B.S. in electrical engineering, which he completed in the spring of 2016. During his time in undergraduate studies, Mr. Petti interned for the DOE and co-oped with Eaton. Mr. Petti has interned for Dominion Virginia Power the past two summers, working on projects related to microgrid islanding protection. His research focuses on the transient behavior and recovery of synchronverters while grid connected and in island mode. He is advised by Dr. Reed.

THIBAUT HARZIG was born in Lille, France, in 1994. He is a first year M.S student at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a French exchange student in final year at the engineering school INSA de Lyon in the ECE department. In 2016, he did a five-month internship at CERN located on the French-Swiss border in the TE-EPC-LPC section where he worked on the optimization of [4-6-8 kA; 8V] DC-DC power converters used to supply superconductive magnets in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). His research interests are the field of power electronics and control strategies of power converters.

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ZACHARY T. SMITH received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014.

He is a member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society.

Zachary worked from 2014 to 2017 in Eaton’s Leadership Development Program for Application Engineers. He has product engineering experience with MV/LV AC substations, motor control centers, and drives. His current research interests include next generation solid-state DC switchboards.

Monday, November 13, 2017 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Session 1 Ohio Room

European Experiences with Grid Transition MODERATOR: Michael Rooney – University of Pittsburgh, Center for Energy Manager, District Energy Initiatives Michael Rooney is Manager of District Energy Initiatives at University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Energy. In this role, he works closely with the City of Pittsburgh and surrounding communities to identify opportunities for new energy infrastructure development including microgrid planning and deployment.

Michael’s career has focused on stakeholder engagement, working in a diverse set of nonprofits across the country. Previously, he worked for CARE’s policy and advocacy team in both Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Michael received his Master of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and his Bachelor of Arts from Allegheny College.

SPEAKERS Zhe Chen, PhD – Aalborg University (Denmark) Professor, Department of Energy Technology Renewable Energy Based Energy Systems Abstract The presentation will discuss the possible features of future energy systems, including renewable energy based power sources, distributed generation, energy market operation, power electronic applications, super grid for large area interconnection, Interconnected multi energy systems, etc. Some of the research group’s work is briefed.

Biography Zhe Chen received his B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from the Northeast China Institute of Electric Power Engineering, Jilin City, China, and his PhD degree from the University of Durham, Durham, U.K. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, where he is the Leader of the Wind Power System Research program. He is the Danish Principal Investigator of Wind Energy of Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research. His

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current research interests include power systems, power electronics, electric machines, wind energy, and modern power systems. He has authored or coauthored more than 320 publications in his technical field. Dr. Chen is an Associate Editor (Renewable Energy) of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (London, U.K.), and a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.

Anders Bostrom – ABB Power Grids: FACTS (Sweden) Lead Power Systems Engineer The Scandinavian Transition Abstract The Scandinavian countries show substantial diversity in terms of power generation structure. The mix is quite different from country to country, where some experience a rapid transition from traditional synchronous generation to renewable sources, while others have a long time established generation structure that remains more or less intact. A well-known example where rapid transition is taking place is Denmark, where the portion of wind generated energy went from just below 20 percent in 2008 to 42 percent in 2015 and is projected to increase substantially in the future. The other extreme is Norway, where 98 percent of the generation is hydro. The largest hydro plants in Europe reside here and a substantial part of the power generated is exported.

Finland and Sweden have a somewhat different structure where hydro and nuclear facilities provide most of the generation.

The transmission systems of the individual Nordic countries (Scandinavia and Finland) are all heavily interconnected and together form the Nordic Power Pool market (NORD Pool). Both AC and DC ties are used connecting the Nordic countries as well as other countries on the Baltic Sea board. An interesting detail is that this is the system where the HVDC technology first came to use. It’s easy to see how this benefits areas with high penetration of renewables, but also provide for exporting power.

This talk aims to describe how this system has evolved over time concerning interconnections and generation. The change in the generation mix and impact of future load types will also be discussed.

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Biography Anders Bostrom is with ABB Grid Systems FACTS in Vasteras, Sweden.

Anders joined ABB in 1993 and has over 20 years of experience in the field of power transmission systems, dynamic reactive power and series compensation.

Anders earned MSEE in 1991 from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden and is a long time member of IEEE Substation Committee Working Groups for Static Var Compensators and STATCOM.

Timothy Kreukniet – EVBox Vice President of Business Development How to Create an Infrastructure that Keeps up with the Growth of Electric Vehicles?

Abstract Electric vehicles see a year on year growth rate of 37 percent, how do we create an EV charging infrastructure for Urban Areas. What are the impacts on the grid, what are optimum times for charging, how can we achieve a business-case? DC fast charging or AC destination – charging what is the best route to take? The presentation will focus on the Netherlands, which has the highest density of EV chargers in the world and is a leader in smart charging, open standards and a commercial business-case for EV charging.

Biography Tim Kreukniet started with electric cars in 2010 all the way in the Netherlands.

Even though market adoption was quick in his home country, his perspective was if you really want to have an impact, either as a company or on the Climate, you have to go where the market is. Tim launched EVBox in North America, and is now leading the business development efforts.

He sees EV adoption as a design problem. One of his favorite sentences is: we did not stop using CD’s because they do not work anymore, we just found a better way to listen to music. The same is happening with cars today.

Niels Malskaer – Danish Embassy, (Washington DC) Commercial Advisor Danish District Energy Planning – How Denmark Became the Most Energy Efficient Economy in the World Abstract The widespread use of district energy and combined heating and power (CHP) is one of the most important reasons why it has been possible to increase energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions over several decades.

The district energy system is a cornerstone in Denmark’s green and efficient energy system. Not only does district energy ensure that Denmark has a sound and reliable energy supply but also greatly supports Denmark in maintaining a sustainable energy sector and fulfilling the long-term energy policy targets. This presentation will explain the historical reasons why Denmark has gone down the energy path that is has, and what key determiners will decide our energy future.

Biography Niels Malskaer is a Commercial Advisor at the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, D.C., focused on District Energy and Combined Heat and Power, with years of experience in global energy strategy. For the last few years, Niels has been deeply engaged with sharing Danish energy experiences with public and private actors across the U.S., through government and commercial activities.

He has worked at numerous international organizations, based in Europe as well as the U.S., mainly focused on energy policy analysis, and translating energy planning experiences across the Atlantic.

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Session 2 Allegheny Room

International Perspectives on Infrastructure Design MODERATOR: Hashim Al Hassan – University of Pittsburgh PhD Candidate, Electric Power Systems Laboratory Hashim Al Hassan is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and expects to finish at the end of the year. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering, a concentration in power systems, and a minor in mathematics in 2010. He also graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Master’s degree in electrical engineering in 2014 with a research focus on HVDC fault location. Hashim was awarded full scholarships for the Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD degrees. His work experience includes ANSYS Inc. where he worked as a co-op testing engineer for two rotations and Eaton Corp. where he worked as a research and development intern for a full summer. His research work resulted in multiple publications and a patent (pending). His research interest includes, power system protection and control, HVDC, renewable energy integration, and microgrids. He is currently working on developing protection solutions and control techniques for microgrids. Hashim served as the representative for the graduate student body in the Tenure and Academic Freedom Committee of the University Senate at Pitt during the year 2014–2015. He actively volunteers at local conferences and science events such as IEEE ECCE, Intel ISEF, and Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering fair. He is also a student member of the IEEE and IEEE Power and Energy Society, since 2012.

SPEAKERS David Roop – Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Senior Engineer, Power Systems Engineering Services Division Reactive Power Needs for International Non-Synchronous Resource Interconnections Abstract Reactive power stores energy in the electric and magnetic fields of inductance and capacitance, which sustain system voltages to drive electrical loads. Without adequate reactive power, low power factor causes larger required current to drive an electrical load, thereby increasing the losses for the same real power transfer. Due to the dependence of voltage difference, this reactive power must be locally supplied for the purpose of voltage control.

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With FERC Order No. 827 in 2016, domestic non-synchronous generators are no longer exempt from providing similar reactive power at the point of interconnect as synchronous generators, acknowledging that technology advances for these generators would no longer present a barrier to adopting non-synchronous resources. Globally, grid codes and interconnection requirements are influencing the design of these resources and any associated equipment, such as FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission Systems) devices for dynamic reactive compensation or HVDC (High Voltage DC) system for integrating these resources.

In system planning, when evaluating how these systems respond to events, reactive power and active power control is regulated by the Power Plant Controller (PPC, slow/outer) and the local inverter (fast/ inner), in a form of cascaded control. Domestically, these plants are required to meet NERC MOD (026/027) and have their dynamic models validated against aggregated plant test data. Internationally, these reactive and active power controls often must be verified at the plant and inverter level prior to putting the plant in-service. When regulation occurs at the outer loops, a wide range of gains/parameters could be used for the inner loops while the observed dynamic response of the system to staged step tests would remain the same. Short-circuit conditions which cannot be simulated through staged PPC testing would impact the dynamic performance of the plant, due to the fast inner control loop response of the inverters.

This presentation focuses on the design influence these grid code and interconnection requirements have on these systems, and the corresponding impact of performance on system planning and reliability.

Biography David Roop is a Senior Engineer in the Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. (MEPPI) Power Systems Engineering Division (PSED). He received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in May 2013, as well as his Bachelors of Science Degree in Physics from Radford University in May 2013. As an engineer, Mr. Roop simulates power system phenomena in a variety of domains, ranging from electromagnetic transients to dynamic stability studies. His primary areas of interest are advanced power electronic solutions, including FACTS, HVDC, and renewable energy resources. For these solutions his analyses include topics such as control performance verification, multidevice control interaction, system design, and harmonic impact studies.

Razvan Panati, PhD – Siemens Industry, Inc. Director, Power Conversion Infrastructure Enabling Smart Generation through Smart Hybrid Inverter Technologies Abstract Often, there is a topic that is missing from discussions about implementing Smart Grids. Smart Grid discussions typically refer to managing loads, equipping customers with intelligent meters, and using smart switchgear to provide information to the operators, subsequently allowing robust grid operation. But the generation, especially PV, is many times handled as a “given burden” that is either used or curtailed to ultimately provide the needed supply for all other operations executed by the Smart Grid devices. This perpetuates inefficiency and extra costs.

What if you could incorporate elements that enable the generation assets to become smart and easy to control? What if there were new technologies that let you reclaim clipped or curtailed energy and allow you to control the active power for each phase so that distribution transformers are re-balanced and their lifetime is significantly extended?

Smart hybrid inverters are emerging with increasing renewable energy and smart grid developments. Multi-grid, multi-source inverters, able to autonomously adapt and collaborate with one-another to ensure frequency and voltage stability, seamless transition between grid and island control, become more and more the preferred technology to use in supplying energy for campuses, critical data centers or simply residential applications. Together with standardized control functionalities and smart grid communication protocols, the smart hybrid inverter features autonomous, adaptive, cooperative and plug-and-play functions.

As basic building blocks for the Power Conversion Infrastructure of tomorrow, the new smart hybrid inverters will enable the optimization of energy flow as foundations of future energy efficiency strategies.

They will be the gateway between the utility grids and multiple energy sources that can be simultaneously controlled to achieve the Smart Generation goal.

Biography Dr. Razvan Panati is the Head of the Power Conversion Infrastructure business for Siemens Industry USA. In his 25 years long career in the Electrical and Control Engineering fields, Razvan has been leading international and cross-functional teams of experts in product development, testing and design for integration and optimization of drives, motion control and power conversion applications.

Razvan is the architect and driver of the SINACON Hybrid Converters for distributed generation, with former leading responsibility for building the US Siemens Mechatronics Business.

He has been appointed the US Expert in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC SC7) for Standards and Regulations of Adjustable Speed Drives and is member of several US standards organizations such as ANSI-NEMA and Underwriters Laboratories UL. Before joining Siemens he held professor tenures and research positions in Electric Drives and Control Engineering at various Universities in Romania, Norway and USA. He has a PhD in Electric Drives, a “Summa cum Laude” Master degree in Electrical Engineering, a Bachelor degree in Economics and an MBA from the Coles School of Business, at Kennesaw State University. He is a senior member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the IEEE Engineering Management Society.

He published more than 40 papers and articles in journals and international conferences, engineering publications including Design News and Control Engineering, and has been invited speaker at numerous events in his area of expertise.

He holds three patents for his inventions in the area of process and motion control.

David Ortiz, PhD – Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Deputy Director, Office of Electric Reliability Reliability Oversight in the United States: Challenges and Responses Abstract Regulation of bulk-power system reliability in the United States is the responsibility of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, working through NERC and its regions. This general structure is over 50 years old. Technology and economics are changing the way in which the bulkpower system operates. This talk will explore some opportunities for modernization of oversight to ensure reliability into the future.

Biography David Ortiz is the Deputy Director of the Office of Electric Reliability. Prior to joining the Commission, David was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Infrastructure Modeling and Analysis at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he directed a wide range of research and development on electricity transmission systems and energy system risk. Key research areas included: transmission system models, advanced control systems, computation, mathematics and algorithms, synchrophasors, and geomagnetic disturbances, among

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others. He represented the Department as the Federal nonvoting member of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s Member Representatives Committee and led interagency outreach efforts. From 1998 through 2013, David worked at the RAND Corporation, where he built a program of energy policy research and analysis.

grid that spans across Virginia and North Carolina. This presentation will focus on Dominion’s mission of ensuring a robust, reliable, and resilient grid among all the existing and new challenges facing the industry, and how Dominion utilizes core fundamentals with the latest technology, tools, and disciplines to address these challenges.

David earned his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He graduated from Princeton University. David lives in Falls Church, Virginia with his wife, Nicole, and two children. He is an avid cyclist, home cook, and musician

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Kyle Thomas, PE – Dominion Energy Virginia Supervisor, Electric Transmission Operations Ensuring a Robust Transmission and Distribution System Abstract Dominion Energy is one of the nation’s largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 26,200 megawatts of generation, 15,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline, and 6,600 miles of electric transmission lines. Dominion Energy Virginia is the electric utility responsible for managing an electric

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Kyle Thomas is Supervisor of Electric Transmission Operations Engineering at Dominion Energy Virginia. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His current areas of focus are protection, wide area monitoring and control, cascading modeling and simulations, and the resiliency of transmission and distribution electric grids. Kyle is actively involved in the North American Synchrophasor Initiative, the Transient Recorder User Council, CIGRE, NATF, and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Session 3 Monongahela Room

Global Technology Developments MODERATOR: Patrick Lewis – University of Pittsburgh PhD Candidate, Electric Power Systems Laboratory Patrick Lewis graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 2012, and with a Master of Science in 2014, both degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He is now currently pursuing his doctorate also at the University of Pittsburgh focusing on power electronics engineering. Patrick’s work experience includes internships with Curtiss Wright and Mitsubishi Electric. From January 2010 through August 2011, he worked three rotations within three different departments at Curtiss Wright. For the summer of 2012, he interned at Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. within their Power System Engineering Studies group (PSES). His master’s degree pertained to protection coordination design for MMC-based HVDC transmission. His current research interests include power electronics design, modeling and control, involving converter reliability and system stability for the applications of distributed renewable energy integration and microgrids. Mr. Lewis is a student member of IEEE PELS, IES, PES, and IAS, and he is an endowed R.K. Mellon graduate student fellow through the Center for Energy at the University of Pittsburgh.

SPEAKERS Davianne Duarte, PhD – Intel Corporation Energy Solutions Architect Intel Strategies for IOT Applied In-House are Enabling a Smarter Grid Abstract Similar to utilities, Intel has been going through its own digital transformation in its factories. As this transformation has moved forward, Intel has begun deploying new IOT and data analytics technologies leading to numerous benefits including cost savings, safety, and reliability. The energy group within Intel is now taking these technologies and developing solutions for the energy sector which will be presented.

Biography Davianne Duarte is a Solution Architect for Global HQ at Intel Corporation with a focus on power utilities. She works with internal business units and external partners to provide solutions to complex business and technology problems for global customers. In her free time Davianne is engaged with the Pacific

Northwest energy community, including previously working on a team involved with a technology assessment for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from UT Austin in the field of organic electronic sensors and solar cells. She also has a background in data science and an interest in neural networks.

Shimeng Huang, PhD – ANSYS, Inc. Research and Development Engineer Physics-Based Simulation Solutions for Power Electronic System Development Abstract Physics-based simulation is indispensable in the development of power electronic systems that helps companies reduce development costs, optimize energy efficiency, increase reliability and comply with standards for EMC and safety. ANSYS provides an extensive and highly integrated set of solutions for modeling and analyzing power electronics, from 3-D physics simulation of critical components to multi-level system simulation of low/medium/high voltage drives, converters, and controls.

ANSYS Simplorer uniquely integrates detailed 3-D electromagnetic, electrical and thermal simulations with highly accurate semiconductor device models to create power electronic system models that can be virtually tested to analyze and optimize performance. In this talk, device level power semiconductor models and characterization methods are introduced. Application examples are presented to show how multi-scale multi-physics simulation is used to study power losses, EMC problems and thermal performance in power electronic systems.

Biography Shimeng Huang (shimeng.huang@ ansys.com) received her B.S. degree in automation from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, her M.S. and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is currently research and development engineer at ANSYS, working on power electronics modeling in ANSYS Simplorer.

Her research interests have been in modeling and control of power systems and power electronics, multi-scale and multi-physics simulation, and power semiconductor device characterization.

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Thomas Hawes – Direct Energy Director, Distributed Energy Enterprise Sales How Emerging Technology and Re-Imagining Existing Technology can Financially Justify Projects Abstract In this session we will discuss the role of energy measurement tools, control systems and their potential to interact with energy markets.

The information gained from data loggers, and the ability to leverage energy assets within the local and regional markets based upon that information, can be what transforms a project from aspirational to one that gets built and put into operation. Understanding the evolving financial markets and how they view energy projects can dictate technologies. Designing a project with the right technologies that meet the Accounting Standards for programs such as Energy as a Service will become part of the development process. In this discussion we will explore what those technologies are and how they can position your project for approval from Financial, Technical and Accounting Decision Makers.

Biography Thomas Hawes is currently at Direct Energy where his focus is on developing Microgrid, Central plant and Renewable Energy projects for enterprise accounts in the Midwest marketplace for the Distributed Energy team at Direct Energy.

Mr. Hawes has over 20 years of diverse experience in the energy industry, most recently coming from Edison Energy. Prior to, he started the Energy Efficiency offering at NRG Energy, built the team and closed the first deals to mobilize this offering. One of the projects he worked on was a Dean Kamen designed natural gas generator with solar, all working on a shared invertor; this project was featured in Forbes Magazine. He holds a degree in Marketing and Psychology from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Russell Garcia – Johnson Controls Director, Higher Education for North America Emerging Global Technologies and the Future Energy Utility Infrastructure Abstract Emerging technologies and solutions, including battery and energy storage and energy management, can make an incredible impact and play a key role in a microgrid or electricity grid. Implementing a microgrid can help universities and other organizations create their

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own clean energy to store and deploy, especially in the unfortunate event of an emergency or natural disaster. The main drivers of adopting this and other technology is typically the vast societal, economic and environmental benefits. However, organizations often face competing capital investments and insufficient funding required to modernize their infrastructure and systems. The good news is, there are many innovative financing methods available, such as performance and technology contracting and public-private partnerships (P3) that can make implementing advanced solutions a reality for improved infrastructure and end-user success. Russell Garcia will share best practices, benefits, funding methods and real-world examples of technology and solution integrations, including the campus improvements at Samford University, which helped improve the campus experience and well-being of their students, faculty and greater community.

Biography Russell Garcia is the Director for Higher Education for Johnson Controls in North America. Russell has been with Johnson Controls since 2007, and has had many roles including PACE Program Manager and West Region Manager for the State Government and Higher Education. In his current role, Russell is responsible for Higher Education market growth, strategy development, offerings, innovation, and leadership. Russell is currently the co-chair of the Energy Services Coalition in California. He has served as President of NAIOP Sacramento, a Commercial Real Estate Development Association, and as President of the non-profit organization Green Cabinet. He was also the Owner and President of Capitol Document Express.

Garcia received a BA in Organizational Leadership and a MBA International Business degree from the Brandman University; and is currently a Doctoral candidate for an Ed.D in Transformational Leadership (expected 2018) also at the Brandman University. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and Performance Contracting and Funding (PCF) certified.

Russell has been happily married for 16 years and has two sons ages 8 and 12. His hobbies include traveling, reading, hiking, snowboarding, movies, sports coaching, politics, education, technology, and fishing.

He is based in Sacramento, CA.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

DC Microgrids as Resilient Local Infrastructure MODERATOR: Gregory Reed, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Director, Center for Energy and GRID Institute

PANELISTS Bernd Wunder – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems & Device Technology Group Manager, DC Grids Abstract A DC-based low-voltage power supply offers many advantages over the historically grown ac voltage infrastructure. The presentation shows the potentials for cost reduction, efficiency enhancement, reliability and flexibility increasing solutions based on the local usage of renewable energy sources, but also discuss the obstacles to a faster market penetration of DC microgrids in modern buildings. These include aspects of grid control, grid stability, security and safety. As a main challenge the arc phenomena in connectors will be discussed, which affects all mechanical connectors in a DC grid installation.

Biography Bernd Wunder received his degree in Electrical Engineering from FriedrichAlexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2010. From 2010 until 2013 he was employed as scientific assistant at the Chair for Electronic Components and developed several power electronic systems for EVs. In 2013 he founded the group for DC microgrids at the Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB) to design new destructive infrastructure for regenerative and sustainable energy usage. As a well-known DC entrepreneur, he was honored and strongly supported the IEEE ICDCM 2015 and organized the IEEE ICDCM 2017 conference in Nürnberg as leader of the technical program. He is also active in IEC where he represents Germany as a national delegate in the IEC SyC LVDC committee. In 2017 his team founded a start-up to make their ideas and new technologies available to everyone.

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Keiichi Hirose, PhD – NTT Facilities Executive Director

Larisa Dobriansky, JD – General Microgrids, Inc Chief Business and Policy Innovation Officer

Biography Dr. Hirose works for NTT Group, which is one of the largest telecom operators in the world. From the telecom operator’s point of view, he contributes information and lessons obtained from his years in the telecom industry on topics including state-of-the-art technologies, R&D, DC powering, and natural disaster measurements. He won the third Best paper prize at the IEEE PELS INTELEC 2009, the IEEJ paper award in 2010, the IEIEJ paper award in 2013, the IEIEJ HOSHINO award in 2014, the SHIBUSAW award in 2014, and so on. Over the course of his INTELEC activities, Dr. Hirose has served as the president of the IEEE PELS INTELEC (TC7 Chair). He also works as a chair of the IEEE PELS Japan Chapter, IEC Japanese SC22E and SyC LVDC.

Biography Larisa Dobriansky is Chief Business and Regulatory Innovations Officer at General MicroGrids. She helps to advance the core mission of the firm to provide “endto-end” solutions for the power system integration and portfolio management of renewable energy and demandside resources, using smart microgrid technologies. Ms. Dobriansky draws on over 20 years of experience in advising on environmental and energy matters relating to climate change, energy security, sustainable economic development and clean energy technology commercialization. Her work focuses on developing new financing mechanisms; business models; and regulatory reforms, incentives and institutional structures that can interact to mobilize investment in project and market development.

Paul Savage – Nextek Power Systems Chief Executive Officer DC Microgrids In Buildings: The 2017 Status Report Abstract This presentation includes an overview of the drivers that have increased adoption of DC microgrids in the U.S. and abroad. The convergence of data and power is explored with examples of hardware and software innovations that are evolving at incredible speeds on the customer side of the meter.

Biography Paul Savage is the CEO of Nextek Power Systems since 2003, where he leads the company strategy on R&D and investments in team-building and Intellectual Property. As the co-founder and current chair of the EMerge Alliance, the first international business alliance to pursue the development of dc power standards, he’s a frequent speaker on energy efficiency and renewable energy topics. Paul also serves on the advisory boards of two other non-profits, the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), and the Renewable Energy International Law project (REIL). He’s a graduate of Haverford College and he lives with his wife Fay and four daughters near Detroit, MI.

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She formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she led a variety of domestic and international clean energy initiatives. In particular, she advanced regulatory, procurement and financing innovations to manage risk and overcome barriers to commercial adoption of clean energy technologies. She spearheaded and secured legislative authorization for the Department’s first loan guarantee program for clean energy technologies to address the “Valley of Death” and move technologies out of demonstration and into the marketplace. She has served in other senior management positions in the U.S. executive and legislative branches of government (U.S. House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) and as senior counsel in the Washington office of Akin, Gump, Strauss & Feld.

Brian Reinhart – Cross-Sound Cable Company, LLC Director of Operations HVDC Transmission and the Cross-Sound Cable Project Abstract HVDC Transmission has been around since 1954, and present in the United States since 1970. Technology and use of HVDC facilities has progressed significantly over the years. One example of HVDC Transmission in the U.S. is the Cross-Sound Cable project. This 330MW Voltage Source Converter based link from New Haven, CT to Shoreham, NY (Long Island) has been in service since 2004. Its flexibility and overall performance help show that HVDC Transmission solutions are viable options for expansion and reliability of the Bulk Electric System across the U.S.

Biography Brian W. Reinhart has 23 years of experience in the electric power industry with engineering, siting, permitting, constructing, operating and maintaining power systems from 120V house services up to 345kV transmission services. Starting as a Project Engineer on the Cross Sound Cable Project, Mr. Reinhart worked on various aspects of the HVDC transmission project development including systems design and technical specification, permitting, construction, testing and commissioning. In 2004, Mr. Reinhart was promoted to Asset Manager where he was responsible for all aspects of the operations and maintenance of the Cross Sound Cable Project.

Specifically, he was responsible for management of the 24/7 operations staff; routine inspections, periodic maintenance and 24/7 fault response; coordination with the Independent System Operators of both New England and New York as well as the interconnecting utilities; compliance and work safety issues; monthly operating, equipment failure and outage reports; NPCC and NERC regulatory compliance; and, general maintenance, repair and purchasing of replacement equipment and spare parts. Mr. Reinhart has been serving as the Director of Operations for Cross-Sound Cable since March 2013. As the Director, he is responsible for overall management and oversight of the asset, accountable for operations, maintenance, health and safety, environment, regulatory concerns and compliance, annual budget as well as managing the operations and maintenance staff. Brian received his B.S. and M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993 and 1995, respectively.

Brian Patterson – EMerge Alliance President Biography Brian T. Patterson is President and a founder of the EMerge Alliance. He is a 30 plus year veteran of the electrical and electronics industry, has an extensive technical and work history in electronics, fiber optics and building electrical systems technologies and holds multiple patents in those fields. He is currently Managing Director of B. L. Coliker Associates, a market and technology consulting firm. Prior positions include General Manger at Armstrong World Industries, Director of AMP Incorporated’s Fiber Optic Business, and President of an Electronic Interconnect Division of Kollmorgen Corporation.

He is the US National Council International Electrotechnical Commission’s System Evaluation Group 4 on Low Voltage (under 1500V) Direct Current. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association, the IEEE Power and Energy Society, the Continental Automated Buildings Association, the Power Supply Manufacturer’s Association, and the UL/NEMA/EMerge ad hoc NFPA National Electrical Code task group on DC power. Mr. Patterson is also past chairman of the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Distributed Renewable Generation and Storage Distributed Energy Work Group Microgrid Subgroup.

Patterson has been a featured speaker at: US Green Building Council International, Lightfair International, American Institute of Architect, Applied Power Electronics, International Telecommunications Energy, International Electrotechnical Commission, International Facility Management Association, and numerous other national and international industry, government and academic forums. He is a professionally accredited course author and instructor for the American Institute of Architects, the US Green Building Council and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. He has also authored articles for major industry and professional trade magazines and is the official spokesperson of the EMerge Alliance.

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