| Second Carnegie Mellon Conference in Electric Power Systems: |
Monitoring, Sensing, Software and Its Valuation |
| for the Changing Electric Power Industry |
AGENDA
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DAY 1: |
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2006 |
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7:30 a.m. |
Registration and Coffee/Tea |
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8:00 a.m. |
WELCOME: Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon
Engineering Dean |
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8:15 a.m. |
Academic View of Technological Challenges and
Opportunities |
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Chair: Helen Gill, NSF |
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Marija Ilic, |
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Information Structures for the Changing Electric Power Industry" |
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Sarosh Talukdar, |
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Be Prevented?" |
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Louis Wehenkel, |
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Advanced Sensing and Control of Electric Power
Systems" |
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10 a.m. |
Break |
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10:15 a.m. |
Academic View of Economic and Regulatory Incentives
for Deploying |
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Chair: William Ball, Southern Co. |
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Lester Lave, |
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"Market Imperfections in Deploying
Transmission Software" |
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Rolf Kunneke, |
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Monitoring and Sensing in Electricity Transmission Networks" |
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Gerald Sheble, |
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Derived Price Signals" |
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Shmuel Oren, |
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Assessment of Transmission Investments in
Restructured Electricity Markets" |
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Lynne Kiesling, Northwestern University - "Reliability Insurance and Value of |
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Flexibility in the Changing Electric Power
Industry," |
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12:15 p.m. |
LUNCH |
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Chair: Steven Bossart, NETL |
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Speaker: Granger Morgan, |
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1:15 p.m. |
Government View of Technological Challenges and
Opportunities |
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Chair: S. Kennedy Fell, CIO NYISO |
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Steven Bossart , NETL - "Creating the Modern Grid: Launching a National |
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Effort to Accelerate Grid Modernization" |
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Michael Kass, NIST - "The SAMATE Project and Its Relation to
SCADA" |
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Helen Gill, NSF -
"High Confidence Computing Technology and Power Grid |
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Research" |
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Richard O'Neill, |
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Eric Allen (on behalf of NERC), NYISO - "The Role of Software in August |
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2003 Blackout and Subsequent Investigations" |
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3 p.m. |
Break |
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3:15 p.m. |
Industry View of Challenges and Opportunities |
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Chair: Shmuel Oren, UC Berkeley |
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William Ball, Southern Co. - "Increasing Grid Utilization through Creativity" |
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Navin Bhatt, AEP (Invited) - "Transmission Technologies/R&D Program: |
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Strategic/Tactical Direction" |
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S. Kennedy Fell, CIO and VI IT NYISO - "ISO/RTO Technology Challenges |
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and Future Directions" |
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Randy Schreiber, Le Tang, and Zhenyuan Wang, ABB |
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"The Future of Power System Monitoring and
Control Applications" |
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Brian Bowers, Raytheon - "Visualization and Control Techniques in |
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Net-Centric Warfare" |
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Jeff Roark, TVA - "Redefining Merchant Transmission, and Making It
Happen" |
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5:45 p.m. |
RECEPTION |
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6:30 p.m. |
DINNER |
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Chair: Ed Schlesinger, ECE Department
Head, |
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Speaker: The Honorable Branko Terzic,
Deloitte Services, LP and former |
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Commissioner FERC and |
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"How Utility Regulation Affects the Pace of
Technology Adoption" |