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Thursday, April 16, 9:30AM – 11:30AM
P1 – Plenary Session: Policy Opportunities and Challenges for Renewable Development
Venue: La Salle A
Panel Organizer: Mr. Doug Mader, Mader Power Analytics
Panelists:
• Mr. Andrew Owens, Entergy
• Mr. Jameson Smith, MISO
• Clean Line Energy
• First Solar
Thursday, April 16, 1:00PM – 3:00PM
1A - System Dynamic Performance
Venue: Pelican I & II
Session Chairs: Dr. Ruby Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
2015_GT_024
1:00 ● Distribution FIDVR Events Analysis
Richard Bravo, Southern California Edison, United States
2015_GT_005
1:30 ● Voltage Ride-Through (VRT) Recommendations for Distributed Electronic-Coupled
Generation
Richard Bravo, Southern California Edison, United States
Chase Sun, Pacific Gas and Electric, United States
Thomas Bialek, San Diego Gas and Electric, United States
2015_GT_036
2:00 ● Transient Stability and Frequency Response of the US Western Interconnection
under conditions of High Wind and Solar Generation
Kara Clark, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
Nicholas Miller, Miaolei Shao, Slobodan Pajic, Robert D'Aquila, General Electric, United States
2015_GT_041
2:30 ● Frequency Response of the US Eastern Interconnection under Conditions of High
Wind and Solar Generation
Kara Clark, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
Nicholas Miller, Miaolei Shao, GE Energy Consulting, United States
1B - Demand Response and Market Optimization 1
Venue: La Salle A
Session Chairs: Dr. Damir Novosel, Quanta Technology
2015_GT_053
1:00 ● Optimal Sizing of a Wind/Solar/Battery Hybrid Microgrid System using the Forever
Power Method
Sami Alalwani, Jonathan Kimball, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
2015_GT_012
1:30 ● Overview of Microgrids in a Market Environment
David Heap, Julieta Giraldez, Colorado State University, United States
2015_GT_035
2:00 ● An Optimization Demand Response Pricing Model in Smart Grid
Yining Qin, Liang Min, Yiming Yao, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, United States
2015_GT_020
2:30 ● Small Scale Grid Connected/Off-Grid Mobile Hybrid Integrated Renewable Energy
System (HI-RES) for Rapid Recovery and Emergency Response
Jeffrey Weber, David Wenzhong Gao, Xiao Kou, University of Denver, United States
John Zhiqiang Zhai, University of Colorado, United States
Thursday, April 16, 3:30PM – 5:30PM
2A - System Operation and Control
Venue: Pelican I & II
Session Chairs: Dr. Mani Venkatasubramanian, Washington State University
2015_GT_018
3:30 ● Towards Grid Resilience: A Proposal for a Progressive Control Strategy
Thoshitha Gamage, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, United States
Greg Zweigle, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., United States
Mani Venkatasubramanian, Carl Hauser, David Bakken, Washington State University, United
States
2015_GT_034
4:00 ● Quantifying the Potential Impacts of Flexibility Reserve on Power System
Operations
Ibrahim Krad, Eduardo Ibanez, Erik Ela, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
2015_GT_037
4:30 ● Online Probabilistic Security Risk Assessment Implementation at China Southern
Power Grid towards Smart Control Center
Jifeng Wang, Yinsheng Su, Jianshe Li, China Southern Power Grid, United States
Chaoyang Jing, Di Shi, Jie Liu, eMIT LLC, United States
2015_GT_016
5:00 ● Parametric Sensitivity Study for Wind Power Trading through Stochastic Reserve
and Energy Market Optimization
Michel Menin, Corporacion Dominicana de Empresas Electricas Estatales, Dominican Republic
Bahri Uzunoglu, Uppsala University - Gotland Campus, Sweden
2B – Reducing Greenhouse Gases
Venue: La Salle A
Session Chairs: Dr. Nary Subramanian, University of Texas at Tyler
2015_GT_052
3:30 ● Evaluating Carbon-Reducing Impact of Document Management Systems
Nary Subramanian, Srikant Krishnan, University of Texas at Tyler, United States
2015_GT_045
4:00 ● Developing a Green Computer Science Program
Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University, United States
Nary Subramanian, University of Texas at Tyler, United States
2015_GT_022
4:30 ● Analysis of Carbon Tax as an Incentive toward Building Sustainable Grid with
Renewable Energy Utilization
Arash Anzalchi, Arif Sarwat, Florida International University, United States
2015_GT_033
5:00 ● CO2 Emission Reduction Impacts of Promoting Energy-Saving and New Energy
Vehicles in China
Xin Cao, Zongguo Wen, Tsinghua University, China
Friday, April 17, 9:30AM – 11:30AM
3A - Demand Response and Market Optimization 2
Venue: Pelican I & II
Session Chairs: Dr. Kai Sun, University of Tennessee Knoxville
2015_GT_043
9:30 ● Effects of Direct Load Control and Residential PV System on Demand Response and
its Cost Benefit Analysis
Saurav Basnet, Ward Jewell, Haneen Aburub, Wichita State University, United States
2015_GT_009
10:00 ● Fairness-Aware Game Theoretic Approach for Demand Response in Microgrids
Naouar Yaagoubi, Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, United States
2015_GT_028
10:30 ● Real-Time Residential Time-of-Use Pricing: A Closed-Loop Consumers Feedback
Approach
Xing Yan, Dustin Wright, Sunil Kumar, Gordon Lee, Yusuf Ozturk, San Diego State University,
United States
2015_GT_032
11:00 ● The Energy-Efficient, Economical, and Environmental Impacts of Microturbines on
Residential Customers
Insu Kim, Jean-Ann James, John Crittenden, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
3B – Energy Technologies and Modeling
Venue: Acadian I & II
Session Chairs: Dr. Erik Mayer, Pittsburg State University
2015_GT_010
9:30 ● Development of an FPGA-based Adaptable Peak Current-mode Control for use in
Green Energy Conversion
Erik Mayer, Michael Graham, Abdulaziz Alhaqass, Tamanam Amrutha Varsha, Pittsburg State
University, United States
2015_GT_004
10:00 ● Electronic-Coupled Generators Short Circuit Impacts
Richard Bravo, Chuong Ly, Southern California Edison, United States
2015_GT_040
10:30 ● Hybrid DC Power System for Pulse Load Application: Design, Modeling and
Operation
Mustafa Farhadi, Osama Mohammed, Florida International University, United States
2015_GT_047
11:00 ● Linear Parameter Varying Modeling and Control of a Nonlinear Power Plant
Muhittin Yilmaz, Arjun Kamalapur, Simon Adediran, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, United
States
Friday, April 17, 1:00PM – 3:30PM
4A – Energy Storage
Venue: Pelican I & II
Session Chairs: Ms. Judy Chang, The Brattle Group
2015_GT_099
1:00 ● The Value of Distributed Electricity Storage
Judy Chang, The Brattle Group, United States
2015_GT_008
1:30 ● Scheduling of Site Battery Energy Storage for Demand Response Capacity
Shangyou Hao, Scott Coe, UISOL Inc., United States
2015_GT_011
2:00 ● Coordinated Consumer Load Control by use of Heat Pump Water Heaters for
Voltage Rise Mitigation in Future Distribution System
Mohamed Mufaris, Jumpei Baba, University of Tokyo, Japan
2015_GT_046
2:30 ● Evaluation of Low Temperature Ground Coupled Vertical Heat Exchanger in South
Louisiana
Md Khan, Jay Wang, Louisiana Tech University, United States
4B – Wind Integration
Venue: Acadian I & II
Session Chairs: Dr. Salman Mohagheghi, Colorado School of Mines
2015_GT_025
1:00 ● Hybrid Stochastic Short-Term Models for Wind and Solar Energy Trajectories
Salman Mohagheghi, Colorado School of Mines, United States
Jason Sexauer, PJM Interconnection, United States
2015_GT_007
1:30 ● Power Grid and Natural Disasters: A Framework for Vulnerability Assessment
Salman Mohagheghi, Pirooz Javanbakht, Colorado School of Mines, United States
2015_GT_051
2:00 ● Planning for Interconnection of Wind Plants based on Net Maximum Capacity
Nick Miller, Ryan Konopinski, Parker Powell, Jason MacDowell, General Electric, United
States
2015_GT_031
2:30 ● Spatial Clustering for Wind Power Estimation and Power Ramp Balance
Nurseda Yildirim, IZTECH University, Turkey
Bahri Uzunoğlu, Uppsala University, Sweden
2015_GT_019
3:00 ● A Novel Frequency Regulation Strategy with the Application of Energy Storage
System for Large Scale Wind Power Integration
David Wenzhong Gao, Xiao Kou, University of Denver, United States
Linlin Wu, Zhengpai Cui, China State Grid Jibei Electric Co. Ltd. Research Institute, China