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Fifth Annual Carnegie Mellon Conference on the Electricity Industry
SMART GRIDS
 
CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Submit abstracts
or questions to:
 
 
Professor Marija Ilic
Depts. of Electrical &
Computer Engineering and
Engineering & Public Policy
milic@ece.cmu.edu
(cc: cbauerle@ece.cmu.edu)

and

 Professor Lester Lave
University Professor
and J. Higgins Chair
Tepper School of Business
lave@cmu.edu

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

• Using the grid to incent and manage demand response
• Integrating the volatility of wind and solar generation
• Planning for cost-effective investment: Where should the first dollars go?
• Determining how to gain flexibility
• Providing incentives to investors for upgrading the grid
• Establishing ways to use the transmission grid to its full capacity
• Giving customers the reliability they want – and are willing to pay for


TIMELINE:
 
  January 31, 2009
  Abstracts due
  February 15, 2009
  Notice of paper acceptance
  March 1, 2009
  Submit presentations and/or electronic versions of papers