April 2024
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Resilience of Renewable Power Systems Under Climate Risks
- Friday, April 12, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Nicole LoGiudice, Ph.D. Student, Texas A&M University
- Description: This presentation presents a weighted least squares algorithm to find the electric field during geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) using geomagnetically induced current (GIC) measurements. Read more
March 2024
77th Annual Conference for Protective Relay Engineers
- Monday- Thursday, March 25-28 , 2023 in MSC
- Presenter Information Deadline: February 2, 2024
- Paper and Presentation Submission Deadline: March 4, 2024
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Energy & Power Group Seminar – Resilience of Renewable Power Systems Under Climate Risks
- Friday, March 22, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Luo Xu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
- Description: This seminar discusses the challenges and opportunities for future net-zero renewable power systems under intensifying climate risks. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Resilience of Renewable Power Systems Under Climate Risks
- Friday, March 8, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Jongoh Baek, Ph.D. Student, Texas A&M University
- Description: This seminar presents an automated algorithm for designing and validating generator dynamic models in large-scale realistic synthetic grids, with a focus on frequency stability perspectives. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – A Learning-Based Strategy to Identify Underrepresented Extreme Weather Events to Improve the Reliability and Resiliency of Power Systems
- Friday, March 8, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Kseniia Zhgun, Ph.D. Student, Texas A&M University
- Description: A Learning-Based Strategy to Identify Underrepresented Extreme Weather Events to Improve the Reliability and Resiliency of Power Systems. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Towards Zero-Carbon Power Grids: Navigating Renewables’ Complexities and Constraints
- Friday, March 1, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Elnaz Kabir, Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M University
- Description: This seminar explores the challenges and opportunities in decarbonizing power systems through renewable energy integration. Read more
February 2024
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Reliability and Economics of Distribution Systems with Edge-Level DERs
- Friday, February 23, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Arun Kumar Karngala, PhD Student, Electrical Engineer, Texas A&M University
- Description: Reliability and economics of distribution systems will be discussed in this evolving landscape of power systems. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Cyber-Physical Awareness and Mitigation Strategies During Geomagnetic Disturbances
- Friday, February 16, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Rhett Guthrie, PhD Student, Electrical Engineer, Texas A&M University
- Description: Communication is a key aspect of Cyber-Physical Power System (CPS), and Geomagnetic Disturbances (GMD) can have negative consequences on the communication network for the CPS. Strategies need to be created to deal with the potential risk, for loss of communications during GMDs. Read more
Texas Power and Energy Conference 2024 (TPEC)
- Tuesday – Wednesday, February 12-13, 2023 in MSC
- Paper and Poster Submissions Deadline: November 3, 2023
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Energy & Power Group Seminar – Virtualization: Using Power Flow Application Capabilities to Visualize and Analyze US Energy Information Administration Generation Data
- Friday, February 9, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Jordan S. Cook, PhD Student, Electrical Engineer, Texas A&M University
- Description: The EIA-860 dataset serves as a valuable resource and a model of generators in the United States can be derived from this data. This research also emphasizes the role of effective data visualization techniques. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Enhancing Future Power System Infrastructure Performance with Evolutionary Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence
- Friday, February 9, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Luis Loo, Ph.D. Student, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Description: Join us as Luis Aguilar Loo, a PhD Student from ECEN Department and TAMIDS Data Science Ambassador, delves into the application of evolutionary algorithms and swarm intelligence for optimizing future power system infrastructures, showcasing cutting-edge techniques in computational intelligence for energy systems. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Virtualization: The Next Step in the Journey of a Protection and Control Relay
- Friday, February 2, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Melvin Moncey Joseph, PE, Electrical Engineer, Black & Veatch
- Description: Virtualization is a need of the hour to build the grid of the future. Read more
January 2024
Energy & Power Group Seminar – IEEE Standards – What You Need to Know!
- Friday, January 26, 2024 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Jimmy J. Guerrero, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Description: This seminar describes the development process for IEEE Standards and highlights the multiple opportunities for participation and involvement. Read more
December 2023
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Generating Electric Field Test Patterns for Electric Grid Resiliency Studies
- Friday, December 1, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speakers: Melvin Stevens, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Description: This seminar will discuss geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) and a technique of generating electric fields test patterns that resemble real GMD events. Read more
November 2023
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Dynamics and Stability of Large-Scale Power Systems with Inverter Based Resources
- Friday, November 17, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speaker: Sijia Geng, Johns Hopkins University
- Description: This seminar focuses on the modeling, control design, and stability of large-scale power systems that are dominated by renewable and inverter-based resources (IBRS). We introduce a unified grid-forming/following IBR controller, and a novel differential geometry method for estimating the voltage stability boundary. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Connecting the Grids: A Feasibility Assessment of Synchronous Operations of North American Interconnections and Economic Impact
- Friday, November 10, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speaker: Jordan Cook, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Description: This seminar focuses on a synchronous North American grid and its economic impacts. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Area Sparsity in Large-Scale Electric Grids and its Impact on Power System Sparse Matrix Statistics
- Friday, November 10, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speaker: Sanjana Kunkolienkar, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Description: This work shows that reducing inter-area sparsity leads to synthetic grids that more accurately reflect the sparse matrix statistics of real power systems. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Carbon-Aware Optimal Power Flow
- Friday, November 3, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speaker: Dr. Xin Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Description: To combat climate change, decarbonization of the electric power sector is essential and urgent. This talk focuses on leveraging the extensive resources and power flexibility on the demand side to accelerate the decarbonization process, and develops the theoretical tools to achieve that. Read more
EPG Short Course – Electric Grid Impacts of Geomagnetic Disturbances
- Friday – Saturday, November 1-2, 2023 at 8:00am – 5:00pm in CIR 3339
- Course Director: Thomas Overbye, Texas A&M University
- Descrption: This event is a two-day short course on geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) caused by solar coronal mass ejections. Click for more details | Register Here
October 2023
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Wide-Area Resilience of Power System Dynamics
- Friday, October 27, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speaker: Dr. Sandip Roy, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Description: We will discuss methods for coordinating sensing and control resources, to strengthen system-wide resilience of power system dynamics. Read more
EPG Short Course – Primer on the Planning and Operation of Large-Scale Electric Grids
- Tuesday – Thursday, October 24-26, 2023 at 8:00am – 4:00pm in CIR 3339
- Course Director: Thomas Overbye, Texas A&M University
- Descrption: This course is focused on providing a non-technical introduction for those who need to understand the design and operation of electric grids. Click for more details | Register Here
Energy & Power Group Seminar – A Day in the Life of a Power Engineer
- Friday, October 20, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speaker: Katherine Garcia, Rayburn Electric
- Description: This presentation will go over what an electric cooperative is and some of the responsibilities of the engineering team at Rayburn Electric Cooperative. Read more
Smart Grid Center Webinar – Creating and Validating Dynamics Models for Synthetic Electric Grids
- Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 3:00pm on Zoom. Register here
- Presenter: Dr. Adam Birchfield, Texas A&M University
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Energy & Power Group Seminar – A Tuning Method for Exciters and Governors in Realistic Synthetic Grids with Dynamics
- Friday, October 13, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speakers: Jong-oh Baek, Texas A&M University
- Description: This presentation explores the tuning of exciters and governors in synthetic power grid models, aiming to create stable and realistic systems. The proposed synthetic generator dynamics are implemented in a 37-bus Hawaiian synthetic power system, demonstrating robust performance under various disturbances. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Bio-inspired and AI DeepWalk Based Approach to Understand Cyber-Physical Interdependencies of Power Grid Infrastructure
- Friday, October 13, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speakers: Shining Sun, Texas A&M University
- Description: We present an approach to improve the characterization of cyber-physical interdependencies through modeling techniques. These improved assessments of dependencies can then help optimize system design to improve functional resilience. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Toward An Integrated Reliability Assessment Framework for Geomagnetic Disturbances
- Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speaker: Rhett Guthrie , Texas A&M University
- Description: The seminar will be discussing Geomagnetic Disturbances (GMDs) effects on the grid and how to estimate the reliability of the power grid during GMD storms, using a novel framework. Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Line-Post Insulator Fault Classification Model Using Deep Convolutional GAN-based Synthetic Images
- Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speaker: Dong-joo Kim, Texas A&M University
- Description: In this seminar, we propose a generative approach to creating a massive amount of line-post insulator fault images through Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN). Read more
Energy & Power Group Seminar – Towards a Transmission Network Interfaced 100% with Power Electronics
- Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 1:00pm in WEB 236C
- Speakers: Dr. Xavier Kestelyn, Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies, Lille
- Description: Key topics related to the nonlinear analysis of electrical networks such as: Advanced Power Electronics Integration, Nonlinear Analysis of Electrical Networks, Sustainable Energy Transmission, and Cutting-Edge Research Insights. Read more
September 2023
EPG Seminar – A Parallel Approach for Solving Network Equations in EMT simulation Based on Branch Partition
- Friday, September 29, 2023 at 11:30am in ZACH 244
- Speaker: Zhenrui Wang, PhD Student, Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Description: In the field of Electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation and transient stability analysis, solving the network equations constitutes a significant portion of the computational workload…Read more