by Catherine Dalton, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
January 2024 PSRC meeting, which took place in New Orleans, was very successful! New PSRC Main Committee members include Ryan Carlson, Louis Garavaglia, Kamal Garg, Steve Klecker, Bracy Nesbit, JC Theron, and Adrian Zvarych
PSRC meets in person for two of three meetings per year. January JTCM supports hybrid meeting format. May and September PSRC meetings are in person. Individual working groups may support hybrid on their own.
PSRC Membership: MemberPlanet implementation is still underway for membership profiles. If you are a member of PSRC and have not yet created your profile, please do so. It is required to update you on APSRC activities and maintain you member status on any roster.
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Technical Paper Coordinator Report: PSRC participation at the 2024 T&D May 6-9, Anaheim, CA meeting included one 8-hour tutorial, four panel sessions and five conference papers.: The tutorial topic was Inverter Based Resource Short circuit modeling, presented by Evangelos Farantatos (chair). The four panel sessions held were:
- Augmenting traditional utility P&C approach with AI/ML for Solving Challenges for the grid of the Future–Abder Elandoussi
- Wildfire Mitigation for Electrical Power Systems–Jonathan Sykes
- Inverter Based Resource Interconnection and Penetration Issues –Jonathan Sykes
- Industry Viewpoints on IEC 61850–Rich Hunt
For PSRC participation at 2024 PES general meeting July 21-24, Seattle, WA, PSRC has requested five panel sessions, 39 papers to be reviewed, with an acceptance quota of 19. Super Sessions topics include Planning for uncertainty in power grid operations;
Trends in changing power system dynamics; Use of AI in the power grid; and Role of the public in grid planning and operations
The IEEE 2025 Grid Edge Conference & Expo is scheduled January 21-23, 2025, San Diego, CA.
All of PSRC’s Subcommittees, H, I, J, K, C, D, are diligently working on numerous Standards, Guides, technical papers, etc. for our industry.
There are numerous approved and active standards projects for the IEEE 1547 Series, IEEE 2030 Series, as well as identified future standards projects.
Please contact Sean Carr, P1547 WG Liaison to PSRC, Galina Antonova, P1547.10 WG Liaison to PSRC, Jens Boemer, SC21 Standards coordinator or Ben Kazimier, PSRC B11 Chari if you are interested in participation.
The PSRC/PSCC awards ceremony was held in Buffalo NY, May 13, 2024, at Hyatt Regency Buffalo Hotel. Award winners will be named in the next issue of PACWorld.
Future Meetings:
- May 11-18, 2024, Buffalo, NY
- September 9-12, 2024, Scottsdale, AZ
Biography:
Catherine Dalton is a Strategic Account Executive at EPRI. She has broad experience in the electric utility industry. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and an active participant in IEEE PES PSRC. She has a master’s degree in electrical engineering (Ohio State University,) and a MBA from the University of Dayton. Previously she worked for American Electric Power, Basler Electric, SEL and Beckwith Electric.
