Dr. Li Receives Two Honors at IEEE PES General Meeting 2018

CURENT would like to acknowledge and congratulate Dr. Fran Li, the UTK Campus Director of CURENT and a James McConnell Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Dr. Li received the following two honors at IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting 2018 that held August 4-9, 2018 in Portland, OR.

(1) Dr. Li's paper entitled “Potential of Wind Power to Provide Flexible Ramping Products and Operating Reserve” was selected as a Best Conference Paper (top 5% of the conference submissions). Dr. Li co-authored this paper with his former Ph.D. student, Dr. Xin Fang, who is now working at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

(2) As the Vice Chair of the Power System Operation, Planning and Economics (PSOPE) committee, Dr. Li is a co-recipient of the “Technical Committee of the Year” award by IEEE PES.  

Congratulations to Dr. Li!