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Kwok W. Cheung is the R&D Director, Market Management Systems at Alstom Grid in Redmond, Washington. He received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1991. Cheung is a senior member of IEEE, a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Washington and a certified Project Management Professional of PMI (the Project Management Institute). He is serves as the Vice-Chair of the PSACE System Economic Subcommittee of the IEEE Power & Energy Society.
Ronald Mao is a member of IEEE and a contributor to 3G/4G wireless standards. His research interests include communication protocols and wireless networking. He has over twenty years of experience in system design and product development. He received an M.S. in computer science from DePaul University in Chicago, and a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Beijing, China. He is a senior manager at Huawei Technologies USA, Inc.
Vibhor Julka received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has over 17 years of experience in the telecom industry in system design and 3G/4G wireless standards development. His research interests include wireless networks, machine-to-machine communications, smart grid and sensor networks. He is a member of IEEE and Tau Beta Pi. He has worked as a consultant for Huawei Technologies USA, Inc.
Iñaki Laresgoiti, a member of the Engineering Association of Bizkaia, has headed support systems for network operation at LABEIN and later on TECNALIA since 1989. LABEIN is a technological research centre in Spain that has become part of a bigger organization called TECNALIA, the product of the merger of different technological centers of the Basque Country. He holds master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and applied mechanics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on the design of support systems for network management.
Antonello Monti, a senior member of IEEE, received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy in 1989 and 1994. From 1990 to 1994, he was with the Research Laboratory, Ansaldo Industria, Milan, where he was responsible for the design of the digital control of a large power cycloconverter drive. In 1995, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, and in 2000 the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He is currently Director of the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, E.ON Energy Research Center, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Ferdinanda Ponci, a senior member of IEEE, received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1998 and 2002. In 2003 she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. She is currently an adjunct professor with the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems at the E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. Her research is in multi-agent systems for control and monitoring of power electronics systems, methods for uncertainty representation and propagation.
A really smart grid will, among other things, allow network control strategies to be adjusted to a dynamically changing environment so as to meet the requirements of all stakeholders. The adoption of advanced techniques that are being developed in the semantic web initiative will make grids more intelligent by automatically adjusting the situation of the network to the connection and to the removal of resources available to participate in the operation of the network.
As generally envisaged, the smart grid is not only a complicated system made of many parts, but also a complex system—one in which overall behavior cannot not be directly inferred from the behavior of the individual components, and one that no single entity can control, monitor and manage in real-time. Because it is complex, distributed control is more than a convenience; it is required.
As power resources become more distributed, systems more conducive to demand-response, and generation more intermittent, efficient and robust system operation will depend critically on the ability of new dispatch methods to provide a better predictive, forward-looking and holistic view of system conditions and generation patterns.
Advanced metering with two-way communications has the potential to make meters a core element of an integrated system to better manage utility services. But what kind of communications are appropriate? Smart meter traffic is characterized by small session duration, limited mobility and large number of devices, and as such is not handled efficiently by existing wireless broadband access networks run the usual way.
Susan Lysecky is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, where she coordinates research efforts for the Ubiquitous and Embedded Computing Laboratory. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of California, Riverside in 2003 and 2006, and is a member of IEEE and ACM. Her current research interests include embedded system design, with emphasis on self-configuring architectures, human-computer interaction and facilitating the design and use of complex sensor-based system by non-engineers.
Sioe T. Mak, an IEEE life fellow, is an associate consultant with ESTA International, LLC. Previously he was senior staff scientist at Distribution Control Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of ESCO Technologies Corp. He has served on many IEEE committees, published widely in areas such as power frequency communication technology and smart grid applications, and holds numerous U.S. and world-wide patents. His diploma in electrical engineering is from the University of Indonesia, and he earned an M. Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
Shawkat Ali, a senior member of IEEE, is with the School of Information and Communication Technology, CQ University, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, in Australia. His research interests include computational intelligence, data mining, cloud computing and biomedical engineering. He leads a research group on computational intelligence and is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Sciences and Engineering (IJETSE), Canada.
Young-Jun Son is a professor of systems and industrial engineering, a da Vinci Fellow, an Arizona Engineering Faculty Fellow, and Director of the Advanced Integration of Manufacturing Systems and Technologies Program at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on modeling and control of complex manufacturing and service enterprises, distributed federation of multi-paradigm simulations, and modeling human decision-making and social behaviors. A member of IEEE, he received the SME 2004 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, the IIE 2005 Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer Award, the IERC Best Paper Awards (in 2005, 2008 and 2009), and Best Paper of the Year Award in 2007 from IJIE.
Janet Roveda, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Arizona and IEEE senior member, earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at the East China Institute in Nanjing, China in 1991, and master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and 2000. She was a recipient of the NSF career award in 2005, the PEACASE award in 2006, the University of Arizona Outstanding Achievement Award in 2007 and the R. Newton Graduate Research Project Award from the Design Automation Conference. Her primary research interests focus on smart grid circuit design, VLSI circuit modeling and analysis, and low power multi-core system design.
Jim Reilly is a consultant working on projects related to the integration of renewable energy into the distribution system, microgrids and related standards. He has facilitated use cases related to distributed control systems for microgrids that include wind, solar, fuel cells, gas generators and multiple storage technologies. Recently, he has worked closely with the Japanese New Energy and Industrial Development Organization on standards related to demonstration projects in New Mexico and Hawaii. A member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society he is a graduate of Georgetown University (B.S.) and Columbia University (M.B.A.).
Benjamin Kroposki is Director of Energy Systems Integration at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in engineering systems from Colorado School of Mines. His expertise is in the design and testing of renewable and distributed power systems with a focus on photovoltaic systems and grid integration. An IEEE senior member, he served as chairman of the IEEE 1547.4 standards group for distributed resource integration and secretary of the IEEE 1547.1 distributed energy conformance testing group.
Can a system designed for automatic meter reading be economically expanded or upgraded to implement future added-value capabilities without requiring a major overhaul, a large increase in capital expenditures and future added utilization costs? The question is timely and urgent, as smart metering gradually becomes ubiquitous.
The power industry is moving to develop the smart grid so as to keep up with the global economic growth. This movement will be more beneficial and sustainable to the extent we can secure the power systems of the future. Computational Intelligence, representing a comparatively new era of IT, can make grids really smart.
The smart grid requires seamless integration of software and hardware components and can be viewed as a cyber-physical energy system that integrates information and energy flows. Accordingly, it makes sense to do research on the development of applications to monitor and manage those flows. Two such applications borrow from a theory developed to support task scheduling over the Internet with a vast number of servers.
The Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) will be the first laboratory in the world to enable smart grid equipment to be tested on a plug-and-play basis at megawatt levels. Newly invented equipment will be evaluated for compatibility with existing and future technology, and for robustness under varied operating conditions. A high-performance computer will allow for simulations and a SCADA system will monitor and control facility-based processes and gather and disseminate real time data for collaboration and visualization.
Pilot projects are exploring the potential of microgrids to make power systems less vulnerable to costly disruptions. Yet, if the grid is to be made much more decentralized, large investments in technology and training will be needed, and standards, such as IEEE 1547.4, will have to be developed.
The introduction of distribution-level marginal prices promises to have transformational impacts on power systems in terms of electricity costs, infrastructure resilience and the wide integration of renewable generation and sustainable new loads such as the electric vehicles. But to achieve the full range of potential benefits, it will be essential to adopt the right pricing structures and market reforms.
Data collection in Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMI) presents new opportunities for utilities but, at the same time, can compromise the privacy of electricity consumers. Data aggregation can alleviate this challenge by combining collected sensitive data into a single representation; however, the accountability of individual smart meter data can be lost because an attacker can falsify aggregates without being easily detected.
Advanced metering infrastructure is a cornerstone of future grids, but the smart grid encompasses much more than the most frequently mentioned features connected with AMI such as increased communication capabilities, monitored infrastructure, improved fault recovery and self-healing capabilities. It also involves completely new processes and schemes to improve economic efficiency in coordinating the interests of all different stakeholders. Through the establishment of well-designed markets on all levels, and on most time horizons, the power system can become more efficient and greener, as well as smarter.
Elias Kyriakides, a senior member of IEEE, teaches in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Cyprus, and is a founding member of the university's KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks. He is the Action Chair of the ESF-COST Action IC0806 "Intelligent Monitoring, Control, and Security of Critical Infrastructure Systems" (IntelliCIS). His research interests include the security and reliability of the power system network, optimization of power system operation techniques, energy generation from renewable sources and the design of future power networks.
Siddharth Suryanarayanan, a senior member of IEEE, teaches in the department of electrical engineering and is a Resident Faculty Fellow in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University. His research and teaching interests lie in the area of design, operation and economics of advanced electric power systems. He received the IEEE Power & Energy Society's T. Burke Hayes Faculty Recognition Award in 2009, and in 2011 he was invited to participate in the U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium conducted by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
Alvaro A. Cárdenas, an IEEE member, is a research staff engineer at Fujitsu Laboratories of America. Prior to this he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked on security of critical infrastructure systems. His current research focuses on "big data" analytics for security, smart grid, network security, cyber-physical systems, and wireless communications for embedded systems and the Internet of Things. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.S. from Universidad de los Andes.
Gelareh Taban is a security engineer working in Silicon Valley. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research interests include security and privacy in networks, applied cryptography, and digital rights management.
Christof Weinhardt has headed the Institute of Information Management and Systems at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2000. He holds a master's degree in industrial engineering and management and a Ph.D. in Economics, both from KIT. Before joining the institute he held full professorships at the universities of Giessen and Bielefeld. His research focuses on the design and analysis of new markets in the finance, energy and services industry.
Michael C. Caramanis is a professor of mechanical and systems engineering at Boston University. He teaches in the areas of stochastic control, supply chains and power markets, and has consulted on power market design in the United States, United Kingdom and Italy. His current research concerns sustainable advanced building design and operation, and the extension of power markets to provide access to distributed loads and resources while incorporating distribution/retail costs and congestion. An IEEE member, he earned a BS degree in chemical engineering at Stanford and an MS and PhD in engineering at Harvard.
While opinions may differ about whether there is a single "right size" for smart grid demonstration projects, most will agree that a village is too small and countries too large to produce meaningful results. University campuses and communities represent an appealing intermediate scale, with enough diversity to put claimed benefits and costs to the test, as well as the intellectual resources to devise innovative approaches. An ambitious program at the University of Minnesota is showing how this can be done.
Machine learning techniques can be applied to sensor data collected from smart homes to reveal activity patterns of the residents, which can then be correlated with measured energy consumption. By associating activities with energy use and costs, intelligent systems can be devised to automatically control home environments so as to improve energy efficiency and cut expenses.
To improve the self-healing capability of the distribution-level smart grid in United States, the distribution outage management system has been evolving with exploration of two complementary technologies: feeder level fault detection, isolation and service restoration; and smart meter-based outage analysis. Both technologies are essential to elements in any smart grid blueprint.
Fang Yang, a member of IEEE, works as a senior research and development engineer with the ABB Inc. US Corporate Research Center in Raleigh, N.C. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include distribution automation, power system reliability analysis, and the application of intelligent techniques in power system control.
Zhao Li, a member of IEEE, works as a senior software architect with the ABB Inc. US Corporate Research Center in Raleigh, N.C. He received his M.S. degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include the application of software technologies in process automation and power systems, performance analysis, and information system design and tuning.
Chao Chen is a doctoral student in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University. He received a bachelor's degree at Anhui University, in China, in 2005, and a master's at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, in 2008. His interests center on sensor networks in smart environments, smart grids and machine learning applications in energy consumption.
Diane Cook, an IEEE Fellow, is Huie-Rogers Chair Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University. She received a bachelor's degree at Wheaton College in 1985 and a master's at the University of Illinois in 1987. She earned her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois in 1990. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, graph-based relational data mining, smart environments, and robotics.
The smart grid implies automation of the electric power grid, involving analysis of energy usage patterns to achieve data-driven management in real time. But automation often implies computerization, bringing in new cyber security risks if proper thought is not given to system design at the very outset. Security issues and lessons to consider include source code security, security as risk management, and how to move beyond defensive behavior to proactive procedures.
Sandeep Agrawal obtained a B.E. degree in electronics and power engineering from Nagpur University, in Nagpur, India in 1986. He has worked for the Indian government at the Department of Atomic Energy, Garware Chemicals Aurangabad, IBM and Neilsoft Limited. Presently, he is working as the executive vice president of Neilsoft Limited in Pune. He has global certifications in IT security such as CISSP, and contributes to the U.S. National Board of Information Security Managers smart grid cyber security panel.
Manoj B. Daigavane obtained a B.E. degree in power electronics engineering from Nagpur University in Nagpur, India in 1988. He received a M.S. degree in electronics and control engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani (Raj) in 1994, and a M.E. degree in power electronics engineering from Rajeev Gandhi University of Technology, Bhopal (M.P) in 2001. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from RSTM Nagpur University in 2009. From 1988 to 2007 he taught at the B. D. College of Engineering, Sewagram (Wardha), which is affiliated with Nagpur University. From 2007 to 2009, he was professor and head of electrical and electronics engineering at theDisha Institute of Management and Technology, Raipur (C.G.). He is currently principal of the S. D. College of Engineering, Wardha—Maharashtra.
Momen Bahadornejad, a member of IEEE, works as a research associate at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering in The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He previously taught at the Power and Water University of Technology, Iran, where he established and directed the Centre for Electricity Market Studies. His current research interests include power system stability and control, application of digital signal processing to power system problems, application of IEC 61850 to smart grids, distributed generation, and electricity market studies.
Nirmal-Kumar C. Nair, a senior member of IEEE, is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from M.S. University, Baroda, India, and his master's in high voltage engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; he did his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Texas A&M University. He has worked professionally in India, the United States and New Zealand. Nirmal's current interests include protective relaying, power system operations and optimization in the context of smart grids, electricity markets and integration of distributed renewable sources. He serves in various capacities for the IEEE NZ North section and the IEEE Power & Energy Society. He is in the executive of CIGRE's NZ National Committee and is their Protection and Automation (B5) Observer Member.
Adam Hahn, a student member of IEEE, is a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Northern Iowa and a master's in computer engineering from Iowa State.
Manimaran Govindarasu is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He received the doctoral degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, India, in 1998. A member of IEEE, he serves as the chair of the Cyber Security Task Force of the IEEE Power and Energy Systems Society’s Computer and Analytical Methods (CAMS) subcommittee.
George Larry Clark, an IEEE senior member, is principal engineer, power delivery, with Alabama Power Company, where he supports distribution SCADA, distribution automation, electronic mapboard (a computer-based, digital presentation of the Distribution Switching Diagram), the integrated distribution management system and smart grid strategy. He chairs the distribution automation subcommittee of DistribuTECH Advisory Committee and is Vice Chairman of the IEEE PES Smart Distribution Working Group.
Robert Uluski, an IEEE member, is technical executive at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), where he leads R&D activities in advanced distribution applications and engineering planning for smart distribution systems. He is secretary for the IEEE/PES Working Group on Smart Distribution, its task force on Volt-VAR control, and its new task force on distribution management systems. Bob received the 2010 IEEE/PES Douglas M. Staszesky Award for work in distribution automation.
Georges Simard, an IEEE senior member, is a power engineer consultant. He has worked in distribution network development for more than 30 years for Hydro-Québec Distribution, where he has been responsible for developing roadmaps and writing standards. He chairs the IEEE / PES Smart Distribution Working Group and is a member of the IEEE/PES Intelligent Grid Coordinating Committee and the international projects subcommittee of DistribuTECH's Advisory Committee.
Harry Stephey is an IEEE member and has over 40 years of experience in engineering management, product development and project management. Since joining KEMA, he has managed a number of major projects involving Advanced Metering Infrastructure, renewable energy and ARRA Stimulus Fund applications. He has also been a major contributor to several international AMI programs involving U.S. government installations and international utilities. He is the Project Manager for implementation of KEMA's Smart Grid Interoperability Lab (SGIL) and construction of a microgrid at KEMA PowerTest facilities in Chalfont, Pennsylvania.
Although advanced metering infrastructures enable more dynamic generation, distribution and consumption, smart meters, wireless repeaters and routers must operate in physically unprotected environments and communicate with potentially hostile consumer systems. What is more, expanded bandwidth requirements tempt system designers to rely on non-dedicated and often un-trusted networks because of their lower costs. A combination of expanded cyber dependencies and greater public exposure will increase potential impacts from software vulnerabilities discovered within these systems. Thus, software vulnerability management is more problematic than ever.
As we all know, today's smart grid initiatives have given rise to multiple emerging products and services from a growing number of suppliers. Utilities want choices among vendors' products. As smart grid technologies mature, the need to ensure interoperability of products from multiple vendors will become significant. Although standards-setting organizations strive to provide a level of safety, quality and consistence in their products, traditional laboratory environments cannot guarantee that products form multiple vendors will interoperate smoothly when combined in the real world. As smart grid interoperability standards are relatively new on the scene, it is all the more important to ensure the end-to-end integration and compatibility of technologies to be deployed.
Emerging smart grid technologies are accelerating the transformation of the distribution system into the smart distribution system of the future. New operating techniques and design practices will be developed to continue improving the reliability of the distribution system. Engineers will develop tools and applications to be integrated with today's technologies so as to ensure the resilience of the distribution system and to achieve a self-healing grid.
In the journey towards a smarter and more dynamic operational future, distribution utilities will have to significantly modify traditional practices of protection and control. Fortunately, existing and emerging standards offer a clearly demarcated pathway to the new world of automated power delivery.
The smart grid will employ many kinds of communications technologies, ranging from fiberoptics to wireless and to wireline, including Power Line Communications and broadband access modes like xDSL. Among the wireline options, several PLC technologies are already available or being standardized. But this wide availability of PLC technologies also has some drawbacks.
In an effort to reduce its near-total dependence on coal, prepare for the prospect of lower coal exports, diversify its generation mix, modernize its grid and serve as a model to other states, Kentucky has been developing a comprehensive smart grid roadmap. Already, the roadmap team has obtained illuminating input from the state's utilities.
Power systems can be seen as having vertical technical layers and horizontal management layers; for overall optimization, each set of layers needs a cross-layer control mechanism. In designing such controls for a variety of functions, care must be taken to respect the integrity and independence of the vertical and horizontal stacks.
The University of Minnesota has built a microgrid at its Morris campus that is a microcosm of what eventually could be the norm everywhere. The campus, highly reliant on locally generated renewable energy, is almost self-sustaining in terms of energy and net-zero in terms of carbon. The next step will be to reduce energy use and improve efficiency, with the introduction of time-of-day pricing schemes.
Stefano Galli is the Director of Technology Strategy at ASSIA, leading the company's overall standardization strategy and contributing to its efforts in wired and wireless access and home area networking. ASSIA is the leading provider of high-performance management software and services for DSL service providers. Galli received his master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1994 and 1998. An IEEE fellow, he previously worked for Panasonic Corporation and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies).
Adel S. Elmaghraby, an IEEE Senior Member, is professor and chair of the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Louisville. He has also held appointments at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He advised over 60 master's graduates and 20 doctoral graduates. His research, spanning intelligent systems, neural networks, visualization and simulation, has been recognized by IEEE’s Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Computer Society, and Computational Intelligence Society.
James H. Graham, an IEEE senior member, is the Henry Vogt Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Louisville, and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Educated at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Purdue University, he worked as a product design engineer for General Motors Corporation and taught at Purdue University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, before joining the University of Louisville faculty in 1985. His current research focuses on cyber-security of industrial control systems.
Matthew Turner is a post-doctoral associate at the University of Louisville Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research. His research interests include the design of inductive coupled and backscatter systems for the creation of wireless sensing and control networks for biomedical and smart grid applications. Other research interests include power distribution system modeling and wireless distributed power electronic devices for power flow control.
Yukio Hiranaka is a senior member of IEEE and a professor at Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan. His research interests include network infrastructures, network simulators, and communication abstraction. He received his doctorate in the field of instrumentation physics from the University of Tokyo.
Anthony M. Giacomoni, a student member of IEEE, is currently a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Minnesota. He received a B.S. degree in electric power engineering and economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. in 2007, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN in 2009 and 2011 respectively. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Omicron Delta Epsilon. His research interests include electricity markets, optimization, distribution automation, microgrids and complex interactive networks.
A strategic partnership in vehicular technology related to the smart grid between IEEE and SAE International is only about a year old but already is producing results. One prime example is SAE International's work on a prototype charging coupler that leverages technology standardized by IEEE.
President Harry S. Truman said, "There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know." Knowing how complex data management challenges have been resolved in telecom by means of advanced analytics will help bring smart grid benefits to utilities and consumers.
A portion of Southern California abruptly lost power on September 8, 2011, inconveniencing some 6 million people. Grid-related outages, not counting those affecting the distribution network during storms, hurricanes and tornadoes, occur with regularity and are more than mere annoyances.
Jack Pokrzywa, as International Director of the SAE Ground Vehicle Standards, is responsible for the overall performance of the SAE Ground Vehicle Standards support system. Prior to joining SAE, he was a manager at the Automotive Industry Action Group and held marketing management positions in Germany and the UK with Octal GmbH. Pokrzywa is
an M.A. graduate of Warsaw’s Catholic University and has an engineering certificate from Warsaw’s Technical Institute.
Mary Reidy is a staff member of National Grid’s Smart Technology Center in Liverpool, N.Y. where she is responsible for identification of appropriate university-industry collaborations. She chairs the IEEE p2030.1 working group. A licensed professional engineer in New York State, Reidy has a doctoral degree and master's degrees in business and engineering.
Christine Hertzog, Managing Director of the Smart Grid Library, has over 20 years of experience managing successful introductions of transformational innovations in new technologies, services, business models and processes for partners and clients. A veteran of the telecommunications industry, she serves as a consultant and adviser to smart grid startups, private equity firms, investor groups, and utilities. She is the author of the Smart Grid Dictionary,and co-author of The Smart Grid Consumer Focus Strategy.
Jim Maguire is Senior Vice President of Engineering and Grid Segment, at American Superconductor. He joined AMSC in 1997 and, after serving in a succession of management positions, was put in charge of the company’s superconductor projects in 2007. In 2010 he became Senior Vice President of Projects & Engineering. Prior to joining AMSC, Maguire was founder and president of Applied Engineering Technologies, Ltd.
Fereidoon P. Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics and the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter. He has worked at Southern California Edison Company (SCE), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), National Economic Research Associates (NERA), and, Ventyx, now part of ABB. He has degrees in engineering and economics from Purdue University.
As energy demand increases and electricity is sourced from alternative resources, grid modernization is a must. Integration of renewable energy into a growing power system brings a host of new challenges, some of which can be addressed with high-temperature superconductor technology.
Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy a senior member of IEEE, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and the founding director of the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is the principal investigator of the
Brain2Grid project sponsored by the US National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation. He chairs the IEEE Power and Energy Society’s Intelligent Systems Subcommittee and Working Group on Intelligent Control Systems, as well as the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society’s Task Force on Smart Grid.
Robert Schober is a professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. An IEEE fellow and fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, he works on information theory, wireless communication, statistical signal processing and the smart grid.
Vincent W.S. Wong is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. An IEEE member, he does research on communication networks protocol design, with applications to the Internet, wireless networks, and the smart grid.
Hamed Mohsenian-Rad received a master's degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and a doctoral degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He teaches at Texas Tech University.
Pedram Samadi received bachelor's and master's degrees from Isfahan University of Technology in Iran and currently is a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Richard Walsh is an application services director in the global strategic solutions group at S&C Electric Company. He became part of S&C when the company acquired a software division from Current Group, headquartered in Germantown, Md., in May 2011, where he was vice president for business development. At Current Group he had been responsible, among other things, for the delivery and operations of the largest commercial Broadband over Powerline network in the world, covering 55,000 premises and associated devices on Duke Energy’s grid. He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a business degree in finance.
Chi Zhou received bachelor’s degrees in automation and business administration from Tsinghua University, China, in 1997. She earned master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University in 2000 and 2002 She taught at Florida International University from 2002 to 2006, and since 2006, she has been an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Abiodun Iwayemi is an IEEE Student member and PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He is currently working on the IIT Perfect Power Smart Grid project being deployed across IIT’s main campus. His research interests include energy management systems for home automation networks, non-intrusive load management, and wireless sensor networks.
Whether in the form of direct load control or real-time pricing, demand-side management should be an essential ingredient of the smart grid. To induce residential consumers to participate, energy companies may need to offer billing discounts and be sensitive to how electricity consumption preferences vary with time of day.
With much more comprehensive data and faster, denser communications, it is possible now to keep a much closer watch on volts and Vars (Volt-amperes reactive). The implications for grid stability and quality of service are more far-reaching than you might suppose.
The monitoring, optimization and control systems for smart grids will require computerized intelligent systems to handle the increased variability and uncertainties caused by increased penetration of intermittent renewable energy resources. What principles will govern the design of such systems and where do we find them?
Smart appliances are providing residential power consumers with insight into their energy use, facilitating energy-efficient and eco-friendly behavior. As such appliances become widespread, we may see residential consumers reduce demand on a large scale without being unduly inconvenienced.
Dominique Guinard is a researcher at the Institute for Pervasive Computing of ETH Zurich. Previously, he was research associate for SAP Research Zurich, working on using SOAs to connect smart things with business applications, and a visiting researcher at the MIT Auto-ID Labs. In 2007, he co-founded the WebofThings.com initiative with the aim of reflecting on how to use the Web to create a global grid of interconnected, everyday objects and machines.
John Kelly, as deputy director of the Galvin Electricity Initiative, leads research into improved electricity governance models and the development of innovative Perfect Power prototypes. He is a founder of the National Energy Center for Sustainable Communities and the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance.
Wanda K. Reder is chair of IEEE Smart Grid, immediate past-president for IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES), and has served on the IEEE PES Governing Board since 2002. She leads the IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative. Ms. Reder is also a member of Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s Electricity Advisory Committee, and vice president of the Power Systems Services Division at S&C Electric Company.
George W. Arnold is national coordinator for smart grid interoperability at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He joined NIST in September 2006 as deputy director of technology services after a 33-year career in the telecommunications and information technology industries. Arnold has served as chairman of the board of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and as president of the IEEE Standards Association. He is currently vice president for policy with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Marcus Torchia is research manager of intelligent grid strategies at IDC Energy Insights. He has 15 years of experience helping utility end-users, technology vendors and service providers optimize technology and business planning decisions for intelligent grid initiatives. Prior to joining IDC, he worked at the Yankee Group on its Enterprise Applications and Mobile Solutions team and for the Nokia Research Center's Incubation Group.
Jean-Philippe Faure is chairman of the IEEE 1901 Working Group, a member of both the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board and IEEE Communications Society Standards Board and an IEEE-SA representative to the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel. Since 1994, Faure has served as chief executive officer of Progilon, a leading provider of strategic consultancy in PLC technology, standardization and worldwide regulation. Previously, he helped develop home network technologies at Landis+Gyr and international relationships at Hewlett-Packard.
Clark W. Gellings, a fellow at the Electric Power Research Institute, has had a long career in technical management at EPRI, serving in seven vice-presidential positions. He is a life fellow of IEEE and an honorary and distinguished member of CIGRE, the International Council on Large Electric Systems. He is a past-president of CIGRE’s U.S. National Committee.
Lorenzo Peretto is an associate professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. He chairs the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society’s Measurements in Power Systems committee, and is the IEC representative on the Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology group on Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement, He co-holds 16 patents and is author or co-author of more than 170 scientific papers.
Alessandro Ferrero is a professor at the Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include uncertainty evaluation, the application of digital methods to electrical measurements, and measurements on electric power systems under non-sinusoidal conditions. He is the recipient of the 2006 Joseph F. Keithley IEEE Field Award for Instrumentation and Measurement.
Mihaela Albu is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Bucharest. Her research interests include instrumentation for power grids, active distribution networks, DC grids, power quality, and remote experimentation embedded in on-line laboratories.
Shirley Siluk is research director at Greenbang.com, a sustainability markets analysis firm with offices in London and San Francisco. It provides its corporate clients with insight into government legislation, industry standards, new products and services, trends and markets. A veteran journalist with more than two decades of experience covering issues ranging from energy and the environment to politics and information technology, Siluk has written for The Chicago Tribune, internet.com and Web Hosting Magazine, among other publications. She has also operated her own analyst organization focused on the web hosting industry.
David Wagman is chief editor of Power Engineering magazine and Renewable Energy World North America magazine. He has also served as conference committee chairman for POWER-GEN International, Coal-Gen and Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo North America. Wagman has more than 20 years experience writing about the energy industry, including four years as a staff member at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Dick DeBlasio is chief engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., has worked for more than 40 years has worked with IEEE members and stakeholders to standardize how renewable resources such as solar, wind and hydro power are to be interconnected with the electricity grid. He is chair of the IEEE P2030 Working Group, a member of the IEEE Standards Association Board of Governors.
Chuck Adams is the 2009-2010 President of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). He chairs its Board of Governors and represents Standards on the IEEE Board of Directors.
During his Board of Governors tenure, Chuck was the first Chair of the IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CAG) and played a pivotal role in the launching of the IEEE’s corporate standards program.
Bob Heile is a 30-year veteran in data communications and wireless data and is widely known for his many articles and presentations on the topic. He is the Chairman and founding member of the ZigBee Alliance, Chair and founding member of the IEEE 802.15 Working Group on Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), Co-Chair of the P2030 Smart Grid Communications Task Force, and is a founding member of IEEE 802.11.
Dr. Russell Lefevre has a B.S. and a M.S. in Physics from the University of North Dakota and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is Adjunct Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of North Dakota. Dr. Lefevre is a Past President of IEEE-USA and the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society.
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