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David Packard Electrical Engineering Building Stanford University

May 19th, 2015 4pm-10pm

Santa Clara Valley

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NFIC 2015: Smart Grid Ecosystems

Smart Grid Ecosystems—The Public and The Personal

David Packard Electrical Engineering Building Auditorium Stanford University, California For more information, please visit http://nfic-2015.ieeesiliconvalley.org/

Tuesday, 5/19/2015 4pm-10pm NFIC 2015

Time Contents 4:00 - 4:20 Registration / Networking

4:20 - 4:30 Welcome Remarks

4:30 - 4:45 Smart Grid 101 - Christine Hertzog, Managing Director, Smart Grid Library

4:45 - 6:15 Panel 1—Smart Grid : The Personal Moderator: Christine Hertzog, Managing Director, Smart Grid Library Speakers: Mehdi Maasoumy, Ph.D., Sr. Data Scientist, C3 Energy Gabor Mezei, M.D., Ph.D., Sr. Managing Scientist, Exponent Health Sciences Matt Lecar, Principal Consultant, GE Energy Consulting Erfan Ibrahim, Ph.D., Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

6:15 - 7:15 Dinner and Networking

7:15 - 8:00 Keynote - Dian Grueneich, J.D., Former Commissioner of California PUC

8:00 - 9:30 Panel 2 - Smart Grid : The Public Moderator: Christine Hertzog, Managing Director, Smart Grid Library Speakers: Shanshan Liu, Ph.D., Country Manager, EPRI Davis Hwang, Ph.D., Sr. Expert, Alstom Grid Gale Horst, Sr. Project Manager, EPRI Edward Cazalet, Ph.D., CEO/Founder TeMix

9:30 - 10:00

Networking & Adjourn

New Frontiers in Computing

Santa Clara Valley Chapter

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On behalf of the organizing committee, it’s our great honor to officially welcome you all to the 17th New Frontiers in Computing Conference on Smart Grid Ecosystems. As in the past, this conference includes a va-riety of high-tech and emerging topics. NFIC2015 will explore the computerized smart grid landscape provid-ing an educational and informational view to the audience. Smart grid uses computerized control and processes collected information to improve reliability, flexibility in topology, efficiency, load balance, sustainability, etc. Understanding smart grid, its technology trends, busi-ness opportunities, and its benefits and impacts to our society is the goal of this conference. It has many bene-fits to the utility producers and the energy consumers, and we particularly focus on these areas. We hope that you will find NFIC 2015 educational, enjoyable, and valuable. We would like to take this op-portunity to thank the organizing committee and volunteers for their untiring dedication and consistent sup-port to make this conference a success. ORGANIZERS NORTH AMERICA TAIWANESE ENGINEERING & SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (NATEA-SV)

NATEA was founded on March 2, 1991 in Silicon Valley. Since then, NATEA has grown into twelve (12) Regional Chapters across North America with 2,200 members. Many members serve in leading-edge tech-nical and managerial positions and are founders of some of the most successful high-tech companies. IEEE SANTA CLARA VALLEY SECTION - COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTER (IEEE SCV-CS)

The IEEE Computer Society - Silicon Valley Chapter has over 2,500 members. The CS promotes an active exchange of ideas and technological innovation among its members. It is the largest IEEE Computer Society Chapter in the world. IEEE STANFORD UNIVERSITY - STUDENT BRANCH

The student branch of IEEE at Stanford University promotes services and organizes activities for the EE/CS graduate and undergraduate community at Stanford. Roshi Cooper Rajiv Mathur, Ph.D. Alan Shih, Ph.D. Vice-Chair of IEEE-CS SCV Committee Chair Stanford IEEE NATEA Board of Director

Message From Co-Chairs

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Roshni Cooper is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford. She is currently the vice-chair of Stanford IEEE after serving as chair last year. Under her leadership, the Stanford IEEE flour-ished, with officers holding on average one event nearly every week of the academic school year. This is the fourth NFIC that Roshni has co-chaired. Roshni’s research interests comprise image processing and comput-er vision. Her current research at Stanford applies these techniques to biological fluorescence images of neu-rons, allowing biologists to understand the nervous system more thoroughly and accurately. Rajiv Mathur is Program Manager of all things transportation at Prospect Silicon Valley, a clean tech demonstration center in San Jose. He manages sponsor development and coordination, client engagements, ITS Signal Lab operations and helps accelerate new technology demonstrations in San Jose’s Transportation Innovation Zone. Prior to Prospect SV, Rajiv spent a year at the Bay Area Climate Collaborative as an En-core Fellow working on a variety of new program initiatives in EV workforce development and zero-net-energy grants development. Rajiv had a three decade plus career at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara in a di-verse array of technical and management positions. Most recently, he served as Program Director in Intel Labs’ University Collaborative Research division where he managed all aspects of Intel’s academic collabo-ration to several academic research centers at top tier universities, both in US and Europe. Rajiv holds a M.Sc. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie-Mellon Uni-versity, Pittsburgh, both in Physics. Alan Shih works at VMware where he has led and delivered various projects in storage virtualization, VM management, and cloud computing. Before joining VMware, Alan worked in the high tech industry in man-agement and technical positions at Ario Data Networks, Brocade system, Jasmine Networks, and Lucent Technologies. He has over 18 years of R&D experiences in virtualization, kernel, cloud computing, storage, and telecommunication systems. Alan is also a member of Board of Directors, NATEA-SV (North America Taiwanese Engineering and Science Association-silicon Valley) Chapter. Dr. Shih earned a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago, and he holds ten U.S. patents.

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NFIC 2015: Smart Grids Ecosystems

Keeping up to speed, especially in Silicon Valley, is crucial for today's engineers and scientists. Possessing adequate knowledge to make reasoned decisions regarding an emerging technology's importance plays an es-sential role in professional career success. The NFIC conference was organized to provide engineers, scien-tists, and managers with an effective means to achieve that goal. The New Frontiers in Computing Conference (NFIC) started in 1999, providing computer and engineering professionals with enough technical information on a developing field to make informed decisions as to its role in their professional careers. It has achieved this for the last 16 years by presenting an inexpensive one-day conference on emerging technologies such as Social Network Analysis, Cloud Computing, Nanotechnology, Multicore Processors, RFID, Automotive Computing, and On-line Education in 2014. The presenters are recognized leaders and experts from both the research and the emerging applications com-munities. Each presentation provides the attendee with solid technical information regarding an important as-pect of the emerging technology. Past NFIC Conferences: 16th NFIC (2014): The Future of Online Education, Stanford

15th NFIC (2013): Social Network Analysis: It’s Who You Know, Stanford

14th NFIC (2012): Emerging Medical Computing: Health Care Up Close & Personalized, Stanford

13th NFIC (2011): Emerging Automotive Computing – Engineering in Overdrive, Stanford

12th NFIC (2010): Cloud Computing and the Web, San Jose State University

11th NFIC (2009): Handheld Devices, Stanford

10th NFIC (2008): Cloud Computing: The New Face of Computing, Stanford

9th NFIC (2007): Multi-Core Processors, Stanford

8th NFIC (2006): The World with RFID, Biltmore Hotel, Santa Clara

7th NFIC (2005): Sensor Networks – The New Environment, Stanford

6th NFIC (2004): Semiconductors to Nanotechnology – The Coming Convergence, Stanford

5th NFIC (2003): Emerging Issues in Security, Mobility, and Privacy, Stanford

4th NFIC (2002): Bioinformatics, Stanford

3rd NFIC (2001): Nanotechnology, Stanford

2nd NFIC (2000): Internet Protocol Telephony, Stanford

1st NFIC (1999): Systems on a Chip, Stanford

ABOUT NEW FRONTIERS IN COMPUTING

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Dian Grueneich NFIC2015: Smart Grid Ecosystems – Keynote Speech Former Commissioner of California Public Utilities Commission Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Shultz-Stephenson Energy Policy Task Force

“Ecosystems of Smart Grid –- The Role of Public Policy” Abstract: Smart grid technology is revolutionizing the electric sector and will dramatically change how energy services are provided, delivered, and used. While most of the smart grid technology development will be done by pri-vate entities, the deployment of such technologies largely operates in a highly regulated environment – that of energy utilities, transmission and distribution, and wholesale regional markets. Policymakers, particularly state public utilities commissions, dramatically affect whether, and how, smart grid technologies are deployed. In this talk I will discuss the role of public policymakers in smart grid development, issues of concern to policy-makers, and how policymakers see the role of smart grid in achieving sustainability and other goals. I will also present examples of how public policy is a driver for development of the smart grid in two leading states – California and New York. I will conclude with a brief overview of the Stanford project I am leading on “Energy Efficiency: Next Level” and the role of smart grid technologies in achieving the next generation of energy effi-ciency. Biography: Dian Grueneich is a nationally and internationally recognized energy expert, with 37 years' experience. Her ex-pertise covers energy efficiency, demand response, smart grid, renewable energy resources, transmission, and climate change. She has extensive experience in energy policy and regulation, utilities, market development and innovation, and key factors driving U.S. and global energy investments. Dian served as a Commissioner on the California Public Utilities Commission from 2005-2010 and led its ef-forts on energy efficiency, developing the California Long-Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan and oversee-ing a 40% expansion of California's energy efficiency funding, resulting in a 3-year, $3.8 billion program, the largest efficiency program in the U.S. Dian also streamlined California's transmission siting process and led the successful permitting of three major new transmission lines to carry renewable energy. Dian helped launch the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative (WREZ) and served as the first Chair of the Western Governors' As-sociation's Demand Side Management Committee for Western transmission planning. She also oversaw pro-ceedings on advanced metering infrastructure. In May 2014, Dian began an appointment with Stanford University as a Senior Research Scholar with the Pre-court Energy Efficiency Center and the Shultz-Stephenson Energy Policy Task Force, to spearhead an increased focus of Stanford on state and regional energy issues, focusing in particular on regulatory policy governance and the next generation of energy efficiency and demand resources. Dian is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a J.D. from Georgetown University. She serves on the National External Advisory Committee of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and previously served on the U.S. DOE Electricity Advisory Commit-tee. She is also a U.S. DOE Clean Energy Education & Empowerment U.S. Ambassador.


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Christine Hertzog Managing Director Smart Grid Library

“Smart Grid 101” Abstract: The Smart Grid has been in the hype cycle for almost 8 years. But it’s real, and it’s critically important to deliv-er electricity services to developed and developing economies. This Introduction to the Smart Grid will identify some of the key trends and the innovation drivers impacting these trends and progress. Biography: Christine Hertzog is the Managing Director and founder of the Smart Grid Library and SGL Partners. Her firm delivers information and consulting services to clients in the Smart Grid sector. She is currently working with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) as a Technical Advisor for Information, Communication, and Cyber Security topics. Her background includes product management, product marketing, and partner manage-ment roles with small to large telecom hardware and software companies. She is the author of the Smart Grid Dictionary, which has been translated into Chinese, and co-author of Data Privacy for the Smart Grid.


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Mehdi Maasoumy, Ph.D. Sr. Data Scientist C3 Energy

“C3 Energy CyberPhysix: An Operating System for Smart Grid” Abstract: As a complex cyber-physical system, smart grid involves three closely-related subsystems – the operating sys-tem and control algorithms, the physical components and devices, and the sensing and computation devices or embedded implementation platform. In the traditional top-down approach, the control algorithm, the physical components, and the embedded platform are designed separately leading to suboptimal systems. Smart grid ecosystem has been going through major upgrades in three verticals:1) new hardware such as solar panels, wind generation turbines, and plug-in electric vehicles, 2) new sensing devices such as smart meters and smart thermostats, and 3) new communication and computation infrastructure such as the broadband two-way communication and cloud computation. Consequently these breakthroughs in hardware and software have paved the way for new operational schemes, such as automated demand response and ancillary service from some unlikely sources such as buildings. In this new paradigm, buildings are beginning to play new roles in the operation of the smart grid as entities for trading energy in real-time. As a result, the need for re-designing the smart grid architecture and operation is more apparent than ever. We propose an operating system that aggregates all the data from disparate data sources across the whole smart grid value chain, applies analytics on the data. The proposed operating system leverages a dynamic contractual framework that in real-time analyzes the requirements of the grid on one side, and requirements of the building on the other side and performs optimal operation of the whole system while taking into account the constraints of all the components of the grid from buildings to electric vehicle charging station all the way up to the genera-tion units. Biography: Mehdi Maasoumy received his BSc from Sharif University of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, and his MSc and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 2008, 2010 and 2013, respectively. His research interests include Model Predictive Control of Cyber-Physical Systems, Machine Learning and Optimization, with applications in energy systems such as energy-efficient smart building control systems, smart grid and air-craft electric power distribution systems. Mehdi's PhD work has won several awards. He is the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2013), Best Stu-dent Paper Award finalist at the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC 2013), and Best Stu-dent Paper Award finalist at the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC 2014). He is currently a Senior Data Scientist at C3 Energy.


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Gabor Mezei, M.D., Ph.D. Sr. Managing Scientist Exponent Health Sciences

“Smart Grid and Health” Abstract: The electric power industry is striving to improve efficiency and reliability. As a result, all facets of today’s electricity grid, including generation, transmission, distribution, and end use technologies, are currently under-going extensive infrastructure development and modernization. This modernization, or “smart grid” develop-ment, heavily relies on incorporating innovative new technologies, many of which involve wireless communica-tions systems that enable real-time and remote sensing, monitoring, and control processes. Much of this techno-logical expansion is hidden from public view. Some components, however, particularly those that are directly implemented or interact with the end users, gain strong visibility in the public eye. New technologies, especially when their benefit is not immediately apparent or not clearly communicated to the public, may create distrust and concern that may impede their deployment and implementation. Health and safety concerns are frequently the first that are raised by the public. In the context of smart grid, deployment of “smart meters” that commonly incorporate communications via wireless or radiofrequency (RF) signals met with opposition in some areas in the United States and in other countries. While no adverse health effects of RF exposure have been confirmed by any authoritative health or scientific agencies, there might still be public anxiety and concern about expo-sures associated with some new technologies. This might originate from the intricacies in technical and opera-tional details of various wireless technologies, and the complexities and uncertainties inherent in scientific re-search, and might be fueled and exaggerated by lack of proper information or spread of misinformation. To al-low the smart grid to materialize to its full potential, it is crucial to address potential public concerns about health and safety issues related to various smart grid technologies. Proactive, open, and objective, but at the same time easily accessible communications on up to date research results and key features of the various tech-nologies and their potential contribution to exposure scenarios are important parts of this process. Biography: Dr. Gabor Mezei is a Senior Managing Scientist in Exponent’s Health Sciences Center for Epidemiology and Computational Biology. Dr. Mezei has over 25 years of experience in health research including epidemiologi-cal studies of both clinical outcomes and environmental and occupational health issues. Previously, at the Elec-tric Power Research Institute, he was responsible for leading a multidisciplinary scientific research program aimed at addressing potential human health effects associated with residential and occupational exposure to power frequency and radiofrequency EMF. Dr. Mezei trained as a medical doctor (M.D.) at the Semmelweis University of Medicine in Budapest, Hungary, and as an epidemiologist (Ph.D.) at the School of Public Health of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). He served as an affiliate associate professor at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Mezei lectured at Stanford Uni-versity, the UCLA School of Public Health, and appeared as an EMF health expert in hearings at several state (US) and provincial (Canada) public utility commissions and a parliamentary committee in Ireland.


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Matt Lecar Principle Consultant GE Energy Consulting

“From Here to Resiliency” Abstract: Hurricane Sandy exposed the precarious nature of our critical infrastructure in the face of catastrophic weather events – more than 8 million people in 17 states suffered in the dark for days or weeks after the event. With cli-mate change potentially accelerating the frequency and severity of storms, plus new risks such as cyberattack accelerating, how do we ensure the resiliency of the electric grid? Solutions are available to the consumer today – and new technologies are emerging – distributed generation, battery storage, fuel cells and microgrids. But investment in the new distributed energy paradigm competes for capital with investment in smart grid and other conventional “hardening” of grid infrastructure, putting utilities in a financial bind. What are the future “rules of the road” that allow consumers to opt for “premium reliability” while also ensuring that service does not suf-fer for everyone else? Biography: Matt Lecar is a Principal Consultant with GE Energy Consulting where he advises utility clients on the business case, strategy, and road map for the deployment of smart grid technology. He led a year-long US Trade Development Agency (USTDA) funded study of smart grid best practice and the development of standards and regulation for the China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI). He also led a study of UC Davis West Vil-lage, a Zero Net Energy housing development in Davis, California. Current projects focus on the business case for Distribution Automation in improving grid reliability and storm resiliency. Mr. Lecar serves as Operations Lead for Distribution System Testing and Applications Research (DSTAR), a multi-utility research consortium, which GE Energy Consulting has administered for over 20 years. During a long career in the energy utility in-dustry, Matt spearheaded new product development for Pacific Gas & Electric Company and developed and managed partnerships between US energy technology startups and the Electricité de France Group. He also served as Fund Manager for the California Clean Energy Angel Fund, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused exclusively on clean energy technology. Matt is a regular contributor to Greentech Media, Energy Priorities, Smart Grid News, Smart Energy International and Metering International magazines, and wrote a chapter of “Inside the Minds: Energy Venture Capital Best Practices”. He serves on Advisory Boards for Smart Energy International, the California Integrated Renewable Energy Systems (Cal-IRES) institute at UC Davis, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Energy Investment Fund, Fountain Blue’s Clean Energy Entrepreneur series, Green21 Media and Climate Healers. He represents GE on energy issues with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Bay Area Council. He holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor's degree with high honors in physics and political science from UC Berkeley.


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Erfan Ibrahim, Ph.D. Director National Renewable Energy Laboratory

“Challenges in Securing Customer Premises Integration to the Electric Grid” Abstract: Connecting millions of homes to the electric grid to provide automated meter reading, Demand Response, Smart EV charging and other enhanced services creates many new attack surfaces that an electric utility has to consider before enabling these applications. A systems engineering approach with use case analysis is not suffi-cient for developing security requirements. A bottoms up approach of testing components, systems and systems of systems is also necessary, end-to-end, to ensure that the residual risk from use case based security is suffi-ciently mitigated to avoid a breach with social, economic or national security implications. Lack of use of open standards based protocols, effective security controls in the standards, consistent semantic models and proper data analysis for situational awareness remain key stumbling blocks in securing integration of customer premis-es to the electric grid today. Absence of clear regulatory policy drivers for change is impeding the cybersecurity posture of this integration. Biography: Dr. Erfan Ibrahim is the Center Director for Cyber-Physical Systems Security & Resilience R&D at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden Colorado. Dr. Ibrahim works with the public and private sector to identify security requirements, evaluate cybersecurity standards, test cybersecurity controls and determine residual risk in smart networks in the electric sector, water and oil & gas. He serves as the chief liaison from NREL to the Office of Electricity Reliability (OE) at the Department of Energy. He is also serving on the cybersecurity and resilience team within the Grid Modernization Lab Consortium for the DoE. Dr. Ibrahim has had a 28 year career working in a variety of fields including plasma physics, nuclear fusion en-gineering, telecom, IT, network management, communications, smart grid and cybersecurity. He has worked for Lawrence Livermore National Lab, UCLA, Pacific Bell, Newbridge Networks, Jyra Research, Electric Power Research Institute, Scitor and Penn State University. He served as a consultant through his company, The Bit Bazaar LLC for over 10 years in the high tech, financial services, government and energy sectors. Dr. Ibrahim led the industry consensus building exercise in the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Roadmap project during 2009 and also led the National Electric Sector Cybersecurity Organization Resources (NESCOR) project from DoE during 2010-2011 while serving as a Technical Executive in the Intelligrid Program at EPRI. Dr. Ibrahim has a BS Honors in Physics from Syracuse University, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas Austin and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California Berkeley.


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Shanshan Liu, Ph.D. Country Manager EPRI

“Internet of Things/Everything in Power System Transformation” Abstract: IoT presents a unique technology transition that is impacting all our lives. What implications will it have for Power System? Will it have huge impact and transform how power system operates? As more and more devices are connected to the internet, and more and more equipment has embed sensor tech-nology installed, we will have enormous potential to leverage the data to gain visibility of the equipment health, system condition, and enabling new way of operations and enabling new sources of value. Such visibility, will transform how power system providers and customers interact with each other, and hence how power system functions and operates. Let’s explore the possibilities, implications, and challenges together. Biography: Dr. Shanshan Liu is a Country Manager at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). She is responsible for tech-nical services and business development strategies for all EPRI members in China, to further strengthen and ex-pand EPRI’s global R&D collaboration. Dr. Shanshan Liu joined EPRI in 2009, leading R&D in the Grid Operations and Planning program of the Power Delivery & Utilization Sector. In this role, she has made significant contribution in developing technologies and tools to enable better decision makings for power system restoration, reactive power management, and energy forecasting. Dr. Liu has successfully increased program membership and strengthened member engagement, expanding the collaboration to international members. Dr. Liu serves as Adjunct Professor at San Jose State University, teaching Power & Energy courses. She helps structure the curriculum to expand the Power & Ener-gy program at SJSU. Prior to joining EPRI, Dr. Liu worked as a Research Assistant in University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, per-forming research on dynamic data driven applications in power systems. Dr. Liu is internationally recognized for her work and contributions to electric power system’s research. She is a member of IEEE and a member of CIGRE C2 Restoration WG. She has served as invited speaker, technical committee, and panel session chair for numerous international conferences. She is a reviewer of IEEE Transac-tions on Power Systems, European Transactions on Electrical Power, and Proceedings of the IEEE. Dr. Liu has published over 20 papers and co-authored two books “Power System Coherency and Model Reduction” and “Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics”. Dr. Liu received a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, graduating with honors. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical En-gineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.


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Davis Hwang, Ph.D. Sr. Expert Alstom Grid

“Designing a Smarter Remedial Action Scheme” Abstract: Remedial Action Scheme (RAS) or Special Protection System (SPS) is designed to detect abnormal or predefined system conditions and then take specifically corrective actions to maintain system reliability, such as preventing overloads or the loss of equipment. A RAS design usually consists of arming conditions, monitoring conditions (combination of equipment topology and state), corrective control actions, and communication system. RAS has been implemented and used in EMS control centers as an effective system reliability (or a smart grid) tool in North America, but the number of actual RAS implementations is quite limited due to its comprehensive design study and related high cost. The issue of making the predefined system conditions more or less dynamic (or less static) and adding multi-stage logic as part of a smarter RAS design is raised and discussed here. The impact of RAS actions from the transmission providers to the ISO and Market System operators will have to be considered and assessed. Biography: M. Davis Hwang received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin in 1985. Since then he has been with Alstom Gird (and its predecessors) and involved in design, devel-opment, and delivery of Power System Applications for Energy Management System (EMS) and Market Man-agement System (MMS) projects. He is currently a Senior Expert at Alstom Grid.


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Gale Horst Sr. Project Manager EPRI Information and Communications Technology

“The Smart Grid Experience, Applying Results and Reaching Beyond” Abstract: Gale Horst, of the Electric Power Research Institute, will present selected results from the EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration Initiative, a seven-year Smart Grid Demonstration related to the integration of distributed energy resources. The presentation will include brief descriptions of a variety of smart grid projects and lessons learned from field demonstrations. This presentation will cover a range of deployments that are helping to define state-of-the-art practices for a modernized grid and provide the basis for moving beyond the smart grid and into the Integrated Grid.”

The EPRI document "EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration Initiative: Final Update," is available at no cost to the public, and can be downloaded at epri.com by searching for 3002004652 or by using the link below: http://www.epri.com/abstracts/Pages/ProductAbstract.aspx?ProductId=000000003002004652

Biography: Gale Horst, is a Sr. Project Manager in EPRI Information and Communications Technology (ICT) group. He currently leads EPRI program 161D focused on communication standards and utilization of distributed energy resources (DER) and demand response. He recently led the EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration Initiative, a multi-year collaborative research effort (2009-2015) focused on real-world performance of methodologies, DER, tools, and standards for smart grid implementations. Prior to joining EPRI, Gale was an engineering lead at Whirlpool Corporation where he led the design of a clothes dryer that respond to under-frequency and pricing events. Mr. Horst has authored articles in industry publications and holds a number of patents resulting from his work.


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Edward G. Cazalet, Ph.D. CEO, TeMix Inc. Vice President, MegaWatt Storage Farms, Inc.

“Retail Transaction Platforms for California - The Grid of People” Abstract: This presentation addresses how retail transaction platforms can help to address the many vexing issues facing the California electric grid. A business and regulatory model is proposed that uses retail transaction platforms to support transactions among the people who operate facilities and devices that consume, generate and store elec-tricity on the California grid. The concepts in this presentation are put forth in a recent book by the speaker and his colleague Steven Barrager titled: Transactive Energy: A Sustainable Business and Regulatory Model for Electricity. Biography: Dr. Cazalet is a leader in (1) the design and operation of transaction services for electricity, and (2) the commer-cialization of electricity storage. Ed is the founder and CEO of TeMix Inc., a transactive energy services com-pany and a founder and VP of MegaWatt Storage Farms Inc., an independent grid storage advisory firm. He was previously a Governor of the California Independent System Operator and the founder and CEO of Auto-mated Power Exchange (APX) and Decision Focus, Inc. (DFI). He advocates customer friendly and sustainable retail electricity market designs using forward subscriptions and price responsive transactions to support smart appliances and buildings, electric vehicles, renewables, storage, and distributed generation. Dr. Cazalet holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University focused on economics, decision analysis and power systems and degrees in en-gineering from the University of Washington.


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Acknowledgements

NFIC 2015 Planning Committee

Alan Shih

Rajiv Mathur

Roshini Cooper

Alex Shih

Steve Wu

Kevin Cameron

Trevor Meyerowitz

John Yu

Michael Graebner

Jennifer Liao

Linfu Cheng

Paul Shih

Frank Guan

Anne Gregory

Tom Wang

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