IEEE Electrification Magazine - December 2015 - 61

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Reorganizing and Reenergizing PES
HE IEEE POWER & ENERGY
Society (PES) is reorganizing its technical committees to address committee overlap
and lack of technology coverage.
Three extensive surveys of the committees determined how each viewed
its technology coverage. Several
needed changes were identified: six
or more committees indicated similar technology coverage, signifying
overlap, while other technologies
showed limited or no coverage. A task
force was formed to propose realignment and new committees. At the
IEEE PES General Meeting in Denver,
Colorado, 26-30 July 2015, town hall
meetings reviewed the proposals.
The most significant changes
include combining of some committees or coordinating committees as
well as expansion and rearranging
work among several committees. A
summary of the changes to existing
committees follows:
 The Intelligent Grid and Emerging
Technologies Coordinating Committees are to be combined into
one coordinating committee. This
committee will continue to cover
the emerging technologies that are
developing with the smart grid.
 The Energy Storage and Stationary
Battery Committee is being formed
from the original Stationary Battery

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Committee with the addition of
Committee with the Power Sysenergy-storage technologies to protem Operations Committee as
vide a reliable backup and energywell as cover the economics topics
storage solution for integrating
from the current Power System
legacy, renewable, and distributed
Analysis, Computer, and Economgrid infrastructure.
ics Committee.
 The Energy Development and
 The Power System Communications
Power Generation Committee will
and Cybersecurity Committee will
have an expanded scope to add biocombine the Power System Commugas to its Renewable Technologies
nication Committee with work from
Subcommittee and include the
the Substations and Power System
integration of renewable energy
Relaying Committees to cover grid
from the T&D Grids
communications and
Subcommittee.
cybersecurity. The new
The most significant
 The Analytical
committee will cover
Methods for Power
aspects of communicachanges include
Systems Committions including the
combining of
tee will cover the
physical layer, protocols,
some committees
modeling, analyinteroperability, profiles
or coordinating
sis, computational,
and mapping, architecand control methture, and security-
committees.
odologies pertainboth physical and cyber.
ing to power sysA significant area of
tems. This committee will focus on
weak coverage within PES is mithe methods and analytical techcrogrids, transactive energy, home area
niques from the current Power Sysnetworks, and home energy managetem Analysis, Computer, and Ecoment systems as well as automatic menomics Committee and add data
tering infrastructure and electric vehimining, data science, and big data.
cles. To solve this issue, a totally new
 The Power System Operation,
committee is being formed, and it is
Planning, and Economics Committentatively named Smart Buildings,
tee will cover the philosophies,
Loads, and Customer Systems.
methodologies, practices, and
More detailed information can be
tools for operation, planning, and
found on the PES technical commiteconomics of the interconnected and
tee reorganization web page: http://
insular power systems. This commitwww.ieee-pes.org/technical-activities/
tee will combine the Power System
committees/pes-technical-committeePlanning and Implementation
reorganization.

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