Strategic Challenges Facing Transmission: Navigating Solutions for Today and Tomorrow
Panel Session

Tuesday, March 23, 1:00 p.m.
Today’s transmission industry faces many complex and diverse challenges and opportunities from budget constraints, complex planning and operating scenarios, regulatory hurdles, evolving compliance and reliability expectations, aging workforce and infrastructure needs and the list goes on. In this panel session you will hear industry leaders discuss how their companies are navigating through many of these issues, what’s driving their short and long-term strategies, and the opportunities they are anticipating today and tomorrow.

Panel Moderator: Ed Schnell, Director - Transmission Dispatching, Transmission Operations, AEP

Panelists:

• Dean Zastava, Senior Executive Consultant, KEMA, Inc.
• Antonio Smyth, Director Transmission Business Development, American Electric Power
• Abigail Rector, Transmission Development Manager, Exelon Transmission Company

Approaches to Grid Operations and Monitoring
Paper Session
Session Moderator: Terry Nielsen, Vice President, Utility Integration Solutions, Inc.

Tuesday, March 23, 3:00 p.m.
Learn about three unique approaches to the operation and monitoring of the transmission grid. The first is the implementation of a new transmission control center including new software and systems used for the operations, visualization and monitoring of the grid. The second involves a new approach for improving the self healing nature of the transmission grid with the use of islanding. And the third presentation covers new considerations in the approach for deploying synchrophasors for the purposes of monitoring the grid.

PJM Control Center Advanced Visualization
Author(s):

• Tom Keyser, Power System Transmission Operator, PJM Interconnection
• Ron Lavan, Engineer, PJM Interconnection
• Ann Moore, Business Development Executive, OSIsoft, LLC

Successful Islanding – A Review of Findings from the Entergy Islanding Event During Hurricane Gustav
Author(s):

• Floyd Galvan, Sr. Project Manager, Research & Development, Entergy
• Chuck Wells, Platform Architect, OSIsoft, LLC

Synchrophasor Collection Devices: Single Function vs. Multi-function
Author(s):

• Anthony Johnson, Senior Engineer, Southern California Edison

Compliance Issues Impacting Today’s Transmission Systems
Paper Session
Session Moderator: Raj Nayar, Business Segment Manager, Disconnect Switch Products, Siemens Energy, Inc.

Wednesday, March 24, 9:30 a.m.
This session examines the trends in the many activities associated with being successfully compliant. Topics will include cyber security monitoring, tracking vegetation management and applying NERC CIP standards to smart grid projects.

Cyber Security Log Monitoring System Deployment at Southern California Edison
Author(s):

• George Bramhall, Manager - PSC SCADA Operations, Southern California Edison
• Larry Caminiti, Sr. Manager, Southern California Edison
• Rob Caldwell, Lead Software Engineer, General Electric
• Umesh Singh, Chief Consulting Engineer, GE Energy T&D Automation

Software Solutions for Progress Energy’s Transmission Vegetation Management
Author(s):

• Paul Hurysz, Sr. Forester, Progress Energy

When Should the NERC CIP be Applied to Smart Grid Projects?
Author(s):

• Tobias Whitney, Senior Manager, The Structure Group

Integrating Wind Energy on Transmission
Paper Session
Session Moderator: Forrest Small, Director, Energy Practice, Navigant Consulting, Inc.

Wednesday, March 24, 2:30 p.m.
Installed capacity of wind energy in the United States has exceeded 28 GW and continues to grow. Utilities facing aggressive renewable portfolio standard (RPS) targets will continue to look to this important resource. As a variable resource, wind energy poses operational challenges for grid operators but potential solutions are emerging. This session will explore how utilities are integrating wind energy and look at technical approaches for managing this resource.

How Utilities Are Integrating Wind Power
Author(s):

• Michael Goggin, Manager, Transmission Policy, American Wind Energy Association

Energy Storage Study to Help in the Integration of Renewable Resources
Author(s):

• Juan Castaneda, Senior Electrical Engineer, Southern California Edison
• Johan Enslin, Vice President – Sustainable Energy, Quanta Technology
• David Elisondo, Senior Advisor, Quanta Technology

Reactive Power Control System for Wind Farm Application Using IEC 61850
Author(s):

• Michael Thompson, Senior Engineer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
• Dale Kopf, Protection Engineer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.

Project Planning and Execution: Successful Projects Don’t Just Happen
Paper Session
Session Moderator: Michael Feinman, Consulting Engineer, Energy Initiatives Group

Thursday, March 25, 10:00 a.m.
Want to better manage your project? This session is for you! Learn the strategies and techniques other utilities and consultants use to plan, monitor, measure, integrate and implement their projects for successful results.

Analyzing Capital Project Delivery Performance: A Path to Improvement
Author(s):

• Dean Zastava, Senior Executive Consultant, KEMA, Inc.

Bonneville Power Administration - Plan Design Build Enterprise Process Improvement: A Leading Practice
Author(s):

• James J. Hallar, Special Assistant to the Senior Vice President - Transmission Services, Bonneville Power Administration
• Dean Zastava, Senior Executive Consultant, KEMA, Inc.

Northeast Massachusetts (NEMA) Phase II Reliability Improvements — A Success Story
Author(s):

• Kathy Horelik, Manager of Transmission Project Management NE, National Grid

Conference Details

Advanced Metering
Customer Service and CIS
Demand Response and Energy Efficiency
Distribution Automation
Enterprise Information and Asset Management
Mobile and Geospatial Solutions
Renewables and the Grid
SCADA and Network Management
Substation Automation
T&D Engineering and Operations
Transmission
Water
Mega Session