Speaker(s): Dr. Sukumar Brahma , Agenda: 6:00pm Sign In / Introduction 6:05-6:10pm Presentation Begins 8:30pm Closing, final Q&A Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/282340

IEEE Distinguished Lecturer: “Challenges to Power System Protection in Presence of Renewables”

The presentation will feature the following main topics:

1) Introduction to inverter fundamentals

2) Impact of inverter based resources (IBRs)

3) Impact of IBRs on transmission system protection.

4) Design and operation of microgrids with high penetration of IBRs.

5) Protection of microgrids.

CEUs Being Offered! For those who would like CEU’s good towards your professional license we will offer 0.2 CEU credits (2 hours).  Please register for CEU’s in the registration section and be sure you connect to the Webex with your name visible. We will be taking roll at the start and finish of the meeting for those asking for CEU credits.

WebEx Session Access INFORMATION

WebEx Link will be sent to registrants via email shortly before event start time.

Dr. Sukumar Brahma of Clemson University – Electrical Engineering

Frequency, voltage, customer interruption. What do these vital signs tell us about the bulk power system? Learn the grid health underlying the vital signs and how to accurately assess them.  This lecture will explore reliability aspects of bulk power system so that you will develop a systematic, integrated understanding of how to assess the bulk power system reliability.  Additional indicators include energy emergency alerts, transmission outage rates, protection system operations, and resource reserve margin.  The presentation will also provide ranges, trends, and driving factors that influence changes in these indicators.

Biography:

Sukumar Brahma received his Bachelor of Engineering from Gujarat University, Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and PhD in from Clemson University; all in Electrical Engineering. He joined Clemson university as the Dominion Energy Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering in August 2018. Before joining Clemson he was William Kersting Endowed Chair Professor at New Mexico State University, USA. Dr. Brahma has chaired IEEE Power and Energy Society’s Power and Energy Education Committee, Life Long Learning Subcommittee and Distribution System Analysis Subcommittee. He is a member of the Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRCC), where he has been contributing to and leading working groups that produce reports, guides and standards in the area of power system protection. He has been an editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and served as Guest Editor-in-Chief for the Special Issue on Frontiers of Power System Protection for the journal. His research, widely published and funded by the National Science Foundation, US department of energy, utilities, and other government agencies has focused on different aspects of power system modeling, analysis, and protection. Dr. Brahma is a Distinguished Lecturer and a Fellow of the IEEE.