Upcoming Retreats
To be announced.....
2022 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting
The CURENT 2022 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting will be held on Thursday, July 21st in Denver, Colorado at the Homewood Suites by Hilton. The event will start with lunch from 12 noon to 1pm (GMT) and the meeting will be held from 1pm to 4pm. During the meeting, faculty and industry will plan and map out center goals, recruitment efforts and sustainability plans.
Location:
Homewood Suites by Hilton Denver Downtown-Convention Center
Energy Ballroom
550 15th St.
Denver, CO 80202
REGISTRATION ALLOWED AT ANY TIME
Past Retreats
2021 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting
The 2021 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting will be held virtually via WebEx on Thursday, August 19th from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET. Dr. Kevin Tomsovic will lead a discussion on Center sustainability, pressing needs and post-graduation structure followed by faculty led discussions on future research directions with industry input requested. All industry members are invited to participate.
Please register so we know how many people to expect.
Note the WebEx information is on the calendar file and on the agenda.
2021 Spring Strategic Planning Meeting
The 2021 Spring Strategic Planning Meeting will be held virtually via WebEx on Wednesday, March 31st from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET. Dr. Kevin Tomsovic will lead a discussion on Center sustainability, pressing needs and post-graduation structure followed by faculty led discussions on future research directions with industry input requested. All industry members are invited to participate.
Members will find the retreat presentation and videos in the Member's Portal.
CURENT's 2020 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting
The Summer Strategic Planning Meeting will be held virtually via WebEx on Wednesday, Aug. 12th from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET. Led by Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, faculty will present reviews of the most recent Thrust and Testbed work and discuss Year 10 proposed work. Each Thrust/Testbed is scheduled for a 5-10 minute presentation followed by a 5 minute Q&A. All industry members are invited to participate.
Agenda
Calendar File
Members will find the retreat presentations in the Member's Portal.
CURENT's 2020 Spring Strategic Planning Meeting
The Spring Strategic Planning Meeting was scheduled into two Web Conference Sessions on Monday, May 4 and Friday, May 8 from 11 am - 2 pm ET on both days. The agenda was a series of presentations and discussions led by industry members and included a Q & A. Each session lasted 30 minutes during which members and faculty discussed the near-term and longer-term issues their organizations are facing and how CURENT may be able to help. All industry members were invited to ask questions.
Industry Presentations
Micah Till, Dominion Energy - Our Net Zero Commitment
Eugene Litvinov, ISONE (ISO New England) - Future Grid Analysis and Operation Needs New Approaches
Yuan Guohui, DOE, Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) - DOE Solar Grid Integration - Program Overview
David Bertagnolli, CURENT Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) - SAB Update and Comments
Di Shi, GEIRINA - The Evolving Electric Power Grid with Energy Internet, IoT and AI
Frans Dijkhuizen, ABB - Future of DC Ties in Renewable Grids
Dale Harris, TVA - TVA’s Battery Storage Strategy
Can Huang and Philip Top, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - How CURENT, National Labs and Industry Fit Together & Best Testbed Practices for Generating Synthetic Data for R&D
2019 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting
The CURENT 2019 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting was held on Thursday and Friday, August 8th and 9th in Atlanta, GA. The meeting was Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. During the meeting, faculty and industry planned and mapped out center goals, recruitment efforts and sustainability plans. This meeting also included the student perfect pitch competition. The event was held at the Atlanta Marriot Marquis, 265 Peachtree Center NE, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
2019 Winter Strategic Planning Meeting
The CURENT 2019 Winter Strategic Planning Meeting was held on Monday and Tuesday, March 11th and 12th in New Orleans, LA. During the meeting, faculty and industry planned and mapped out center goals, recruitment efforts and sustainability plans. The event was held at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70113, USA.
CURENT 2018 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting
Aug. 9-10, 2018
Doubletree by Hilton Portland
1000 N.E. Multnomah
Portland, OR 97232
CURENT 2018 Winter Strategic Planning Meeting
February 5-6, 2018
Double Tree by Hilton Grand Key Resort
3990 South Roosevelt Blvd.
Key West, FL 33040
305-293-1818 (t)
Presentations
Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, CURENT - Center Roadmap/Overview
Dr. Fran Li, CURENT - LTB Testbed
Dr. Leon Tolbert, CURENT - HTB Testbed
Dr. Ali Abur, CURENT - Modeling Thrust
Dr. Joe Chow, CURENT - Control Thrust
Dr. Fred Wang, CURENT - Acutation Thrust
Dr. Yilu Liu, CURENT - Monitoring Thrust
Jon Marmillo, Genscape - LineVision: Transmission Monitoring & Dynamic Line Rating System
Marissa Morales Rodriegues, ORNL - Grid Modernization: Advanced Technologies for Cyber-physical Security
Hongming Zhang, Peak Reliability - Peak Reliability Technology Innovation Roadmap to Assure a Wide Area View in the Western Interconnection
CURENT 2017 Strategic Planning Meeting
July 20-21, 2017
Chicago, IL
Presentations
CURENT Industry Sustainability Plan, July 20, 2017
CURENT Overview 2017 Summer Retreat Chicago
July 2017 HTB Strategic Planning Meeting
CURENT 2017 Winter Strategic Planning Meeting
April 9-11, 2017
San Juan, Puerto Rico (PR)
Presentations
Dave Bertagnolli, consultant - Advanced Renewable Technologies: Challenges to Realizing Their Full Benefits
Jack Joyce, Hitachi - Real Time Power Network Optimization and Data Management Solutions
Nicholas Miller, GE – Technology Challenges for Exceeding 50% Wind and Solar Energy
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) - General Overview and Authority
Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, CURENT - Center Overview
Dr. Fran Li, CURENT - Large-scale Test Bed (LTB)
Dr. Leon Tolbert, CURENT - Hardware Testbed (HTB)
Dr. Ali Abur, CURENT - Modeling and Estimation
Dr. Joe Chow, CURENT - Wide-area Frequency Control
Dr. Yilu Liu, CURENT - Monitoring and Visualization
Dr. Fred Wang, CURENT - Actuation
Dr. Daniel Costinett, CURENT - Education and Diversity
CURENT 2016 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting
View the agenda.
July 21-22, 2016
Boston, MA
Presentations
CURENT Overview
Hitachi - Introducing Hitachi RAS Technologies
CURENT 2016 Winter Strategic Planning Meeting
View the agenda.
March 3-4, 2016
Philadelphia, PA
Presentations
Dale Osborn, MISO - HVDC Overlay
Tao Xia, Dominion-Virginia Power - Dominion-Virginia Power Historian Initiative
Mahendra Patel, EPRI - Future High Renewable Operations Issues
Jianzhong Tong, PJM - Automatic Voltage Control
Emanuel Bernabeu, PJM - Resilience Using State-of-the-art Tools and Infrastructure
Kevin Tomsovic, CURENT Director - CURENT Overview
Ali Abur, CURENT - Modeling and Estimation Thrust and Detection of Network Parameter Errors
Fran Li, CURENT - Large Scale Testbed
Joe Chow, CURENT - Requirements for a Wide Area Damping Control (WADC) Scheme and Real-Time Phasor-only State Estimator Applied to New England and New York Power Systems
Kai Sun, CURENT - Requirements of a Wide-Area Voltage Control (WAVC) Scheme
