Conference Agenda

Session

C6-1: Microgrid applications in active Distribution Systems

Time:

Monday, 29/Sept/2025:

8:00am - 10:30am

Location: Room 520B

Session Topics:

C6 Active distribution systems and distributed energy resources

Presentations

8:00am - 8:15am

Real-time Simulation Study of Thermal-electrical Interactions in a CHP-based Microgrid

Jalal Dadkhah, Yizhong Hu, Yi Zhang

RTDS Technologies Inc., Canada

8:15am - 8:30am

Short-Circuit Fault Detection and Protection Coordination in Inverter-Based Microgrids

Satoru AKAGI¹, Kazuhiro YOSHIYAMA¹, Shinya MORITA¹, Rei ITO¹, Ryohei KOIZUMI², Yoshinobu UEDA³

¹TEPCO Holdings, Inc.; ²TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.; ³MEIDENSHA Corp.

8:30am - 8:45am

Evaluation of distribution system protection for the “Serra da Saudade Microgrid” project

Henrique Parreiras Couto, Washington Rodrigues da Silva, Danilo Derick Silva Alves, Franz de Cassias Strobel, Fernando Henrique Dias Martins, William Alves de Souza, Marney Tadeu Antunes

Cemig Distribuição, Brazil

8:45am - 9:00am

Isolated Microgrid Asset Sizing

Christopher Loo, Mark Mielke

ATCO Electric, Canada

9:00am - 9:15am

OasisTwin: A Digital Twin Platform for Microgrid Resilient Operation

Minoo Shariat-Zadeh^1,2, Moein Manbachi², Mehrdad Moallem¹

¹Simon Fraser University, Canada; ²British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

9:15am - 9:30am

Study on Microgrid Services for Colombian Power Grids: Potential and Advances

YEFERSON LOPEZ ALZATE, EDUARDO GOMEZ LUNA

Universidad del Valle, Colombia

9:30am - 9:45am

Innovative Approaches to DER Integration in Brazilian Scenarium : Business Models and Microgrid Implementation

Thais Marzalek Blasi¹, Raphael Marzalek Blasi², Alexandre Rasi Aoki², Ciceli Martins Luiz³, Leonardo H. de M Leite⁴

¹OPAL-RT; ²Federal University of Paraná; ³CEMIG; ⁴FITec

9:45am - 10:00am

Autonomous Microgrid Resilience Enhancement Using Coordinated Preemptive Load Shedding and Battery Control

Saeedreza Jadidi, Xun Gong, Bo Cao, Reza Iravani, Minghui Xu, Ziming Chen

Huawei Montreal Research Centre, Canada

10:00am - 10:15am

Enhancing live PV Production Estimates in Isolated Microgrids: A Sample Selection and Estimation Approach

Stefanos Kokkinelis, Charalampos Pappas, Despina Koukoula

Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator S.A., Greece

10:15am - 10:30am

Using Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) as a Dispatchable Load for Microgrids at a Community Scale

Lichen Wu, Liping Wang

University of Wyoming, United States of America

10:30am - 10:45am

Resilient Microgrids by using Grid Forming Inverters with Rooftop Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)

Kiran Singh, Pankaj SHARMA, Y K DIXIT, Naveen SRIVASTAVA

POWERGRID, India