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Advisory Board Meeting Held on October 3, 2022

The 21st Board meeting the TEES Smart Grid Center held in person was hosted by Valentine Emesih (Vice President of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity, CenterPoint Energy (CNP)) at CNP Headquarters in Houston on October 3, 2022. The meeting agenda included presenting updates on the Center and new large planned projects by the Center Director, Tom

Webinar on 9/21/2022: Modeling and Analysis of Interdependent Electric Power Grid and Natural Gas Network

At 3 p.m. CDT on September 21, 2022, Adam Birchfield, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, is going to present the webinar titled “Modeling and Analysis of Interdependent Electric Power Grid and Natural Gas Network”. Abstract This presentation will discuss research efforts related to modeling and

icSmartGrid2022 Best Paper Award for Robert Balog, Wesam Rohouma, Miroslav Begovic, and Aaqib Peerzada

The paper titled “Use of D-STATCOM for Solid State LED Lamp Harmonic Power Mitigation” was recognized with Best Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on Smart Grid (icSmartGrid2022) held in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 27-29, 2022. The authors are the following: Robert S. Balog, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, TAMU, Director, Renewable Energy

Comments by Thomas Overbye and Le Xie on Impact of U.S. Heat Wave on Texas Power Grid in July 2022

On the impact of U.S. heat wave on the power grid of Texas, National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed Thomas Overbye, Ph.D. (O’Donnell Foundation Chair III Professor at  Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, TAMU, and Director of TEES Smart Grid Center) and Le Xie, Ph.D. (Segers Family Dean’s Excellence Professor, Chancellor EDGES Fellow, and Presidential

Webinar on 8/31/2022: Toward Carbon-Neutral Electricity and Mobility: Is the Grid Infrastructure Ready?

At 1 p.m. CDT on August 31, 2022, Le Xie, Ph.D., Segers Family Dean’s Excellence Professor, Chancellor EDGES Fellow, and Presidential Impact Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, Associate Director-Energy Digitization at Texas A&M Energy Institute, and assistant director of TEES Smart Grid Center, is going to present

Le Xie was Interviewed on Energy Conservation Requested by ERCOT

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) operating the state’s electric grid appealed to all electric customers to voluntarily conserve power last Monday (7/10/2022) from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.    Le Xie, Ph.D., Professor at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, holder of the Segers Family Dean’s Excellence Professorship II, Chancellor EDGES Fellow, Presidential Impact

Bill Flores Visited the Smart Grid Control Room Lab

Former Congressman Bill Flores, Vice Chair of Board of Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), visited the Smart Grid Control Room Lab Facilities on July 5, 2022. Mr. Flores was informed about the mission and vision of the facilities and current projects by Thomas J. Overbye, Ph.D., O’Donnell Foundation Chair III professor at Department of

Interviews with Kate Davis and Bill Flores on Importance of Grid Cyber Security Research

Kate Davis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, was interviewed on the cyber security research protecting power grid resilience conducted at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), along with her senior Ph.D. student Hao Huang, by KRHD25 on June 27, 2022. She said “Our research tries to do

Webinar on 7/13/2022: An Approach for the Direct Inclusion of Weather Information in the Power Flow

At 3 p.m. CDT on July 13, 2022, Thomas J. Overbye, Ph.D., O’Donnell Foundation Chair III professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, TAMU, and director of TEES Smart Grid Center, is going to present the webinar titled “An Approach for the Direct Inclusion of Weather Information in the Power Flow”. Abstract While it

DOE Funds Physics-Aware and AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Intrusion Response for the Power Grid Research Lead by Kate Davis

The new research project titled “Physics-Aware and AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Intrusion Response for the Power Grid” is funded through the U.S. Department of Energy  (DOE) for 3 years.  This $2.7 million research focuses on developing techniques and scalable working prototypes addressing the goal and challenges of achieving coordinated cyber-physical response (of both cyber and physical controls