PG and E Microgrid Programs and Strategies canceled

We will reschedule in September. PGE is working on an outline!

Discuss PG&E Community microgrids, incentive programs, benefits, costs, challenges

Discuss Automation and protection considerations for microgrids with inverter-based generation and operation of the microgrids.

Speakers: Shreya Kodnadu Expert Grid Innovation Engineer, PG&E

Franz Stadtmueller, Expert Electrical Engineer, PG&E

Cost: Members $15 Non-Members $25

Check back for registration

Date: We have to postpone this to sometime in June while we look for a venue.

Place: TBD

Agenda:

6:00 Check in, Meet and Greet

6:30 Dinner buffet

7:00 Talk

7:45 Q&A

Power Distribution Systems with Integrated Energy Storage Systems 🗓

Join us April 24th for a presentation and discussion on:

Power Distribution Systems with Integrated Energy Storage Systems

Speaker: Mark Baldassari, Director, Codes and Standards at Enphase

Cost: Members $15 Non-Members $25

Date: April 24, 2024, 6:00 to 8:30 PM Pacific Time

Place: Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 95053

Heafey Bldg., Rm 129

Agenda:

6:00 Check in, Meet and Greet, optional SCU Latimer Energy Lab Tour

6:30 Dinner buffet

7:00 Talk

7:45 Q&A

Registration required by April 20: Register now

About the talk:

Installing Energy Storage Systems (ESS), Photovoltaic (PV) and Electric Vehicle (EV) equipment into power distribution systems can be complicated and expensive. However, Power Control Systems (PCS) introduced into the 2020 National Electrical Code (NEC Article 705) now allow more ESS + PV connected power to new or existing services while minimizing bus sizes, thus making retrofits easier and optimizing new installations. Also, UL3141 (new in 2024) and UL1741 are safety and performance standards which are used to certify PCSs, smart inverters, converters, and the interconnection of EV and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in the system.

This presentation offers a brief review of NEC 705, and the PCS which meets UL listing requirements. Though applicable to power systems in general, the presentation offers a residential home as an application example of the value of a PCS. The presentation discusses how it affects busbar loading and offers a way to integrate an ESS into existing or new systems.

In summary, the PCS, and associated standards make it easier for engineers and installers to maximize the use of multiple energy inputs for efficiency and cost, while ensuring safety and reliability. The presentation covers the following:

Connecting a DER to premises wiring – NEC Use Cases
Issues with NEC 705.12
Introducing Power Control System
Feeder Function
Busbar Function
Power Import/Export Function
Supply Side Connections
Branch Circuit Function
New Standard UL 3141
Full Feature PCS System
PCS and EVs
PCS Links and Information

Parking

Please use the main entrance (Palm Drive) from 500 El Camino Real. After you pass the guard house you will take a left toward the Visitor Parking lot. We plan to have 1-2 students or chapter members stationed at the Visitor Lot to provide parking passes to registered attendees from roughly 5:45 to 6:15 pm. After that you will need to pick up a parking pass at the Security Office which is behind the Parking garage. Parking is free for 2 hours. You are visiting the IEEE talk hosted by Prof. Maryam Khanbaghi in Heafey 129.

See flyer for parking map.

October 20: POWERING THE AI DATA CENTER REVOLUTION 🗓

Presented by IEEE Santa Clara Valley chapter, Power & Energy Society / Industry Applications Society
October 20, 8:00am – 4:30pm, At the Delta Hotel, Santa Clara breakfast available 7:30 am
2151 Laurelwood Rd., Santa Clara, CA 95054
Admission: IEEE Members: $225 ($200 Early Bird by 10/6)
Non-IEEE member: $250 ($225 Early Bird by 10/6)>

Registration Link

https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/372108

Learn from Nvidia, NASA, Vertiv, Cloudflare, Volt Server, and EdgeCloudLink why deployment of AI and High-Performance Computing in data centers are revolutionizing Data Center design, and how these and other industry leaders are solving these challenges.

Session 1 Keynote: Achieving a Sustainable Future for Data Center Power.
Attendees will learn why today’s IT infrastructure and data center power designs/architectures will not meet tomorrow’s rapidly changing power requirements. This session will address how the pandemic and aggressive ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) goals have accelerated the need for substantial change to current and future data center IT power architecture, design, and delivery. The presenter will explain why organizations will be challenged to develop an approach in response to increasing government regulation, corporate sustainability goals, increasing demand and reduced availability of traditional power. Many Data Center designers will be asked to address these challenges while reducing cost and increasing speed without sacrificing reliability.
The fast-paced AI Revolution will further complicate and require many new approaches to Data Center Power Requirements. For example, we have found that increased use of liquid cooling for high end computer equipment can improve power usage efficiency.
Speaker: Peter Panfil, Vice President Power Solutions, Vertiv

Session 2: Environmentally Friendly Supercomputing at NASA
At NASA, High-End Computing is an essential tool supporting science and engineering. The High-End Computing Capability (HECC) component of the High-End Computing portfolio provides the systems and services to facilitate discovery across all of NASA’s technical mission directorate. HECC supports a broad base of users exploring a broad spectrum of challenges ranging from the design of fuel-efficient aircraft to providing decision makers with critical information on how policy changes could affect our global ecosystem. The compute resources are significant, sometimes requiring more than 50kW per rack. This talk will discuss the HECC efforts to deploy systems that require substantial increases in power per rack to meet NASA’s requirements, while minimizing the impact on the environment. NASA is working with computer vendors, exploring more efficient chip architectures and module manufacturers to continue to improve facility efficiencies.
Speaker: Willilam Thigpen, Director, High End Computing Center, NASA AMES

Session 3: Advanced Data Center Cooling with Air-Liquid Hybrid Technology
Higher density, Accelerated Compute and AI infrastructure for data centers are pushing the limits of power capacity and cooling technologies. These challenges start at the chip and work their way up to the grid. AI chips will need more advanced cooling technologies than used today for peak performance. As the use of AI grows, data centers could consume a significant portion of global demand for electricity, so improved efficiency is essential to relieve pressure on the grid.
In this presentation we discuss the energy optimization opportunities of air-liquid hybrid cooling as compared to pure air cooling for data centers. A gradual transition from 100% air cooling to 25%–75% air and liquid cooling has been studied to understand the changes in IT, fan, facility, and total data center power consumption. Various system design optimizations such as supply air temperature (SAT), facility chiller water temperature, economization and secondary fluid temperature are considered to highlight the importance of proper setpoint conditions on both primary and secondary sides. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and flow network modeling (FNM) are discussed which assess the performance of air and liquid cooling by evaluating the required flow rate, pressure drop, critical case temperature of computing components, and temperature change of the cooling medium. Power usage effectiveness (PUE) will be compared with Total Usage Effectiveness (TUE) which appears to be a more suitable metric to weigh a data center’s design efficiency. For the most optimized case, we can achieve up to a 27% lower consumption in facility power. Therefore, increasing the percentage of liquid cooling contribution significantly diminishes power requirements, one of the most critical requirements of a sustainable design.
Speaker: Ali Heydari, Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA
Speaker: Fred Rebarber, President, Norman S Wright

Session 4: Upgrading existing data centers to Support AI
Power has been rapidly increasing in semiconductors over the past 10 years. Whether through accelerated solutions, larger storage densities, or even just faster CPUs we are seeing significant increases in power per device. But with this increase in power, we have not seen commensurate increases in facilities power, and the rise of AI is only exacerbating the problem. Some solutions we will discuss include changing form factors at the node level (2U instead of 1U), sharing ToRs over multiple racks, and more, but ultimately facilities teams will need to grow the power footprint of data center campuses. This power increase is happening while companies are also seeking to reduce emissions, and AI is making this even more complicated. AI isn’t a singular workload or even phase, for example training and inferencing have dramatically different computational footprints, latency, and power requirements. This implies that choosing the location of training vs. inferencing data centers will be more significant, and that other factors such as dark fiber colocation, overall data storage strategy, and green power availability will be increasingly important for companies in their selection of facilities sites.
Speaker: Rebecca Weekly, VP, Hardware Systems Engineering, Cloudflare

Session 5: Digital Electricity: Fault Managed Power
The exponential growth of power and data demands driven by AI is putting tremendous pressure on operators to provide increased capacity economically, both reliably and safely. Fault Managed Power (FMP) is a new rapidly installed, high density power distribution technology adopted by the National Electric Code in 2023, supported by two new UL safety standards. FMP has the power capability of industrial AC, but for the first time in history, even at hundreds of volts, is not harmful when touched, and fire/arc safe even when not contained in conduit or bus work. FMP conductors are uniquely qualified to operate in the same cable as data allowing the elimination of the entire overhead power distribution layer in the whitespace in exchange for a common, high density, data/power tray that can be installed and managed using the same IT skill sets currently used for Ethernet cabling. Finally, FMP energy “packets” are data enabled, providing high resolution monitoring and fault diagnostics of power flow at millisecond time frames. In summary, FMP offers the promise of a modernized electricity format to support the demands of AI. FMP systems have been installed in over 1,000 large venues over the last 9 years, including stadiums, airports, smart hotels and indoor vertical farms. Data centers are a new application area that can be addressed now that the technology has had years of field exposure and is supported by a dedicated National Electric Code article.
Speaker: Stephen Eaves, CEO, Volt Server

Session 6: Fully Sustainable Data Centers for AI workloads

Data centers require a large amount of power in urban locations where the utility grid is likely to be severely constrained. At the same time, we need more sustainable, highly reliable sources of electricity for these mission critical facilities. EdgeCloudLink is launching a novel data center-as-a-service offering which employs a high density, zero-emission, highly efficient, off-grid power architecture that is quickly deployed to meet the growing demand for data centers in support of AI applications. This presentation will cover an overview of ECL’s design approach and techno-economic considerations.

Speaker: Rajesh Gopinath, Co-Founder, EdgeCloudLink

We look forward to having you join us October 20!

Regards,

Steve Jordan,
Chair, IEEE SCV PES/IAS

Event page with registration link: https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/2023/09/15/october-20-powering-the-ai-data-center-revolution/

Registration Link https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/372108

Advanced Prediction Techniques Applied to Smart Grids 🗓

Santa Clara Valley IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies

Sponsored by SCV PES/IAS

cohosted by OEB PES, SF PES

Please join us August 16, 2023, for a virtual presentation:

Advanced Prediction Techniques Applied to Smart Grids

Prof. C.Y. Chung, PhD, P. Eng, FCAE, FIEEE, FEIC, FIET, FHKIE, FAAIA

Chair Professor of Power Systems Engineering and Head,

Founding Director of Research Centre for Grid Modernisation,

Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK SAR, China.

Time: 6:00 to 7:30 PM PST

RSVP at TBD

You must register in advance to view this program on zoom. There is a limit to the number of participants. After registering you will receive the zoom link for attending the program.

Abstract:

The power system industry is shifting towards a new digitalization era to better manage risk within volatile energy commodities, increase customer engagement, and enhance efficiency via grid optimization. Data analytics play a vital role in this transformation and, as such, different measurement architectures have been used and implemented to facilitate data capturing process and supervisory control at the generation, transmission, and distribution levels. This seminar will briefly review the recent outcomes of some smart grid challenges addressed by novel prediction techniques. At the generation level, decomposition techniques have been applied to handle the inherent uncertainty in short-term wind power prediction. At the transmission level, dynamic thermal line rating prediction has been studied as a viable solution to reduce congestion and utilize the actual capacity of the line. Considering the high inclusion of phasor measurement units at the transmission level, cutting-edge methods have been proposed to address stability status prediction of the grid following a contingency. Finally, at the distribution level, real-life data obtained from advanced metering infrastructure have been used for load prediction and customer segmentation.

About the Speaker:

Prof. C.Y. Chung is the Head of Department and Chair Professor of Power Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU), Hong Kong, China. Before re-joining the department, Prof. Chung was the NSERC/SaskPower Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Technologies, and the SaskPower Chair in Power Systems Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He was a prominent leader for advancing academic activities and applied research in power systems engineering development in the province. He led a research team, supported by SaskPower and NSERC of Canada, to conduct cutting-edge and long-term smart grid research for SaskPower and address critical technical issues associated with smart grid technologies and their applications to real power systems.

Prof. Chung has been very active in professional societies. He was the Member-at-Large (Smart Grid) and Member-at-Large (Global Outreach) of IEEE PES Governing Board, the IEEE PES Region 10 North Chapter Representative, and a member of IEEE PES Fellow Evaluation Committee. He was the Past Chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Section, IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter of PES/IAS/PELS/IES and IET Hong Kong PES.

Prof. Chung is a Consulting Editor of “IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy”, a Vice Editor-in-Chief of “Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy”, and a Subject Editor of “IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution”.

Prof. Chung is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, EIC, IET, HKIE, and AAIA, and an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. He is also the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Canada P. Ziogas Electric Power Award and 2021 Saskatoon Engineering Society (SES) Educator of the Year Award.

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Steve Jordan

Reducing Arc Flash Energy in Substations with Protective Relays, Optical Sensors & Virtual Mains 🗓

Join us July 19 for an in person presentation (With Free Parking) and discussion on:

Reducing Arc Flash Energy in Substations with Relays, Optical Sensors & Virtual Mains

Speaker: James Alvers, Business Development Manager, Siemens Industry

Cost: Members $15 Non-Members $25

Deadline to sign up by Monday Morning 7/17/23

See Chapter Web Site for how to join PES or IAS Societies and special offer for students.

Date: July 19, 2023, 6:00 to 8:30 PM, in-person presentation and dinner at:

Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 95053

Location: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation (SCDI), Room 1301

See the Latimer Energy Lab at SCU

Agenda:

6:00 Check in, Meet and Greet, Latimer Energy Lab Tour

6:30 Dinner buffet

7:00 Talk

8:00 Q&A

Event Details: PES/IAS web site, IEEE vTools description

Registration Required

About the talk:

Mitigating Arc Flash Energy is a challenge on medium voltage (MV) to low voltage (LV) substations. On the secondary side, LV switchboards or switchgear are exposed to amplified, high levels of arc flash current directly from the MV-LV transformer. This creates major issues for maintenance that cannot be resolved by including an Energy Reduced Maintenance Switch (ERMS), the typical solution for mitigating arc-flash per NEC 240.8 at the LV main breaker. The line-side of this breaker can easily have an arc flash incident energy above 40 calories/cm2 at the IEEE 1584 recommended 18 inch working distance in front of the switchboard. This high level of arc flash risk would be referenced as PPE category Dangerous. This means no PPE (personal protective equipment) is safe. It can mean the whole switchboard cannot be maintained without a shutdown.

This presentation reviews protective relays, optical sensing, and a virtual main breaker (on the LV side) as solutions to mitigate the arc flash incident energy of the LV switchboard or switchgear. These solutions make the whole substation safer. The presentation will show specific hardware configurations as well as discuss coordination and arc flash energy levels. The virtual main breaker allows the elimination of a physical secondary main, possibly saving space and cost. These solutions are available for both new and retrofitted substations.

About the Speaker:

James Alvers has been a Business Development Manager for Siemens Low Voltage Distribution Products since June of 2018. He assists the electrical consultants in Northern California apply and configure cost effective, efficient, and compliant electrical distribution solutions for major infrastructure projects.

Previously James worked as a Data Center Electrical Engineer at Hewlett Packard/EYP Mission Critical Facilities. He has also worked for Schneider Electric as a Global Account Manager helping clients configure electrical infrastructure for data centers.

James received an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Degree from University of California at Berkeley. As an active member of Santa Clara Valley IEEE, James has held the position of Vice Chairman for IAS/PES.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Parking is free in the summer but you need to pick up a parking pass at the gate. We have to submit your name in advance.

Event Details: PES/IAS web site, IEEE vTools description

Registration Required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reducing-arc-flash-energy-in-substations-tickets-669495477997?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Latimer Energy Lab at SCU

Energy Innovation Forum: Low Carbon Innovation 🗓

Santa Clara Valley IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies

Sponsored by Plug and Play Tech Center

Cohosted by IEEE SCV PES/IAS https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/

Please join us March 15, 2023, for an in-person forum at

Plug and Play Tech Center 440 North Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Time: 4:30 to 9:00 PM PT

Energy Innovation Forum: Low Carbon Innovation

The United States (U.S.) has set the goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) in half by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. Business net zero targets are gaining steam even with the economic and geopolitical context in the past year such as supply chain bottlenecks, inflation, and talent shortages.

More than a third of the world’s largest companies have net zero targets. Some have developed comprehensive de-carbonization strategies and carbon intelligence capabilities.

On March 15, 2023, join the Energy Innovation Network’s Annual Forum in partnership with Plug and Play, learn from keynote speakers and an expert panel on policy impacts, investments, executive strategies, and accountability, and hear in-depth from both sides of the business spectrum and the importance of cross-sector, cross-industry efforts that drive new business development to achieve de-carbonization targets!

Agenda: Suggest arrive by 4:15 to park and check in
4:30-4:35 PM: Opening Remarks
4:35-4:55 PM: Sean Bushart at World Economic Forum
4:55-5:45 PM: Panel Discussion
5:45-6:05 PM: Speaker, Ben Hertz-Shargel at Wood Mackenzie
6:05-7:05 PM: Climate-tech start-up pitches
7:05-7:25 PM: Speaker, Osama Idrees at EDF
7:25-7:35 PM: Speaker, Pooja Jain at WSP
7:35-9:00 PM: Social Hour

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energy-innovation-forum-low-carbon-innovation-tickets-525164911387?aff=FelixB

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Steve Jordan

Successful Nuclear Fusion Achieved for the First Time in History 🗓

Santa Clara Valley IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies

Sponsored by LMAG SCV

cohosted by IEEE SCV PES/IAS https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/

OEB Nuclear

Please join us March 15, 2023, for a virtual fireside chat:

Successful Nuclear Fusion Achieved for the First Time in History

How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 was achieved in inertial fusion

Presented by Dr. Omar A. Hurricane, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Chief Scientist for the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program

Design Physics (DP) Division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Time: 7:00 to 8:30 PM PST

RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcO-tqD0jG9e1uWVyL6wdL_6WkDuOujDh

You must register in advance to view this program on zoom. There is a limit to the number of participants. After registering you will receive the zoom link for attending the program.

Title: How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 was achieved in inertial fusion
Presented by Dr. Omar A. Hurricane, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Chief Scientist for the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program, Design Physics (DP) Division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Abstract: For many decades the running joke in fusion research has been that `fusion’ is twenty years away and always will be. Yet, this year we find ourselves in a position where we can talk about the milestones of burning plasmas, fusion ignition, and target energy gain greater than unity in the past tense – a situation that is remarkable! In this talk, we tell the story of the applied physics challenges that needed to be overcome to achieve these milestones and the strategy our team followed. To help understand the story, several key physics principles of inertial fusion will be presented, and I will try and dispel any confusion about what the terms burning, ignition, and gain mean in the context of inertial fusion research.

About the speaker: Omar Hurricane is Chief Scientist for the inertial confinement fusion program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a position he’s held since 2014. Omar completed his PhD in Physics at UCLA in 1994 where he remained as a postdoc doing plasma theory until 1998. In 2009, Omar was awarded the Department of Energy E.O. Lawrence Award for National Security and Nonproliferation for solving a long-standing nuclear weapons anomaly. More recently, Omar has been recognized for his contributions to inertial confinement fusion with Fellowship in the American Physical Society (APS), the 2021 Edward Teller Award of the American Nuclear Society, and the 2022 John Dawson Award from Excellence in Plasma Physics of the APS for achieving the first laboratory burning plasma.

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Steve Jordan

The Future of Nuclear Energy: Have we entered a new era?

Santa Clara Valley IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies

Sponsored by MIT Club of Northern California

cosponsored by IEEE SCV PES/IAS, LMAG SCV

Please join us on October 13, 2022, for a virtual fireside chat:

“The Future of Nuclear Energy: Have we entered a new era?”

With Dr. Jacopo Buongiorno, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT

Date: 13 October 2022

Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM PST

Cost: $5.00 plus Eventbrite fee (with IEEE2022 promotion code).

RSVP: Reserve Now

Note: Enter the IEEE2022 code n the “promotion code” entry and be sure to click “apply” before paying.

Event Details: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/326386

Reservation URL: https://www.mitcnc.org/events/the-future-of-nuclear-energy-have-we-entered-a-new-era/

Virtual Fireside Chat Open to the Public

Are Climate Change, War in Ukraine, Inflation, and Fossil Fuel Supply Shortages Driving a Resurgence in Nuclear Energy?

With the Russian cutoff of natural gas to Europe and the trends toward de-globalization and supply chain security, the issue of energy security has risen to the top of national agendas throughout the world. California’s legislature and governor have approved a 5 year extension of the state’s last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, which generates 8% of the state’s energy. Japan’s prime minister has called for re-starting its nuclear plants and for a broader policy shift toward nuclear. Germany is postponing the closure of two of its remaining nuclear plants, suggesting perhaps a second Energiewende (completing a U-turn?). France is considering up to 14 new reactors. China has 21 nuclear plants under construction. In the US, the Inflation Reduction Act provides subsidies for existing and advanced nuclear reactors. Many other countries are planning new reactors, too. These moves indicate a growing consensus that the world economy needs every megawatt of nuclear energy available.

Nearly every model of global energy demand points to the important role nuclear power must play to reduce carbon emissions. By how much can nuclear power reduce the world’s carbon emissions? Or, can renewables do it all?

“It is not a choice between the two. #solar will grow as fast as it physically can and won’t be 100%. Same with #wind, #geothermal, #hydro, #BiomassCCS, #efficiency, etc. You still have a huge political/resiliency hole that #nuclear has to fill. Every model shows it. #cleanfirm” — Jigar Shah (@JigarShahDC) August 27, 2022

The International Energy Agency projects that a doubling of the world’s nuclear output is required by 2050 to reach net zero energy.

The nuclear industry has a history of missing schedule and budget. Advocates of small modular reactors say they will be easier to build than larger ones. In the US, TerraPower and X-Energy have been chosen by the DOE to build small reactors based on new technology. China and Russia are building smaller reactors. More than $1.2 B of venture funding has gone into new fission technology in the past year. Is smaller, cheaper, faster the answer?

MIT Professor Jacopo Buongiorno, a world-wide leader in the nuclear industry, will discuss the latest developments in new technology, the changes in the market, needed policy support, opportunities for public education, new workforce requirements, career opportunities and other key issues.

Speaker

Jacopo Buongiorno is the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Director of Science and Technology of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in thermo-fluids engineering and nuclear reactor engineering.

Jacopo has published 90 journal articles in the areas of reactor safety and design, two-phase flow and heat transfer, and nanofluid technology. For his research work and his teaching at MIT he won several awards, among which the ANS Outstanding Teacher Award (2019), the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship (2014), the ANS Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award (2011), the ASME Heat Transfer Best Paper Award (2008), and the ANS Mark Mills Award (2001).

Jacopo is the Director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES). In 2016-2018 he led the MIT study on the Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World. Jacopo is a consultant for the nuclear industry in the area of reactor thermal-hydraulics, and a member of the Accrediting Board of the National Academy of Nuclear Training. He is also a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) Space Working Group, a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (including service on its Special Committee on Fukushima in 2011-2012), a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, past member of the Naval Studies Board (2017-2019), and a participant in the Defense Science Study Group (2014-2015).

He earned a BS in Nuclear Engineering at Polytechnic of Milan in 1996 and his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at MIT in 2000.

Moderator

Larry Kelly

Larry Kelly `70 is CEO of Kelly Ventures, and is active in venture investing and building portfolio companies in both the information and the energy sectors. Over the past 40 years, Kelly has held several executive positions in the networking industry, the personal computer industry and the energy industry. He has an SB in Mechanical Engineering and an SM in Nuclear Science and Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard. He chairs the energy interest group for the Band of Angels.

Powering the Next Electric Revolution: A Seminar on Electrical System Design 🗓

Santa Clara Valley IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies

Sponsored by IEEE SCV PES/IAS

Powering the Next Electric Revolution

A Seminar on Electrical System Design

Presented by IEEE Santa Clara Valley, Power & Energy Society / Industry Applications Society

10/07, 8:00am 4:30pm, At the Delta Hotel, Santa Clara

Attendees $300, Early Bird Registration $275, by 9/16

Includes Parking, Continental Breakfast and Lunch

Registration by 9/30, Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/320916

Platinum Sponsor: Vertiv – Critical Power & Power Distribution

Gold Sponsors: A&D Power Testing, Cummins, Eaton, ETAP, Graybar, Schneider Electric, Siemens, United Rentals, US Power

Learn, Connect with Colleagues, Get CEUs

Session 1: NASA Ames, Keynote Speaker

NASA’s Ames Research Center, one of ten NASA field centers, has been at the core of what is now Silicon Valley technology since 1939. Ames has led NASA in conducting world-class research and development in aeronautics, exploration technology and science. Research topics include reentry materials, biology & space technology, small satellites, supercomputer modeling, and simulation. Current projects directly support NASA’s journey to the Moon with the launch of Artemis I. Future Astronauts will learn to live on the Moon and take what they learn to Mars. Learn about current and future programs that will inspire technology throughout Silicon Valley.

Speaker: Dr. David Korsmeyer, Deputy Center Director (Acting), NASA Ames Research Center

Session 2: DC Arc Flash for PV Systems

Renewable energy systems continue to be one of the fastest growing segments of the energy industry. This presentation focuses on how photovoltaic (PV) technology behaves under dc arc conditions with an emphasis placed on the electrical safety aspect of DC arc flash incident energy evaluation. Because of the fast proliferation of PV systems and the lack of formal equivalent calculation guidelines such as IEEE 1584 for AC systems, it has been necessary to rely on different equations and models presented by various researchers over the last few years. This presentation discusses the behavior of PV systems under arc conditions and the results of available methods to estimate the DC arc flash incident energy. A comparative analysis of the arc-flash incident energy calculation method developed in collaboration between National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and ETAP details the effect of PV module I-V and P-V curves under arcing conditions.

Speaker: John Francis PE, VP Business Development & Marketing, ETAP

Session 3: Large Inverter based Medium Voltage Microgrid

Learn the basics about microgrids, then about the performance characteristics of microgrids with large-scale inverter deployments and the role of fuel cells in their design. Continuous operation in grid parallel or stand-alone modes are considered. Included are architecture recommendations with discussion on trade-offs along with their resolutions for various load types and profiles.

The session will also discuss fault and inrush management, as well as review stability.

Speaker: Afshin Majd, PhD, PE, Senior Principal Electrical Engineer Bloom Energy

Session 4:

1) Dynamic Optimization for N-1 Secure Operation Systems with 100% Inverter-based Resources

2) Autonomous Microgrid Restoration Using Grid-Forming Inverters and Smart Circuit Breakers

The increased power demand from EVs and building electrification make managing grid capacity a critical challenge for CA. Also, no longer is operating the CA grid with high renewable penetration just a buzz word. In fact, CA supplied nearly 100% of its power from renewables for a brief time just this year.

System operators around the world have set ambitious goals to achieve up to 100% renewable penetration in their systems. We give an overview of our innovative project with Hawaiian Electric addressing the N-1 security problem of operating a power system with 100% inverter-based resources. We will show the results of this technology on the Hawai`i island system and demonstrate how to leverage commercial tools to help utilities and operators mitigate the operational challenges with up to 100% inverter-based resources. A brief demonstration video is included.

Currently the microgrid recovery process (black start) is a manual event. There will be a discussion of research automating recovery using smart circuit breakers. This allows microgrids to recover much faster and more reliably as well as reconnect to the grid once the utility recovers.

Speaker: Nan Xue is a Staff Research Scientist at Siemens Technology. He is in Princeton, New Jersey and has been with Siemens since 2018. Prior to that, he received his PhD from North Carolina State University in 2018. His research interests span across various topics related to control and optimizations of power systems. Recently he is focusing on emerging topics like grid-forming inverters and low-inertia power systems and is currently leading three DOE funded projects in these topics.

Lunch 12:00-1:00PM

Session 5: Realtime Simulation & the Microgrid Development Cycle

Microgrid control systems are designed to implement the operation strategy of the microgrid, with the two primary functions of dispatching loads and sources, as well as managing transitions from/to grid-connected operation. The operation strategy can be designed to meet various objectives such as maximizing profits, minimizing carbon emissions, coordinating the regulation of voltage and frequency, and balancing load/generation, to name a few.

There are a variety of microgrid control systems with centralized or distributed architecture, and the performance metrics of a microgrid may change according to its operation objective. Therefore, these metrics must be qualified before the selection, procurement and commissioning of the controller or control system. The process of qualification and testing of requires a testbench that allows flexibility to evaluate all the cases that are impossible to perform on an actual system without risking destructive tests, with the opportunity to reduce total downtime and accelerate commissioning. Real time simulators can provide such a testbench and allow automation to run test sequences based on testing standards for e.g., IEEE Std. 2030.8. The presentation will introduce the functions of microgrid control systems, their architectures, and different setups for their testing. An interactive demo that allows the user to manually play different scenarios for the microgrid controller will also be shown.

Topics include:

Planning the Development Cycle from Design Study to Integrated Verification and Validations
Test beds for Microgrid applications
Power Electronics (Inverter) and fast Transient Considerations
Large System and slow dynamics considerations
Protection and Control; islanding, and reconnection
A Real-time Simulation Demo of a Small Scale Microgrid

Speaker: Juan Patarroyo, Power System Modeling Specialist, Opal RT

Session 6: Electric Vehicle Dynamic Load Management

EV charging Load Management solutions can be applied to many different EV charging structures such as Depots for Transits, Fleets, and condensed parking structures. Load Management solutions can include complex Smart Charging capabilities (LIFO, FIFO, etc.) which are typically implemented in Cloud applications. Understanding the role of vehicle scheduling and route timing are also critical.

Our presentation will focus on Load Management for an EV Charging Mobility Hub. Discussed will be the type of load management solutions there are and how to deploy them. EV charging is presented from vehicle, to charger, to Cloud. This includes connector standards, and the P3 Charging index which describes charge timing. Understanding these standards is critical in the engineering of optimal charging stations.

Speaker: Ross Mueller, Senior business developer Siemens eMobility.

Session 7: Blockchain Transactive Energy and the Electric Grid

The complete electrification of infrastructure and new applications such as electric vehicle charging are about to drive dramatic load growth to the grid. In addition, the grid needs to manage multiple generation sources, such as PV, wind, fuel cells, and more. This presentation is about Building the 21st century grid, how to make it more flexible, sustainable, and coordinated.

Review of the societal imperatives driving the grid architecture transformation: Decarbonization, Decentralization, Digitalization
Introduction to transactive energy, blockchain, and tokenization with a review of technological underpinnings.
Use cases for Blockchain Transitive Energy (BCTE) with focus on the near term, deployable today use cases.
Organizations providing BCTE services or software.
Review of three organizations/projects in the North America, Europe, and Australia

Speaker: James Kempf PE, Kempf and Associates Consulting and UCSC Silicon Valley

We look forward to having you join us!

James Alvers

Steve Jordan

Condition Monitoring of EV Motors 🗓

Santa Clara Valley IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies

Sponsored by IEEE SCV PES/IAS

cosponsored by IEEE SCV Vehicular Technology Society, PELS

Please join us on March 23, 2022, for a virtual webinar on:

“Condition Monitoring of EV Motors- Applications in Electrified Transportation”

Date: 23 March 2022

Time: 5:00 to 6:15 PM PST

RSVP: Open to all; Free for IEEE members with Advance Registration

Speaker: Adil Usman, IEEE IAS Council (Member-at-Large) & PostDoc Researcher, UCSC.

Event Details: https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/2022/02/12/condition-monitoring-of-ev-motors/

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/condition-monitoring-of-ev-motors-applications-in-transportation-tickets-269278438057

Abstract of the Topic:

For the healthy operation of an Electric Vehicle (EV) drive, it is vital to continuously monitor its State of Health (SOH) to avoid faults and failures in the system. Condition monitoring of EV is accomplished through monitoring of machine data/signatures obtained from its operational and mechanical drive unit. The operating unit comprising of batteries and the mechanical drive system which constitute electrical machines, are continuously monitored to estimate the SOH of the system.

The talk will focus more on the fault diagnosis of electrical machines when deployed in electrified transportation. The employment of analytical and hybrid techniques to diagnose the faults of a motor drive system will be discussed. The machine signatures in terms of stator phase currents (Is), magnetic flux (ψ) and motor back-EMF (E_B) will be used to comprehensively estimate the health of the motor under operation in EVs. Other signatures such as acoustic noise/vibrations will also explored in the presentation, as new emerging techniques for condition monitoring of EVs. The current health monitoring techniques are based only on machine quantities, which are measured using cost effective sensors to estimate the performance of an EV drive, hence minimizing the cost of diagnostic tools.

This study finds its relevance in effective health monitoring of rural electric transportation deployed in developing countries.

About the Speaker: Dr. Adil Usman, Member-at-Large, IEEE IAS Council

Dr. Adil Usman (Senior Member) is a postdoc researcher at University of California Santa Cruz, US. His research areas of interests include Design and Condition Monitoring of Electrical Machines, Battery Management System (BMS) in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of United Nations (UNs).

He is an active volunteer of IEEE for more than a decade holding several responsibilities in the capacity of IEEE MGA Student Professional Awareness (SPAx) Chair from 2019-2022. He is an elected Board of Directors for IEEE IA Society, at a Member-at-Large position for 2021-2022 and a nominated Member of Electrical Machinery Committee (EMC) for both IAS and PES societies.

Dr. Usman has been awarded with two Best PhD Thesis Awards for his research contributions conferred by IEEE IA Society (US) and IEEE IA-PE Kerala Section (India). He is a Member of Technical Review Committee for IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society, and IEEE Access. Adil is a Senior Member of IEEE.

See you on the World Wide Web!

Steve Jordan