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Chair’s Report – J. Edward Smith
1.1
IEEE PES Upcoming Meetings
2011 Power Systems
March 20 – 23, 2011
Phoenix, Arizona
PES General Meeting
July 2011
Detroit, Michigan
1.2
2010 PES General Meeting Minneapolis, Minnesota
1.2.1
PES Technical Council Activities
1.2.1.1 The Technical Committees (i.e. Transformers Committee) should have and/or
appoint a representative on the PES Coordinating Committee. The representative should
attend the Coordinating Committee meeting at each General Meeting.
1.2.1.2 The Transformers Committee should make contact with Mr. Michael Lindsay,
PES General Council. Mr. Lindsay gave a presentation on ”Understanding Your
Disclosure Obligation” that applies to potential issues we are having within the
Transformers Committee. It would be a good idea to make contact with him to probe the
possibilities of delivering his presentation to the Transformers Committee. I will make
contact with him prior the San Diego meeting to explore the possibilities. A couple of
key points within his presentation that apply to our group would be, first, Consultant and
their affiliation should be disclosed on the roster when it's circulated. Second, all rosters
MUST have the employer disclosed and the affiliation disclosed. There should be
separate columns for both.
1.2.2 PES Technical Council Technical Sessions Committee
1.2.2.1 Future General Meetings
2011 Detroit
2012 San Diego
1.2.2.2 2010 PES General Meeting Paper Presentations
1040 Papers Accepted (Panel & Conference)
220 Papers Rejected
Acceptance rate for papers is 80%+
1.2.2.3 Primary concerns with papers, reviewing and presenting!
Consistency of paper reviews based on foreign authors understanding and use of the
English language. Same concern with paper presentation when the presenter has poor
communication skills based and clear English.
Commercialism of papers not just obvious commercial issues i.e. Talking about the
quality of a product or comparing one product to another.
The technical content of papers that represent original content and not previously
published content. PES now has a program that they run papers through that will
identify the % of the paper that has been previously published.
Subjectivity of paper reviews reviewer to reviewer. There needs to be more specific
guidelines for the review process. Send notes or comments to D.nordell@IEEE.org
1.2.2.4 Meetings and Marketing Committee (M&M Committee)
Rick Taylor still pushing joint Technical Committee meetings. He has changed his focus
to have the smaller Technical Committee’s "piggyback" on the location and meeting of
one of the larger Technical Committee's. He used Transformers and Switchgear as
examples.
Technical Sessions TCPC and M&M Committee are separate. Marketing vs. paper
session review and scheduling. Should this be a Subcommittee within the Technical
Committees? The representative for each of these could the same person or different.
NOTE: The TCPC chair should be a position within the Technical Council that is fixed (6
years min) and not a part of the Vice Chairs responsibility during his tender as Vice Chair
(2 years). Experience in this position is very valuable.
We need to review Technical Editors position vs. TCPC position. There appears to be
some overlap here.
1.2.2.5 2011 PES General Meeting, Detroit, Michigan
2011 SUPER SESSIONS
Electric Vehicles Mike Hittel, Chair
Smart Grid Edwin Liu, Chair
Wind Power & PV Tom McDermont, Chair
Energy Storage Ali Nourai, Chair
Energy & Environment Kevin Taylor, Chair
The IEEE PES is looking at hosting a reception on Monday evening (like the
Transformers Committee on Sunday). Therefore it was recommended that the poster
session be moved to Wednesday afternoon.
Starting at this meeting if a presenter does not show up to present his or her paper or
poster will not be posted on the web site and the subject will be returned to the author.
1.2.2.6 General Comments
There will be a TCPC meeting in January in conjunction with the JTCM meeting in
Atlanta. The paper presentation schedule should be finalized at this meeting. All the
meetings should be finalized and plugged into this schedule prior to this meeting.
There is a need for a meeting of the Technical Committee members, Meetings and
Planning Chairs. This interaction and sharing of information is one of the things that is
driving the push for Joint Technical Committee Meetings. It is not the intent to force the
JTCM on the Technical Committees. It was specifically pointed out that this was strictly
at the Technical Committee's discretion.
Do we have a candidate to nominate for Technical Program Chair for the 2012 General
Meeting in San Diego? Just a thought! Let me know if you have a recommendation.
The PES now wants to capture all the Panel Session Power Point presentations to be
posted to the web site. It is the responsibility of the author to upload it in .pdf format.
Super Sessions will also apply for this requirement. Super Sessions will also be videoed
and posted on the PES website. They may also choose to do a voice over Power Point
presentation
Paper Sessions vs. Paper Forums appears to be a lesser priority and at the desertion of
the TCPC Chair of each Technical Committee depending on the number of papers that
the Technical Committee must schedule for presentation.
Main topic for the January TCPC meeting must be to discuss how we improve the
acceptance criteria for papers, thereby improving the quality of papers. Let me know if
you have suggestions for this.
1.2.3 PES Technical Council O & P Committee
Credit was give to the Transformers Committee at the start of the meeting as being the
only Technical Committee within the PES with an approved O&P manual.
Approved at the 2010 General Meeting in Minneapolis (with much frustration)
Transmission & Distribution Technical Committee
Technical Committees O&P manuals submitted for review on 7/11/2010
Switchgear Committee (approved at the GM 7/27/2010)
Insulated Conductors (approved at the GM 7/27/2010)
Stationary Battery (approved at the GM 7/27/2010)
Nuclear Power Engineering (approved at the GM 7/27/2010)
Energy Development & Power Generation (approved at the GM 7/27/2010)
NOTE: "(approved at the GM 7/27/2010)" means that it was approved by the Technical
Council O & P Committee. It must then go to and be approved by AUDCOM.
AUDCOM will review each O&P Manual to make sure it matches the baseline document
or at least it falls into the "in the spirit of" of matching the baseline document.
Submitted for review after the 7/11/2010 date
Surge Protection Devices
Power Systems Instrumentation & Measurements
Power Systems Relaying
No document submitted to date
Electric machinery
Power Systems Analysis, Computing and Economics
Power Systems Communication
Substations
All other TC's do not develop standards and are not required to have a O&P or P&P
manuals.
The deadline FOR APPROVAL for all TC's O&P manuals is 10/18/2010
The Transformers Committee’s manual has been sent to all TC's to be used as a template
for all others to follow.
The Administrative Subcommittee of each Technical Committee is solely responsible for
approval of their P&P Manual. The primary guideline for approval is that it follows the
guidelines in the TC's O&P Manual.
Two classifications of WG members "voting" and "non voting". Non voting members are
not included in establishing a quorum. Voting vs. non voting membership is at the
discretion of the WG Chair.
The Transformers Committee is the only TC with an approved P&P. The Technical
Council now wants to use our P&P as a template for all other TC's. We need to send a
copy to the Technical Council Secretary Jeff Nelson.
Next meeting is the second week of January at the Joint Technical Committee Meeting in
Atlanta.
1.2.4 2010 IEEE PES General Meeting Presidents Remarks
Remarks by Alan C. Rotz on July 26, 2010
IEEE is the largest non-profit technical professional association,
accounting for 30% of the worlds published literature in electrical engineering, with
1000+ conferences annually, 900+ active standards, 450+ in development
IEEE Membership
390,000+ members in 2009
1700 chapters
39 technical societies
5 technical councils
PES is the 3rd largest society
Smart Grid Activities
Erich Gunther is in charge of the PES Smart Grid Activities
Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe October 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
Innovative Smart Grid Technologies USA January 2010, Anaheim, California
Wanda Reder leading the IEEE initiative to coordinate Smart Grid activities across the
IEEE
IEEE Smart Grid Portal (http//smartgrid.ieee.org/)
IEEE Smart Grid newsletter in development
PES Publications
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Special Smart Grid Journal
PES Recent Accomplishments
NEW website created and Launched
Launched PES e-commerce website
Added new conferences
APPEEC
Innovative Smart Grid Technologies
Added AIEE Journals to IEEE Explore back to 1893
Created promotional videos for use around the world
PES Career's
PES Career video
Viewable on the PES website homepage under "Hot Topics"
PES Career's Website
PES Careers Global
Roll-out in early September
Objective: To facilitate power and energy engineering student job searches I
Internationally
PES Involvement in New IEEE Initiatives
Electric Vehicle Initiative
Cloud Computing
2010 Goals Power & Energy Society
Increase & Retain Membership Worldwide
Expand Services to Members Worldwide
Respectfully Submitted
James Edward Smith
Chair
IEEE/PES Transformers Committee