Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
 
Session Overview
Date: Monday, 29/Sept/2025
8:00am
-
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

C6-1: Microgrid applications in active Distribution Systems
Location: Room 520B
 
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

1: TEPCO Holdings, Inc.; 2: TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.; 3: MEIDENSHA 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-Zadeh1,2, Moein Manbachi2, Mehrdad Moallem1

1: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 2: British 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

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



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

11:00am
-
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

C6-2: Innovative uses of battery storage to manage distribution systems
Location: Room 520B
 
11:00am - 11:15am

EV Managed Charging Strategies for Transmission & Distribution Planning

Abdelrahman Ayad1, François Bouffard1, Graham Turk2, Pablo Duenas-Martinez2

1: McGill University, Montrea, QC, Canada; 2: MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA



11:15am - 11:30am

A Novel Deep-learning Model for Optimal Integrating of BESSs in Power Grids

HamidReza Mansouri, Mohammad Majid Jalali

Niroutrans Co., Iran, Islamic Republic of



11:30am - 11:45am

Optimal sizing of battery energy storage in a grid-connected PV system: A comparative study of three optimisation algorithms

Zakaria Adam SOULEYMANE1, Augustin MPANDA MABWE1, Julien JEAN-VICTOR2, Jérôme FORTIN1, Prescillia DUPONT1, Arnaud DUJANY2

1: UniLaSalle Amiens; 2: UniLaSalle Beauvais



11:45am - 12:00pm

Electric Thermal Storage as a Tool for Peak Shifting

Patrick Thomas Giles, Michael Ross

Yukon University, Canada



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent for Tuning Controller Parameters of an Energy Storage System Using Real-time Simulations

Yasas Sanju Kandemulla Arachchige1, Athula Rajapakse1, Bagen Bagen2

1: University of Manitoba, Canada; 2: Manitoba Hydro, Canada



12:15pm - 12:30pm

Implementation, Field Operation and Standardization Consideration for Use of Mobile Battery Energy Storage in Temporary Power Applications

Farid Katiraei1, Naera Haghnazarian2, Ayman Lpizra2, Jennifer Hebsch2, Philip Johnson3, Damir Novosel4

1: Innoversa, Canada; 2: Eversource Energy, USA; 3: Sunbelt Rental, USA; 4: Quanta Technology

2:00pm
-
4:00pm
A1-1: Partial discharge, AI and ML applications
Location: Room 520C
 
2:00pm - 2:15pm

Pulse Shape Analysis and Advanced Techniques for Partial Discharge Measurement in Rotating Machines

André Tomaz de Carvalho, Daniel Leandro Argolo, Caio Fleming Cunha, Hélio de Paiva Amorim

CEPEL, Brazil



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Locate Hydrogenerator Stator Failure by Partial Discharge Monitoring, Dielectric Test and Corona Inspection

Fernando Brasil, Julio Nascimento, Paulo Vilhena

Eletrobras Eletronorte, Brazil



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Evaluation of the high-frequency electrical behavior of stator windings of 18 kV by measuring partial discharges and complement analysis using the EMTP/ATP

Hélio Amorim, Mayara Cagido, Rogério Azevedo, Daniel Argôlo

Cepel, Brazil



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Evaluation of the Discharges Criticality in the Stator Winding End Corona Protection Region

Paulo Vilhena1, Fernando Brasil1, Johnny Rocha2

1: Eletrobras Eletronorte, Brazil; 2: Trassínio Consultoria Ltda, Brazil



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Machine Learning Techniques for Identifying Partial Discharge Sources from Phase-Resolved Partial Discharge Patterns

Melanie Levesque, Ryad Zemouri

Hydro-Quebec, Canada



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Applicability of AI Tools to Analyze Phase-Resolved Partial Discharge from Motor and Generator Stator Windings

Greg C. Stone1, Mladen Sasic2

1: Stone Dielectrics, Canada; 2: Iris Power L.P., Canada



3:30pm - 3:45pm

AI-Driven Fault Detection in Hydroelectric Generators: Integrating Variational Autoencoders with Stray Flux Analysis

Helene Bechara1, Ryad Zemouri2, Arezki Merkhouf2, Antoine Tahan1, Kamal Al-Haddad1

1: Ecole de technologie supérieure, Canada; 2: Hydro Québec Research Institute (IREQ)



3:45pm - 4:00pm

Software Design of Turbine Generator Shaft Earthing-Brush Fault Types Diagnosis System Based on Deep Learning

Katudi Oupa Mailula1, Mawande Mbotyini2

1: Eskom RT&D, South Africa; 2: Eskom NTCSA, South Africa

A3-1: Reliability
Location: Room 519A
 
2:00pm - 2:15pm

Use of Gasket Eliminator to prevent flange corrosion and prevent gas leakage

Matthew Iles, Keith Williams

National Grid, United Kingdom



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Multi-modal Machine Learning Prediction of Fleetwide Switchgear SF6 Escape from Historical Maintenance Records, Online Monitors and Domain Expertise

Ting LIU1, Fiona IRWIN2, Luis DE LA BARBA SUAREZ3, Allan Holton3, Dan JONES4, Rob TERRET-HENSMAN4, Gordon WILSON4, Annalisa RICCARDI1, Blair BROWN1, Stephen DJ MCARTHUR1, Brian G STEWART1, Bruce STEPHEN1

1: University of Strathclyde, UK; 2: SSEN, UK; 3: ScottishPower, UK; 4: NGET, UK



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Statistical Method for Gas Leak Detection for SF6 Circuit Breaker Based Only on Gas Temperature and Absolute Pressure

Ryszard Pater, Nathan Lefebvre, Doche René, Michel Gauvin, Antoine Mailhot, Éric Ouellet

Hydro-Québec, Canada



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Implication of maintenance practices on the reliability on equipment such as CB and GIS

Ryota Kuriyama1, Frank Richter2, Matthew Iles3, Syuichi Tamura4, Wayne Pepper5, Robert Le Roux6, Sorawit Chiarapisitphong7, Hiroki Ito1

1: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan; 2: 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Germany; 3: National Grid, United Kingdom; 4: TEPCO Power Grid, Japan; 5: Ausgrid, Australia; 6: ESB, Ireland; 7: EGAT, Thailand



3:00pm - 3:15pm

CIGRE Fourth Reliability Survey on GIS and CB

Hiroki Ito1, Wayne Pepper2, Frank Richter3, Robert le Roux4, Matthew Illes5, Anongpun Man-Im6, Mohammad Raza7, Giancarlo Guenzi8

1: Mitsubishi Electric, Japan; 2: Ausgrid, Australia; 3: 50 Hertz, Germany; 4: ESB, Ireland; 5: National Grid, United Kingdom; 6: EGAT, Thailand; 7: Hitachi Energy, Switzerland; 8: Consul, Italy



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Implementation of Optical Technology for Fault Detection in High Voltage Mixed Lines

Iker García, Alejandro Relloso, Iñigo Extremiana

ELECTROTECNICA ARTECHE HNOS., S.L., Spain



3:30pm - 3:45pm

Factors affecting reliability of Low Voltage Switchgears

Sukant Bhattacharya

DNV, United Arab Emirates

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

B3-1: AI and Robotic Applications for Substations
Location: Room 520E
 
2:00pm - 2:15pm

Basic Verification of Substation Patrol by Drone

Yuki YATABE1, Tetsuya IKEDA1, Yusuke TAKENAKA1, Shinya AICHI1, Takaya MASUDA2, Takuya ASAHARA2

1: CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER GRID Co., Inc.; 2: SENSYN ROBOTICS, Inc.



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Knowledge management using AI: a case study of substation lifecycle management for development of young and newly hired engineers

Shinki Noguchi1, Akira Okada2

1: Chubu Electric Power Grid Co., Inc.; 2: Hitachi energy



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Automated Inspection Robot System for Large EHV Air-insulated Substations

Julien Beaudry, Philippe Dandurand, Patrick Mongenot, Camille Hébert, Claude Rajotte, Germain Bizier

Hydro-Québec, Canada



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Immersive virtual reality training for enhanced safety and operational preparedness in the distribution grid

Pascal Bolz, Dominic Fehling, Markus Zdrallek, Tobias Meisen

University of Wuppertal, Germany



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Digitalization of Electric Power Systems using sustainable, Smart Substations with Cloud Connectivity

Thomas Duerr1, Mark Childerhose2, Bernd Schuepferling1

1: Siemens AG, Germany; 2: Siemens Canada Limited, Canada



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Using GeoBIM, loT and IA for Predictive Diagnose on High-Voltage Substations

Ana Cristina Marotti1, Filipe Salles1, Gerson Fávio Lima2, Fernanda Machado3

1: Eletrobras, Brazil; 2: CG Works, Brazil; 3: Autodesk, Brazil



3:30pm - 3:45pm

Wireless sensors and AI applications for switchyard equipment condition monitoring and real time health assessment

Ravi Sushant Chaudhary, Joseph Jose, Mahendra kumar kaloria, Devaprasad Paul, Ravindra Nath Gupta

POWERGRID, India



3:45pm - 4:00pm

AI-driven Efficiency :Transforming APM Systems through Optimization of OT and IT

Thierry JUNG, Austin Byrne, Sihui Chen

GE VERNOVA

B4-1: HVDC/FACTS - Interaction and Coupling
Location: Room 518BC
This session explores the operational challenges and interaction phenomena introduced by HVDC, STATCOM, and other power electronics-based technologies in modern transmission systems. Presentations will cover real-world studies, safety considerations, advanced measurement methods, and innovative control strategies to enhance system stability and resilience.
 
2:00pm - 2:15pm

The experience of the Sub-Synchronous Torsional Interaction study based on the Real Time Simulator for the South Korea Power System

hyunkeun Ku, gumin Kwon, injoo Jeong, sehwan Joo, hyeonggeun Kim, jaekoon Kim, chulsoo Seo, jeonghoon Shin

KEPCO, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Overvoltage Considerations of coupled parallel DC transmission lines in terms of earthing and work safety

Volker Vahrenholt1, Felix Hamann2, Chandana Karawita3, Raveen Gunarath3

1: 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Germany; 2: AFRY Deutschland GmbH; 3: TransGrid Solutions Inc.



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Power Oscillation Damping using Grid-Forming HVDC Converters

Saman Dadjo Tavakoli, Shahab Karrari, Ngoc Tuan Trinh, André Schön, Robert Renner

Siemens Energy, Germany



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Influence of HVDC Transmission on Parallel Underground Pipeline Infrastructure

Nicole Denboer1, Chandana Karawita1, Roshani Kaluthanthrige1, Volker Vahrenholt2

1: TransGrid Solutions Inc., Canada; 2: 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Germany



3:00pm - 3:15pm

An Invasive Harmonic Impedance Measurement Approach for VSC-HVDC Systems

Shrinath Kannan1, Omar Fadhel Jasim2, Ceren Yurt1, Gearoid Oheidhin2

1: GE Vernova, Germany; 2: GE Vernova, United Kingdom



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Interactions of STATCOM controls with low order resonance of offshore transmission cables

Alyssa Jenkins, Kaitlyn Babiarz, Samantha Deeney

Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc., United States of America



3:30pm - 3:45pm

A Wide-band Active Damping STATCOM

Mojtaba Mohaddes, Chandana Karawita, Hiranya Suriyaarachchi

TransGrid Solutions, Canada



3:45pm - 4:00pm

Assessing the Extended MIIF Screening Method for Multi-infeed VSC-HVDC

Christopher Barclay Martin Engstrom, Par Samuelsson, Margareta Jansson

Hitachi Energy, Sweden

C6-3: Planning applications for improved distribution system management
Location: Room 520B
 
2:00pm - 2:15pm

Real-time hardware-in-the-loop testing of grid line monitoring and control apparatus for capacity enhancement of legacy electric grids

Arman Ghasaei1, Ethan Lam1, Alex Melancon2, Christian Cossette2

1: EdgeTunePower Inc., Canada; 2: CO7 Technologies Inc., Canada



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Improved Load Forecasting through Full and Partial Load Transfer Detection

Claire-Isabelle Carlier

Engineered Intelligence Inc., Canada



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Fault Location Based on Shape Matching for Attenuated Traveling Waves in Overhead Line-Cable Hybrid Distribution Grids: A Field Experiment

Tatsuya Maesaka1, Mutetsu Uchida1, Shogo Takeuchi1, Takumi Yoshioka1, Takaya Anegawa1, Tetsushi Ono2, Masato Shiga2

1: Kansai Transmission and Distribution, Inc., Japan; 2: Hitachi, Ltd., Japan



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Improving PV System Dynamics for Grid Code Compliance and Stability

Reda Yousef Ismail Issa, Omar Hikmat AL-Momani

jordan electric power company, Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan



3:00pm - 3:15pm

An advanced control strategy based on current limiting to improve fault ride-through capability of three-phase photovoltaic grid-connected inverters

Ahmad Deeb Sawwas1, Michel Normandeau2, François Bouffard1, Geza Joos1

1: McGill University, Canada; 2: Hydro-Québec Research Institute Canada



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Reactive Power Management under High Solar Photovoltaic Penetration in Distribution Networks

BAYAN SULEMAN AL AMRO

Electricity distribution company, Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of



3:30pm - 3:45pm

A Real-Time Study of Grid-Following and Grid-Forming Distributed Energy Resources in Distribution Grids

Rahul Ranjan Jha, Bo Chen, Sri Raghavan Kothandaraman

Commonwealth Edison, United States of America



3:45pm - 4:00pm

Assessing the Impact of Inverter-Based Resource Penetration and Control Strategies on Switching Overvoltage using EMT Simulations

Prashant Agnihotri, Amgad El-Deib, Hassan Fayaz

Stantec, Canada

4:30pm
-
6:00pm
A1-2: Partial discharge, AI and ML applications
Location: Room 520C
 
4:30pm - 4:45pm

Overview of the Advanced Diagnosis of Generators (DIAAA) Platform for Digital Twin Application

Arezki Merkhouf, Mélanie Lévesque, Olivier Kokoko, Maxime Casavant, Joel PEDNEAULT-DESROCHES

Hydro-Québec, Institut de Recherche, Canada



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Graph neural network auto encoder and deep modular learning for prognostics and health management of hydrogenerators

Ryad Zemouri, Mélanie Lévesque

Hydro-Québec, Canada



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Understanding and Extending Hydro-Generator Capability Through Thermal Diagnostics and Probabilistic Modelling

Ghofril Kahwati1, Arezki Merkhouf1, Antoine Tahan2, Kamal Al-Haddad2

1: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 2: École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Advanced health monitoring of hydrogenerators using VAE including KAN for fault detection and diagnosis using stator vibration signals

Rony Ibrahim1, Arezki Merkhouf2, Antoine Tahan1, Ryad Zemouri2, Kamal Al-Haddad1

1: Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Canada; 2: Hydro-Québec Research Center, Canada



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Grid Resilience and Renewable Integration: India's Transition to a Sustainable Power System

Shubhra Shah, Prakash Chand Sharma

NHPC Limited, India



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Requirements for Power System Stabilizer Tuning

Luis Rouco1, Miguel Cordoba1, Lukas Sgrist1, Alejandra Cedenilla-Bote2, Philippe Carpentier3, Adrien Guironnet3, Gilles Torresan3

1: Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain; 2: Cresym; 3: RTE France

A3-2: SF6 alternatives
Location: Room 519A
 
4:30pm - 4:45pm

Beyond SF6 : update on regulations and SF6-free technologies and products to support the decarbonation of the energy

Yannick Kieffel, Bertrand Portal

GE Vernova, France



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Development of a 550 kV 63 kA SF6-free high voltage metal-enclosed circuit breaker

Ennio Errico1, Michael Lane1, Matthew Cuppett1, Hrishikesh Joshi1, Fei Kong2, Chen Yang2, Yong Yang2, Meng Lei Zheng2, Valeria Teppati3

1: Hitachi Energy USA, Inc., United States of America; 2: Hitachi Energy (China) Ltd.; 3: Hitachi Energy (Switzerland) Ltd



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Comparative Research on the Key Properties and Applications of the Novel Eco-friendly Insulating Gas CF3SO2F

Keli Gao1, Wen Wang1, Xianglian Yan1, Baoshan Wang2, Yu Zheng2, Yin Huang1

1: China Electric Power Research Institute, China, People's Republic of; 2: Wuhan University



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Innovative approach exploiting the advantages of quantum technology in the search for an alternative to SF6 gas insulation in medium-voltage circuit breakers

Arianne Lemo1, Mactar Thiam2, Karl-Igor Pierre2, Christian Cossette2, Adam W. Skorek1

1: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada; 2: CO7 Technologies



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Pioneering Eco-Friendly Insulation Solutions for HV Instrumentation Inductive Voltage Transformers (IVT)

Afsaneh Keshtkar, Paolo Diamanti, Mahendra Ramnarine, Joseph Arjune

Trench, Canada

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

B3-2: Monitoring and Asset Management
Location: Room 520E
 
4:30pm - 4:45pm

Real-Time Condition Monitoring of a Telescopic Disconnector Switch using Fiber Bragg Grating Measurements

Mathieu Kirouac1, Rosa Elvira Silva1, Isabelle Castonguay1, Paul Lefebre2, Claude Beaulieu2

1: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 2: LxNGen, Canada



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Automated Visual and Thermographic Inspections Applied to Online Substation Monitoring

Germain Bizier, Claude Rajotte, Julien Beaudry

Hydro-Québec, Canada



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Self generating online condition monitoring system for substation equipment

Eric Frenette

Hydro-Québec, Canada



5:15pm - 5:30pm

A Novel Scheme For Utility Fleet Optimum Assets Performance Control

Therence Houngbadji

High Voltage Software Systems (METLAB Research inc.), Canada



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Evolution and Validation of a Sealing System Design for SF6-free Switchgear Applications

Lukas Treier1, Robert Luescher1, Maxime Perret1, Giorgio Dolci1, Hugo Doligez2, Charlotte Carbrera2

1: GE Vernova, Switzerland; 2: GE Vernova, France



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Localized cyclone detection and response system for enhanced power grid reliability and safety

Amitkumar Patel, Samiron Roy, Deepak Vinnakota

The Tata Power Company Limited, India



6:00pm - 6:15pm

Smart Asset Management in Substations A Success Story in Battery Bank Digitalization at Bacatá Substation

Mauricio Hernandez Ossa, German Cardenas

ISA INTERCOLOMBIA, Colombia



6:15pm - 6:30pm

A BIM-Blockchain Integration Framework for Improved Documentation and Contract Management in Substation Projects

Heitor Vilela1, Lucas Vasconcelos2

1: M&V Engenharia; 2: Eletrobras

B4-2: HVDC - Project Planning, Design and Testing
Location: Room 518BC
This session addresses the planning, design and testing aspects of HVDC projects.
 
4:30pm - 4:45pm

The UMEX HVDC System – A novel Solution for HVDC Modernization and future Upgrade

Carsten Bartzsch1, Marcus Haeusler1, Christian Winter2, Peter Schommer2, Joanne Hu3, Bruno Bisewski3

1: Siemens Energy; 2: Minnesota Power; 3: RBJ Engineering



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Kii Channel HVDC Control and Protection System Replacement Project

Shingo NAKANOTANI1, Ryosuke ITOTANI1, Ryota TOMOKANE1, Yoshihito TSUJI2, Mai SHIBATA3, Satoshi TAKEMURA4, Takahiro NAKAGAWA5, Taihei SATO6

1: Kansai Transmission and Distribution, Inc., Japan; 2: Shikoku Electric Power Transmission & Distribution Company, Inc., Japan; 3: J-POWER Transmission Network Co.,Ltd., Japan; 4: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan; 5: Hitachi, Ltd., Japan; 6: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation, Japan



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Design Verification Tests of VSC-HVDC Converter Valve for BorWin6

Zhiyuan HE1, Rong HU1, Sheng ZHANG1, Boya ZHAO1, Peter LEUSHUIS2, Yanny FU2, Christian RAUSCHER3

1: China Electric Power Research Institute, Co. Ltd., China, People's Republic of; 2: TenneT TSO BV, Netherlands; 3: TenneT TSO GmbH, Germany



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Design Verification Tests of Valves for DC Dynamic Braking System of the BorWin6 HVDC Project

Jianbo ZHOU1, Fuyue WEN1, Kefeng WANG1, Yuefeng YNAG1, Chong GAO2, Lingyu LIU1, Peter LEUSHUIS3, Yanny FU3, Christian RAUSCHER4, Bin XU2

1: C-EPRI ELECTRIC POWER ENGINEERING CO., LTD.; 2: China Electric Power Research Institute, Co. Ltd.; 3: TenneT TSO BV; 4: TenneT TSO GmbH



5:30pm - 5:45pm

HVDC Overhead Line and Converter Station Interdependency: A Framework for Streamlined Design

Sage Eliza Smith, Stephen Neuner Koch, Emma June Brown, Rajat Majumder

Invenergy LLC, United States of America



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Transient DC Voltage Control Functionality for Grid Forming Converters of Corinth-Kos HVDC

Georgios Tsourakis1, Panos Mandoulidis1, Raveen Gunarath2, Chandana Karawita2

1: Independent Power Transmission Operator, Greece; 2: TransGrid Solutions Inc.

C6-4: Active management of modern Distribution systems
Location: Room 520B
 
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

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



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Design and Test of a Local Distributed Energy Resource Management System

Juncheng Wang1, Michel Normandeau2, Geza Joos1, François Bouffard1

1: McGill University, Canada; 2: Hydro-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

Date: Tuesday, 30/Sept/2025
10:30am
-
12:00pm
A2-1: A2 Power Transformer and Reactor: Renewable Energy Applications
Location: Room 520F
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Solar Inverter Duty Transformer performance optimization using alternate dielectrics under varying ambient conditions

Parag Chatterjee, Subir Karmakar

NTPC Limited, India



10:45am - 11:00am

New conservator design for floating offshore transformers in extreme weather

RUPESH DARIPA1, Oguzkan SENTURK2, Vivekkumar CHAUBEY3, Tobias STIRL4, Jian ZHANG5, Rajeev GUPTA6, Tirdad BOROOMAND7

1: GE Vernova, India; 2: GE Vernova, Turkey; 3: GE Vernova, India; 4: GE Vernova, Germany; 5: GE Vernova, China; 6: GE Vernova, United Kingdom; 7: GE Vernova, United Kingdom



11:00am - 11:15am

Transformers and Reactors for Floating-Offshore- Substations. Technical Requirements, Solutions, Experiences and Outlook

Ewald Werner Taschler1, Joerg Findeisen2, Martin Stoessl1

1: Siemens-Energy, Austria; 2: Siemens-Energy, Germany



11:15am - 11:30am

Impacts of Reverse Power Flow through Substation Transformers due to high penetration of DERs

Milad Akbari1, John Penaranda1, Mohsen Mostafaei2, Afshin Rezaei-Zare2

1: Hydro One, Canada; 2: York University, Canada



11:30am - 11:45am

Enhancing Wind Farm reliability through regular Transformer testing and monitoring solutions

Ahmed El-Rasheed1, Volney Naranjo2

1: Megger, Canada; 2: Megger, USA

A3-3: SF6 replacement in switchgear by natural origin gases
Location: Room 519A
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Live Tank 420 kV high-voltage circuit-breaker CO2/O2 -50°C

David BERARD, Antonin BOBEAU, Joel OZIL, Solène LAURENT, Titouan PISSARDGIBOLLET

GE Vernova, France



10:45am - 11:00am

Emission-free 420 kV life-tank circuit-breaker

Mark Kuschel1, Minh. Nguyen2, Guilhem Blanchet3, Lukas Binner1, Maurice Lesser1, Radu-Marian Cernat1

1: Siemens Energy, Germany; 2: RTE, France; 3: Statnett; Norway



11:00am - 11:15am

SF6-free high-voltage live-tank circuit-breaker for extremely cold regions

Ludovic DARLES, Cyril GREGOIRE, Clemence DUMOULIN, Cynthia Kessaci

GE Vernova, France



11:15am - 11:30am

Development of SF6-Free 420 kV Gas Insulated bus using CO2/O2 Natural-Origin Gas Mixture as an Alternative to SF6

Takuya Susuki, Toru Koike, Sebin Attokaren

Toshiba Energy systems & Solutions Corporation, Japan



11:30am - 11:45am

Suppression of gas pressure or tank diameter increase of GIS using natural-origin gas by combining FGM spacer and insulation coating technology

Kenji Okamoto1, Hidetaka Masui1, Naoki OSAWA2, Katsumi KATO3

1: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Japan; 2: Kanazawa Institute of Technology; 3: N. I. T., Niihama College



11:45am - 12:00pm

Decarbonizing District Heating: Canada’s First Clean Air Installation and Advances in SF6-Free Switching Technology

Eduardo Gomez Hennig1, Mark Kuschel2, Peter Gronbach2, Deryl A Varkey1, Ben Ellison3

1: Siemens Energy, Canada; 2: Siemens Energy, Germany; 3: Creative Energy, Canada

C1-1: PS1: Interconnectors
Location: Room 519B
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Multi-Deterministic System Planning with numerous System Operators

Fabien Laurent Barlet

EDF, France



10:45am - 11:00am

The Needed Changes to the Brazilian Interconnected Power System to Keep it in the Course for Net Zero

Nelson Martins1, Iony Siqueira2, Paulo Gomes3

1: Brazilian National Academy of Engineering, Brazil; 2: Tecnix; 3: PSQ Consulting



11:00am - 11:15am

Challenges in Loop System Configuration for Interconnection Facility Enhancement Plan between Chubu, Kansai, and Hokuriku towards Achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2050

Mikito Kato, Yasuhiro Kaburaki

Chubu Electric Power Grid Co., Inc., Japan



11:15am - 11:30am

Realising The Borneo Grid as a Catalyst for APG

Adrian Wee Sung Sim, Wei Chiun Goh

Sarawak Energy Berhad, Malaysia



11:30am - 11:45am

From Disconnection to Integration: The Transformation of the Brazilian Electric Sector over 50 Years

Nayara Souza Montes

Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, Brazil



11:45am - 12:00pm

Enhancing Electricity Trade between Thailand and Cambodia: Challenges, Solutions, and the Thailand-Lao-Cambodia Power Integration Project (TLC-PIP)

Worrapong Wonglimamornlert, Suppapit Wongpattanasiri

Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, Thailand

C4-1: POWER QUALITY AND INSULATION CO-ORDINATION IN IBR DOMINATED SYSTEMS
Location: Room 521ABC
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Harmonic Filter Applications in Green Hydrogen Plant

Zhenyuan Wang1, Alexandre Naves1, Yue Xu2, Pablo Paz2, Michael Lewis2

1: Hitachi Energy, United States of America; 2: University of Texas at Austin



10:45am - 11:00am

A new harmonic electric energy metering scheme considering non-linearity of power

baoping chen, yang yu, ziyu guo, yingying zhang, yi zhang

State Grid Economic and Technological Research Institute Co.Ltd., China, People's Republic of



11:00am - 11:15am

A TRV study for Passive Harmonic Filter Circuit Breaker

Kerim Ozer, Timothy Philip Rastall

Enspec Power Ltd, United Kingdom



11:15am - 11:30am

Bridging Gaps in LSA Reliability: Introducing the IEC/IEEE 60099-11 Standard for Mechanical Testing and Energy Classification

Florent Giraudet

Independent, Germany

C5-1: C5 Retail markets and local communities
Location: Room 518A
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Distributed Energy Resources in the Brazilian Electricity Market

Dalmir Capetta

CHAMBER OF ELECTRICITY ENERGY COMMERCIALIZATION, Brazil



10:45am - 11:00am

Implementation of framework for Scheduling, Accounting, Metering and Settlement of Electricity Transactions in India

ADITYA PRASAD DAS1, MOMAI DEY1, K B V RAMKUMAR1, VIVEK PANDEY1, S USHA1, S K SOONEE2

1: Grid Controller of India Limited, India; 2: IEEE and CIGRE



11:00am - 11:15am

B-sharing: A Blockchain-based Virtual Energy Storage Solution for Solar Users in Thailand's PEA Grid

Kanya Seekhakarn, Teerapong Ponmat, Phanumat Saatwong, Tanakrit Uppala

Provincial Electricity Authority, Thailand



11:15am - 11:30am

Battery Electric Vehicles versus Combustion Vehicles: A Total Cost of Ownership Analysis for South Africa

Ndoro Netshipale

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, South Africa

C6-5: Reliability and Resilience measures for active Distribution Systems
Location: Room 520B
 
10:30am - 10:45am

An effective Transactive Peer-to-Peer Model for Post-Attack Self-Healing Distributed Load Recovery

Hossein Chabok1, Ali Moeini2, Innocent Kamwa1

1: Laval University, Quebec, Canada; 2: Hydro-Quebec Research Institute (IREQ), Varennes, Canada



10:45am - 11:00am

Integration of rooftop PV in Distribution Network – Considerations and key challenges

Kiran Singh1, Pankaj Sharma2, Yugesh Kumar Dixit3, Naveen Srivastava4

1: POWERGRID, India; 2: POWERGRID, India; 3: POWERGRID, India; 4: POWERGRID, India



11:00am - 11:15am

Blackbox Optimization for Loss Minimization in Distribution Power Networks using Feeder Reconfiguration

Christina G. Soldati1, Sébastien Le Digabel1, Antoine Lesage-Landry2

1: Polytechnique Montreal & GERAD, Canada; 2: Polytechnique Montreal, GERAD & Mila, Canada



11:15am - 11:30am

Building Resilient Energy Systems: The Role of Hybrid DC-AC PHIL Test Bench in Microgrid Optimization and Sustainability

Mohammad Babaie1, Nazanin Afrasiabi1, Mojtaba Ayaz2, K. S. Amitkumar1, Chetan Midha1, Stefan Voinea1, Jean-Nicolas Paquin1, Kamal Al-Haddad2

1: OPAL-RT Technologies, Canada; 2: École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada



11:30am - 11:45am

Online Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis Model of Low-Voltage Distributed Photovoltaic Operation

Hailong Zhang1, Hongguang Dai2, Kuixi Chen2, Xiangyi Zhang1, Mengdi Zhai1

1: CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, China, People's Republic of; 2: Beijing Zhixin Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd



11:45am - 12:00pm

Verifications of power supply method using LVDC distribution facilities

Takuya Sakamoto1, Kento Yonezawa1, Yasunori Oka1, Masayuki Wakutani1, Takumi Yoshioka1, Takaya Anegawa1, Kazuo Hisatomi2, Yuya Kawachi2, Kazuma Okamoto2, Yasutaka Nishigaki2, Kazuki Ogawa2, Hiroyuki Ono2

1: Kansai Transmission and Distribution, Inc., Japan; 2: DAIHEN Corporation, Japan

     
10:30am
-
1:00pm
B2-5: DLR and Weather-Driven Insights for Transmission Line Management
Location: Plenary Room
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Boosting Grid Efficiency: GEV Digital Dynamic Line Rating unlocks Grid Capacity

Dragan Trifunovic, Ahmadreza Malekpour

GE Vernova, United States of America



10:45am - 11:00am

Dynamic Line Rating based Overhead Line Management Solutions on the High Voltage Distribution System

Dávid Szabó1, Levente Rácz2, Gábor Göcsei2, Bálint Németh2, Imre Orlay3

1: GridGuard, Hungary; 2: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; 3: MVM ÉMÁSZ Áramhálózati Kft., Hungary



11:00am - 11:15am

Dynamic Line Rating using Hyper-local weather predictions: A case study covering 5000km Estonian transmission lines

Henri Manninen, Markus Lippus

Gridraven, Estonia



11:15am - 11:30am

Enhanced Wind Criterion for Calculating Thermal Capacities of Transmission Lines in Summer

Marc-Olivier Roux

Hydro-Québec, Canada



11:30am - 11:45am

A Scalable Method for Forecasting Wind and Dynamic Line Ratings Using Regional Machine Learning Models Trained on Multiple Sensor-Equipped Spans

Alexandre Baré

Ampacimon SA, Belgium



11:45am - 12:00pm

Discussion on the variability of line temperature along one span

Andrej Vilhar1, Nika Mlinarič Hribar2, Amadej Krepek1, Frank Amand1, Matjaž Depolli2, Andrej Souvent1, Nenad Gubeljak3, Gregor Kosec2

1: Operato, Slovenia; 2: Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia; 3: University of Maribor, Slovenia



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Weather-Based DLR Solution Enhanced by Machine Learning

Jean THOREY, Tanguy JANSSEN, Henri SIMON

RTE, France



12:15pm - 12:30pm

Development of a system for dynamic monitoring of overhead line rating

Kevin Venne, Luc Provencher, Quentin Dollon, Raphaël Rousseau-Rizzi, Pierre Van Dyke

Hydro-Québec, Canada



12:30pm - 12:45pm

“Asset Digitalization meets DLR”: Synergies between a Digital Twin Representation of Overhead Line Infrastructure and Dynamic Line Rating

Josef Alois Birchbauer1, Micaele Dos Santos1, Martina Fritzel2, Marion Baroux1

1: Siemens Energy; 2: Gridpulse

1:15pm
-
3:30pm
B4-3: HVDC - Control, Protection and Performance
Location: Room 518BC
This session addresses the HVDC control and protection as well as performance related aspects.
 
1:15pm - 1:30pm

Evaluation of Fast Power Control Functionalities of Type 4 Wind Plants during Disturbances in VSC HVDC Systems Connected to Isolated Generation

Raveen Gunarath, Chandana Karawita, Hiranya Suriyaarachchi, Mojtaba Mohaddes

TransGrid Solutions, Canada



1:30pm - 1:45pm

Innovative Impedance Protection for HVDC AC Filters: A Case Study from Hydro-Québec

Pierre-André Chiasson, Sébastien Tremblay

Hydro-Québec, Canada



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Synchronous Grid Forming Control Concept for Point-to-Point HVDC

Taoufik Qoria1, Carl Barker2, Omar Jasim2, Fainan Hassan2

1: GE Vernova, Germany; 2: GE Vernova, United Kingdom



2:00pm - 2:15pm

A New Approach for HVDC Links DMR Line Supervision, Based on Real-Time Impedance Monitoring System

Ali Dariani

ATKINSREALIS, Canada



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Hybrid MMC-HCC Adaptability in Weak AC System Connections

Xiaoguang Wei, Zhixiang Zhang, Song Li, Taosha Jiang, Hui Du

Beijing Huairou Laboratory, China, People's Republic of



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Protection Coordination of the 100% Grid Forming Based Offshore Wind Farm Connecting to an Offshore Diode Rectifier Unit HVDC Substation for Renewable Hydrogen Production

Songda Wang1, Zheran Zeng2, Dongsheng Yang2, Yin Sun1, Benjamin Palethorpe1

1: Shell International Solutions B.V., Netherlands, The; 2: TU Eindhoven



2:45pm - 3:00pm

DC Fault Performance of HVDC-MMC Bipolar Configuration with DC overhead-line

HANI SAAD1, Isabelle GALARNEAU2, Laurent HOULE3, Martin FECTEAU4, Omar SAAD5

1: ACDC TRANSIENT; 2: Hydro-Quebec; 3: Hydro-Quebec; 4: Hydro-Quebec; 5: Hydro-Quebec



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Effects of AC cables between HVDC station and grid access point on HVDC system design: A case study of 2GW bipole systems

Sertkan Kabul1, Amit Singh3, Gagan Deep3, Md Tabish Ansari3, Amit Kumar2, Zameer Ahmad4, Ben Kox4

1: GE Vernova, Netherlands; 2: GE Vernova, UK; 3: GE Vernova, India; 4: TenneT, Netherlands



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Offshore HVDC switching station for connection of offshore wind farms

Bojan Pouckovic1, David Reid2, Ana Petrovic1

1: Mott MacDonald, Serbia; 2: Mott MacDonald, United Kingdom

1:30pm
-
3:30pm
A1-3: Condition monitoring & assessment
Location: Room 520C
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Development of a Diagnostic Strategy for Large Hydrogenerator Rotors

Olivier kokoko, arezki merkhouf, Mélanie Levesque, Simon Bernier

Hydro-Quebec, Canada



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Advancing Reliability: Case Studies on Offline Diagnostic Testing for High-Voltage Turbo Generators

Sunny Gaidhu, Krzysztof Pyc, Ashfak Shaikh

Kinectrics, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Diagnostic Methods Of Synchronous Machines With Salient Poles Using Airgap Flux, Pole Leading Edge Induction Voltage, Stray Flux Measurement And Ampere-Turns measurements

Simon Bernier1, Arezki Merkhouf1, Olivier Kokoko1, Kamal Al-Haddad2

1: Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec(IREQ), Varennes, Canada; 2: École de technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Hydro-generator condition-based monitoring system modernization for maintenance optimization

Aaron Doyle1, Ozren Oreskovic2, Ozren Husnjak2

1: Qualitrol - Iris Power, Canada; 2: Veski



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Importance of Polarity test of stator winding as pre-commissioning test for Hydro Generators

Suprakash Adhikari, Niraj Kumar Singh, Ashwatthama Tiwary, Pranav Kumar

NHPC Limited, India



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Hydro-unit increased vibration case study

Ozren Husnjak1, Ozren Oreskovic1, Aaron Doyle2

1: Veski, Croatia; 2: Qualitrol - IRIS Power, Canada



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Overview of Localized Partial Discharge Activity Analysis with Results from Dissection of Individual Stator Bars and Coil

Alexandre Simard1, Mélanie Lévesque2, Éric David1, Hélène Provencher2

1: École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada; 2: Hydro-Québec, Canada



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Evaluation of Turbo Generator Stator Bushing Condition Monitoring

Katudi Oupa Mailula1, Sandile MOLOI2, Promise MBANGA3, Simon HIGGINS4

1: Eskom RT&D, South Africa; 2: Eskom RT&D, South Africa; 3: Eskom RT&D, South Africa; 4: Eskom Generation, South Africa

A2-2: A2 Power Transformer and Reactor: Asset Management
Location: Room 520F
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Consolidating Transformer Online Monitoring and Maintenance Data for Condition Assessment and Prescriptive Maintenance of Power Transformers

Nathan Jacob1, Marco Tozzi2, Anatoliy Mudryk2

1: Camlin Energy, United States of America; 2: Camlin Energy, Northern Ireland



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Climate Change Impact for Power Transformers

Edward Gerald teNyenhuis

Hitachi Energy, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

A2_PS2_USA_Rossini_ Installation of transformer monitoring solutions and its impacts on data collection and analysis

Yuri Monteiro Rossini1, Francis Felipe Mantoan1, Leandro Crispim Favoretto2

1: Siemens Energy, United States of America; 2: Siemens Energy, Brazil



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Strategic Approaches to Determine the Lifetime of Power Transformers

Ryota Kuriyama, Tadao Minagawa, Yoichi Nakashima, Kenichi Mino, Yoshinobu Kitagawa, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Noritaka Takehira, Takumi Fujino

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Power Transformers as Potential Bottleneck for Grid Expansions

Thomas Friedrich Kessler

Siemens Energy, Germany



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Strategies for Fast Replacement of Transformers and Reactor Units

Luis Chavez1, Ricardo Quijada2

1: Independent Consultant; 2: AtkinsRéalis, Canada



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Dynamic Condition Assessment of Substation Equipment Leveraging an Asset Performance Management System

Robert Otal, Alex Ferguson, Charles Austria, Shanon Lo, Travis Squires

BBA, Canada



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Strategy for Extending Power Transformer Service Life

Stéphane Proulx, Patrick Picher, Claude Rajotte

Hydro-Québec, Canada

A3-4: HVDC and asset management
Location: Room 519A
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Maintenance Strategies for Disconnectors According to Substation Corrosiveness

Catherine Le Postec1, Hélène Gauthier2

1: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 2: IREQ, Canada



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Dielectric performance of HVDC disconnectors: Updates on RIV and pollution testing also combined with icing conditions

EROS STELLA, MARCO NOSILATI, RODOLFO SARACENI, DAVIDE MOMESSO

GE Vernova, Italy



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Wind-induced vibration characteristics test and control technologies of ±800kV converter station disconnectors in strong wind areas

Peng Li, kunpeng Ji, Junhui Li, Kuanjun Zhu

State Grid Electric Power Engineering Research Institute Co., LTD., China, People's Republic of



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Electric field simulation calculation andlong term charging performance of 550kV DC GIS/GIL

Congpeng Huang, Yajun Qiang, Dingyu Feng

SIEYUAN ELECTRIC CO.,LTD, China, People's Republic of



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Asset Transparency and Scenario Planning for Resilient Grids

Erhard Aumann, Puneet Singh, Edwin Mora, Thomas Schmidt, Mathias Duckheim

Siemens, Germany



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Environmental, economic and program advantages of equipment refurbishment

Matthew Iles, Bradley Brown, Mark Waldron

National Grid, United Kingdom



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Risk evaluation framework for power grid resilience to extreme weather events

Jishnudeep Kar1, Lena Peter2, Ashwin Shirsat1, Elise Fahy3

1: Hitachi Energy Research, United States of America; 2: Hitachi Energy Research, Germany; 3: Hitachi Energy, Switzerland

B2-6: Innovative Tower Solutions for High-Altitude, Aging, and Renewable Grids
Location: Plenary Room
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Challenges faced and mitigation thereof to facilitate Green Power & Nuclear Power Flow in Gujarat region, India

Chandan Kalra, Amit Mahajan, Rajesh Suri, Kandarp Pandey

Sterlite Power Transmission Limited, India



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Conductor Optimization for +/-350kV HVDC Transmission system for evacuation of 13 GW of RE power from renewable energy parks in Ladakh, India

Chandra KANT, Ashish Kumar SINGH, Nikhil JHA, Manoj Kumar SINGH, Abhay KUMAR, Vamsi Rama Mohan BURRA

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, INDIA



2:00pm - 2:15pm

The Milano-Montalto ± 525 kV HVDC Link: Technical challenges and sustainability

Luca Buono, Gaia Leone, Francesco Palone, Lorenzo Papi, Roberto Spezie, Pierluigi Vacante

Terna Rete Italia, Italy



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Development Trend Analysis and Key Technologies of UHV AC Transmission System in China

Weilin Hou, Shicong Ma, Yiran Jing, Tiezhu Wang, Bo Li

China electric power research institute, China, People's Republic of



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Navigating the Energy Transition: A Comparative Study of Aging Power Grids in India and the USA

Vipin Jacob Joseph, L K Khajkumar

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, India



2:45pm - 3:00pm

High-Voltage Iconic Towers

Maha Alsabban1, Mudassar Rasul1, Tobias Schuelein1, Grain Adam1, Janos Toth2, Birgir Hallgrimsson3, Thorgeir Holm Olafsson3, Jin Choi4, Thomas Shine4

1: ENOWA-NEOM, Saudi Arabia; 2: Enginomix, United States; 3: Norconsult, Norway; 4: Choi+Shine Architects, Netherlands



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Structural damage monitoring system for transmission towers based on artificial intelligence

Halyson da Costa Silva1, Leonardo Hautrive Medeiros1, Tiago Bandeira Marchesan1, Vitor Cristiano Bender1, Daniel Pinheiro Bernardon1, Tiago dos Santos1, Alexandre Aparecido Buenos1, José Batista Ferreira Neto2, Diogo José Damasceno do Espirito Santo2, Daliane Lanzarin2

1: Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil; 2: Santo Antônio Energia, Brazil



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Development and deployment of VibraTorre equipment

Carlos Alexandre DO NASCIMENTO1, Antonio ASSIS1, Maurissone GUIMARAES2, Giovani BRAGA2, Alysson BARBOSA3, Andre MELO3, Alan DEIVIDE3, Paulo PINTO3

1: Cemig GT, Brazil; 2: Cemig D, Brazil; 3: Trixel, Brazil

B3-3: Substation Concepts
Location: Room 520E
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Emission-free natural-origin gas alternatives to SF6 for MV and HV substations

Mark Kuschel1, Hiroyuki Hama2, Manjunath Ramesh3, Christophe Preve4, Thomas Dürr5, Daniel Schiffbauer6

1: Siemens Energy; 2: Mitsubishi Electric; 3: Nuventura; 4: Schneider Electric; 5: Siemens; 6: Toshiba



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Nominal Current Rating of Equipment Connected to Power Transformer Neutral

Olivier Turcotte, Frédérick Dubé, Duong François

Hydro-Québec, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Concepts for on-site HV Testing of GIS after Installation, Extension, Retrofit or Repair

Andreas Laubi1, Mark Reuter2, George Becker3, Robert Vosse4

1: Aurecon, Australia; 2: Siemens Energy, Germany; 3: Power Engineers, USA; 4: DEP, Netherlands



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Investigations on the use of Dry Air as a Retrofill gas Alternative to SF6 in existing Gas Insulated Switchgears

Caterina Toigo1, Victor Petit1, Lydie Cossedu2, Michael Inversin3, Vivien Dona2, Alain Girodet1, Marie Laure Allard3

1: SuperGrid Institute, France; 2: MasterGrid, France; 3: RTE, France



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Advancing Ground Stability: Vibro Stone Columns as an Innovative Solution for Liquefaction Mitigation.

MONA KHANDELWAL, SATYENDRA KUMAR PRASAD, SANJAY SHARMA, ABHAY KUMAR, RAMA MOHAN BURRA VAMSI

POWERGRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, India



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Upgrading Legacy Feeder Bay Installations to meet Current and Future Network Requirements and Regulatory Compliance for Parallel and In-Line Feeder Configurations Exiting Substations

Shivern Singh

Eskom NTCSA, South Africa



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Improvement in Reliability of Substation by In-Situ Replacement of 220 kV Indoor GIS at Tata Power, Mumbai

Dayanand Konduskar1, Subhash Vetcha1, Vidyadhar Ghodekar1, Balaji Sethuraman1, Rambabu Katari2

1: The Tata Power Co Ltd, India; 2: Toshiba T&D, India



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Enhancing Electrical Substation Safety: A Novel Seasonal Analysis Approach to Soil Resistivity Modelling for Grounding System Design

Jayson Patrick, Edstan Fernandez, Ali Bazaei

ELEK Software, Australia

C1-2: PS1: Renewable Energy Sources
Location: Room 519B
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Assessment of connection concepts for Germany’s far out North Sea offshore wind areas for an efficient energy transition

Tuncay Türkucar

E-Bridge Consulting GmbH, Germany



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Value of Grid Enhancing Technologies for the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources

Nicolas Omont1, Felipe Gonzalez Venegas1, Adèle Des Moutis1, Antons Kutjuns2, Didzis Sulcs2, Thomas Brouhard1

1: Artelys, France; 2: AST, Latvia



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Techno-Economic Evaluation of the Use of Topological Actions in an Electrical Energy Hub with Large Penetration of Offshore Wind

Giacomo Bastianel1,2, Dirk Van Hertem1,2, Hakan Ergun1,2

1: KU Leuven; 2: Etch - Energyville, Belgium



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Challenges and Practices in Integrating Large-Scale Renewable Energy into Canada’s Electricity Grid

Tatiana Guerrero, Eric Breault, Nishant Gehani

BBA Consultants, Canada



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Challenges of Strategic Grid Renovation and Investment Plan in the Tokyo Bay Area to meet RES-Dominant Era

Hajime Hirano, Junichi Takaue

Tokyo Electric Power Company Power Grid, Inc, Japan



2:45pm - 3:00pm

History of Effort for the Acceleration of Renewable Energy Integration in Japan

Mitsuhiko Tato1, Koichiro Yamaki2

1: Tokyo Electric Power Company Power Grid, Inc., Japan; 2: Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., Japan



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Green Grid Initiative: Advancing Renewable Energy Integration and Transmission System Optimization - Indian Perspective

Amandeep Kala

Powergrid Corporation of India Limited, India



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Hydro-Thermal System Optimization in Georgian Power System for Enhanced Resource Utilization and Decarbonization

Pikria ELIZARASHVILI, Tamar JIKIA

Georgian State Electrosystem JSC, Georgia

C4-2: ADVANCED SIMULATION METHODS FOR STABILITY ANALYSIS IN IBR DOMINATED SYSTEMS (PART-1)
Location: Room 521ABC
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Performing Interconnection Studies with a Wide-Area EMT Model with sensitive Information through a Cloud Portal.

Henry GRAS1, Anton STEPANOV1, Víctor Guerrero VELAR2, Sebastien DENNETIERE3, Jean MAHSEREDJIAN1

1: PGSTech; 2: Coordinador Electrico Naciona; 3: RTE international



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Hybrid Simulation for Stability Evaluation of Grid-Forming Control in Inverter-Based Power Systems

Ziming Dong, Sheraz Baig, Ning Lin, Jeff Bloemink

Powertech Labs Inc., Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Real-Time Laboratory Featuring Photo-Voltaic Generation System Operating in MIL, CHIL, and PHIL Modes

Angelo Chrabieh1, Wolf Peter Jean Philippe1, Joel Pfannschmidt1, Danielle S. Nasrallah1, K. S. Amitkumar1, Gevorg Parsyan2, Ashot Minasyan2

1: OPAL-RT TECHNOLOGIES, Canada; 2: Bitlismen



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Hydro-Québec EMT validation of system operating limits in a radial network with a high penetration of wind generation

Francis Lavigne, Billy Labelle

Hydro-Québec, Canada



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Electromagnetic Transient (EMT) Simulation for Detection of Sub-Synchronous Oscillations with Bulk Inverter Based Resources in Power System: A Typical Case Study with Mitigation Methods

SATISH KUMAR ANCHA1, Zerui Dong2, Wei Li1, Aditya Ashok2

1: OPAL-RT TECHNOLOGIES, Canada; 2: OPAL-RT Corporation, USA



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Optimization of Battery Energy Storage System Placement and Parameters for Frequency Stability in Renewable-Intensive Power Systems

Mina Malekan, Shaahin Filizadeh

University of Manitoba, Canada



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Active Power Control of Wind Turbines for Secondary Frequency Regulation in Power Systems: A Co-Simulation Approach Developed at Hydro-Québec

Seyed Masoud Mohseni-Bonab, Atieh Delavari, Alexandre Besner, Louis Gibson

Hydro-Québec, Canada

C5-2: C5 Data analytics with the electricity markets
Location: Room 518A
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Large Time Series Models for Electricity Prices: Performance on Zero-Shot Forecasting

Nandinee Haq, Jhelum Chakravorty

Hitachi Energy Research, Canada



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Predicting Day-Ahead Electricity Prices in Western Denmark (DK1) Using Bayesian Deep Learning: Robust Intervals and the Role of Renewable Energy

İnayet Özge AKSU1,2, Sina Ghaemi2, Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam2

1: Department of Artificial Intelligence Engineering, Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University, Turkey; 2: Department of Energy (AAU Energy), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Integrating LSTM forecasts of Renewable Energy into Day-Ahead Electricity Market Modelling: a case study of Alberta

Farshid Kamrani, Kristen Rene Schell

Carleton University, Canada



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Analysis of Price Maker Hybrid PV Plants with Forecasting-based Bidding Algorithm in a Day-ahead Market

Xi Chen1, Siyi Zheng2, Lifei Tu3, Yue Chen4, Ziang Zhang1

1: Binghamton University; 2: Georgia Institute of Technology; 3: Non-affiliation; 4: National Renewable Energy Laboratory



2:30pm - 2:45pm

The Rise of Very Low Prices in European Electricity Markets

Conal Campbell, Mark Needham

EirGrid



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Advanced Monitoring and Machine Learning in the Electricity Market: Preventing Manipulation and Classifying Behaviors in Auctions and Continuous Negotiations

Sixto Siliuto, Julio Hornos, Juan Bogas

OMIE, Spain

C6-6: Energy efficiency applications in buildings and distrubution systems
Location: Room 520B
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Addressing Uncertainty in the Activation of Thermal Flexibility in Buildings

Felix Stegemerten, Martin Rätz, Dirk Müller

RWTH Aachen University, E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Distributed grid-aware control of air-conditioning demands using adaptive flexibility function

Nariman Mahdavi

CSIRO, Australia



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Synergistic planning for optimal renewable energy portfolios in commercial and industrial buildings

Omid Aghapour, Akhtar Hussain, Innocent Kamwa, Hajar Abdolahinia

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, Canada



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Demand side flexibility from consumer side resources : Interoperability challenges and opportunities

Subbu Sethuvenkatraman1, Tobias K.S. Ritschel2, Henrik Madsen2, Stephen White1

1: CSIRO, Australia; 2: DTU



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Buildings energy demand impact studies on the low-voltage distribution network of Montreal

Bilal Khan1, Saifullah Shafiq2, Hayat Ullah1, Oriol Gavalda-Torrelas1, Ursula Eicker1

1: Concordia University Montreal, Canada; 2: The University of Queensland, Australia

4:00pm
-
6:00pm
A1-4: Condition monitoring & assessment
Location: Room 520C
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Rotor Temperature Continuous Monitoring using Fiber Bragg Gratings

Hélène Provencher1, Arezki Merkhouf1, Serge Sarraillon1, Isabelle Castonguay2, Charles Prévost3, Anne-Marie Carita3

1: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec; 2: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 3: RPR Hydro



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Environmental Impacts of Manufacturing and Renovation of High Voltage Rotating Machines and Power Plants

Anna Gegenava, Aleksandr Khazanov, Aleksei Nikolaev

National Electric Coil, United States of America



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Proposal for Methodological Note of Life Cycle Assessment: Eco-design of Turbogenerator

Robert MEYER, Vincent FERNAGUT, Raul MORALES

EDF, France



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Optimization process applied to Synchronous Generator designs to improve machine key parameters to suit Synchronous Condenser applications

Frantisek Zeman, Robert Thornton-Jones

Baker Hughes - Brush Power Generation



5:00pm - 5:15pm

The Lack of Air-gap Orthogonality and Parallelism Impact Upon the Unbalanced Magnetic Pull

Mauro Uemori1, Jorge Johnny Rocha Echeverria2, Edson da Costa Bortoni3

1: Trassínio Consultoria Ltda, Brazil; 2: Trassínio Consultoria Ltda, Brazil; 3: UNIFEI - Universidade Federal de Itajubá



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Research on Stagnation Zone Based on RTD Method and Improvement of Coupled Fluid-solid Heat Transfer Considering Mesh Morphing

dongxiao chen1, yuting gao1, guifen li2

1: wuhan university, China; 2: Harbin Electric Machinery Company Limited , China



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Development of the new Type of Carbon Brush for Adjustable Speed Generator-Motor

Hiroshi Hatano, Fumio Sawa, Hidehito Matsuzaki, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Ooki Osada, Minori Onodera

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation, Japan



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Endurance tests of power electrical connections in bolted assembly

Nicolas DEBERNE, Younes HAMDAN

EDF, France

A2-3: A2 Power Transformer and Reactor: Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization
Location: Room 520F
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Machine Learning Applied to Anomaly Diagnosis in Transformers and Reactors Using Gas Chromatography

Rafael Ferreira1, Thiago Sanchez1, Tatiana Escovedo2, Marcos Kalinowski2

1: Eletrobras CGT Eletrosul, Brazil; 2: PUC-RJ, Brazil



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Advances in Data-Driven Models for Digital Twins of Power Transformers

Sruti Chakraborty1, Mauricio Soto2, Alexander Alber3, Brian Sparling4, Patrick Picher5, Federica Bragone6

1: OMICRON Electronics, Austria; 2: Hitachi Energy, United-States; 3: Hitachi Energy, Germany; 4: Kinectrics, Canada; 5: Hydro Quebec, Canada; 6: KTH University, Sweden



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Application of Machine Learning on Prediction of Power Transformer No-Load Losses

Bruno Bosnjak, Walter Lee

GE Vernova



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Approach, experiences and lessons learned in a fault developing HV transformer:Case Study perspective

Parag Chatterjee, Sushil Kumar

NTPC Limited, India



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Application of Machine Learning Interpretability and Explainability Metrics in FRA of Transformers

Gabriel Lopes

Siemens Energy, Germany



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Digital Transformation (DX) in Power Transformer Manufacturing: Enhancing Efficiency and Precision

Shigeyoshi Yoshida, Daisuke Ueno, Atsushi Yamatake, Yoshinobu Kitagawa, Kenichi Mino, Mitsugu Ueda, Tadao Minagawa, Hirotaka Muto

Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Japan



5:30pm - 5:45pm

A Novel Hybrid Multilayer Model for Diagnosing Faults in Power Transformers Through Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA)

Mouloud Bouzar1, issouf Fofana1, Patrick Picher2

1: Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in the Aging of Oil-Filled Equipment on High Voltage Lines (ViAHT), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), Chicoutimi, QC G7H 2B1, Canada; 2: Hydro-Québec's Research Institute



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Advancing Power Transformer Monitoring: Machine Learning-Based Temperature Monitoring

Hoda Jalali, Avinash Jain

VIE Technologies, United States of America

A3-5: Miscellaneous
Location: Room 519A
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Trends in Distribution Networks and influence on MV Equipment

Christian Heinrich1, Terrance Woodyard2, Stephen Manke2

1: Siemens AG, Germany; 2: Siemens Industry, USA



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Grid Integration of DER - Energizing Medium-Voltage Power Transformers in Wind Turbine Generators - Grid Code Compliance : Industrialized Applications and Operation of Low-Power Instrument Transformers, Three-Pole Operated Vacuum Circuit Breakers and Controlled Switching Devices to Mitigate Transformer Inrush Currents and Voltage Dips. Case Study and Potential for Wind Turbine Repowering

Lukas Cesky1, Laurent Poutrain2, Michail Theodoridis3, Venkata Surya4, Vaclav Prokop1

1: ABB, Brno, Czech Republic; 2: Vizimax Inc., Canada; 3: Vestas, United Kingdom; 4: Vestas, India



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Demonstration application results of the 10 kV magneto-biased superconducting current limiter (MBSFCL) in Liaoning urban power grid in China

Jiahui Zhu, Xiaotian Su, Panpan Chen

China Electric Power Research Institute, China, People's Republic of



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Methodology for Oscillograms Analysis and Condition Indicators Assessment by Automated Algorithms for Circuit-Breaker Diagnostics

Nathan Lefebvre1,2, Antoine Mailhot1, Ryszard Pater1, Michel Gauvin1, René Doche1, João Pedro Trovão2

1: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 2: Université de Sherbrooke, Canada



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Seven years Operational Experience of Fixed Series Compensator (FSC) at GIS Kala Amb - Learnings and Challenges

Abhay Kumar, Shafat Ahmad Wani, Jagat Ram, Abhishek Bhardwaj

Powergrid Corporation of India Limited, India



5:15pm - 5:30pm

CIGRE Survey on UHV equipment

Hiroki Ito1, Masayuki Kosakada2

1: Mitsubishi Electric, Japan; 2: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions, Japan



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Future UHV substation technology in Japan

Norihiro Kasahara1, Masayuki Kosakada1, Takayuki Kobayashi1, Toshiyuki Saida1, Shigeyuki Tsukao2, Tomoaki Ito2, Syuichi Tamura2, Yuki Ishikawa2

1: Toshiba energy systems & solutions Co. JAPAN; 2: TEPCO Power Grid, Inc. JAPAN

B3-4: Substation Concepts
Location: Room 520E
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Experience of designing high voltage substation in hilly terrain at high altitude, cold temperature, and steep slope for evacuating power from hydro electric projects on hills for enhancing non-fossil fuel energy capacity of Indian electricity grid

DIBYENDU DEY CHAKRABORTY

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD, India



4:15pm - 4:30pm

New Aspects of 420 kV GIS on-site Testing and PD Monitoring and Diagnostics

Claus Neumann1, Uwe Schichler2

1: Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany; 2: Graz University of Technology, Austria



4:30pm - 4:45pm

SF6-free Offshore GIS Substation with High-Power GIB crossing Fire-Resistant Sections

Robert LUESCHER1, Lukas TREIER1, Yang OUYANG1, Maxime PERRET1, Hui HUANG2

1: GE Vernova, Gas Insulated Substations, Grid Solutions, Oberentfelden Switzerland; 2: GE Vernova, Grid Solutions, Suzhou China



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Standardisation of SF6-free 245kV and 420kV GIS for multiple gas solutions

Tommie Barbe1, Arnaud Ficheux1, Michael Inversin2

1: GE Vernova, France; 2: RTE, France



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Bay extension challenges and strategies for seamless Integration in India’s Renewable Energy substations

Pankaj Kumar JHA, Ramjash BHAKAL, Kuleshwar SAHU

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., India



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Enhancing Resilience with Mobile Substations: Lessons from TEİAŞ's Response to the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake

Tunahan Akbaş1, Mehmet İmeryüz1, Tamer Özkahraman1, Bilgehan Tekşut2, Umut Yener2

1: EKOS Electric, Turkiye; 2: Türkiye Elektrik İletim A.Ş. (TEİAŞ), Turkiye



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Results of the International Survey on Earthquake Damage Experience and Seismic Design of Substations by WG B3.64

Atsushi ETO1, Edgar RAMOS CORDERO2, Hiroaki SATO3, Leon KEMPNER4, Sheng LI5

1: Tokyo Electric Power Company HD, Japan; 2: Siemens Energy, Germany; 3: CRIEPI, Japan; 4: Bonneville Power Administration, USA; 5: University of Science and Technology Beijing, China



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Challenges and solutions in the design, erection, testing, commissioning, and Field trials of medium voltage double bus Gas-Insulated Switchgear (GIS

ARUN KUMAR, P.JAGDISHWAR RAO, RAKESH RANJAN RAHI, SHRI KRISHNA PRASAD

BHEL BHOPAL, India

C1-3: PS1: Demand & Storage
Location: Room 519B
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Demand Control for the Transmission System Congestion Management

Alexandre Besner, Mihajlo Curcic, Abderrahman Bani, Thierry Major-Cyr

Hydro-Quebec, Canada



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Impact of Data Center Demand on the US Transmission System

Rekha Sharma1, Dr. Ankita Samui1, Jackson Spaeth1, Vineeta Kaushik2

1: GE Vernova, United States of America; 2: GE Vernova, Canada



4:30pm - 4:45pm

MESH Concept Application by Watts and Bits procedure

Koichiro Yamaki1, Yoshimitsu Umahashi2, Hiroshi Okamoto3

1: Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., Japan; 2: Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan; 3: TEPCO Power Grid, Japan



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Long Term electrical Load Forecasting for the Jordanian electrical Power Grid using ANN Models

Ghaith Ahmad Mohmmad Mubark

Samra Electric Power Company (SEPCO), Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Energy Storage in the big electrical systems: keypoints from the analysis of situation and challenges faced by the major transmission system operators

Claire Lajoie-Mazenc1, Darren Lamb2, Jennifer Ross3, Siju Joseph4, Alexandre Nohara5, Stanislas Utts6, Silvia Ruggiero7, Gerald Sanchis8

1: Rte, France; 2: CAISO, USA; 3: MISO, USA; 4: NTCSA, South Africa; 5: ONS, Brasil; 6: SO-UPS, Russia; 7: Terna, Italy; 8: GO15, USA



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Importance of risk averse operation of long-term storages when modelling a future renewable northern European electricity system

Birger Mo, Arild Helsteh

SINTEF Energy, Norway



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Increase Transfer Capacity to Remote Areas and Defer Transmission Reinforcement Needs Using Battery Energy Storage Systems

Farzad Farahmand, Farid Chagla, Megan Lund, Alex Merrick

Independent Electricity System Operator, Canada



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Battery Energy Storage Systems for Primary Frequency Regulation: A Pioneering Case in Colombia’s National Grid

Oscar Andres Tobar-Rosero1, Gabriel Jaime Sanchez-Zuluaga1, Luis Fernando Quintero-Henao2, John Edwin Candelo-Becerra1

1: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia; 2: Enterprise Innovation

C4-3: ADVANCED SIMULATION METHODS FOR STABILITY ANALYSIS IN IBR DOMINATED SYSTEMS (PART-2)
Location: Room 521ABC
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Frequency-Scanning-based Impedance Models for Multi-IBR Systems

Renan M. Furlaneto1, Keijo Jacobs1, Nasim Rashidirad2, Ahda Pavani3, Ulas Karaagac4, Jean Mahseredjian1

1: Polytechnique Montréal; 2: Hydro-Québec Research Institute (IREQ); 3: Federal University of ABC (UFABC); 4: Middle East Technical University



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Numerical impedance-based Stability Analysis of Transmission and Distribution Systems in the Frequency Domain

Thomas Lorenz Würl, Bernd Weise, Flavio Fernandez

DIgSILENT GmbH, Germany



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Stability Assessment of Power Grids with High Penetration of Inverter-Based Resources Using dq Impedance Analysis

Hossein Ashourian1, Anton Stepanov1, Henry Gras1, Jean Mahseredjian2

1: PGSTech, Canada; 2: Polytechnique Montréal



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Small-signal Stability Assessment of Power Systems with Black-Box EMT Models of Inverter Based Resources

Andrew Musgrave1, Hyeonjung {Tari} Jung2, Patrick Dalton2, Weiqing Jiang2, Fred Howell1, Jeff Bloemink1, Xi Lin1

1: Powertech Labs, Canada; 2: Midcontinent Independent System Operator, USA



5:00pm - 5:15pm

A Study on Eigenvalue Comparison between Analytical State-Space Model and Vector fitting Method

Jisoo Kim1, Jean Mahseredjian1, Renan M. Furlaneto1, Alireza Masoom2, Chul-Hwan Kim3

1: Polytechnique Montréal, Canada; 2: Hydro Quebec, Canada; 3: Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Oscillation Modal Analysis Using Ambient Synchrophasor Measurements for the Italian Grid

Lin Zhu1, Evangelos Farantatos1, Yi Zhao2, Haozong Wang2, Xinlan Jia2, Wenpeng Yu2, Yilu Liu2,3, Salvatore Tessitore4, Pietro Pau4, Guido Coletta4, Cosimo Pisani4, Giorgio Giannuzzi4

1: Electric Power Research Institute, United States of America; 2: University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States of America; 3: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America; 4: Terna, Italy

C5-3: C5 Markets & regulation to support reliable & resilient power systems
Location: Room 518A
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Enhancing Flexibility, Reliability, and Resilience in Brazil

João Mello, Victor Hugo Ribeiro dos Santos

Thymos Energia, Brazil



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Improvement of the Calculation Method for Required Amount of Replacement Reserve for FIT in Japanese Balancing Market

Tatsuma HORI1, Jun KUKI1, Kenichi SUGAHARA1, Joao G. S. FONSECA Jr.2, Kazuhiko OGIMOTO2

1: Chubu Electric Power Grid Co., Inc., Japan; 2: The University of Tokyo, Japan



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Challenges of Hydropower Due to Climate Change: Case Study on Laos-Thailand Electricity Trade with a Proposal for Solar Integration Model

SUPPAPIT WONGPATTANASIRI, Worrapong WONGLIMAMORNLERT

Electricity Generating Authority of TH, Thailand



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Importance of Regulation on Black-Start Capability to Cater for the Changing Electricity Supply Landscape in South Africa

Lyle Naidoo1, Siju Joseph2

1: National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA), South Africa; 2: Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., South Africa



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Emergency Preparedness Plan as a Tool for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study of the Akosombo Dam Spillage

Kwame Darkwah, Kwaku Wiafe

Volta River Authority, Ghana

C6-7: Flexibility management in Distribution Systems
Location: Room 520B
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Preventing Congestion in the Electricity Grid using OpenSTEF and the Power Grid Model

Yu Xiang1,2, Peter Salemink1, Frank Kreuwel1, Jonas van den Bogaard1, Daniel Marten van Es1

1: Alliander, Netherlands, The; 2: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Enhanced Modeling and Simulation of Distribution Feeders with Aggregated DERs

John Jorge Penaranda Velazco1, Bala Venkatesh2, Pedro Vasconcelos2, Fernanda Trindade3

1: Hydro One, Canada; 2: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; 3: University of Campinas, Brazil



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Integration of a Hydropower Plant into a Hydro-Québec northern islanded Network in Partnership with the local Community

Jonathan Brisebois, Mario Tremblay, Christian Bouchard, Steeve Beaulieu

Hydro-Quebec, Canada



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Data Center Heat Recovery: A Techno-economic Study in Québec

Erfan Shafiee Roudbari, Ivan Kantor, Oriol Gavaldà, Ursula Eicker

Concordia University, Canada



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Automatic Optimisation of Grid Operations through Demand Flexibility (DF) Programs

Sujata Guruji, Nilesh Kane, Karunakaran B, Salman Khan, Sarvesh Choradia

Tata Power Mumbai, India



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Enabling adoption of offshore wind coupled with Green Hydrogen innovation

Kiran Singh1, Pankaj SHARMA2, Y K DIXIT3, Naveen SRIVASTAVA4

1: POWERGRID, India; 2: POWERGRID, India; 3: POWERGRID, India; 4: POWERGRID, India



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Sector integration including hydrogen, EV, energy hubs, DER

Bhupinder Dhaka, Amandeep Kala

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, India

 
4:00pm
-
6:45pm
B2-7: EMI, HVDC, Corona, and Uprating Innovations
Location: Plenary Room
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

How Specific Overhead Line Design Parameters Affect Clearances Necessary to Limit Induced Discharges from Vehicles to Safe Levels of 5mA or Less

Alexander Lucas

POWER Engineers, Canada



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Electric Field of HVDC Overhead Transmission Lines in an Urbanized Context

Luca Buono, Francesco Calabrese, Gaia Leone, Francesco Palone, Lorenzo Papi, Davide Rufini, Roberto Spezie, Gabriele Tresso

Terna Rete Italia, Italy



4:30pm - 4:45pm

B2_PS2_Canada_Chen Wang_Mitigating AC Electromagnetic Interference near Rail Corridors - A Case Study of the Southwest Winnipeg Transmission Improvement Project

Chen Wang, Emerson Adajar

Manitoba Hydro, Canada



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Predicting Flashovers on HVDC Transmission Lines Using Machine Learning and Weather Data

Susmita Saha1, Jeff Laninga1, Behzad Kordi2

1: Manitoba Hydro, Canada; 2: University of Manitoba, Canada



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Development of World's First 500kV Double Bi-pole HVDC Overhead Transmission System with Metallic Return in Korea

Wonjae Lee1, Seongweon Kim1, Dongkyu Kim1, Hyeonggeun Kim1, Shulsoo Seo1, Seyong Kim1, Sunghak Lee1, Dongil Lee2

1: KEPCO(Korea Electric Power Corporation), Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: CIGRE Korea



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Voltage Stress Characteristics and Insulator Options for Dedicated Metallic Return in Bipolar MMC HVDC Overhead Transmission Systems

Domagoj Hart1, Jean-Marie George2, Damien Lepley2, Hani Saad3, Markus Vor dem Berge1

1: RTE international, France; 2: Sediver, France; 3: ACDC Transient, France



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Operational Experiences in Mitigating Atmospheric Discharge Damage to OPGW Cables Installed on High Voltage Lines

Yasert David Perez Araque, Juan Guillermo Maya Montoya, David Ernesto Gómez Torres

ISA INTERCOLOMBIA S.A. E.S.P.



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Corona Inception Field Stresses at Water Drops on Silicone Surfaces at AC and DC and Mixed (Hybrid) Voltages - New Insights from Laboratory Tests

Jens Martin Seifert1, Fabian Lehretz2

1: TKE GmbH, Germany; 2: TenneT TSO GmbH, Germany



6:00pm - 6:15pm

Corona Effect Constraints in OHL upgrading using HTLS Conductors

Pierluigi Vacante, Francesco Palone, Gaia Leone, Gabriele Tresso

Terna Rete Italia, Italy



6:15pm - 6:30pm

Research on coated conductor

Yuta MATSUDA, Tomonori SHIRAISHI, Noriyuki TAKADA

TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.



6:30pm - 6:45pm

Uprating of lines from 275kV to 400kV on the South African network

Sanjay Narain, Raeesa Khan, Kaveer Ramharak, Amish Roopnarain

NTCSA, South Africa

B4-4: Multiterminal HVDC
Location: Room 518BC
This session addresses topics related to multi-terminal HVDC systems.
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

DC Line Fault Clearance and Recovery Schemes for VSC-MTDC System

Xiuda MA, Changjiang ZHAN, Yu LU, Yeyuan XIE

NR Electric Co.



4:15pm - 4:30pm

HVDC Measurement Processing Impact on Reliable Fully Selective Fault Protection

Pedro Miguel Baena Garcia, Geraint Chaffey, Dirk Van Hertem

Etch/EnergyVille/KU Leuven, Belgium



4:30pm - 4:45pm

New Concept for Classic/LCC Multi-Terminal HVDC

ABHAY KUMAR, Jan Wasborg

Hitachi Energy, Sweden



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Power sharing coordinated control for grid-forming MMCs in bipolar HVDC multi-terminal networks

Francisco Javier Cifuentes Garcia, Mudar Abedrabbo, Francesco Giacomo Puricelli, Jef Beerten, Dirk Van Hertem

KU Leuven, Belgium



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Fault Studies and Protection Strategies for Multi-terminal Energy Island HVDC Network

Asif Khan1, Nikhil Sharma1, Colin Foote1, Benjamin Marshall1, Jose Parackal2, Richard Poole2

1: The National HVDC Centre, United Kingdom; 2: National Grid Ventures, United Kingdom



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Optimal Power Flow Solver for Multi-Terminal HVDC Grids: Enhancing Stability and Contingency Management

Marco Giuntoli1, Lena Peter1, Firew-Z Dejene2, Ying-Jiang Hafner2, Neeraj Katiyar3

1: Hitachi Energy Germany; 2: Hitachi Energy Sweden; 3: Hitachi Energy Canada



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Interoperability of an MTDC system considering synchronous Grid-forming control

Taoufik Qoria1, Carl Barker2

1: GE Vernova, Germany; 2: GE Vernova, United Kingdom



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Towards control, protection and planning for future electrical energy hubs – intermediate outcomes of the DIRECTIONS project

Geraint Chaffey1,2, Jef Beerten1,2, Dirk Van Hertem1,2, Hakan Ergun1,2, Francesco Giacomo Puricelli1,2, Giacomo Bastianel1,2, Merijn Van Deyck1,2, Abolfazl Mohammadi1,2, Francisco Javier Cifuentes Garcia1,2, Jan Kircheis1,2, Dongyeong Lee1,2

1: KU Leuven; 2: Etch/EnergyVille



6:00pm - 6:15pm

Practical delivery of multivendor, multiterminal HVDC systems; the Project Aquilla experience.

Benjamin Marshall1, Perry Hofbauer2, Dong Chen3, Carl Barker4

1: National HVDC Centre, Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission ltd, United Kingdom; 2: SSE Networks- Transmission, Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission ltd, United Kingdom; 3: National HVDC Centre, Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission ltd, United Kingdom; 4: GE Vernova, United Kingdom.

 
Date: Wednesday, 01/Oct/2025
10:30am
-
12:15pm
A1-5: Asset management
Location: Room 520C
 
10:30am - 10:45am

REPLACING DIAMOND COIL STATOR WINDINGS WITH ROEBEL HALF-BAR TYPE ARMATURE WINDINGS TO MITIGATE THE FREQUENT STATOR FAILURES CAUSED BY INTER-TURN FAULTS : NHPC EXPERIENCE

LAKESH KUMAR, ADITYA BHARDWAJ, MOHAMMAD YUSUF, BUDAMA KRISHNA CHAITHANYA

NHPC LIMITED, India



10:45am - 11:00am

Stator Windings Neutral Inversion Case Study

Claude Hudon, Remi Taghizad, Gabriel Gosselin, Clément Durochat

DMI Energy, Canada



11:00am - 11:15am

The Need for a Classification of Different Kinds of Partial Discharges to Provide Effective Reinvigoration of the Corona Effect Preventive System in Stator Winding Maintenance Process

Jorge Johnny Rocha Echeverria, Mauro Ken Iti Uemori

Trassínio Consultoria Ltda, Brazil



11:15am - 11:30am

Assessment of the Stator Insulation System of Synchronous Compensators to Determine the Need for Modernization

Júlio Nascimento, Fernando Brasil

Eletrobras-Eletronorte, Brazil



11:30am - 11:45am

Insulation Systems for Motors, Generators and Synchronous Condensers – Contributions to writing Specifications for Services and new Windings.

Fernando Roberto Spezia, Camila dos Santos Gonçalves, Julio Acordi Dorigon

WEG, Brazil



11:45am - 12:00pm

Enhancing combined cycle power plant Efficiency Through Advanced Fogging Techniques: GE 13E2 gas turbine no.5 in Samra/Jordan as a case study.

Mohammad Farhan Zyoud1, lutfi alsharif2

1: Samra Electrical Power Company SEPCo., Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of; 2: Hussien technical university / Jordan



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Méthode d’atténuation des dangers liés aux éclats d’arc de grande énergie

Kirk Gray, Brouillette Jean

Hydro Quebec, Canada

A2-4: A2 Power Transformer and Reactor: Arcing Fault Containment
Location: Room 520F
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Improvement and Strengthening Method for Local Structure of UHV Converter Oil Tank for Defense Against High-Energy Arc Faults

Yikun Zhao, Zongliang Zhang, Peng Li, Ke Wang, Shuqi Zhang

China Electric Power Research Institute China, China, People's Republic of



10:45am - 11:00am

Experimental Study on Explosion-Proof Strategy for On-Load Tap Changer

Jiaxi Li1,2, Ke Wang1,2, Hongwei Zhang3, Yikun Zhao1,2

1: China Electric Power Research Institute, China, People's Republic of; 2: National Engineering Research Center of UHV Technology, Haidian District, Beijing 100192, China; 3: China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing



11:00am - 11:15am

Mitigation of Fire due to High Energy Internal Arc in Bushing Turrets: Additional New Test Results

Mohamed Ryadi1, Ewald Werner Taschler2, Jean-Baptiste Meillier1, Luc Pauliac1, Martin Stoessl2, Hannes Bachkoenig2

1: EDF; 2: Siemens-Energy, Austria



11:15am - 11:30am

Research on Pressure Characteristics of HVDC Transfomer Turret on Arc Fault

Licheng Lu, Hongchuan Dong, Juzhen Wu, Yuhang Li

State Grid Economic and Technological Research Institute Co., Ltd., China, People's Republic of



11:30am - 11:45am

Arc Fault Detection in Transformers Using Optical Cable Sensors to Reduce the Risk of Explosion

Aref Sharifi1, Moritz Kuhnke1, Peter Werle1, Asghar Akbari2

1: Schering-Institute for High Voltage Engineering and Asset Management Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany; 2: Electrical Engineering Department K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran

A3-6: Circuit breaker application
Location: Room 519A
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Long-term measurements of switching transients with VCBs – intelligent data analysis and algorithms

Roberto Schulze1, Erik Sperling2

1: OMICRON electronics, Germany; 2: OMICRON electronics, Switzerland



10:45am - 11:00am

Integration of Digital Technologies in Medium Voltage Switchgears

Sneha Patel1, Sergio Sevileanu2, Mohammed Kabir1, Mohammad Ali Khan1, Mikhail Rabinovich3

1: Siemens, Canada; 2: Siemens AG; 3: Siemens, USA



11:00am - 11:15am

Capacitive Current Switching Test on Vacuum Circuit Breaker and Evaluation of Voltage Factor on the Future Italian 36 kV Network

Francesco Palone, Luca Buono, Gabriele Tresso, Mattia Boiani

Terna Rete Italia, Italy



11:15am - 11:30am

420 kV 30 MVAr reactive inductive compensation solutions and type tests in extreme low temperature -50C.

Guilhem Blanchet1, Sveinung Pettersen2, Anders Lægreid1

1: Statnett SF, Norway; 2: Equinor



11:30am - 11:45am

Development of an Anomaly Detection System for Gas Circuit Breaker

Koma Sato, Tomonori Chikano, Yu Takahara, Katsuhiko Fujioka, Shota Tanaka, Kazuhiro Oda, Daisaku Yamada, Masashi Kitayama

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan



11:45am - 12:00pm

A broad return of experience for Power Transformer Energization with Controlled Switching technique, based on more than forty cases.

Alain FANGET

GE Vernova, France

B3-5: EHV & UHV AC and DC Substation Topics
Location: Room 520E
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Development of 1,000 kV Substation Equipment and Technological Advancements in Japan through Demonstration and Verification Test

Yuki ISHIKAWA1, Masataka SHUGO1, Shigeyuki TSUKAO1, Toshiyuki SAIDA2, Yukiyasu SHIRASAKA3, Kenji SASAMORI4, Yoshitake KAI5

1: TEPCO Power Grid, Inc., Japan; 2: Toshiba energy systems & solutions Co.; 3: The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan; 4: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; 5: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.



10:45am - 11:00am

“Revolutionizing Substation Monitoring: Design and Development of AI integrated Autonomous Mobile Robot for Power Substation Inspection and Monitoring”

Pradeep Singh Chauhan1, Anirudha Bhattacharjee2, Nayan Jyoti Baishya2, Bishakh Bhattacharya2

1: Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. Gurgaon, India; 2: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India



11:00am - 11:15am

Challenge of High Ground Potential Rise in Transmission Substations having High Ground Fault Levels and Solving Approach

Aslam Khan

Hydro One Networks Inc., Canada



11:15am - 11:30am

Auxiliary Power System Design Approach for HVDC Converter Stations

Frida Ceja Gomez, Daljit Dev

AtkinsRealis, Canada



11:30am - 11:45am

Design concepts for compact air insulated substations

Maurizio Albano1, A. Manu Haddad1, Muhammad Shaban2, Mark Waldron2

1: Cardiff University, United Kingdom; 2: National Grid, United Kingdom



11:45am - 12:00pm

Seismic qualification of cylindrical electrical equipment in UHV substations

Sheng Li

University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, People's Republic of



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Substation EHV/HV transformer circuit layout optimized for lightning protection

Nkululeko Mazibuko

National Transmission Company South Africa, South Africa



12:15pm - 12:30pm

Predictive Power Flow Simulator for SCADA Systems—A Real-World Implementation

Asim AKHTAR, Hiren GAGNANI, Orion WHEELER, Abdel Rahman KHATIB

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., United States of America



12:30pm - 12:45pm

Off-Load Bus Splitter arrangement in 400 kV Double Main Bus Bar Scheme to mitigate complete disruption of power supply during breakdown/repair

Brijesh YADAV, Arti YADAV, Kuleshwar SAHU, A.K. DIXIT

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., India

B4-5: Meshed AC/DC Systems
Location: Room 518BC
This session addresses control and operation as well as study methodologies of parallel or meshed AC/DC system.
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Generalized AC/DC Power Flow Methodology including Opportunities offered by Converters

Lee Raiyan bin Zulkifli1, Josep Fanals i Batllori1, Titouan Delorme1, Santiago Peñate-Vera1, Oriol Gomis Bellmunt2

1: eRoots Analytics, Spain; 2: CITCEA-UPC, Spain



10:45am - 11:00am

Control and Operation of Parallel Interconnection of HVDC and HVAC Systems

Omar Fadhel Jasim1, Taoufik Qoria2, Farheen Chishti3, Fatima Amara1, Ameen Fayaz1, Senthooran Balasubramaniam1, Priyanka Mishra3

1: GE Vernova, United Kingdom; 2: GE Vernova, Germany; 3: GE Vernova, India



11:00am - 11:15am

Resilience-Oriented Evaluation of Static Var Compensators in Hybrid AC-HVDC Power Systems

Mohammad Ghanbari1, Mohsen Zadeh1, Sina Driss1, Fatemeh Ahmadi-Gorjayi2

1: Jacobs Engineering Group, Canada; 2: Jacobs Solutions, United States



11:15am - 11:30am

Modeling dispatch scenarios of an embedded HVDC link using historical NYISO data

Mohtarima Begum Medha1, Luigi Vanfretti1, Supriya S. Tawde2, Jason Frasier2, Pradip Kumar2

1: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States of America; 2: New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)



11:30am - 11:45am

Frequency Stability in Hybrid AC/DC Transmission Systems: Evaluation of Grid Forming and Grid Following Converter Controls with DC Momentary Reserves

Siyuan Li, Florian Freidinger, Aaron Hebing, Lukas Jung, Xiong Xiao, Jutta Hanson

Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany



11:45am - 12:00pm

Enhancing Grid Stability: The Role and Design of Static Frequency Converters in the Kühtai 2 Variable Speed Pumped Storage Power Plant

Alexandre Christe1, Tobias Thurnherr1, Christoph Haederli1, Steve Aubert1, Wolfgang Kofler2, Andreas Hammer2

1: Hitachi Energy Ltd, Switzerland; 2: TIWAG Tiroler Wasserkraft AG

C1-4: PS1: Congestion, Curtailment, Reliability, Adequacy & Uncertainty
Location: Room 519B
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Analysis of the Impact of Curative Congestion Management Measures on System Stability

Fabian Meissner, Ricarda Kriete, Stefanie Samaan, Albert Moser

RWTH Aachen University, Germany



10:45am - 11:00am

Energy Curtailment Analysis in Alberta

ASHRAF UL HAQUE1, ASHIKUR BHUIYA2, HABIB MASUM1

1: Stantec Consulting Ltd., Canada; 2: ARUP, Canada



11:00am - 11:15am

Weather Synchronizations - The key Consideration for System Simulation and Reliability Assessment

Ming Hu

AESO, Canada



11:15am - 11:30am

Power System Reliability Models and the Characterization of Equipment Outage Durations

Razib Hasan1, Selena Lee1, JinMing Liu1, Partha Roy1, Thomas Fredeman1, David Allen2

1: Consolidated Edison Co. of NY, United States of America; 2: Risk Research Group, USA



11:30am - 11:45am

Strathclyde European Electricity Market Model: a 14-Zone disaggregated GB model for adequacy and cost assessment of future decarbonisation pathways

Shanay Skellern, Callum MacIver, Magnus Jamieson, Keith Bell

University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom



11:45am - 12:00pm

Adaptive Power System planning for integration of new Technologies

Frederik J van der Linde1, Muath Akkad1, Stefan Kovacevic1, Sultana Begum2, Kate Young1

1: Jacobs, United Kingdom; 2: Jacobs, UAE

C4-4: ADVANCED SIMULATION MODELS FOR ANALYSIS OF IBR DOMINATED SYSTEMS
Location: Room 521ABC
 
10:30am - 10:45am

A Data-Driven Aggregated Model of IBR-based Networks for EMT Simulations; Accuracy and Performance Analysis

ABOUBACAR ABDOU DANGO1, INNOCENT KAMWA1, HIMANSHU GROVER1, ALI HAJEBRAHIMI2, ALIREZA MASOOM2, NASIM RASHIDIRAD2

1: Laval university, Canada; 2: Institut de recherche de Hydro-Québec, Canada



10:45am - 11:00am

Detailed Circuit-Based Model of Switched Reluctance Motor Drive System for Electromagnetic Transient Studies

Seyedarmin Mirnikjoo1, Mohammed Naidjate1, Jean Mahseredjian1, Nicolas Bracikowski2, Paul Akiki3

1: Polytechnique Montreal, Canada; 2: IREENA Laboratory of Nantes University; 3: EDF-R&D, Électricité de France



11:00am - 11:15am

Research on Transient Characteristics of 300MVar Air-cooled Cylindrical Rotor Synchronous Condenser

Guifen Li1, Xu Ge1, Zhiqiang Li2, Yutian Sun1

1: Harbin Electric Machinary Company Limited, China, People's Republic of; 2: China Electric Power Research Institute Company Limited, China, People's Republic of



11:15am - 11:30am

On the Effect of Tap Changers on Voltage Stability with Polynomial Loads

Andrea Zanelli1, Dirk Schmidt1, Matthias Resch1, Marco Giovanelli1, Martin Geidl1, Walter Sattinger2

1: University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland; 2: Swissgrid Inc.



11:30am - 11:45am

Impact of IBR Equivalent Negative Sequence Impedance on Overvoltages on Healthy Phases during Faults

Cassandre Sarrazin, Julie Lacroix

Hydro-Québec, Canada



11:45am - 12:00pm

Leveraging specialized utility testing facilities for rigorous evaluation and de-risking of PMU solutions: two comprehensive case studies

Sagnik Basumallik1, Reza Pourramezan1, Alex Ludewig1, Neeraj Nayak2, Hossein Hooshyar1

1: New York Power Authority, United States of America; 2: Electric Power Group

C5-4: C5 Flexibility integration into electricity markets
Location: Room 518A
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Independent Power Supply: Balancing Self-Consumption and Grid Connection – A New Challenge for Emerging Renewable Energy in Thailand's Energy Landscape

NOPPADOL CHUANCHAIYAKUL

Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, Thailand



10:45am - 11:00am

Demand Response Impact on the South African Network

Hinesh Madhoo1, Sipho Mdhluli2, Sharon Makopo2, Darryl Chapman1

1: Eskom, South Africa; 2: CSIR, South Africa



11:00am - 11:15am

Demand Response (DR) as a key enabler for System Flexibility in power systems with high VRE resources

Matome Malematja, Siju Joseph

National Transmission Company South Africa SOC Ltd, South Africa



11:15am - 11:30am

Accelerating the Uptake of Electric Vehicles in the Logistics Industry by Contributing to the Power Grid

HAJAR ABDOLAHINIA, Innocent Kamwa, Abbas Rabiee

Laval university, Canada



11:30am - 11:45am

Integrating Electric Vehicles to the Power Grid: A Proposed Framework

Jovanio Santos, Dorel Ramos

University of Sao Paulo

     
10:30am
-
1:00pm
B2-8: AI-Driven Inspection and Monitoring for Overhead Transmission Systems
Location: Plenary Room
 
10:30am - 10:45am

AI based Automation in Thermovision scanning of Overhead EHV Lines using Geo fencing technology.

Kapil P. Umak, Vikas M. Bhondve, Dinesh S. Tembe, Vijay Doijadkar, Shivanjali Singh, Riddhiman Chanda

The Tata power Company Limited, India



10:45am - 11:00am

Development of AI powered anomaly detection for Power Transmission Towers and Powerlines using Drone captured data

Shunsuke ISHIDA1, Fumihiko KONDO1, Yuki MARUME1, Takaya MASUDA2, Masahiro OGAWA2

1: Chubu Electric Power Grid Co., Inc, Japan; 2: SENSYN ROBOTICS, Inc.



11:00am - 11:15am

Development and use of Artificial Intelligence in the Maintenance of Overhead Lines

Carlos Alexandre Meireles do Nascimento1, Lucas Souza1, Alexander Silva1, Hani YEHIA2, Giovanni MARTINS2, Ana GOMES3, Jhon ERAZO4, Alexandre ALEIXO5, Paulo PINTO6

1: Cemig GT, Brazil; 2: UFMG, Brazil; 3: SCCON Geospatial, Brazil; 4: SENAI-SC, Brazil; 5: Imagem, Brazil; 6: Trixel, Brazil



11:15am - 11:30am

Computer vision and AI for powergrid automated inspection

Mandana Taleb1, Stefan GUDMUNDSSON1, Valentin PHILIPP2

1: RTE, France; 2: Picsellia France



11:30am - 11:45am

Detection of Construction Sites Near Infrastructures Using Satellite Technologies

Mandana Taleb1, Maria Papadomanolaki2, Alexander Blauw2

1: RTE, France; 2: Orbital Eye, Netherlands



11:45am - 12:00pm

Artificial Intelligence and Drones for the Inspection and Fault Detection of Transmission Line Component

Abdel Rahman Alheyasat

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



12:15pm - 12:30pm

Mapping Of The Near-Surface Oxidative Pollution From Space Using Machine-Learning Techniques

Mandana Taleb1, Jean-Christophe PERE2, Boris GRATADOUX2, Nabil Jaoudar1, Sylvain TANGUY2, Eric LASSERRE2, Johannes STAUFER2, Laure CHAUMAT2, Didier ARNAL-BREZUN2

1: RTE, France; 2: Thales Services Numériques France



12:30pm - 12:45pm

Research on Tree Obstacle Satellite Monitoring Method for Overhead Lines Based on Fusion of Tower Features

Sihang Zhang, Zhi Yang, Kuanjun Zhu, Lixian Zhou, Hui Chen, Junhui Li, Bin Zhao, Chang Liu

State Grid Electric Power Engineering Research Institute, China, People's Republic of



12:45pm - 1:00pm

On the use of IA for accelerated defects detection in the case of UAV transmission tower audit.

Karl Olechnowicz01, Guillaume Maitre02

1: CIMA+, Canada; 2: University of Namur, Belgique

1:30pm
-
3:00pm
EHV & UHV: Operation and Maintenance of EHV Equipment
Location: Room 522A
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Advancements in Power System through Onsite repair Techniques of Power Transformer and Reactors: Reducing Downtime and Costs

ALOK KUMAR1, MADHAN KUMAR SUBRAMANI2, PANKAJ SHARMA1, YUGESH KUMAR DIXIT1

1: Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., India; 2: BHEL



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Vibro-acoustic Mechanism and Characteristics of Converter Transformer Windings under Valve-Side DC Bias

Xiaolin Zhao, Yuwei Zhong, Peng Li, Shuqi Zhang, Ke Wang, Huiwen He

China Electric Power Research Institute, China, People's Republic of



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Increased cable availability through online assessment

Christoph Steiner1, Iaroslav Shevchenko1, Muhammad Arif3, Denis Tsvetkov2, Mikhail Babenkov2, Peter Birkholz3, Ekatarina Podolska2, Uwe Kaltenborn1, Thomas Steiner1

1: HIGHVOLT Prüftechnik Dresden GmbH, Germany; 2: Polycentrum S Solutions SL,Spain; 3: Technische Universität Dresden, Germany



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Research on Oil-immersed Reactive Power Compensation Device for UHV AC Project in High-altitude Areas

Yan Du, Jiangbo Chen, Minfeng Shao, Hui Li

CEPRI, China, People's Republic of



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Analysis of Disconnection Fault on a 1000KV UHV Line

Hui Liu1, Jun Yong2, Chao Zhou1, Rong Liu1, Ran Jia1

1: State Grid Shandong Electric Power Research Institute, China, People's Republic of; 2: State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company, China, People's Republic of



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Maintenance Experiences for UHV overhead lines in Japan

Tomoaki KAWAMURA, Shohei TAKAHASHI, Keigo TANAKA, Noriyuki TAKADA, Yoichi TSUCHIDA, Tomonori SHIRAISHI

TEPCO Power Grid, Inc., Japan

1:30pm
-
3:30pm
A1-6: Asset management
Location: Room 520C
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

STRATEGIC PLANNING & CHALLENGES FOR INSTALLATION OF GENERATOR CIRCUIT BREAKERS (GCBs) TO IMPROVE PROTECTION OF THE GENERATING UNIT, BY CLEARING POTENTIAL HARMFUL SHORT-CIRCUIT FAULTS IN THE HYDRO POWER STATIONS

SUPRAKASH ADHIKARI, NIRAJ KUMAR SINGH, MITESH KUMAR, ALOK YADAV

NHPC LIMITED, India



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Design And Analysis of New Bladeless Vortex Wind Turbine

Payam Alemi, Mahdi Zavvar, Alireza Khosroshahi

Hatch, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Dynamic State Estimation of Doubly Fed Induction Generator based on Robust Particle Filtering

Shahabodin Afrasiabi1, Sarah Allahmoradi2

1: Power System Consultant (PSC), Canada; 2: FortisAlberta Inc., Canada



2:15pm - 2:30pm

CMS support in preventive maintenance actions to extend the useful life of direct drive turbine main bearings

Emerson Lima do Nascimento1, Rafael Rosar Matos1, Tiago Kaoru Matsuo1, Emerson Ancini1, Douglas Brandão2

1: AQTech Power Prognostics, Brazil; 2: CEMIG



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Case study: supporting the maintenance management of wind turbine fleets with gearbox defect patterns using condition monitoring systems

Emerson Lima do Nascimento1, Rafael Rosar Matos1, Emerson Ancnini1, Tiago Kaoru Matsuo1, Ermerson Lima2

1: AQTech Power Prognostics, Brazil; 2: CGN Brazil Energy, Brazil



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Practical Applications of Electrical and Current Signature Analysis in DFIG Wind Generator and Powertrain Reliability Evaluation

Howard W Penrose

MotorDoc LLC, United States of America



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Digital twin model for predicting the energy generation from the wind turbine

Donya Azhand, Faramarz Ghelichi, Safdar Mahdavi Majd, peyman alimohammadi

Monenco Iran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

A2-5: A2 Power Transformer and Reactor: Materials and Environment
Location: Room 520F
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

The Role of Nitrogen Additives and Meta-Aramid Fibres in Water Migration for Optimized Transformer Operation

Oscar H. Arroyo-Fernandez, Patrick Picher, Mariela Rodriguez, Brigitte Morin

Hydro-Québec, Canada



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Determination of Low Molecular Weight Acids in Power Transformer Mineral Oil

Esperanza Mariela Rodriguez Celis, Brigitte Morin, Oscar Henry Arroyo Fernandez, Patrick Picher

Hydro-Quebec, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Explore The Use Of Synthetic Ester In Transformers Beyond Fire and Environmental Safety Benefits

Jinesh Malde1, Jonathan Brenton2, Brett Belbin2, Anthony Alan Coker1

1: Shell; 2: Newfoundland Power



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Carbon Footprint Analysis of Various Insulating Fluids used in Power Transformers

Christophe ELLEAU, Lea QUILLARD, Lamine COULIBALY

EDF Electricité de France, France



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Study on Thermal Expansion Characteristics and Limit Values of Dry-type Bushings for 750 kV Transformers under Extreme Environments

Gaoyi Shang1, Wanhao Shi1, Dingqian Yang2, Xuandong Liu1

1: Xi'an Jiaotong University, China; 2: State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Research Institute, China



2:45pm - 3:00pm

On Load Tapchangers for low temperature and harsh environmental applications

Onkar C Kolambkar, Pranav Shanker, X Leo Sushil

CTR Manufacturing Industries Private Limited, India



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Standard Approach Towards Power Transformers’ Sustainability through a Joint Industrial Project

MOHAMMAD REZA SHAH MOHAMMADI1, Christina IOSIFIDOU2, Yiri Massop1

1: dnv; 2: Siemens Energy

A3-7: Instrument transformers
Location: Room 519A
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Low-Power Instrument Transformers for Control, Protection and Metering Applications

Valeri Oganezov1, Lukas Cesky2, Vaclav Prokop2

1: ABB Inc,, Canada; 2: ABB s.r.o., Czech Republic



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Optical Current Transformers: Bridging Measurement Accuracy and Predictive Maintenance

Carlos Dutra1, Luan Tominaga1, Jurandir Oliveira1, Vitor Woyakewicz2, Sergio Zimath2, Tiago Matsuo2, Luciano Freitas3, Rubens Nascimento3

1: PowerOpticks, Brazil; 2: AQTech, Brazil; 3: ENGIE, Brazil



2:00pm - 2:15pm

New test and commissioning tools and concepts for low power instrument transformer

Peter Menke2, Franz Gatzen3, Patrick Ganser2, Federico Canas3, Max Burow2, Jörg Blumschein3, Antoni Furlani Rosa1, Lucas Varela1, Thomas Neumeier3, Andre Rios1

1: SecuControl Inc, United States of America; 2: Siemens Energy Germany; 3: Siemens AG Germany



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Test voltage investigations on wide-bandwidth accuracy behaviour of medium voltage LPVTs using sweep frequency response analysis

Thomas Bischof1, Lukas Cesky2, Erik Sperling3, Danish Baig4, Bretislav Sevcik2

1: OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria; 2: ABB s.r.o, Czech Republic; 3: OMICRON, Switzerland; 4: ABB, Canada



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Recommendations for the Low – Power Passive Instrument Transformers testing

Lukas Cesky1, Ryan Elo2, Mirza Danish Baig3, Karol Majer2, Martin Celko2, Vaclav Prokop2, Victor Villanueva4

1: ABB, Brno, Czech Republic; 2: OMICRON electronics Corp., USA; 3: ABB Inc., Canada; 4: ABB Inc., USA



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Development and Testing of a 110 kV 10000 pF Dry Type Capacitive Voltage Transformer (CVT)

Robert Leonard Middleton, Eric Euvrard, Haizhen Wang

RHM International



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Frequency-Dependent Validation of an Electromagnetic Control-Oriented Current Transformer Model

Nicolai Schwartze1,2, Dennis Albert1, Sonja Moschik1, Markus Reichhartinger2

1: OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria; 2: Graz University of Technology, Austria



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Development of an optimised Fibre Optics Sensor for Laboratory and Substation non-invasive Calibration of Current Transformers

Gabriella CROTTI1, Palma Sara LETIZIA1, Alf-Peter ELG2, Guglielmo FRIGO3, Jari HÄLLSTRÖM4, Paolo MAZZA5, Burak AYHAN6, Hüseyin ÇAYCI6, Mikael LINDGREN2

1: INRIM Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica; 2: RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB; 3: METAS Federal Institute of Metrology; 4: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd; 5: RSE Ricerca Sistema Energetico; 6: TUBITAK The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye

B2-9: HTLS Conductor and Smart Installation for Grid Resilience
Location: Plenary Room
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Development of new equipment to install Aircraft Warning Markers in overhead lines

Carlos Alexandre Do Nascimento1, Lucas Souza1, Guilherme Neves1, Daniel Silva1, Allan Gomes2, Danilo Malleta3, Albert Santos4, Pedro Menezes4, Alexandre Bracarense4, Daiane GUIMARAES5, Luiz JUNIOR4, Carlos SOUSA2

1: Cemig GT and Cigre Brasil, Brazil; 2: Cemig D, Brazil; 3: Grupo ICTS, Brazil; 4: MB Wellworks, Brazil; 5: Berkan



1:45pm - 2:00pm

A new method to carry out the thermal cycling test on splice connectors of overhead lines

Meysam Hassanipour, Sylvain Canuel, Simon PRUD’HOMME

Hydroquebec, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Predictive Modelling of Zinc Coating Corrosion in ACSR Conductors Integrating Environmental Exposures

Shaoqi Yang1, Luc Chouinard1, Meysam Hassanipour2

1: McGill University, Canada; 2: L'Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec, Canada



2:15pm - 2:30pm

LineCore Technology to Detect Corrosion in ACSR Overhead Line Conductors

Gilles Rousseau1, Simon Francoeur2, Francis Boudreault-Leclerc2, Nicolas Pouliot1

1: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 2: Nucleom, Canada



2:30pm - 2:45pm

From Single to Multistrand Carbon Core Conductors: A Deep Dive into the Advanced PMC HTLS Conductors

Antti Hassinen1, Luca Mora2, Davide Peroni2, Debora Mimo2, Sami Pirinen1, Heini Kloster1

1: Exel Composites, Finland; 2: De Angeli Prodotti, Italy



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Grid enhancing Technologies: advanced Conductor Design Considerations

Kailey Marissa Cole

POWER Engineers, Inc., Canada



3:00pm - 3:15pm

The evolution of design and industrial standards: the Italian experience on stranded core polymeric matrix composite HTLS conductors

Marco Di Vaio, Piero Berardi, Daniele Cortese, Raffaele Costagliola, Enrico Di Vito, Mauro Gambassi, Gregorio Greco, Alberto Piccinin

TERNA, Italy



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Increasing Grid Capacity with Giga-Strength Steel

Daniel Berkowitz

Bekaert, United States of America

B3-6: EHV & UFV AC and DC Substation Topics
Location: Room 520E
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Theoretical Analysis of Corona-Induced High-Frequency Interference Caused by 315 kV Substations Located in the Vicinity of an Airport

Marc-André Joyal, Olivier Turcotte, Martin Edgar Cormier

Hydro-Québec, Canada



1:45pm - 2:00pm

DG Set Replacement with BESS

Ravi Kumar Sahu, Vikas Balkrishna GAWALI, Ganesh Tawre

TATA Power Co. Ltd, India

B4-6: FACTS - Application, Design, Control and Performance
Location: Room 518BC
This session addresses various topics of FACTS devices.
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Riverton STATCOM: Grid-Forming Controls for a Robust Solution Under Changing System Conditions

Christian Winter1, Jessica Marshik1, Heinrich Von Geymueller2, Mateusz Gietz2, Joanne Hu3, Bruno Bisewski3

1: Minnesota Power, United States of America; 2: Siemens Energy, Germany; 3: RBJ Engineering, Canada



1:45pm - 2:00pm

First Hybrid STATCOM Reactive Compensator on Hydro-Québec 735 kV Transmission System. Design, EMT Studies and Special Control Features.

Marc-Antoine Légaré1, Dany Fortin1, Mohamad Alawie1, Georg Pilz2, Lukas Friess2, Daniel Paul2, Colin Clark3

1: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 2: Siemens Energy, Germany; 3: Siemens Energy, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Engineering Experience of MMC based Static Synchronous Condenser (MMC-SSC) with Grid Forming Capability

Nannan Wang, Rundong Lv, Chong Wang, Shunke Sui, Xiuda Ma

NR Electric Co., Ltd., China, People's Republic of



2:15pm - 2:30pm

A new STATCOM topology equipped with short-time energy storage and Grid Forming control for HV network voltage and frequency regulation

Gianluca Postiglione, Massimiliano Andreotti, Moreno Ripamonti, Claudio Finotti, Giovanni Borghetti, Oriol Gomis, Eduardo Prieto, Vinicius Albenraz Lacerda

Nidec Conversion, Italy



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Genetically Optimised Feedback Linearizing Control for STATCOM

Boniface CHIA1, Stella MORRIS2, P.K. Dash3

1: Sarawak Energy Berhad, Malaysia; 2: University Tunku Abdul Rahman; 3: Siksha “O” Anusandhan University



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Application of STATCOM as a countermeasure for increasing the number of Switchgear openings and closings for the Reactive Power Supplier in the Hida-Shinano FC

Yuji Aihara, Shigenori Kakuno, Masahito Kaneko, Masanori Takechi

TEPCO Power Grid, Inc., Japan



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Improved STATCOM Ride-Through Performance in presence of GIC

Ardavan Mohammadhassani1, Mark McVey1, Zhibo Wang2, Sugiyama Hironori3, Seo Hiroki3

1: Dominion Energy, United States of America; 2: MEPPI, United States of America; 3: MELCO, Japan



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Analytical Modelling and Measurement of Magnetic Flux in SVC Installations: A Case Study from Konjsko Substation

Ante Soldo1, Silvestar Šesnić2, Tonko Garma2, Boris Avramović1

1: The independent Transmission System Operator in Croatia, Croatia (HOPS); 2: University of Split, Croatia (FESB)

B5-1: Fault Location, autoreclosing, controlled switching, wide-area measurements
Location: Room 520B
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Fault location for three-ended and mixed lines using synchronized measurements

Michael Kockott1, OD Naidu2, Neethu George2, Sinisa Zubić3

1: Hitachi Energy, United States of America; 2: Hitachi Energy, India; 3: Hitachi Energy, Sweden



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Implementation of a Scalable Multi-Breaker Synchronization Scheme for Switching Stations in SaskPower

Ashutosh SINGH1, Murtuza RUPAWALA1, Tyson MAIER2, Elemer DEMETER2

1: siemens canada limited, Canada; 2: Saskatchewan Power Corporation, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Synchronised Data enabled detection and localisation of high impedance earth faults.

HUGH BORLAND1, Tony Yip2, Jan Zurowski3

1: Applied IQ, Ireland; 2: Applied IQ, UK; 3: Applied IQ, Poland



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Use of Most Advanced Controlled Switching Techniques to Mitigate the Widespread Regional Impacts of a Power Transformer’s Energizations

Vincent Balvet1, Leon Koricki2, Janko Blatnik3

1: VIZIMAX Inc., Canada; 2: ELES, d.o.o., Slovenia; 3: VIZIMAX Inc., Slovenia



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Advancing Wide Area Measurement Systems: Insights from Global Applications and Industry Trends

Liling Huang, Mark Adamiak

George Mason University, United States of America

C1-5: PS1/2: Hydrogen, Heat, Multi-energy systems & Planning
Location: Room 519B
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Global sustainable energy system coupling electricity and hydrogen

Nicolas Chamollet1, Duncan Mathews2, Raul Montano3, Ling Wei4

1: EDF, France; 2: University College Cork; 3: Hitachi Energy; 4: Electric Power Development Research Institute



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Hydrogen Production from Thermal Electricity Constraint management

Charlotte Higgins1, Jacob Kane1, Paul Wakely2, Helen Dugdale3, Hanna Lawrence1, Adrian Anderson1

1: Arup, United Kingdom; 2: National Energy System Operator (NESO), United Kingdom; 3: National Gas, United Kingdom



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Economic Evaluation of energy-flexible Heating and Holding Phases of Melting Furnaces

Alexander Mages1,2, Alexander Sauer1,2

1: Institute for Energy Efficiency in Production (EEP) University of Stuttgart, Germany; 2: Fraunhofer IPA, Germany



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Quantifying the Industrial Heat Electrification Potential for Grid Planning

Francis LEBREUX DESILETS, Soseh ZADOORIAN, Matheus ZAMBRONI, Steven WONG

NRCAN



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Investigation of the Influence of Energy policy framework conditions on the Development of Municipal Multi-energy systems

Paul Maximilian Röhrig1,2, Leon Zoller1, Oliver Banovic1, Julius Zocher2, Andreas Ulbig1,2

1: RWTH Aachen, IAEW, Aachen, Germany; 2: Fraunhofer FIT, Aachen, Germany



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Railway Multi-Energy Hub for a Resilient Integrated Energy System

JAMES YU, Ross Davison, Brian Sweeney, Kang Li, Ross Kirkwood, Colin McNaught, Pingz Qian

SP Energy Networks, United Kingdom



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Strategic planning of network expansion by considering different constraints and factors

Stefano Grassi

Gilytics AG, Switzerland



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Enhancing Grid Utilization: A Case Study on Dynamic Line Rating and Advanced Power Flow Control for Long Term Planning

Swaroop Guggilam, Alberto Del Rosso

EPRI, United States of America

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

C4-5: ADVANCED STABILITY SUPPORT CAPABILITIES FOR IBR DOMINATED SYSTEMS
Location: Room 521ABC
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

New classification of converter-driven stability phenomena and risk assessment methods

Gilles Chaspierre1, Georgios Misyris2

1: ELIA GRID INTERNATIONAL, Belgium; 2: ELIA GRID INTERNATIONAL, Germany



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Assessment of Transient Stability in the IEEE 39-Bus System with Variable Levels of Grid-Forming Inverters Integration

Jose H. Vivas Nava1, Nayeem Ninad2, Luc-Andre Gregoire1

1: OPAL-RT technologies, Canada; 2: Natural Resources Canada, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Impact of BESS grid-forming in Power Grids highly dominated by IBRs

Camilo Ordonez1, Xiaolin Wang2

1: Huawei LATAM Digital Power; 2: Huawei Canada - Montreal Smart Grid Technology Lab



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Stability Enhancement in Weak Grids with High Renewable Penetration: Synchronous Condenser vs. Converter-based Technologies

Rasool Heydari1, Prabhat Ranjan Bana1, Jean-Philipp Hasler1, Anders Bostrom2, Mikael Halonen1

1: Hitachi Energy, Sweden; 2: Hitachi Energy, US



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Comparative Analysis of Virtual Impedance and Current Saturation Methods for IBR Fault Current Limiting Against IEEE 2800 Requirements

Xinquan Chen2, Ilhan Kocar1, Aboutaleb Haddadi3, Evangelos Farantatos3

1: Polytechnique Montreal, Canada; 2: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 3: EPRI



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Enhancing Grid-Forming Converter Dynamics with a DFT-Based Phase-Locked Loop

Kumara Mudunkotuwa, Garth Irwin, Andrew Isaacs

Electranix Corporation, Canada



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Transient stability enhancement using converter-interfaced synchronous condenser at LCC-HVdc terminals

Narges Zarean Shahraki1, Aniruddha M. Gole1, Mojtaba Mohaddes2, Chandana Karawita2

1: University of Manitoba, Canada; 2: TransGrid solutions Inc., Canada

C5-5: C5 Wholesale market settlement and pricing
Location: Room 518A
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Bidding zones as an instrument for setting regional price incentives for the capacity allocation of flexible consumers in the transmission grid

Lukas Hein, Marbod Helmut Markus Kollnig, Albert Moser

RWTH Aachen University, Germany



1:45pm - 2:00pm

How potential grid investments can decrease price spreads in the European Single Day-Ahead Flow-Based Market Coupling

Ferenc Nagy1, Melinda Dr. Nagy1, Luca Tóth1, Ákos Arnold1, Dávid Rostoványi1, Zsolt Lengyel1, Tamás Dr. Decsi1, Péter Szajkó2

1: MAVIR Ltd., Hungary; 2: M-IT Services LLC., Hungary



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Energy Storage Opportunity Cost Guidance for System Operators

Scott Joseph Benner

PJM Interconnection, LLC, United States of America



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Enhancing deliverability of reserves through market price signals

Pradip Ganesan Kumar, Matthew Musto, Kanchan Upadhyay

NYISO, United States of America



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Influence of Forecast Errors on the Market-Based Allocation of Cross-Zonal Capacity for the Exchange of Balancing Capacity

Claire Maria Adriana Lambriex, Lukas Pfeiler, Albert Moser

RWTH Aachen University, Germany



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Colombia's evolving electricity market

ALVARO CASTRO, DIANA PEREZ

XM S.A. E.S.P, Colombia

4:00pm
-
5:30pm
B4-7: HVDC/FACTS - Reliability, Performance Monitoring and Cybersecurity
Location: Room 518BC
This session addresses HVDC reliability, performance reporting and monitoring, and Cybersecurity.
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Development of a Push-Based Alert System for an HVDC Link Using a Data Diode

Jean-Mathieu Dubois

POWER Engineers, Canada



4:15pm - 4:30pm

HVDC & STATCOMs, Not Your Typical IBRs

Michael Podbesek, Joe Warner

POWER Engineers, United States of America



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Performance of SVC and FACTS Systems around the World in 2021-2022

Hiranya Suriyaarachchi

TransGrid Solutions, Canada



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Enhancing Cybersecurity in HVDC and FACTS Systems: A Comprehensive Approach to Standards Integration and Intrusion Detection

Walid Ali, Mohamed Atia, Emad Chamas

GE Vernova, Canada



5:00pm - 5:15pm

HVDC System Reliability – Investigation of Bipole Outages

Phaedra Victoria Ines Taiarol1, Josh Burroughs2, John Graham3, Xin Li4

1: Stantec Consulting; 2: Velco; 3: Graham e Graham; 4: Manitoba Hydro



5:15pm - 5:30pm

HVDC Digital Twin - Concepts and Roadmap

Arkadiusz Burek1, John Birnie2, Heater Spain3, Annes Jeddy4, Stelious Christou5

1: Hitachi Energy; 2: Hatch Ltd; 3: EriGrid; 4: ISO; 5: EDF Renewables

4:00pm
-
6:00pm
A2-6: A2 Power Transformer and Reactor: Monitoring, Testing and Diagnostics
Location: Room 520F
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Mitigation and Electromagnetic Transient (EMT) Analysis for Dissolved Gas in a 500 kV/16 kV Generator Step-Up (GSU) Transformer

Bruce Chen, Hyunjung Yong, Wenli Hong, Masoud Ali, Ska-Hiish Manuel, Anil Pradhan, Edward Burt

BC Hydro, Canada



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Insights in Condition Assessment of Power Transformers Using SOT and DGA Data for End-of-Life Estimation

Ahmad Vosoughi Hamzekhanlo1, Stefan Kornhuber1, Sebastian Kleyboldt2, Mahmoud Moh'd2

1: University of Applied Science Zittau/Görlitz , Germany; 2: 50Hertz Transmission GmbH



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Determining Abnormal Behaviour of Loaded Tap Changers using a DGA 4-simplex.

Zachary Draper, James Dukarm, Sanskruti Padmawar

Delta-X Research, Canada



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Software for applying the DGA interpretation method of CIGRE TB 771 using gas limits specific for each type of fault

Michel Duval1, Nelly Sénéchal1, Luc Paulhiac2, Jerzy Buchacz3, Patrick Picher1, Sébastien Favron1, Marta Cea de Ruano1, Stéphane Proulx1

1: Hydro Québec, Canada; 2: EDF, France; 3: Electropomiar Elektryka, Poland



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Evaluation of Water Content in Solid Insulation Using Online Monitor Data

Senja Maria Leivo

Vaisala Oyj, Finland



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Partial Discharge Based Root Cause Analysis for a 33 kV Cast Resin Transformer

Raul Alvarez1, Rodolfo García-Colon2, Mihai Huzmezan3

1: University of La Plata, Argentine Republic; 2: Megger; 3: Megger



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Impact of Accelerated Thermal Aging on Power Transformer Insulation: An FRA-Based Assessment

Avinash Srikanta Murthy1, Genaro Andrew-Morlet2, Zhanyue Wen2, Saravanan Selvaraj1

1: Hitachi Energy India Limited, India; 2: Hitachi Energy Germany AG, Germany



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Analysis of on-line vibroacoustic monitoring of On-Load Tap Changers in Power Transformers

Joachim Schiessling1, Nilanga Abeywickrama1, Michel Gauvin2, Patrick Picher2

1: Hitachi Energy Research, Sweden; 2: Hydro-Québec, Canada

B2-10: Advances in Insulator Design and Diagnostics for High Voltage Transmission
Location: Plenary Room
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Optimizing Maintenance Operations and Insulation Selection through Insulator Monitoring in polluted Environments

Pierre Thelier1, Andrew Phillips2, Javier Lopez Osuna3, Javier Garcia Hernandez1, Christiaan Engelbrecht2, Ruben Alonso Arcones1

1: Verescence La Granja Insulators, Spain; 2: EPRI; 3: REE



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Intelligent Insulator Defect Identification and Reporting: A Synergistic Approach Using Deep Learning and Language Models

Siyanda Biyela

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, South Africa



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Numerical Model Analysis of Laboratory Corona Tests of High Voltage Insulators and Hardware

STEPHEN BELL

K-LINE INSULATORS LTD, Canada



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Application of a Novel Test Method to Assess Hydrophobicity Transfer of Naturally Aged Composite Insulators

Peter Sidenvall1, Johan Lundengård1, Igor Gutman1, Luis Diaz2, André Deckwerth3, Kjell Halsan4, Mikko Jalonen5, Fabian Lehretz6, Michael Leonardsberger7, Lars Rasmussen8, Pablo Rodriguez9, Thomas Schiml10, Kübranur Varli11, Dan Windmar12

1: Independent Insulation Group, Sweden; 2: RTE, France; 3: 50hertz, Germany; 4: Statnett, Norway; 5: Fingrid, Finland; 6: TenneT, Germany; 7: APG, Austria; 8: Energinet, Denmark; 9: Red Eléctrica, Spain; 10: E.ON, Germany; 11: Amprion, Germany; 12: Svk, Sweden



5:00pm - 5:15pm

New implementation of 500kV lines on the South African network

Sanjay Narain, Kaveer Ramharak, Amish Roopnarain, Raeesa Khan

NTCSA, South Africa



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Methodology of Risk Assessment of Important Overhead Lines

Jialun yang1, Bin LIU1, Songyuan Cao2, Jian Wang1, Kuanjun Zhu1

1: State Grid Eelectric Power Engineering Research Institute, China, People's Republic of China; 2: Anhui Electric Power Company Limited, Hefei, Anhui, China



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Assessment of damage, lead time and costs for rebuilding distribution systems as part of a risk analysis in the event of a major ice storm

Nathalie Benoit

Hydro-Québec, Canada



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Sustainable solutions for ground-line decay prevention in wooden utility poles

Richard George

Polesaver, United Kingdom

B5-2: Experience with fully digital PACS
Location: Room 520B
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Experiences in the commissioning of IEC 61850 digital busbar protection systems.

Atef Boukadi1, Julder Uzcategui Silva1, José MENDEZ1, Jorge Escurra2, Miguel Diaz2, Hugo Tapia3

1: GE VERNOVA, Canada; 2: Engie Energia Peru; 3: Luz del Sur, S.A.A.



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Two real cases of IEC-61850 user-profile implementation that improves sustainability while cutting project-times and costs: Enel Colombia (utility) and ISA (TSO).

Daniel Sánchez Castán1, Paola Diaz2, Cesar Hernandez1

1: Ingenieros Emetres, Americas and Colombia; 2: Enel Colombia



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Implementation of Non-Conventional Protection Automation and Control Schemes and IEC61850 communication System in the Expansion of a 500kV/138kV Substation for Transmission-Generation Application

Caren Ramos

EPCOR, Canada



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Secondary Injection Testing in Merging Units Considering Low Power Instrument Transformer Technology

Paulo Sergio Pereira Junior2, Antoni Furlani Rosa1, Rodolfo Bernardino2, Gustavo Salge2, Cristiano Martins2, André Luiz Rios1, Lucas Varela1

1: SecuControl Inc, United States of America; 2: Conprove Engenharia, Brazil



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Challenges and their remedies for integration of edition-2 IEDs with lower edition SAS for health monitoring of grid assets.

Alok Nayan, Viplav C Reddy, Arvind Choudhary, Nishant Tyagi, Sunit Kumar Singh

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, India



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Future of Digital Substations: An Analysis from Conventional Systems to Centralized Protection and Virtualized PAC for Scalability and Efficiency

Paola Andrea Díaz-Vargas1, Oscar Andres Tobar-Rosero2, Germán Darío Rueda-Carvajal2, Luis Fernando Quintero-Henao3, Héctor Andrés Florez-Celis2, Daniel Sanchez-Castán4

1: Independent consultant; 2: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia; 3: Enterprise Innovation; 4: IM3 - Ingenieros Emetres



5:30pm - 5:45pm

FLISR and IEC 61850 GOOSE communications over an LTE/5G network using QoS and IP/MPLS: Meeting latency requirements for protection in the electrical distribution grid

Mauricio Subieta

Nokia, United States of America



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Integrating PTP for IEC 61850 Process Bus Applications with Multi-Vendor Ethernet Switches

Curtis Ruff1, Adam Rudd1, Galina Antonova2, Eric Chuang2

1: EPCOR; 2: Hitachi Energy

C1-6: PS2/3. Asset management, PMUs, VPPs & Climate change
Location: Room 519B
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

ReLife: an open-source Python library for survival analysis and asset renewal decisions for infrastructure managers.

Alexis Frémond1, Thomas Guillon1, Aya Hankir2, Benoît Desvignes2

1: RTE Réseau de Transport d'Electricité, France; 2: Artelys



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Probabilistic Life Cycle Costing Approach for Physical Assets: Application to Grounding Devices.

Darragi Messaoudi, Marie-Hélène Joannette-Cartier

Hydro Québec, Canada



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Leveraging Virtual Power Plants to Enhance Data Centers Reliability and Sustainability

Samaneh Morovati1, Shadi Chuangpishit1, John Wiltshire2, Drazena Brocilo2, Ben Rosenfeld2, Selver Corhodzic2, Amin Zamani1

1: Quanta Technology; 2: Meta Platforms



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Computing of Power Networks in Quantum Era - PMU Data Encoding in Quantum Circuit

Hillol Biswas, M Manojkumar, S K Srivastava

WAPCOS LIMITED, India



5:00pm - 5:15pm

The Brazilian Interconnected Power System Experience with Energy Transition under Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events and Outdated Regulation Paulo Gomes PSQ Brazil pglinha@gmail.com Nelson Martins

Paulo Gomes1, Nelson Martins2

1: PSQ, Brazil; 2: Brazilian National Academy



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Enhancing Climate Resilience in Power System Planning: An Integrated Framework

Maren Ihlemann1, Jesse Bukenberger2, Andrea Staid2, Juan Carlos Martin3

1: EPRI International, Canada; 2: EPRI, US; 3: EPRI Europe



5:30pm - 5:45pm

An analytical methodology to evaluate the outage return periods for substations subject to floods

Emanuele Ciapessoni1, Diego Cirio1, Andrea Pitto1, Leonardo Mancusi1, Alessandro Lazzarini2, Giuseppe Berrettoni2, Francesca Scavo2, Federico Falorni2, Laura Bianco2

1: Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico - RSE S.p.A., Italy; 2: Terna S.p.A

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

C5-6: C5 Schemes to support the energy transition
Location: Room 518A
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Green Transformation for decarbonization in Japan

Hiroki SAKAI1, Kazuya YOKOYAMA1, Yuki KATAOKA1, Daisuke TAMURA2, Kenichi SUGAHARA2

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



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Study of all options and regulations to finalize the strategy to meet decarbonization target of meeting consumption through renewable energy

Amit Kumar, Beni Madhav, M Thirumala Reddy, Ravindra Nath Gupta

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd, India



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Impact of Policy Framework Revamp on Facilitating Renewable Energy Integration with India's Transmission Network

Amandeep Kala

Powergrid Corporation of India Limited, India



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Renewable Hydrogen Certification: Ensuring Sustainability in the Global Energy Market

Barbara Duarte Barbosa

Brazilian Wind Energy Association (ABEEólica), Brazil



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Energy attribute certificate as a robust mechanism for the renewable energy development.

Ricardo Gedra1, Vital Neto2

1: Instituto de Pós-Graduação & Graduação, Brazil; 2: Independent consultant



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Enhancing Additionality to accelerate renewable Energy Investments through EACs and Carbon Offsets in emerging Markets, in the case of the Russian Electricity Market

Anna Pavlycheva1, Valdislav Berezovsky2, Natalia Kuznetsova1, Nikita Ivanov3

1: NP Market Council; 2: Carbon Zero LLC; 3: SKM.PRO



5:30pm - 5:45pm

CFDs: A Discussion for Future Application in Brazil

Eduardo de Aguiar Sodré

POLI-UPE, Brazil

EHV: Geomagnetic Induced Currents (GIC) and A2 tutorial: Effects of DC Bias on Power Transformers
Location: Room 522A
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Geomagnetically induced currents in Alberta during space weather events of 2024: A comparison to extreme storm statistics

Darcy Raymond Cordell1, Ian Mann1, Hannah Parry1, Ryan MacMullin2

1: University of Alberta, Canada; 2: AltaLink L.P.



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Identification of At-Risk Substations in the German Transmission Grid from Space Weather

Aline Guimarães Carvalho1, Leonie Pick1, Alexander Grayver2, Stefan Tenbohlen3

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: University of Cologne, Germany; 3: University of Stuttgart, Germany



4:30pm - 4:45pm

A2 tutorial: Effects of DC Bias on Power Transformers

Stefan Tenbohlen1, Patrick Picher2, Afshin Rezaei Zare3

1: University of Stuttgart, Germany; 2: Hydro Quebec, Canada; 3: York University, Canada

       
Date: Thursday, 02/Oct/2025
10:30am
-
12:15pm
A2-7: A2 Power Transformer and Reactor: Modelling
Location: Room 520F
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Comparative Study of Temperature Rise Test Using Cooling Curve Analysis for Liquid-Filled Transformers

Ali Al-Abadi1, Wei Wu2

1: HITACHI Energy, Germany; 2: HITACHI Energy, USA



10:45am - 11:00am

Methodology to Increase Capacity of Power Transformers based on the Temperature-Rise Test Results Margins

Juan Gonzalo Castellanos, Enrique Betancourt

Prolec GE, Mexico



11:00am - 11:15am

Simplification of Radiator Modelling for Transformer Complete-Cooling-Loop CFD Simulation

Zhengbo Xu1, Sicheng Zhao1, Qiang Liu1, Zhongdong Wang1, Massimo Negro2, Luc Dorpmanns3

1: The University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2: Weidmann Electrical Technology AG, Switzerland; 3: SGB-SMIT Group, Netherlands



11:15am - 11:30am

Enhancing Top-Oil Temperature Predictions Using LSTM Neural Networks and the IEC 60076-7 Thermal Model

João Pedro da Costa Souza1, Patrick Picher2, Issouf Fofana1, Arnaud Zinflou2

1: Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada; 2: Hydro-Québec



11:30am - 11:45am

Physics-based thermal model of Shunt Reactors

Alan Sbravati1, Ernesto Ceron2, Javier Gutierrez3

1: Hitachi Energy, United States of America; 2: Hitachi Energy, Sweden; 3: Hitachi Energy, Spain



11:45am - 12:00pm

Research on the Impact of Non-Uniform Temperature Distribution Inside Large Power Transformers on Insulation Margin

Shuqi Zhang1, Tao Zhu1, Xiaolin Zhao1, Li Ma2, Yuwei Zhong1, Zuoxian Wang1, Huiwen He1

1: China Electric Power Research Institute, China, People's Republic of; 2: Zhejiang Huayun Information Technology Co., LTD



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Analytical Derivations and Physics-based Modelling of a Deformed Winding and its FRA features

Zhongdong Wang1, Ziyuan Li1, Zhaozheng Wang1, Bozhi Cheng2, Dahlina Sofian3

1: The University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2: SSE Renewables, United Kingdom; 3: Scottish Power Renewables, United Kingdom

B1-1: Smart Diagnostics and Climate-Resilient Strategies for Cable Systems
Location: Room 518A
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Quantifying Risk of VLF Cable Testing and Comparison to Alternative Approaches

Ben Lanz1, Laura Cardoso1, Michael Joseph2

1: Osmose, United States of America; 2: American Wire Group, USA



10:45am - 11:00am

Advanced Soil Drying for Accurate Ampacity Calculations

Jayson Patrick, Edstan Fernandez

ELEK Software, Australia



11:00am - 11:15am

Behaviour of Cable Systems under Large Disturbances

Harry E. Orton1, Sudhakar Cherukupalli2, Russell Wheatland3, Mingli Fu3, Abdou-K Top3, Unnur Kristiansdottir3, Giulia Bergamo3, Masahiro Inuoe3, Daisuke Okamura3, Juan Manuel Maximo Leon3, Richard Joyce3, John Eidinger3, Dennis Johnson3, Yingli Wen3, Anna Reani4, Marvic Verzarno4

1: Convener WG B1.54; 2: Secretary WG B1.54; 3: Member WG B1.54; 4: Corresponding Member WG B1.54



11:15am - 11:30am

Investigating Overvoltage Phenomena and Partial Discharge Characteristics in Medium Voltage Underground Cables for Enhanced Reliability and Performance

Ayham Bakeer, Tariq Alnatour

Jordanian Electrical Power Company JEPCO, Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of



11:30am - 11:45am

Power grid predictive monitoring through continuous surveillance of transient phenomena

Denis Stanescu1,3, Cornel Ioana1,2, Angela Digulescu1,3, Annamaria Sarbu1,4

1: Altrans Energies, France; 2: GIPSA-Lab, UMR 5216 CNRS, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France; 3: Telecommunications and Information Technology Department, Military Technical Academy “Ferdinand I”, Bucharest, Romania; 4: Land Forces Academy "Nicolae Balcescu" Sibiu, Romania



11:45am - 12:00pm

A new Early Warning System for Partial Discharge in MV-HV Cable Grid

Klaus Winter1, Andreas Winter2, Johan Hollander2

1: Holmgren Institute Stockholm; 2: Swedish Neutral AB

B2-11: Innovative Foundations and Materials for Resilient Transmission Towers
Location: Plenary Room
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Development of precast materials for power transmission towers

So Kato1, Yoshinori Aoki1, Keisuke Fujishima1, Takanori Seki1, Kenta Takahashi1, Kento Fujii1, Hiroshi Saito2, Seishi Numakura2, Hiroyuki Yokoyama2, Keisuke Takemori3, Yoshifumi Niino3

1: Tohoku Electric Power Network co., inc., Japan; 2: Tohoku Pole Co., Ltd., Japan; 3: Nippon Hume Corp, Japan



10:45am - 11:00am

The Effects of Climate Change Flooding on Overhead Powerline Foundations in South Africa

Kabelo Molaodi, Sibonelo Nzama

NTCSA, South Africa



11:00am - 11:15am

From Weakness to Strength - Innovating Soil Strength and Corrosion Solutions for Renewable Energy infrastructure in creek salt pan area

Bimlesh Kumar Renu, Pankaj Kumar Dwivedi, Nitesh Kumar SINHA, Raj Kumar Singh, Abhay Kumar, Vamsi Rama Mohan BURRA

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, India



11:15am - 11:30am

Innovative Solutions for the Refurbishment of Grillage Foundation while the Transmission Line is Loaded

Gino Pillay, Siyabonga Dubazana, Bharat Haridass, Chandresh Juggernath

Nation Transmission Company South Africa, South Africa



11:30am - 11:45am

Advance Design Solution for Transmission Tower Foundations on Steep Slopes

Pankaj Kumar Dwivedi, Karanvir Singh PUNDIR, Abhay Kumar, Vamsi Rama Mohan BURRA

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, India



11:45am - 12:00pm

Emergency Interventions for Transmission Tower Stability: The Tamsa River Challenge

PANKAJ KUMAR RAI, Yugesh Kumar Dixit, Mrityunjaya Choubey

POWERGRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, India



12:00pm - 12:15pm

A Study On Tower Earthing Substitution Material For Corrosion Mitigations Solutions In Inundated Area Within Grid System In Malaysia.

MOHD IMRAN SHAMSUDIN1, AZWADI MOHAMAD2, NADIAH SALWI HUDI1, NORHASLIZA MOHD HATTA2

1: Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malaysia; 2: TNB Research Malaysia

B4-8: Application of Realtime simulation and Hardware in Loop in HVDC/FACTS/IBRs
Location: Room 518BC
This session addresses the application of real-time simulation and hardware in loop (HIL) in HVDC, FACTS and IBRs projects.
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Method for Estimation of Fault Location in the Dedicated Metallic Return Line of HVDC Transmission System: Validation Using Real-Time HIL Simulation

Soumyadeep Banerjee, Pradeep Tanaji Patil, Sudhir Kumar Basia, V.P. Srivastava, M. Srinivasa Rao

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, India



10:45am - 11:00am

Dynamic Performance Assessment of FPGA-based MMC Systems Integration on Real-time Simulator

HUI DING, Xianghua Shi, Yuan Chen, Yi Zhang

RTDS Technologies Inc., Canada



11:00am - 11:15am

De-Risking Grid Forming Battery Energy Storage Projects - Grid Code Compliance testing of a 50 MW Storage System using Control-Hardware-in-the-Loop

Andreas Bammes1, Timo Wagner1, Anushi Tripathi1, Gert Mehlmann1, Matthias Luther1, Albiona Lalinovci2, Benjamin Braun2, Stefan Henninger2, Jason Hill3, Sebastian Hubschneider4

1: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; 2: Fluence Energy GmbH; 3: Statkraft UK Ltd.; 4: OPAL-RT Germany GmbH



11:15am - 11:30am

Enhancing Tuning and Testing of Grid-forming IBRs with Real-time Simulators

Luo Liu, Yi Qi, Christian Jegues, Sumek Elimban

RTDS Technologies Inc., Canada

C2-3: Operational Strategies and Tools for Enhancing Grid Resilience and Management
Location: Room 519B
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Cold load pickup management behind the meter: enhancing resilience in low-voltage networks

Luis Rueda1, Nathalie Benoit1, Michaël Fournier1, Daniel Galeano-Suarez2, Alejandro Parrado-Duque2, François Laurencelle1, Follivi Kloutse Ayevide1

1: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 2: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada



10:45am - 11:00am

Innovative Approach for the Cold Load Pickup Management at the Meter

Alexandre Lemire, Bruno Cantin

Hydro-Quebec, Canada



11:00am - 11:15am

Implementing SCADA-EMS for Microgrid Management: A Case Study of the Greek DSO

Stefanos Kokkinelis, Despina Koukoula, Charalampos Pappas

Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator S.A., Greece



11:15am - 11:30am

System Operation Strategy for Grid Enhancement and Prevention of Sumatera Power System Blackout

mohammad bachtiar, feri fivaldi, Amiruddin bz

pt pln, Indonesia



11:30am - 11:45am

Operational management of digital electric networks

ALEXANDER KHRENNIKOV1, Nikolay Aleksandrov2, Sergey Mikhailov3

1: JSC "Rosseti Scientific & Research Center", Russia; 2: SPE “Dynamics”, Russia; 3: National Research University MPEI , Russia



11:45am - 12:00pm

Operational and organizational alarm management support by integrating machine learning, metrics, and user interface design

Antony Hilliard1, David Marino1, Georgios Mitrentsis2, Jhelum Chakravorty1, Susanne Schmitt2

1: Hitachi Energy Research, Canada; 2: Hitachi Energy Research, Germany

C3-1: Technology innovation, studies, and solutions for a more sustainable and resilient power system
Location: Room 520E
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Risk assessment and mitigation of natural hazards for overhead lines in in Austria

Klemens Reich

Austrian Power Grid AG, Austria



10:45am - 11:00am

Meteo-Hydrological Analysis of Climate Change on the Volta River, Akosombo Hydroelectric Dam

Clement Boakye, Kwadwo Asante Addo, Thelma Setor Adjidjonu, Gilbert Kwarteng Kusi

Volta River Authority



11:00am - 11:15am

Design Inlet Micro Hydro from Mixing Outlet Cooling Tower Hot Water and RainWater Gunung Salak Geothermal Power Plant

Redho Nur Ridho1, Mulyadi Kusumah2, I Made Chikas Rendran Taka3, Nugraha Septa4, Danu Sito Purnomo5, Anna Reani6

1: PT PLN Indonesia Power Salak Geothermal Power Plant, Indonesia; 2: PT PLN Indonesia Power Salak Geothermal Power Plant, Indonesia; 3: PT PLN Indonesia Power Salak Geothermal Power Plant, Indonesia; 4: PT PLN Indonesia Power Head Office HSE, Indonesia; 5: PT PLN Indonesia Power Kamojang Geothermal Power Plant, Indonesia; 6: PT PLN Indonesia Power Head Office HSE, Indonesia



11:15am - 11:30am

11041_C3_PS1_SINGH_IN_Green Substation - 100% Green Captive Power using GH2

Himanshu Mittal, Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Samrat Jain

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, India



11:30am - 11:45am

Environmentally sustainable Green Circuit Breakers (SF₆ Free)

Himanshu Mittal, Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Samrat Jain

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, India



11:45am - 12:00pm

Reduction of Vulture Electrocution risk on Powerlines in high Concentration Areas

Nishal Mahatho, Andreas Beutel, Rudi Kruger

Eskom, South Africa

D1-1: Innovative Solutions for PD Mitigation and Eco-Friendly Insulation in HV Systems
Location: Room 522A
 
10:30am - 10:45am

A novel insulating gas mixture : PMVE-based solutions for environmental and technical challenge.

Hyun Jae JANG1,2, Yeon Ho OH1, Ki Dong SONG1, Jin Gyu KIM2

1: Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Kyungpook National University



10:45am - 11:00am

High Voltage filters for partial discharge level reduction from factory or field test voltage sources

William Larzelere1, Mathieu Lachance2

1: Evergreen HV LLC, United States of America; 2: Omicron Canada

10:30am
-
12:30pm
B5-3: Commissioning, Testing, Setting and Configuration
Location: Room 520B
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Synchronous Machine Protection of the Future for Large Hydro

Janos Peter Pattantyus, Denis Francesconi, Jean Raymond

Hydro-Québec, Canada



10:45am - 11:00am

Essentials of Renewable Energy Protection and Monitoring

Daniel Ransom

GE Vernova, United States of America



11:00am - 11:15am

Digital Substation Application Concepts for IBR Renewable Energy Plants

Wayne Hartmann, Jacobus Theron

GE Vernova, Canada



11:15am - 11:30am

Comprehensive Protection Philosophy for BESS in Distribution Networks (33kV & 11kV) Supporting Weak Infeed, LVRT & HVRT Scenarios

Manvendra Singh Hada, Prayas Gupta

IndiGrid Limited, India



11:30am - 11:45am

Resiliency of the Protection System for Capacitive Compensation Banks after a Real Event Learning

GERMAN GUTIERREZ

ISA INTERCOLOMBIA, Colombia



11:45am - 12:00pm

Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation of Transmission Capacitor Banks for Training and Analysis

Genesis Alvarez, Robert Orndorff, Carlos Velez, Thomas Purcell, Robert Allison, Ibukunoluwa Korede

Dominion Energy, United States of America



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Data Sources for AI Based Applications in Digital Substations

Alexander Apostolov

OMICRON electronics, United States of America



12:15pm - 12:30pm

Real-Time Field Implementation of Adaptive Single-Phase Auto-Reclosing for EHV Transmission Lines: Lessons Learned.

SUNIL SURASHE, Akshay Sharma, Anand Dubey

POWERGRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, India

12:15pm
-
1:30pm
B2-12: AI and Smart Grid Solutions: From Live Working to Wildfire Detection
Location: Room 521ABC
 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Driven Knowledge Management for Sustained Expertise in Electrical Transmission Line Engineering

Janos Toth1, Balint Nemeth2, Levente Racz2

1: RecognAIse Technologies, Canada; 2: BME, Hungary



AI-Augmented Systems for Enhancing Safety and Efficiency in Live-Line Maintenance of Electrical Transmission Lines

Janos Toth1, Balint Nemeth2, Levente Racz2, Gabor Göcsei2

1: RecognAIse Technologies, Canada; 2: BME, Hungary



A new topology named Synergic Overhead Lines suitable for extreme weather events

Carlos Alexandre Meireles do Nascimento1, Joao Rosolem2, Nayara Montes3

1: Cemig GT, Brazil; 2: CPQD; 3: UFJF



In pursuit of Extinguishing Wildfire Risk

Edwin GonoSantosa, Brett Hague, Adam Malenczak, James Simmonds, Susan Thai

ATCO Electric, Canada



Detection of Forest Fire Outbreaks based on Corelation between Electrical Signals Signature Analysis and Image Processing

Yvan Estienne1, Alain Grisval2, Stéphane Lagadec3

1: OMEXOM TTE, France; 2: OMEXOM, France; 3: SDEL contrôle commande

1:30pm
-
3:30pm
B1-2: Innovations and Monitoring in HV/MV Cable Systems
Location: Room 518A
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Finding Damage and Failures in HV Cables using Passive Sensing

Steven Blair, Marcus Perry, Linu George, Morris Kelly

Synaptec, United Kingdom



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Development and qualification of the world’s first pluggable rigid cable joint for HVAC subsea cables up to 170kV

Vukasin Basara1, Dirk Hansen2, Pat Oakley3

1: PFISTERER Kontaktsysteme GmbH; 2: Tennet TSO GmbH; 3: PFISTERER CSU UK Ltd.



2:00pm - 2:15pm

B4_PS1_Italy_Corsaro_MVDC Superconducting MgB2 based Cables Systems supporting Decarbonization and Energy demanding Industry

Pietro Corsaro1, Tommaso Botto2, Umberto Melaccio2

1: C&G Agency GmbH, Switzerland; 2: ASG Superconductors SpA, Italy



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Test Recommendations of CIRED WG 2017-1 for Screen Connections of MV Cables and new Conclusions

Klaus-Dieter Haim

University of Applied Sciences Zittau / Görlitz, Germany



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Decision Support System for Transmission Underground Cable Projects

Kings Wong

Hydro One, Canada



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Mitigating risk and costs for Offshore Wind Farms with advanced DES cable monitoring

Ahmed El-Rasheed

Megger, Canada

B5-4: Line Protection
Location: Room 520B
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Time-domain based protection for transmission lines: secure and reliable solution for complex networks

Michael Kockott1, Sinisa Zubić2, Marcin Krakowski2, OD Naidu3

1: Hitachi Energy, United States of America; 2: Hitachi Energy, Sweden; 3: Hitachi Energy, India



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Experience of piloting travelling wave protection relay on ATCO’s transmission line

Janak Acharya

ATCO, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Transforming Differential Relay Communication by Several Strategies for Optimal Fiber Utilization and Reliability: Experiences From Recent Pilot Installation

Aman Khurana, Akshay Sharma, Ankit Vaish, Anand Dubey

POWERGRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD, India



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Setting load encroachment and power swing blocking functions to comply with PRC-026-05

Michael Kockott, Bharadwaj Vasudevan

Hitachi Energy, United States of America



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Bridging the gap between protection and planning for holistic analysis of transmission system performance

Ishwarjot Anand1, Benny Varughese2, Jorge Velez3, Saman Alaeddini1, Mehrdad Chapariha1, Gary Webster1

1: Quanta Technology, Canada; 2: Consolidated Edison, USA; 3: Quanta Technology, USA



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Design Criteria for the Monitoring and Protection Schemes of Submarine Cables

Ricardo Quijada1, Luis Chavez2

1: AtkinsRéalis, Canada; 2: Independent Consultant



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Mitigating Overreaching in Distance Relays and Addressing Mutual Coupling in Double-Circuit Transmission Lines

HARSHKUMAR SONI, Akshay Sharma, Pankaj JHA

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA, India



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Investigation of Operational Detection of Vegetation Contacts with Medium Voltage Conductors

Jeff Wischkaemper, B. Don Russell, Carl Benner, Karthick Manivannan

Texas A&M University, United States of America

C2-4: Advanced Methods for Stability and Reserve Management in Renewable Power Systems
Location: Room 519B
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Reserve Requirements Estimation and Pooling Methods for Intermittent Energy Resources in GCC Grid

Ahmed ALJaafari, Nasser Al-Shahrani, Hashim Al-Zahrani

GCCIA, Saudi Arabia



1:45pm - 2:00pm

A Remedial Action Scheme to Prevent Short-Term Voltage Instability in Presence of WECC Generic Photovoltaic System Model

Siavash Yari1, Innocent Kamwa1, Dmitry Rimorov2

1: Laval University, Canada; 2: IREQ, Hydro-Quebec, Canada



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Automatic Generation Control of a solar power plant in the Indian power system

Anmol Sharma, Phanisankar Chilukuri, Rohit Shukla, Vivek Pandey

Grid Controller of India Limited, India



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Solar Photovoltaic Power Penetration Estimation on Distribution Load Feeders for Black Start

Tina Chou1, Yi-Jun Wang2

1: INTERGRID LTD., Taiwan; 2: Tungnan University, Taiwan



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Recommended Electrical Grid Operational Technologies for Cities Running on 100% Renewable Energy

SAAD ISRARUL HAQ

ACWA Power, Saudi Arabia



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Recommended Electrical Grid Innovation Technologies for a Sustainable and Reliable 100% Renewable Energy Grid

SAAD ISRARUL HAQ

ACWA Power, Saudi Arabia

D2-1: Cybersecurity and Smart Communications for Resilient Power Grids
Location: Room 522A
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Open Innovation and Technologies for Artificial Intelligence in Power Systems

Alexandre Parisot

Linux Foundation Energy, United States of America



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Towards demonstrating the win-win Cohabitation of Open Source and Standardization

Alexandre Parisot1, Laurent Guise2, Boris Dolley3

1: Linux Foundation Energy, United States of America; 2: EnergySemantic.com, France; 3: RTE, France



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Forecasting Customer Demands in Distribution Service Operations at Hydro-Québec

Amira Dems1, Jai kumar Drave2

1: Hydro-Quebec Research institute- IREQ, Canada; 2: HEC Montreal, Canada



2:15pm - 2:30pm

A Review of SCADA Considerations for HVDC Projects

Frida Ceja Gomez, Hung Tran

AtkinsRealis, Canada



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Bridging the Data Management Gap

Christopher Johnson1, Maria McMurtry (Hydro One)2, Kristen Loney (Hydro One)2

1: Amidyne Solutions, Canada; 2: Hydro One



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Utility Hybrid PLTE and Fiber Network Deployment in Support of Grid Modernization Use-Cases

Jayson Brian Shiau1, Thomas Flanagan1, Arien Majette2, Michael Morgan2

1: ComEd, United States of America; 2: Exelon, United States of America



3:00pm - 3:15pm

The Need for a Comprehensive Communications Strategy to Support the Evolving Utility Grid: Tampa Electric – A Case Study

Philip Andrew ZInck1, Bruce Albright2

1: Tampa Electric; 2: Burns & McDonnell



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Passive Optical Network Deployments for Enhanced Grid Communications

Juan Ornelas1, James Conway2, Michael Morgan1, Hugo Castaneda2

1: Exelon, United States of America; 2: Commonwealth Edison, United States of America

     
4:00pm
-
5:30pm
B5-5: Renewable Energy and Apparatus Protection
Location: Room 520B
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

User-centric Tools for Engineering, Commissioning and Operation Of Protection and Automation Devices

PAUL FRANCIS LOURENCO

SIEMENS CANADA LIMITED, Canada



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Performance Based Protection Relay Commissioning

Weimin Wang, Tim Frazer, Brendan Janssen, Hasib Imam, Wade Milton, Kelly Weiler

Hydro One, Canada



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Centralized Relays version and settings management

Akhilesh Chandrakar, Thanigaivel Murugan, Shweta Sawant, Siddhalingappa Dulange, Syam Sunder, Sneha Joshi, Vivekanandan Sivansankaran, Shyamjyoti Sarkar

Tata Power Company, India



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Enhancing Digital Substation delivery: The Role of Laboratory Testing in IEC 61850 Projects

Marc-André Perron, Keven Henry, Tatiana Guerrero, Micah Lim

BBA Consultants



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Hidden Failure Detection via Dynamic State Estimation and Hypothesis Testing

Athanasios Meliopoulos, George Cokkinides

Georgia Tech, United States of America



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Comparison of Processes for Testing, Commissioning and Maintenance Methods - Digital Versus Conventional Substations

Craig Wester, Mike Ramlachan

GE Vernova, Canada



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Digital Protection learnings, challenges and improvements with Integrated FAT Setup, evaluation methodology & multiple solutions

Balaji Sethuraman1, Dayanand Konduskar1, Akhilesh Chandrakar1, Murugan Thanigaivel1, Vivekanandan Sivasankaran1, Naganjaneyulu Sankarsetty2, Ramakant Madane1, Girish Jawale1

1: THE TATA POWER COMPANY LIMITED, India; 2: TOSHIBA T&D TTDI

D2-2: AI-Driven Innovation and Cybersecurity in Modern Power Grids
Location: Room 522A
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Cryptographic Algorithm to Improve Cybersecurity for High-Voltage Direct Current Technologies

Kholofelo Hope Halefose1, Topside Mathonsi2, Kgomotso Manyapetsa3, Thuthukani Biyela4

1: NTCSA (Eskom); 2: Tshwane University of Technology; 3: NTCSA (Eskom); 4: Siphulathuthu



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Implementation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Tools to Enhance Cybersecurity in a Smart Grid

Kholofelo Halefose1, Kgomotso Setlhapelo2, Nompumelelo Khumalo3, Thuthukani Biyela4

1: NTCSA (Eskom); 2: NTCSA (Eskom); 3: NTCSA (Eskom); 4: Siphulathuthu



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Streamlining Non-Operational Data Access: Enhancing Cybersecurity, Efficiency, and timelines through Automated System Integration.

Walid Ali, Adriano Pires, Shobhit Mehta, Emad Chamas

GE Vernova, Canada



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Data Exfiltration through PTP Covert Channels in the Smart Grid

Olivier Cabana1, Amr Youssef1, Mourad Debbabi1, Marthe Kassouf2, El-Nasser S. Youssef2

1: Concordia University, Canada; 2: Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Towards Zero Trust Architectures for IEC 61850 MMS Communication

Hugo Genesse, Hossam ElHussini, John Castellanos

Hitachi Energy, Canada



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Anomaly detection in distribution automation systems: a load-specific Federated Learning solution to data heterogeneity

Dhiaa Elhak Rebbah, Mohammad Ali Sayed, Mourad Debbabi

Concordia University