Working Group on Smart Distribution
2011 IEEE PES GENERAL MEETING
Detroit, MI, USA
Date and Time: Monday July 25 from 3PM to 6 PM
Room:
Brule A
Minutes
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Welcome
Georges Simard, Chair introduced himself as chair of the Working Group and briefly
presented the slides explaining IEEE policy governing the conduct of the working group
meeting.
Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
Minutes from the Working Group meeting in Atlanta (January 2011) were approved without
amendment. Members were encouraged to review documentation of roundtable discussion
from this meeting (posted on the website) and send comments to the Secretary.
Membership
Membership list was passed around for update. The meeting was very well attended,
including 52 members with cross section of utilities, consultants, manufacturers, and
academics.
Smart Distribution Working Group Business
SDWG Panel Sessions for the 2011 General Meeting
Three panel sessions pertaining to Smart Distribution are being conducted at this General
Meeting. Topics are:
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Smart Distribution Grid Applications and Components; Existing
applications and grid components are providing foundational telemetry and new
applications and components are being developed to enhance the Smart
Distribution Grid telemetry requirements. Panellists include Heather L. Storey
(Detroit Edison), Erich Gunther (Enernex), Brian Seal (EPRI), and Nokhum
Markushevich (Smart Grid Operations Consulting) Chair: GLClark, July 27 from
10 to 12 AM
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Smart Distribution Demonstration Projects: Several SmartGrid
demonstration projects are implemented with different goals. This session will
update and reports applications and results from these Smart Distribution.
Participants are First Energy, EDF, ESB, EPRI. Projects. Chair: Georges Simard
July 27 from 8 to 10 AM
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Integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER): For the purpose of this
panel DER includes Demand Response, Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage, and
Distributed Generation. The objective of the panel is to share recent experiences
in planning, integrating and managing DER into Distribution Systems, and their
potential challenges, impacts on system reliability and customer satisfaction.
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The panel will include speakers from various sections of our industry. Chair:
Avnaesh Jayantilal July 27 from 1 to 5 PM
In addition, the SDWG was represented in the IEEE GM 2011 Smart Grid Supersession:
Smart Grid - Analytics & Integration: In this Supersession, the analytics that empower
smart grid applications will be discussed; and the practical implementation and integration
challenges will be presented. As part of this supersession, Bob Uluski of EPRI presented a
paper on “Smart Distribution Applications & Their Integration In A Smart Grid
Environment”.(Thursday, July 28, 2011 08:00-17:00)
Smart Distribution Tutorial:
A SDWG-sponsored tutorial on Smart Distribution Systems was conducted during the
general meeting. The tutorial was well attended. Thanks to Anil Pahwa for his help in
arranging the tutorial and to the presenters for their excellent topical discussions.
Proposed panel sessions for Upcoming IEEE/PES Meetings
Several panel sessions are being proposed for upcoming IEEE PES meetings.
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2012 IEEE/PES Transmission & Distribution Conference And Exposition (T&D),
Orlando, Florida, May 7 May 10 2012
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Session 1: “Smart Initiatives produce Smart Innovations”; Chair : GLClark ;
Smart Distribution Grid initiatives throughout the industry are producing
Smart Grid Innovations. Projects are leveraging existing applications and
developing new applications to achieve Smart Distribution Grid goals and
objectives. These smart initiatives are modernizing the distribution grid and
producing smart innovations to increase the utilization of the distribution
assets and strengthen the distribution grid for future load growth. Have 2
confirmed panellists – Alan McMoran and Chris McCarthy. George Karady of
Arizona State University offered to speak about the FREEDOM project on this
panel
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“Application of Self-Healing Technologies on Power Distribution Systems”;
chair: Julio Romero Aguero, The objective of this panel is to discuss recent
experiences, advances and trends in the application of self-healing
technologies on power distribution systems. Panelists will be Bob Uluski
(EPRI), Dean Craig (Enmax), Joe Loporto (Pepco), and Bob Yinger (SCE).
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Gareth Taylor 'Future ICT Infrastructures for Smart Distribution Grids'
2012 PES General Meeting 22-26 July, 2012, San Diego, CA, USA
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Session 1: “Integration of Distribution system applications”, Chair Jiyuan Fan;
Coordination of the DA Optimization Programs, including IVVC, FDIR, ONR,
Demand Response and DER Scheduling and Management. Today, the above
optimizations are generally designed and operated independently, without
considering other applications’ existence and actions at all. The optimization
objectives and the resulting control actions among the above optimization
applications are not always consistent in nature and they can cause severe
difficulties or benefit cancellation each other in real time operation without a
proper coordination mechanism. It should be useful to introduce this concept
and initiate some study activities.
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Session 2: “Modeling of North American Electric Networks” – suggested by
Jignesh Solanki (West Virginia University)
The schedule for the IEEE PES meeting call for papers can be found on the following PES
website: http://www.ieee-pes.org/meetings-and-conferences/calls-for-papers
EPRI/IEEE Guide on Smart Distribution EPRI and the SDWG are beginning work on a
guide to Smart Distribution that will define the characteristics of applications that can be
considered as part of distribution management systems or other smart distribution systems.
Georges Simard will prepare a proposed table of contents for this guide and then solicit
SDWG members for writing assignments.
Smart Distribution WIKI Facility: Georges Simard conducted a live demonstration of the
Wiki facilities and encouraged SDWG members to contribute to this valuable resource. The
EPRI/IEEE Guide on DA will be driven off the WIKI
Doug Staszesky Special Award: : Larry Clark, Chair of the selection committee for this
special award, announced that Cameron Smallwood of United Cooperatives was selected as
recipient of the 2011 DA Award. The deadline for nominations for the 2012 DA Award is
January 1, 2012. The DA Award description and nomination form can be found in the IEEE
PES Awards and Recognition Web site in the General PES Awards list and also on the SDWG
website.
DA Projects and Research Initiatives for Coordination
Projects
Georges requested SDWG members to submit brief summaries of recent DA activities in
their company. Several summaries have been submitted and are available on the SDWG
website
Research efforts
See “DA Projects and Research Initiatives for Coordination”
Open discussion on Distribution Automation
Larry Conrad expressed interest in single phase switching of capacitor banks and suggested
that this should be a survey question for the group
Due to time constraints, no roundtable review of DA activities was conducted. Members are
encouraged to submit short descriptions of ongoing smart distribution activities at their
companies to the SDWG secretary. These summaries will in turn be published on the SDWG
website.
Technical Presentations
The following technical presentation was made by Reza Iravani:
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Work of CIGRE WG_C6.22-Microgrid_Evolution_Roadmap (Chair Chris Marnay)
The SDWG thanks Reza and Chris for the excellent presentation which will be posted on the
SDWG website.
Other Distribution Automation related conferences
The list of Distribution Automation related conferences was updated
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IEEE/PES joint meeting; January 8 - 12, 2012 • Garden Grove (Anaheim), California,
USA
DistribuTECH 2012, January 24-26, 2012, San Antonio, TX. Includes “Utility
University” full day seminar on DA
Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2012)
16-18 January, 2012, Washington D.C., USA
2012 IEEE/PES Transmission & Distribution Conference And Exposition (T&D),
Orlando, Florida, May 7 May 10 2012
2012 PES General Meeting
22-26 July, 2012, San Diego, CA, USA
The list will be updated on the website as well. Members are solicited to advise the
secretary for any upcoming event.
Other
We will plan to next meet at the IEEE/PES joint meeting; January 8 - 12, 2012 • Garden
Grove (Anaheim), California, USA.
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