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Technical Committee Meeting
July 24, 2002
Chicago, IL
Attendance
G. Huang, C. N. Lu, R. Dugan, S. Carneiro, K. Miu, D. Niebur, N. Rau, A. Wang, M. Baughman, R. Baldick, C. C. Liu, J. Staron, J.-K. Park, L. Jones, X. Feng, D. Logan, M. Bhavaraju, R. Fletcher, K. Tomsovic and N. Sarma.
The meeting was chaired by Joann Staron.
Chair Report
Joann reported that the total attendance of the Chicago Summer Meeting is 1,838 with accompanying persons. She also mentioned that the lead time for submission of papers for PES meetings is 26 weeks.
Inputs are needed on the “even year” conferences, “Power System Conference and Exhibit.” Please send your inputs to Edwin Liu, who is the coordinator for PSACE.
A new magazine, “Power and Energy Magazine” will replace the Power Engineering Review and the Computer Applications in Power (CAP) magazines in the future. PSACE is planning an article for the July 2003 issue.
The PSACE directory needs to be updated. Any update should be sent to Chen-Ching Liu, Secretary of PSACE.
Joann reported that Roger Dugan has accepted to be the incoming Secretary of PSACE. Congratulations to Roger.
The following members were recognized for their contributions to PSACE activities:
- John Endrenyi who chaired the TF on Impact of Maintenance Strategy on Reliability, 2002
- Jim McCalley who chaired TF on Probabilistic aspects of reliability criteria. 2002
- Kevin Tomsovic who chaired WG on New Techniques, 2001
- Hiroshi Sasaki who chaired WG on Practical Applications, 2001
- Mladen Kezunovic who chaired TF on Fault Analysis, 2001
- Mohamed El-Sharkawi who chaired TF on Security assessment, 2001.
- Mesut Baran who chaired the subcommittee on distribution system analysis.
Vice Chair Report
Marti reported on the “Technical Sessions” meeting. Electronic review of the conference papers is being implemented. The policy development coordination committee is discussing position papers. The Committee will seek input from technical committees.
Secretary Report
The minutes of WM 2002 PSACE meeting is approved.
Chen-Ching mentioned that the Adcom has approved the invitation to 3 new members:
- Andy Ford, PJM
- Hisao Taoka, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
- Chan-Nan Lu, National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan
Joann Staron will send an invitation letter to the new members.
The deadline for nomination of the awards and prize papers is October 25, 2002.
Murty Bhavaraju mentioned that the Transactions review procedure and efficiency has been greatly improved.
Subcommittee Reports
Reliability, Risk and Probability SC
Cliff Grigg reported that Risks and Reliability subcommittee has three active task forces: distribution system reliability (Bob Fletcher), revision of the standards 762 to development reliability test systems and reporting outage data for generating system units (Andy Ford) and probabilistic aspects of power quality (frequency and impact, starting task force). He also mentioned that panel and tutorial sessions will be organized for the Toronto meeting.
Distribution System Analysis SC
Sando reported that the attendance of the distribution system subcommittee meeting was 10. A task force is formed to handle distributed generation models for feeder analysis (Roger Dugan). Sando will contact T&D Working Groups and Task Forces to seek collaboration.
System Economics SC
Ross Baldick reported that the attendance of panel sessions at SM 2002 was about 60-80. The paper session was attended by about 60. One proposal for panel session at the Toronto meeting will be on market monitoring. The other panel will be on market design. Other efforts include a new task force on market and standardization of terms.
Intelligent Systems SC
Kevin Tomsovic reported that panel sessions organized by intelligent system applications subcommittee were well attended. In Toronto, 2 panel sessions are planed. It is decided to repeat the generation expansion panel in combination with the subcommittee meeting. A task force is being formed on data analysis. The tutorial on heuristic optimization will be repeated.
Computer and Analytical Methods SC
Joann Staron reported for Edwin Liu on CAMS subcommittee. A special technical session organized for SM 2002 was not listed in the program. Inconsistent information was provided. A total of 10 papers were accepted and 2 paper and 2 panel sessions were organized for SM 2002. It is observed that the number of conference papers is down from before.
Respectfully Submitted,
Chen-Ching Liu
Secretary, PSACE
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