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Organizing Committee
David Curtis, General Chair
Ayesha Sabouba, Technical Committee Co-Chair
Bob Singh, Technical Committee Co-Chair
Janet Eby, Program Co-Chair
Esia Giaouris, Program Co-Chair
Tammy Carter, Local Arrangements Chair
Suzanne Lafrenière, CIGRE Canada Coordinator
Steven Desrochers, Event Manager
Special Poster Session for Students, Best Student Paper Award.
Accepted final contributions will be included in the conference proceedings and papers will be published in the online CIGRÉ library www.e-cigre.org, provided the contributions are fully registered by at least one author and presented in person at the conference. See the web site cfa.cigre.ca for the
submission instructions.
For more information:
Conference.2014CIGRE@HydroOne.com
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Deadline Extended until Friday, February 21st, 11:59PM ET
2014 CIGRÉ Canada Conference
International Center – Toronto, ON • September 22–24, 2014 • www.cigre.ca
“Innovation and the Evolving Grid”
At the 9th annual CIGRE Canada Conference on Power Systems, the theme is Innovation and The Evolving Grid.
Electric utilities with transmission and distribution systems face tough challenges: planning, connecting and operating systems with radically different generation, including large solar and wind generation, and more power electronics-controlled loads. Concurrently, utilities must ensure reliability and adequate power quality, reduce carbon emissions, minimize visibility of new builds, improve customer service, moderate electricity rates, manage aging infrastructure, and address climate changes and extreme weather concerns. At this conference, deepen your understanding of these utility issues, the solutions, approaches, methods, and tools which have worked successfully, and seek answers to specific emerging issues at your utility.
Join us in Toronto, Canada from September 22 – 24, 2014, as business leaders, system planners and operators, asset managers, engineers, manufacturers, scientists, policy makers, regulators, academics and students come together to exchange information, network, and discuss these critical issues and the future of the power system.
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Technology applied to:
- System planning and operating relative to the evolving
grid, including modeling and simulation tools
- Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) – approaches to dealing
with expectations surrounding new builds
- Approaches used in obtaining approvals
- Aging infrastructure and its sustainment
- Integration of renewable generators on the
transmission and distribution systems
- Power quality, including harmonics and voltage
fluctuations
- Smart grid and grid modernization, including
automation and storage technology;
- Electric vehicles and the associated power system
impacts and opportunities (vehicle to grid (V2G) and
grid to vehicle (G2V))
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- Getting more out of the transmission system, and
finding capacity on the transmission system
- Advances in providing good customer service
- Accountability for Transmission in a deregulated
industry; increased competition in transmission
development
- Inertia and the stability of the Transmission system
- HVDC Development
- DC application at the customer level
- Extreme weather impacts
- Data and information management relative to
Transmission and Distribution
- Real-time monitoring and control including related
Telecommunications
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Submissions:
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- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS falling within the conference theme are invited. Authors should submit a
500-word abstract. Upon abstract acceptance, a 6-8 pages paper in CIGRÉ format must be submitted for the final contributions.
To submit a contribution, visit cfa.cigre.ca
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Important dates:
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Extended to:
Friday, February 21, 2014:
Abstracts Due
(submitted via website)
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Monday, April 14, 2014:
Registration Opens
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Friday, June 27, 2014:
Final papers are due
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