Working Group: Understanding, Prediction, Mitigation and Restoration of Cascading Failures

IEEE PES Computer and Analytical Methods Subcommittee (CAMS)

Working group meeting on June6, 2017

A working group (WG) conference call was held on June6, 2017. How-many()participants were in attendance.

The WG conference call attendees were:

Attendee / Affiliation
MiloradPapic / Idaho Power
Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez / Oregon State University
Paul Hines / University of Vermont
Ian Dobson / Iowa State University
Pierre Henneaux / Tractebel Engineering
Alex Flueck / Illinois Institute of Technology
John Stubban / Boise State University
Saeed Lotfifard / WSU
MertKorkali / LLNL
SlavaMaslennikov / ISO New England
Chuck Lawrence / ATC
Mohit Singh / ComEd
Feng Dong / GE
BakhtyarHoseinzadeh / Aalborg University
Jose Conto / ERCOT

Action Items

1)Milorad. Follow-up email to Wei for task updates.

2)Milorad/Marianna/Eduardo. Link PMU papers and presentations from NASPI in our website.

3)Pierre. Schedule conference call for benchmarking subgroup.

4)Alex. Schedule conference call for panelists.

Contact Information

  • Working Group Chair: MiloradPapic, Idaho Power,
  • Working Group Vice Chair: Paul Hines,Univ. of Vermont,
  • Working Group Secretary: Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez,Oregon State University, (541) 737-8926,
  • Working Group Websites: (public)

The meeting agenda and minutes for each itemare listed below:

  1. Welcome/Introductions

PES General Meeting in Chicago– CFWG meeting

Room: G-306 Tiered Classroom

Chicago, Monday July 17th 2017, 11:00-13:00

  1. Minutes from April 4, 2017

Goal for all subtasks was to schedule calls before the general meeting in Chicago. Pierre’s call rescheduled due to Memorial Day in the US. Alex will schedule dynamics and protection call for the second week of June.

3.WG Updates

GM 2017 – Tutorial (Marianna)

Room: Michigan A

July 19th 2017, 8:00 – 12:00

GM 2017 –Panel

Room: G-300 Tiered Classroom

July 19th 2017, 13:00 – 15:00

Mohit Singh is helping out with the local committee at the GM and will support the publicity of the CFWG activities and send out information.

4. Task updates

- Benchmarking methodologies/tools (Pierre Henneaux)

- Modeling dynamics/protection systems (Alex Flueck)

- PMU group (Marianna Vaiman)

- Restoration (Wei Sun)

5. Draft Agenda for PES GM 2017

[Copy from Milorad]

Ian: Can we have the document shared from NATF in Item 4 of the agenda?Milorad: Yes, will send to Eduardo to distribute.

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