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| Title
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The Impact of Situational Awareness on Power Grid Reliability
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| Speaker
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Prof. Zeb Tate
ECE Department
University of Toronto
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| Day and Time |
Friday, October 9, 2009
6:00 p.m.: Light refreshments
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: Speech
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| Location
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Room BA 1130
Bahen Centre
for Information Technology
University of Toronto - St. George Campus
40 St. George Street map - code BA
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| Organizer
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Industry Applications Chapter
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| Contact |
Mahmoud Matar, IAS Chapter Secretary,
Please RSVP ASAP as the space is limited
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| Abstract
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Keeping the lights on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week requires dedicated teams of
system operators working around the clock to keep the power grid running smoothly.
These operators rely on a vast array of hardware sensors and software applications to
understand what is happening on the grid and, when necessary, take appropriate control
actions to ensure high levels of reliability and efficiency. This understanding of the
system, combined with an ability to anticipate future problems and take necessary
actions, is referred to as situational awareness (SA). This presentation will give an
overview of the role SA plays in the reliable operation of the power grid, with a
particular emphasis on how a lack of situational awareness contributed to the August 14,
2003 blackout and several other blackouts in the past 50 years. Motivations for improving
SA (e.g., increased transmission line loading, decentralization of generation, and the
introduction of large amounts of intermittent generation) will be discussed, along with
some factors which currently limit the SA of power grid operators. Finally, possible ways
to improve SA by utilizing smart grid technologies, in particular synchrophasors and
frequency monitors, will be explored. |
| Biography
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JOSEPH EUZEBE (ZEB) TATE completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and
2008, respectively. He joined the faculty in ECE at the University of Toronto in 2008 as
an Assistant Professor. His doctoral thesis, entitled "Event Detection and Visualization
Based on Phasor Measurement Units for Improved Situational Awareness", explored the
usage of sparse synchrophasor measurements for line and generator outage detection on
the power grid. This research has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Power
Systems and was presented at the North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI) work
group meeting held in October, 2008. In addition, he served as chair of the High
Performance Computing in Power Systems panel at the biannual Power Systems
Conference and Exhibition in March 2009 and is currently serving on the technical review
committee for the 2009 CIGRÉ Canada Conference on Power Systems. His current
research focuses on improving the reliability and efficiency of power system operations
by leveraging new metering and processor technologies.
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