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Short Course “Fundamentals of Electric Transmission Planning” Is Offered in Person at TAMUS on February, 18-20, 2025

Description High voltage electric grids are some of the world’s most complex machines, whose present high levels of reliability have been achieved through careful planning. The purpose of this three-day short course is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the processes used in doing this planning. The course philosophy is to provide a practical, hands-on

SGC Member Companies – Power & Computer Engineering Student Informational Session on September 3, 2024

An informational session was held for the Smart Grid Center (SGC) of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) for power and computer engineering students on September 3, 2024. Engineer representatives from Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and from Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) gave revealing and enlightening presentations to the attendees, answers all questions,

Research on Geomagnetic Disturbance

A recent article highlighted the importance of research on Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) conducted by a team of researchers working in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, that applies models of the real and synthetic electric grid to research recommendation options for power grid operators to lessen the impact of major solar

Congratulations to the Texas A&M Solar Car Racing Team on their Impressive Performance!

The Texas A&M Solar Car Racing Team recently competed at the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) and American Solar Challenge (ASC) hosted by the Innovators Educational Foundation. Building this race car by these undergraduate students was completely a volunteer and extracurricular effort. As such, the students did not receive any course credit for participating in

Best Poster Award at the 52nd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Sawsan Shukri, Ph. D. student supervised by Robert Balog, Ph.D., P.E. (Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, TAMU; Assistant Director for Grid Edge, TEES Smart Grid Center) won Best Poster Award at the 52nd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) in Seattle, Washington. This conference was held on June 9-14, 2024. The title of her poster presentation was

Interview with Thomas Overbye on Lessons Learned after Hurricane Beryl

On improving the resilience of the electric grid infrastructure, an interview with Thomas Overbye, Ph.D. (O’Donnell Foundation Chair III Professor at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, TAMU, and Director of TEES Smart Grid Center) appeared in Community Impact on July 10, 2024. The challenges with the current electric grid infrastructure were exemplified by Hurricane Beryl

Research of Kate Davis, Lin Shao and Pavel Tsvetkov Awarded by NNSA through “Consortium for Enabling Technologies & Innovation (ETI) 2.0” Lead by GaTech

Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty team of Drs. Kate Davis, Lin Shao and Pavel Tsvetkov, is excited to have the opportunity to be part of the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation team led by Georgia Tech’ Dr. Anna Erickson. “We are thrilled to carry-on cutting-edge science and engineering research

Awarded Project “Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M Regional Grid Consortium”

To accelerate analysis of regional extreme weather threats and impacts on the electric grid, the Grid Deployment Office of Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $600,000 to fund the project titled “Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M Regional Grid Consortium“. With duration of one year, it will start on August 1, 2024. The principal investigator