Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room 520AD
Date: Monday, 29/Sept/2025
8:00am
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10:30am
B2-1: Transmission Tower Innovations and Engineering Challenges
Location: Room 520AD
 
8:00am - 8:15am

Optimization of Cross-rope due to servitude restrictions

Suren Natesan1, Jose Diez Serrano2

1: NTCSA, South Africa; 2: enginering consultant



8:15am - 8:30am

Increasing the strength of steel tower materials by attaching Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics(C-FRPs)

Yohei Tomono1, Kohei Ishikawa1, Yuta Yamamoto1, Ryo Yuzawa1, Takeshi Nakamura2, Tomohiro Ishida2

1: Chubu Electric Power Grid Co., Inc., Japan; 2: TOMOE Corporation, Japan



8:30am - 8:45am

Research On Intelligent Transmission Line Tower Lifting And Disassembling Construction Equipment Based On Multi-Modal Data Fusion

Xiangbiao LENG1, Jing LENG2, Haixiang YU1, Zijie ZHENG2, Li QIN3, Yuge XU2, Wenxiao ZHOU3, Linjun ZHENG3, Sihan CHE4, Jiang BIAN1

1: China Southern Power Grid Energy Development Research Institute Co., Ltd.; 2: South China University of Technology; 3: Guangdong Power Grid Energy Development Co., Ltd.; 4: Northeast Electric Power University



8:45am - 9:00am

Design of Outrigger Pads for Safe Operation of Mobile Plant used for Overhead Line Maintenance

Jodie Mann1, Nisha Ravindradevan1, Dongu Li1, John McCormack1, Peter Mitchell2

1: Transgrid, Australia; 2: Aurecon



9:00am - 9:15am

An Overview of the Evolution of Overhead Power Line Crossing Systems in South Africa

Shaina Grant, Bertie Jacobs

Eskom NTCSA (National Transmission Company South Africa), South Africa



9:15am - 9:30am

Parallel Giants: The Twin Steel poles in Heart of National Capital Region

Shrikant G. GAJBHE, Nitesh Kumar SINHA, Manoj Kumar Singh, Abhay Kumar, Vamsi Rama Mohan BURRA

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, India



9:30am - 9:45am

Evaluation of Stresses in Critical Members of Transmission Line Towers During Prototype Testing Using Wired and Wireless Strain Gauges

INDRA SINGH ROURIYA, Satish Kumar, Nitesh Kumar SINHA, Raj Kumar Singh, Abhay Kumar, Vamsi Rama Mohan BURRA

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD, India



9:45am - 10:00am

Novel Aluminium Connections: Structural Behavior and Application in Transmission Towers

Sima Soltaniazar, Marc Demers, Alex Loignon, Ali Davaran, Charles-Philippe Lamarche, Sébastien Langlois, Alain Desrochers

Université de Sherbrooke, Canada



10:00am - 10:15am

Innovative Steel tubular Pole-Lifting Techniques: Addressing Clearance Violations in Transmission Lines

Tirthak Shah, Benjamin Kebernik, Nathan Stahl

Ampjack Industries Ltd, Canada



10:15am - 10:30am

Design Philosophy on Uprating/Upgrading of Ground wires on Transmission Lines

Chandresh Juggernath, Gino Pillay, Ameeth Nathoo

National Transmission Company South Africa, South Africa

11:00am
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12:30pm
B2-2: Conductor Dynamics and Environmental Impact of Towers
Location: Room 520AD
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Comparison of the environmental impacts of aluminum and steel transmission towers in Quebec.

Rozensky Joseph, Ben Amor, Sébastien Langlois

Université de Sherbrooke, Canada



11:15am - 11:30am

An updated equivalent oscillator model for VIV reproduction on transmission line conductors

Federico Zanelli, Alessandro Galimberti, Giuseppe Bucca, Giorgio Diana

Politecnico di Milano, Italy



11:30am - 11:45am

Laboratory Validation and Testing of a Transmission Line Monitoring System for Vibration Phenomena Detection and Analysis

Pedro Henrique Rocha1, Elhacene Matene1, Boris Adum2, Jean-Philippe Paradis1

1: Preformed Line Products, Canada; 2: Statnett SF, Norway



11:45am - 12:00pm

New technology using a smartphone to measure and monitor guy wires tension in transmission line

Nadjib Bouikni

Hydro-Québec, Canada



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Damaging of conductors on stringing blocks

Josee Paradis, Simon Prud'homme, Pierre Van Dyke

Hydro-Québec, Canada



12:15pm - 12:30pm

Numerical and experimental study of the relationship between the inverted bending amplitude and the bending amplitude of transmission line conductors

Pedro Felippe Duarte de Oliveira1, Sébastien Langlois1, Pierre Van Dyke2

1: University of Sherbrooke, Canada; 2: Hydro Québec

2:00pm
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4:00pm
B2-3: Advances in Insulator Design and Diagnostics for High Voltage Transmission
Location: Room 520AD
 
2:00pm - 2:15pm

High Voltage Suspension Insulator String Designs for Extreme Weather Events

Alexandre Matte1, Charles Montgomery2, Tyler Petersen2

1: Sediver; 2: Commonwealth Edison (ComEd)



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Understanding the Performance of Silicon Rubber and Determining Additional Criteria in Evaluating Polymeric Insulators for Malaysia’s Climate.

Nadiah Salwi Hudi1, Azwadi Mohamad2, Najmidin Yaakob3, Nur Azrini Ramlee3

1: Tenaga Nasional Berhad (Malaysia), Malaysia; 2: TNB Research, Malaysia; 3: Universiti Teknologi Mara (UITM, Malaysia)



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Modelling the Surface Contamination of High-Voltage Overhead Line Insulators over Italy

michele de nigris, Alessandra Balzarini, Nicola Luciano, Domenico Toscano, Guido Pirovano

RSE SpA, Italy



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Enhancing Reliability of Power Transmission through Thermal Scanning of CLR insulator

ALOK KUMAR, PANKAJ KUMAR RAI, MRITYUNJAYA CHOUBEY, YUGESH KUMAR DIXIT

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., India



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Comparison of the Dielectric behaviour of artificially polluted Insulators using different Test Methods

Franziska Gebhardt1, Tim Felix Reinhard2, Stefan Kühnel3, Stefan Kornhuber3, Peter Werle4

1: 50 Hertz Transmission GmbH, Germany; 2: TU Berlin, Germany; 3: Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Germany; 4: Leibniz University Hannover, Germany



3:15pm - 3:30pm

SunZia ±525 kV HVDC Transmission Line Project – Transmission Assembly Testing for HVDC

Jeff Butler

Hubbell, United States of America



3:30pm - 3:45pm

Key factors for reliable results in E-field simulations of OHTL insulators

Peter Sidenvall1, Fabian Lehretz2

1: Independent Insulation Group, Sweden; 2: Tennet, Germany



3:45pm - 4:00pm

Advantages of factory coated insulators before installation for overhead lines and substations

Lucia Graziosi, Pasquale Graziosi, Pierfrancesco Lanza, Mario Morella

ekd project s.r.l., Italy

4:30pm
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6:00pm
B2-4: Conductor Icing and De-Icing Innovations for Transmission Line Reliability
Location: Room 520AD
 
4:30pm - 4:45pm

Research on Icing Characteristics of Low Wind Pressure Conductor

Chao Zhou, Haojie Zhao, Liangchen Zhao, Lin Li

North China Electric Power University, China, People's Republic of



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Three-dimensional Time-varying Icing Model and Key Influencing Factors for Overhead Transmission Iines

Lin Li, Yaobin Kang, Liangchen Zhao, Chao Zhou

North China Electric Power University, China, People's Republic of



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Temperature characteristics of OPGW during ice melting process for ±800kv UHVDC overhead line

Bo Peng1, kunpeng Ji2, Junhui Li2, Peng Li2

1: State Grid Company of China, China, People's Republic of; 2: State Grid Electric Power Engineering Research Institute Co., LTD., China, People's Republic of



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Icing Rupture Characteristics and dynamic response of OHL conductor under de-icing impact load

Junhui Li1, Chao Zhou2, kunpeng J1

1: State Grid Electric Power Engineering Research Institute Co., LTD., China, People's Republic of; 2: North China Electric Power University



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Study on the influence of conductor inclination angle and twisting factors on ice shape characteristics

kunpeng Ji, Kuanjun Zhu, Junhui Li, Peng Li

State Grid Electric Power Engineering Research Institute Co., LTD.



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Advanced Iron Oxide Nanocomposite Coatings for Efficient De-Icing: Harnessing Electromagnetic Energy for Power Transmission Lines

Shamim Roshan, Reza Jafari, Gelareh Momen

University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada

Date: Wednesday, 01/Oct/2025
1:30pm
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3:30pm
C2-1: Advanced Control, Optimization, and Resilience in Modern Power Systems
Location: Room 520AD
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Robust Model Predictive Control for Fast Frequency Control in Low-Inertia Grids Using Box-Jenkins Identified Models of Grid-Forming Inverters

Masood Mottaghizadeh, Innocent Kamwa, Abbas Rabiee, Seyed Masoud Mohseni-Bonab, Navid Vafamand

Laval University, Canada



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Quantifying Inertia Contributions of Inverter-Based Resources: Method Comparisons and GFM vs GFL

Poria Astero

Electric Power Engineers (EPE), United States of America



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Advanced use of Battery Energy Storage System in the scope of SINCRO.GRID – the EU role model smart grid project

ERVIN PLANINC, TOMAZ TOMSIC, DARKO KRAMAR, JURIJ KLANCNIK

ELES, d.o.o., Slovenia



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Cyber-Attack-Induced False Load Data Recovery with Dynamically Constrained Go Decomposition for Unit Commitment

Qingqiu Liu, Yuxiong Huang, Gengfeng Li, Hongrui Lu, Chenwei Gao, Zhengkun Xin

Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, People's Republic of



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Mixed-Integer Second-Order Cone Programming for Multi-Period Scheduling of Flexible AC Transmission System Devices

Mohamad Charara1, Martin De Montigny2, Nivine Abou Daher2, Hanane Dagdougui1, Antoine Lesage-Landry1

1: polytechnique Montréal, Canada; 2: Hydro-Québec, Canada



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Data-Driven MPC of Secondary Load Frequency and Voltage of Power Systems

Navid Vafamand, Himanshu Grover, Innocent Kamwa, Abbas Rabiee

Laval University, Canada



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Impact Analysis of a Capacitive Ladder Fully Electronic Voltage Regulator on the IEEE 39-Bus System Under Fault Conditions

Abolfazl Babaei1, Waldemar Ziomek2, Ani Gole1

1: RMS Energy; 2: PTI Transformers LP

4:00pm
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6:00pm
C2-2: Resilient Grid Operations: From Control Strategies to Intelligent Decision Support
Location: Room 520AD
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Enhancing The Stability Of Jordan’s Electricity Grid: Challenges and Practical Solutions "SEPCO Case Studies"

Abdallah Mohammad Alhayajneh, Yousef "Mohammad Fuad" Alababneh

Samra electric power company SEPCO, Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of



4:15pm - 4:30pm

The Role of Self-Limiting Facilities in Enhancing Grid Reliability

Divya Jain, Satish Natti

GridAxon, Inc.



4:30pm - 4:45pm

AI-Driven DVR Control for Enhancing Power System Resilience in Hybrid Energy Systems

Mohammad Tbaishat, YOUSEF Mashagbeh

SEPCO., Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of



4:45pm - 5:00pm

A Simplified Damping Control Strategy for Black-Box Virtual Synchronous Generator Models

Tuhin Suvra Das, Udaya Annakkage

University of Manitoba, Canada



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Simulation-Based Training for System Operators: Adapting to Dynamic Grid Conditions with DTS

Vijitha Kandamkumarath, Sudeep M, Harish K Rathour, Ganesh T R

Grid Controller of India Limited, India



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Artificial Intelligent (AI) Algorithms to Optimize Multi-objective Economic and Emission Dispatch Problems

Abdel Rahman Alheyasat, Mamoo'n Almomani

National Electric Power Company/ Jordan, Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Optimal Network Partitioning for Large Power Systems Using Impedance and Generator Coherency

Harindya Shehani Attanayaka

University of Manitoba, Canada