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Understanding Grid Flexibility: Flexibility for Integrated Grid Planning With Distributed Energy Resources IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Ralph Masiello, Shikhar Pandey, Digaunto Chatterjee, Andrea Harper, Alexina Jackson, Erik Takayesu
Flexibility is a key asset in dealing with uncertainties in investment, operations, and decision making. Traditional Transmission and Distribution (T&D) planning today faces unprecedented uncertainties driven by decarbonization and political/economic volatility. Years of low or negative load growth are forecast to become historically high load growth driven by electrification of transportation and
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Pioneering Real-Time Control: The Deployment of a Distribution Linear State Estimator at Commonwealth Edison IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Ali Alvi, Tom Alford, Marianna Vaiman, Michael Vaiman
As the electric grid experiences significant transformations and becomes increasingly affected by more frequent and severe weather events, the importance of distribution system resilience and reliability becomes extremely critical. Microgrids present a promising solution for improving the resilience of distribution systems against low-probability high-impact events by facilitating the integration of
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The Microgrid Controller: An Empowering Technology at the Grid Edge: Realizing Benefits From Microgrids Via Sequential De-Risking of Controller Technology IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Siddharth Suryanarayanan, Sumedh Puradbhat, Vijay Bhavaraju, Pranav Balasubramanian, Aastha Kapoor, Liuxi Calvin Zhang
Electrical energy usage at the grid edge is growing steadily. Consequently, the electric distribution sector is undergoing an extraordinary transformation. Enabled by emerging regulations, customer-owned behind-the-meter assets with the ability to provide grid services have blurred the boundary with utilities. The end users exposed to frequent and powerful extreme weather events are demanding resilience
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Exhibitor List as of January 4, 2023 IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Maria Proetto
Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.
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Toward inverter-based resource-dominated systems: Gathering remaining pieces of a puzzle [Guest editorial] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Julia Matevosyan, Hannele Holttinen
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High Inverter-Based Resource Integration: The Experience of Five System Operators IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Nilesh Modi, Marta Val Escudero, Ken Aramaki, Xiaoyao Zhou, Pauli Partinen
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In memoriam: Dagmar E. Niebur [Obituary] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Joydeep Mitra, Damir Novosel, Marianna Vaiman, Sharri Shaw
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Rebalancing Needs and Services for Future Grids: System Needs and Service Provisions With Increasing Shares of Inverter-Based Resources IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Balarko Chaudhuri, Deepak Ramasubramanian, Julia Matevosyan, Mark O’Malley, Nick Miller, Tim Green, Xiaoyao Zhou
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Foundations for the Future Power System: Inverter-Based Resource Interconnection Standards IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Andy Hoke, Jens C. Boemer, Babak Badrzadeh, Jason MacDowell, Divya Kurthakoti, Brad Marszalkowski, Mark Meuser
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PES Meetings Calendar of Financially Sponsored Conferences IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23
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Digitally Boosted Resilience: Digitalization to Enhance Resilience of Electric Power System IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Marek Florkowski, Hideki Hayashi, Shinji Matsuda, Hirotaka Moribe, Norihiko Moriwaki, Darren Jones, Jeff Pauska
In an energy business that supports social activities, enhancing the resilience of power systems is becoming a critical issue. As electric power companies use great amounts of equipment over long periods of time, they risk the deterioration of their facilities. In addition, they face the risk of cyberattacks, especially those that target network control systems and distributed energy systems. Moreover
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2023 General Meeting: Meeting the energy needs of a dynamic world [Society news] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Aaron St. Leger, Sharri Shaw
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Taming wind and solar resources: Smart inverters are key [Editor’s voice] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Innocent Kamwa, Barry Mather
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Grid-Forming Inverters: Project Demonstrations and Pilots IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Babak Badrzadeh, Carmen Cardozo, Masaya Hishida, Shahil Shah, Iftekharul Huq, Nilesh Modi, Anthony Morton
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Accelerated and Online Electromagnetic Transient Simulations: Key for Swift and Accurate Stability Analysis in Large-Scale Low-Inertia Power Systems IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Shijia Li, Jean Bélanger, Miguel Cervantes Martinez, Mehrdad Kazemtabrizi, Jean-Nicolas Paquin, Vincent Lapointe, Wei Li, Juan Paez-Alvarez
The rise in inverter-based renewables (IBRs), flexible ac transmission systems (FACTSs), and high-voltage direct current (HVdc) systems, coupled with the retirement of synchronous generating plants, is substantially decreasing inertia in large-scale power systems. Fast controllers of IBRs should stabilize these systems, but they are highly sensitive to fast transients, harmonics, and system imbalances
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Accelerating the Grid of Tomorrow: Responding to an industry-wide transformation [Editors’ Voice] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Innocent Kamwa, Marianna Vaiman
The phenomenon the grid is presently undergoing is considered a transformation and not a change as a change usually refers to a stand-alone innovation, a particular initiative, while a transformation is across the industry as a whole.
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Grid-Forming Inverter-Based Resource Research Landscape: Understanding the Key Assets for Renewable-Rich Power Systems IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Behrooz Bahrani, Mohammad Hasan Ravanji, Benjamin Kroposki, Deepak Ramasubramanian, Xavier Guillaud, Thibault Prevost, Nicolaos-Antonio Cutululis
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Techniques and Methods for Validation of Inverter-Based Resource Unit and Plant Simulation Models Across Multiple Simulation Domains: An Engineering Judgment-Based Approach IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Deepak Ramasubramanian, Li Yu, Yunzhi Cheng, Rajat Majumder, Andrew Isaacs, Alex Shattuck, Siddharth Pant
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A Future Within Reach: 2024 IEEE PES T&D conference and expo [In My View] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Shay Bahramirad
We know the challenges before us as an industry: an increase in extreme weather events associated with climate change and the daily reality of cyberthreats, as well as enhanced demands for resiliency and reliability in our grid design. As a community, we’ve been talking about how to address these issues for years, yet faced substantial technological and financial hurdles.
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Building the Grid of the Future to Accelerate Energy Transition: Innovations and Digital Transformation for Global Utilities IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Mital Kanabar, Claudia Cosoreanu
The energy industry is undergoing a significant transition from fossil fuel to sustainable energy sources, driven by decarbonization, as well as the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, such as climate action and affordable and clean energy initiatives. Energy transition needs to balance an energy trilemma problem among energy security (including reliability and resilience), affordability
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2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society Transmission & Distribution Conference & Exposition Technical Program: Please check the app for any room or session updates IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Maria Proetto
Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.
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Voyage of discovery: Australia’s renewable energy transition [In my view] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Daniel Westerman
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We have done it together: Our IEEE PES publications are thriving [Leader’s corner] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Bikash Pal
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IEEE fellows: Congratulations to the class of 2024 [Fellows] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Sharri Shaw
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Share your thoughts: Send comments to pem-eic@ieee.org [Letters to the editor] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Stig Nilsson
Readers are encouraged to share their views on issues affecting the electric power and energy profession. Send your letters to the editor-in-chief at pem-eic@ieee.org. Letters may be edited for publication.
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PES meetings: For more information, www.ieee-pes.org [Calendar] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Roseanne Jones
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Self-Organization in Cyberphysical Energy Systems: Seven Practical Steps to Agent-Based and Digital Twin-Supported Voltage Control IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Aliene van der Veen, Coen van Leeuwen, Kristian A. Helmholt
Due to the energy transition, energy systems need to become more agile, effective, and efficient. More situational awareness and direct responses to changes in the flow of energy are required, especially for electrical energy systems, where demand and supply must be balanced continuously and the power quality must be preserved. This change can be achieved by adding extra sensors, actuators, and information
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Digital Twins Serving Cybersecurity: More Than a Model: Cybersecurity as a Future Benefit of Digital Twins 2 IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Anurag Srivastava, Chen-Ching Liu, Alexandru Stefanov, Sagnik Basumallik, Mohammed M. Hussain, Baza Somda, Vetrivel S. Rajkumar
Today’s critical infrastructure systems are more interconnected and dependent on the electric power grid. This interdependence means that disruptions in one system can have far-reaching consequences across many others. This is particularly evident when a cyberattack in the power grid leads to widespread outages and disrupts essential societal services. To prevent such disasters, it is crucial that
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From Buzzword To Solutions: Digital Twins in Power Systems [Editor’s Voice] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Innocent Kamwa, Babak Badrzadeh
The digital twin concept has been around for a while—as early as 2002, according to Wikipedia and the authors in this issue. However, my first encounter with this concept was just about five or six years ago. Around that time, Gartner reported the entering of digital twins into mainstream use: 75% of companies implementing the Internet of Things were already using digital twins or planned to within
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A new vision for PES: Doubling down on our efforts [Leader’s corner] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Shay Bahramirad
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Digital Twin: From Buzzword To Solutions [Guest Editorial] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Christian Rehtanz, Ulf Häger, Chen-Ching Liu
When we talk about digitization and digitalization, the term digital twin is not far away; data and information are the new oil for the economy. But hasn’t electrical power always been at the forefront with computational models and computer applications for the secure operation of power systems? With the development of computer systems in the middle of the last century, power systems were one of the
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Digital Twins in Power Systems: A Proposal for a Definition IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Timo Wagner, Chris Kittl, Joshua Jakob, Johannes Hiry, Ulf Häger
The term “digital twin” was already introduced by Michael Grieves in 2002 (see Grieves, 2016), and after about 20 years the concept has found its way into the energy sector on a broader base. The first applications of digital twins were for product lifecycle management within the aerospace industry at NASA. After this initial implementation of digital twinning, the digital twin technique for lifecycle
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A Fortunate Decision That You Can Trust: Digital Twins as Enablers for the Next Generation of Energy Management Systems and Sophisticated Operator Assistance Systems IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Christoph Brosinsky, Matija Naglič, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Rainer Krebs, Dirk Westermann
Power system operation is gaining complexity due to the changes imposed by the energy transition. Especially, the increased share of intermittent and decentralized renewable generation units in the energy mix, an increased uncertainty regarding the supply of energy, and the predominantly market-driven cross-region and cross-border transport of electricity impose new challenges on the operation of power
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Digital Twins for Microgrids: Opening a New Dimension in the Power System IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Ying Wu, Josep M. Guerrero, Yanpeng Wu, Najmeh Bazmohammadi, Juan C. Vasquez, Andrea Justo Cabrera, Ning Lu
The need for affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy is now more important than ever because of the climate crisis. Climate change will push up to 130 million people into poverty over the next 10 years and continue to cause more unpredictable natural disasters, such as cyclones, flooding, earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. Power outages do not occur only in remote
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Cosimulating Integrated Energy Systems With Heterogeneous Digital Twins: Matching a Connected World IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Peter Palensky, Pierluigi Mancarella, Trevor Hardy, Milos Cvetkovic
Energy system integration promises in-creased resiliency and the unlocking of synergies, while also contributing to our goal of decarbonization. It is enabled by both old and new technologies, glued together with data and digital services. Hydrolyzers, heat pumps, distributed renewable generation, smart buildings, and the digital grid edge are all currently the subject of integration with the power
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Cloud-Based Digital Twin for Distribution Grids: What Is Already Available Today IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Christian Köhler, René Kersten, Michael Schöpf
The increase in decentralized fluctuating feed-in at low-, medium-, and high-voltage levels associated with the expansion of renewable energies and the emergence of new volatile loads and storage systems is increasingly influencing the overall system behavior of the energy supply and therefore requires a more proactive role for the distribution system operator (DSO). Low and medium grid voltage levels
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The universal power system: An evolution [History] IEEE Power Energy Mag. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Robert D. Barnett, John Paserba
In the third decade of the 21st century, electrical power is taken for granted. We plug a hand drill into an outlet, just as confident that the system will supply power at the correct voltage and frequency as the electrician who hooks up a 500-hp dc motor. We don’t expect to have to hook up to a different system for every class of power that we need. This is a universal system, similar in concept to