Wednesday April 27, 2016

Start

End

Topic

Presenter and Company

8:00

8:30

Registration Opens and Continental Breakfast

 

8:30

8:45

Welcome, Agenda Overview, and Speaker Introductions

Wayne Bishop, OMICRON

8:45

9:45

Opening Keynote Address: The Future of Distribution Automation and Recloser Testing

Dr. Alex Apostolov, PAC World Magazine

9:45

10:15

Reclosers 101:  Primer on Reclosers and Why They Have Become So Popular

Stephan Geiger, OMICRON

10:15

10:45

Coffee Break:  OMICRON Substation – Visit Manufacturer Displays

 

10:45

11:15

An Evolving Distribution Automation System 

Marina Mondello, Commonwealth Edison

11:15

11:45

Tolerance-Based Time-Current Coordination

Mike Meisinger, S&C Electric Company

11:45

12:15

Technologies of the Self Healing Grid – Automated Ways of Removing Temporary Faults from the Distribution Power Network

Peter Selejan, ABB

12:15

1:15

Lunch

 

1:15

1:45

Case Study – Improving System Performance Using Distribution Network Automation

Jeff Hauber, Westar Energy and Craig Thompson of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc (SEL)

1:45

2:15

Managing Risk in an Electrical World

Robert Loveless, Shermco Industries

2:15

3:00

Grid Optimization Technological Updates

Dr. Hamid Jaffari, Reading Municipal Light Department

3:00

3:30

Refreshment Break in OMICRON Academy – Visit Manufacturer Displays

 

3:30

4:30

Ask the Experts – Manufacturer Roundtable Discussion / Q&A

Facilitated by Alex Apostolov

4:30

5:00

Recloser Control Testing: Past, Present, and Future

Stephan Geiger, OMICRON

5:00

8:00

Reception, Dinner, and Entertainment – Texas BBQ Theme

 


Thursday April 28, 2016

Start

End

Topic

Presenter and Company

8:00

8:30

Continental Breakfast 

 

8:30

8:45

Welcome and Agenda Overview for Day 2

Wayne Bishop, OMICRON

8:45

9:30

Using Reclosers and Distribution Automation Schemes for Reliability Improvement, and Conducting Cost-Benefit and Prioritization Analyses

Julio Romero Agüero, PhD, Quanta Technology

9:30

10:00

Testing Automated Systems

Marina Mondello ComEd and Katherine Cummings, G&W Electric

10:00

10:30

Break – Visit Manufacturer Display Areas

 

10:30

11:00

Distribution Single Phase Tripping and Reclosing:  Overcoming Obstacles with Programmable Recloser Controls

Greg Hataway, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc

11:00

11:30

Distributed Synchronous Coordination Field Testing of an Actual Automated Distribution Feeder System

Andre Smit, Siemens; Billy Walker, Don Bowman, Chris Wright, Wake Electric;  Stephan Geiger, Christopher Pritchard, OMICRON

11:30

1:00

Lunch 

 

1:00

1:25

Break-Out Session #1
Recloser Control Testing Made Easy

 

1:25

1:30

Change rooms

 

1:30

1:55

Break-Out Session #2
Efficient Automated Recloser Control Testing

 

1:55

2:00

Change rooms

 

2:00

2:25

Break-Out Session #3
Testing of Distribution Automation Schemes

 

2:25

2:30

Change rooms

 

2:30

2:55

Break-Out Session #4
Primary Injection Recloser Tests

 

2:55

3:10

Workshop Wrap-Up and Final Words

 

3:10

 

Workshop Adjourns