2021 Virtual IEEE Rural Electric Power Conference
April 27 - 29, 2021
All Conference Times are listed in U.S. Central Time Zone (CDT)
Tuesday April 27th, 2021
10:00 AM (CDT) – Session A-1
Electric Vehicle Charging and Rural Distribution Systems
Ryan Goolsby, P.E. – Hancock-Wood Electric Cooperative
11:00 AM (CDT) – Session A-2
Evaluation of Centralized Model based FLISR in a Lab Setup
Yaswanth Nag Velaga – National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
2:00 PM (CDT) – Session A-3
Enhancing Responsiveness and Resilience with Distributed Applications in the Grid
James P. Ogle – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
3:00 PM (CDT) – Session A-4
Grid Analytics Using Tools Available to All Utilities
Gregory Wolven, P.E. – Wolven Power Engineering Solutions
4:00 PM (CDT) – IEEE REPC Session – Past Chairman
Several past Chairman of IEEE REPC discuss their history with the organization and why they got involved.
Wednesday April 28th, 2021
10:00 AM (CDT) – Session B-1
DER Hosting Capacity Using WindMil Software
Trishia Swayne, P.E. – Power Centric Solutions
Shane Smith, P.E. & Ben Field – Utilities District of Western Indiana REMC
11:00 AM (CDT) – Session B-2
Real Time Grid Analysis: What Will it Take?
Greg Shirek, P.E. – Milsoft Utility Solutions
Gregory Wolven, P.E. – Wolven Power Engineering Solutions
2:00 PM (CDT) – Session B-3
Mobile Edge Computing Sensors and Cloud Machine Learning Advance Predictive Maintenance
John Lauletta – Exacter
3:00 PM (CDT) – Session B-4
Implementing Unmanned Aerial System Sensors and Technology to Improve Distribution and Transmission System Inspections with Measurable Results
Stanley McHann – National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
4:00 PM (CDT) – Q&A – All things REPC
IEEE REPC Session – IEEE REPC 2021 Committee
The current members of the IEEE REPC Committee will discuss this years’ conference, working in a virtual world, and why they got involved with IEEE REPC
Thursday April 29th, 2021
10:00 AM (CDT) – Session C-1
Control Architectures for Rural Standalone Microgrids – A Comprehensive Review
Dr. Anuradha Tomar – Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
11:00 AM (CDT) – Session C-2
Traveling Wave Relays for Distribution Feeder Protection with High Penetrations of Distributed Energy Resources Optimized DER Control Scheme
Yaswanth Nag Velaga – NREL
12:00 PM (CDT) – Session C-3
Optimized DER Control Scheme
Delvin Messmer – NEI Engineering
1:00 PM (CDT) – IEEE REPC Session- Closing Remarks
Summary of the 2021 event and what to look forward to in 2022, Savannah, Georgia