SESDC working Group meeting, IEEE
PES 2014, Washington DC
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Monday, July 28, 2014
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
National Harbor 3
Minutes
Called to order 11:06AM Eastern
1. Welcome and introductions (Joseph Mutale)
Individual introductions
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Joseph Mutale
Henry Louie
Doug Danley
Hung-Ming Chou
Thomas Callsen
Kevin Little
Barry Rawn
Nathan Curry
Rhonda Jordan
Theresa Odun-Ayo
Pedro Valverde
Nikos Hatziargyriou
Konstantinos Oikonoma
Shravan Indrakanti
Ed Muljadi
Joe Paladino
2. Review of WG group activities 2013-2014 (Joseph Mutale)
Activities since last year:
Participated in a supersession at GM in Vancouver.
Special Issue of Power & Energy Magazine which have two articles from this
working group.
Working on a position paper from the working group, with the goal for it to be
published.
Proposal for a panel session for next year’s GM
3. Update and presentation on preparation of white paper for the SESDC
Paper started in 2011, in near completion now
Joseph presented on history and motivation of the paper
Henry to circulate paper to distribution list (new members of the WG)
Create Task Forces to better mobilize the members WG
WG to support panel sessions, networking, education, outreach
Outputs: publications, reports, recommendations, education provided, useroriented materials
Formal adoption of the position paper will occur after this meeting
(electronically)
We will increase our meeting frequency, perhaps quarterly.
4. Strategy and planned activities for 2014-2015
a. Communication (Henry Louie)
i. Volunteers for position of Communications officer
Coordinate communication within the WG
Contact Henry Louie (hlouie@ieee.org) to volunteer for this position
ii. Website
We have a web site for the working group, but it needs to be redone and
revised. There are templates available—wordpress, joomla—that can be
easily used
Contact Henry Louie to volunteer for this position
b. Member participation
i. Member online background surveys (Henry Louie)
Henry to email a link to the group. They are very important for
understanding our group’s competencies.
ii. Task force creation and coordination (Joseph Mutale)
c. Panel Proposal for IEEE PES 2015 (Joseph Mutale)
For next GM, the working group is proposing a panel
Invite 3-4 high profile speakers (World Bank, UN, practitioners in rural
electrification, and a utility executive)
The panel session would need to be approved by the subcommittee that
sponsors us.
Barry Rawn: might be interested to have someone from the microfinance
perspectives on the panel. How would distinguish ourselves from other panel
sessions?
Joseph: we focus primarily on the rural areas without grid connections.
Rama: we cannot focus only electrification only, we need “energization”
Joseph: this is an important point. We are multi-disciplinary, and most
embrace the social science aspect of things. We need to understand the context
of what we do, and take an integrated development approach.
Rama: title for the panel “Sustainable Development-electrification and
energization”
5. Any other business
Thomas Callsen: What is rural, what is not? Our definition is concerning. Are we only
looking at locations that are very, very remote?
Joseph: the definition is tricky. We could create a taskforce looking at how different
countries define rural locations in the context of electrification.
Ed Muljadi: there are the socio-economic factors. Will it be useful if we reach out
through the local IEEE.
Henry: many countries have very few PES or IEEE members. It is an idea for the
future.
Rama: that position paper we could send to ministry of energy in these countries.
6. Date of next meeting
2015 General Meeting, but have quarterly conference calls. Date and time TBD.
7. Close
Meeting adjourned at 12PM.