Conference Agenda

Session
C6-4: Active management of modern Distribution systems
Time:
Monday, 29/Sept/2025:
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Location: Room 520B

Session Topics:
C6 Active distribution systems and distributed energy resources

Presentations
4:30pm - 4:45pm

Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Management for Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Redundant Centralized Control Scheme—A Case Study

G. M. Asim AKHTAR1, Will ALLEN1, Hammad SHOAIB1, Perry ZHANG2, Kyle JENSEN3

1Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., United States of America; 2The City of Calagry; 3Stantec



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Design and Test of a Local Distributed Energy Resource Management System

Juncheng Wang1, Michel Normandeau2, Geza Joos1, François Bouffard1

1McGill University, Canada; 2Hydro-Québec, Canada



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Evaluation of Introducing Reactive Power Injection from PV to the Distribution Grid

Takumi Yoshioka, Takaya Anegawa, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Hiroki Kuriyama

Kansai Transmission and Distribution, Inc., Japan



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Benefits and Challenges of an Advanced Architecture for the Control Room of the Future

Philippe Vié, Fabrice Robert, René Kerkmeester, diljeet singh, Mathieu CARLUER, Olivier Ebert

Capgemini, Canada



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Acceleration of Time-series Distribution Grid Simulation: A Kernel-based Learning Approach

Zhihao Ma, Yanzhu Ye, Yang Bo

Hitachi America, United States of America



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Guidelines for Solar Farms Energization and Connection to Distribution Grids

Mojtaba Rostaghi, Matthew Dubois, Anand Ambardar, Joseph Szwab, Jessie Bauer, Sean Carr

ComEd (An Exelon Company), United States of America