At the 46th North American Power Symposium (NAPS) held on September 7-9, 2014, four graduate students from the Smart Grid Center presented their research results at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. Payman Dehghanian, Tomo Popovic, and Mladen Kezunovic gave a talk titled “Circuit Breaker Operational Health Assessment via Condition Monitoring Data” Paper can be …
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At the 18th Power System Computation Conference (PSCC) held in Wroclaw, Poland, on August 18-22, 2014, a talk titled “Sensitivity Analysis of Voltage Sag Based Fault Algorithm” co-authored by Po-Chen Chen, Vuk Malbasa, and Mladen Kezunovic was presented. To publish the results, the paper of this talk is in press and it can be viewed …
A book titled “Application of Time-Synchronized Measurements in Power System Transmission Networks” was published recently by Mladen Kezunovic, Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his co-authors Sakis Meliopoulos, Vaithianathan Venkatasubramanian, and Vijay Vittal. The book was created through the “Future Grid Initiative” funded by the Department of Energy under a grant …
Utilities and consumers will be able to save money using the EnergyCoupon demand response program. This program and its research were funded by NSF and lead by Dr. Le Xie, Assistant Professor at TAMU, in collaboration with Drs. Pravin Varaiya (UC Berkeley) and Evdokia Nikolova (UT Austin). More can be found at http://www.energycoupon.org.
Dr. Matic-Cuka received her M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Novi Sad, Serbia. In the Ph.D. program at TAMU, her adviser was Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, Eugene E. Webb Professor at the EPPEI (ECE) and the Director of Smart Grid Center (TEES). Her most recent paper “Islanding Detection for Inverter-based Distribution Generation …
A seed grant was awarded to the “Energy Cyberphysical Systems: Experimental Open Source Ecosystem (EXPOSE) for Synchrophasor Research” proposal by TAMU in partnership with TEES for 2 years. The initiative is lead by Dr. Mladen Kezunovic (ECE) in collaboration with Drs. Chanan Singh (ECE), P.R. Kumar (ECE), Erick Moreno-Centeno (ISE), Radu Stoleru (CSE), Alex Sprintson …
Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, the Director of the Smart Grid Center, became a Fellow of CIGRE, the International Council on Large Electric Systems, that is a forum for electrical innovations. This prestigious award is given to experts in recognition of their sustained contributions to CIGRE technical activities. CIGRE, is based in Paris, France, and has more …
Stephen McConnell (left), a M.S. student and Zhan Wang (right), a Ph.D. student, won Best Poster award in its category on photovoltaic reliability at the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference in Denver. Their poster was titled “Evaluation Method for Arc Fault Detection Algorithms.” Both McConnell and Wang work in Dr. Robert Balog’s Renewable Energy and Advanced …
Shadmand is a member of the Renewable Energy and Advanced Power Electronics Research (REAPER) lab under the direction of Dr. Robert Balog, Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. His poster was titled “Design Considerations for Long-Term Remote Photovoltaic-Based Power Supply Using Non-Planar Photovoltaic Surfaces.”
Adolfo Escobedo-Pinto, Ph.D. candidate at Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE), is a recipient of the ConocoPhillips Fellowship, the second time, to support his research titled “Multi-Area Decentralized Load Shed Recovery and Revenue-adequate Financial Transmission Rights for Flexible Topology”. His supervisor is Dr. Erick Moreno-Centeno, Assistant Professor (ISE).