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Friday,
October 14, 2005,
Chamber, Ben Franklin Place, 101
Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
08:00 ·
Registration and Continental Breakfast
08:30 ·
Welcome
by The Organizing Committee Co-Chairs,
Electrical Power Symposium 2005
Objectives, program overview, house announcements.
08:35 ·
Official Opening
by Dr.
Robert Crawhall, President, National
Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT), Ottawa, Canada
08:50
·
Keynote
Presentation:
Challenges Facing
the Energy/Electricity Sector
by
Garner Mitchell, Vice-President, SaskPower
SaskPower
has been very active in studies to address Kyoto, emissions and the
future of clean electricity generation from coal as an energy
feedstock. “Convergence of Power and High Technologies” is very much in
SaskPower’s current business and decision-making process. For more details click
here.
09:35
·
Chairperson's
Remarks:
Visions
of High
Technology
and
Power
Convergence by
Dr.
Michael
Caughey,
Caughey &
Company,
IEEE Ottawa
Section Past
Chair; and Carl Kropp, Adjunct Professor,
Carleton University &
Vice Chair of
IEEE PES Ottawa
Electrical engineering is often divided
in high current (power) and low current (high technology) applications.
For more details click
here.
09:50
·
Real Time Applications in Power Systems by
Dr.Virgilio
Centeno, , Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
For more details click
here.
10:25
·
Networking and Refreshment Break
10:45
·
Communications in Power Networks and International
Standards by George Schimmel,
Tamarack Consulting, Inc., USA;
Karlheinz Schwarz, NettedAutomation, Germany; and Christoph Brunner, ABB, Switzerland
Power networks are
deployed over wide areas, and communication between their components is
therefore essential for their safe and effective operation.
For more details click
here.
11:20
·
Advanced Broadband Communications Technologies
by
Zlatko Krstulich,
Chief Technology Officer, Alcatel Canada
Convergence of carrier core networks to
MPLS based VPNs holds promise for utilities in revamping the
operation of their own extensive WAN infrastructures. Explore the key
technology enablers which that map most directly to the operational
concerns of power generation and distribution utilities. For more
details click
here.
11:55 ·
Morning Plenary Discussion
12:25
·
Luncheon for Speakers and Delegates
13:25 ·
Building
Automating Systems for Tomorrow's Electricity Market
by
Rob Rousseau, P.Eng., Energy Manager, Energy
Ottawa
Energy Ottawa
currently has three pilot sites participating in a pilot capacity market
program called TDRP (Transitional Demand Response Program) that shed
load based on the HOEP. Energy Ottawa has developed an innovative
high-tech solution for linking building operation directly to the
competitive electricity market using a number of communications
technologies. For more details click
here.
14:00 ·
Wide
Area Protection in Power Systems
by Prof. Dr.
Miroslav Begovic,
Georgia
Institute
of
Technology;
IEEE
Fellow
One of the most advanced areas for
automation in power systems is wide-area protection against
short-circuits and other faults.
For more details click
here
14:35 ·
Networking and Refreshment Break
14:55
·
Smart
Metering Technologies by
Robb Flegg, Director of Project
Management, Triacta Power Technologies
Meters represent another area where
traditional electro-mechanical equipment is being replaced by
software-based devices equipped with a range of new facilities such as
interval recording, individual circuit analysis and energy-usage
displays. For more details
click
here.
15:30 ·
Smart
Energy Management for Consumers
by Bill
Smith, Vice-President, Siemens
Canada
Advances in real-time monitoring,
intelligent controls and improvement in storage and conversion is
enabling consumers to be much more active in controlling their
consumption. For more details click
here.
16:05 ·
Afternoon Plenary
Discussion
16:35 ·
Closing Remarks
Note: Any revision to the above schedule will be promptly displayed.
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