SIXTH ANNUAL CARNEGIE MELLON CONFERENCE ON THE ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY
2009 Smart Grid Stimulus Grants

KEYNOTES:

Joseph Paladino, DoE
Ahmad Faruqui, Brattle Group

Last updated 03/08/2010

Program


LOCATION:

Posner Hall, Room 152
David A. Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

RECEPTION

A reception will be held on Monday night, March 8, 2010, which is the night before the meetings begin.

Time: 7:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M.
Location: The bridge on the 3rd floor of Posner Hall.

PROGRAM - March 9

7:30a Continental Breakfast

SESSION I: GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY, AND ACADEMIA VIEW
Lester Lave, Chair

8:30a Conference Welcome: Marija Ilic & Lester Lave
8:45a A Smarter Distribution System — Overview: Lester Lave, Carnegie Mellon
9:15a DoE’s goals for the ARRA Funding: Joseph Paladino: DOE
9:45a A Review of Customer Response to Price: Ahmad Faruqui: Brattle Group
10:15a Challenges in Florida: Chris Bennett: Florida Power & Light

10:35a Break

SESSION 2: RELIABILITY AND SECURITY ISSUES IN SMART GRIDS,
Aaron Bennett, Chair

10:50a Beyond Smart Distribution Systems: Technical and Regulatory Opportunities and Challenges in Making Electricity Services End-to-End Sustainable — Overview: Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University.
11:20a Polonetsky, Jules. "SmartPrivacy for the Smart Grid: Embedding Privacy into the Design of Electricity Conservation." Future of Privacy Forum and the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada.
11:50a Bennett, Aaron. "NERC's Smart Grid Task Force." NERC.
12:20p Discussion and summary of the morning’s presentations

12:30p Lunch

SESSION 3: DESIGN OBJECTIVES FOR SMART ELECTRIC POWER GRIDS,
Thomas Overman

1:30p Overman, Thomas M. "High Assurance Smart Grid – Fundamental Considerations." The Boeing Company.
2:00p Nakafuji, Dora, Hawaiian Electric Company and Anthony Kuh, University of Hawaii. "Building up Grid SMARTs for Hawaii."
2:30p Illian, Howard. “Balancing and Frequency Control Issues and Research Needs.” EnergyMark.
3:00p Mudumbai, R., S. Dasgupta, and B. Cho. "Distributed Control of Alternative Energy Generatora." University of Iowa, Iowa City.

3:30p Break

SESSION 4: DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT IN SMART GRIDS
Stephen Smith, Chair

3:40p Zimmerman, Terry L. and Stephen F. Smith. "Intelligent Power Scheduling on the Client Side." Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
4:00p Joo, Jhi-Young. "Using DYMONDS Simulator to Illustrate Potential of New Technologies." Carnegie Mellon University.
4:20p Forbes, Kevin. "The Smart Grid and the Imperative for Improved Modeling of Electricity Transmission Flows." The Catholic University of America.
4:40p Sunderhauf, Steve. "Barriers to Implementing Dynamic Pricing." PEPCO.
5:00p Berges, Mario. "Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring and Other Technology-enabled Demand-side Management Strategies." Carnegie Mellon University.
5:20p Overview and discussion of afternoon’s presentations

5:35p Reception and Student Posters

7:00p Dinner Speaker — Leonard Hyman: "The Really BIG Issues"

March 10

7:30a Continental Breakfast

SESSION 5: INTEGRATING RENEWABLE IN SMART GRIDS
Jay Apt, Chair

8:00a Integrating renewables into the electricity system — Overview, Jay Apt, Carnegie Mellon University
8:30a Lamadrid, Alberto, Tim Mount, Robert Thomas, and Ray Zimmerman. "The System Costs of Integrating Wind Generation Into Wholesale Electricity Markets." Cornell University.
9:00a Zhou, Yangfang, Stephen Smith, Alan Scheller-Wolf, and Nicola Secomandi. "Intermittent Resources with Storage in a Deregulated Electricity Market." Tepper School of Business and Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.

9:30p Break

SESSION 6: SOURCES AND MANAGEMENT OF UNCERTAINTIES IN SMART GRIDS
Tim Mount, Chair

9:40a Hug, Gabriela. "Systems Aspects of Storage for Wind Integration." Carnegie Mellon University.
10:05a Brumley, David. "Security & Privacy Issues with the Smart Grid." Carnegie Mellon University.
10:25a Hittinger, Eric. "Compensating for Wind Variability Using Co-Located Natural Gas Generation and Energy Storage." Carnegie Mellon University.
9:45a Rose, Stephen. "The Cost of Frequency Regulation from Curtailed Wind Farms." Carnegie Mellon University.
11:05a Katzenstein, Warren. "The Variability of Interconnected Wind Plants." Carnegie Mellon University.
11:25a Pattanariyankool, Sompop. "Optimal generation portfolios in an uncertain world." Carnegie Mellon
11:45a Hwang, Euiseok and Rohit Negi. "L1 minimization for a stochastic power network with sparse measurement errors." Carnegie Mellon University.
12:05p Discussion and overview of morning presentations

12:30p Lunch

SESSION 7: ELECTRIC ENERGY SYSTEMS GROUP (EESG) — WORK IN PROGRESS ON MODELING, CONTROL, AND SIMULATIONS FOR SMART GRIDS,
Gabriela Hug, Chair

11:25a Ilic, Marija. "Dynamic Monitoring and Decision Systems (DYMONDS) --Converting Data into Information and Action (Spatial Aspects)." Carnegie Mellon University.
1:50p Joo, Jhi-Young (on behalf of EESG.) "From Theory to Smart Grid Simulator for Assissing and Demonstration Potential of New Technologies." Carnegie Mellon University.
2:10p Liu, Zhijian, Nipun Popli, and Marija Ilic. "Proof of Concept Use of PMU-Enabled Smart Grids: End-to-End Economic Dispatch, Regulation and Stabilization at Value." Carnegie Mllon University.
2:30p Cvetkovic, Milos, Andrew Hsu, Nermeen Tallat, Jovan Ilic, and Marija Ilic. "Toward a Unifying Dynamic Modeling for Smart Grids: Opportunities and Challenges Brought Anout by the Power Electronics." Carnegie Mellon University and Booz-Allen Hamilton (BAH).
2:50p Cvijic, Sanja and Marija Ilic. "Understanding the Role of PARs and OLTCs in the Changing Industry: Loop Flows Revisited." Carnegie Mellon University.
3:10p Abdel-Karim, Noha, Jeffrey Lang and Marija Ilic. "Assissing Potential Benefits of Voltage Optimization on Reliability and Locational Marginal Prices (LMPs) in the NPCC System with Significant Wind Power Penetration." Carnegie Mellon University and MIT.

3:30p Discussion of issues and research needs

4:00p Adjourn