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PES meetings
for more information, www.ieee-pes.org

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THE IEEE PowEr & EnErgy SocIety's (PES's) website (http://www.ieeepes.org) features a meetings section,
which includes calls for papers and additional information about each of the
PES-sponsored meetings.

IEEE PES PowerAfrica Conference
(PowerAfrica 2016), 21-25 June, Livingstone, Zambia, contact Dr. Urenna
onyewuchi,
urenna28@yahoo.com,
urenna.p.o@ieee.org, http://sites.ieee.
org/powerafrica/

IEEE International Conference on
Power Systems Technology (Powercon 2016), 28 September-1 october,
wollongong Australia, contact Prof.
Darmawan Soetanto, soetanto@uow.
edu.au

January 2016

July 2016

October 2016

IEEE PES Joint Technical Committee Meeting (JTCM 2016), 9-14 January, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, contact
charles Henville, chenville@dccnet.
com, http://www.pestechnical.org/

IEEE PES General Meeting (GM
2016), 17-21 July, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, contact Paula Traynor,
ptraynor@epri.com, http://www.pesgm.org/2016/

IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power & Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC 2016), 25-28 october, Xi'an,
china, contact Prof. Zhaohong Bie,
zhbie@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

May 2016

September 2016

November 2016

IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (T&D 2016), 2-5 May, Dallas,
Texas, USA, contact Tommy Mayne,
mayne25@charter.net,
http://www.
ieeet-d.org/

13th International Conference on
Transmission & Distribution Construction, Operation, & Live-Line Maintenance (ESMO 2016), 12-15 September,
columbus, ohio, USA, contact Eriks Surmanis, e.surmanis@pdc-cables.com

IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid
Technologies Asia (ISGT Asia),
28 november-1 December, 2016, Melbourne, Australia, contact Dr. Mohammad
Aldeen, aldeen@unimelb.edu.au

June 2016

IEEE PES Transmission & Distribution Conference & Exposition Latin
America (T&D LA 2016), 21-23
September, Morelia, Mexico, contact
Jaime cerda Jacobo, jcerda@ieee.org,
http//ieee-tdla2016.org

IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid
Technologies (ISGT 2016), 13-16 June,
Brooklyn center, Minnesota, USA, contact Jacob Bernhagen, j.bernhagen@
ieee.org, http://ieee-isgt.org/

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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPE.2015.2485904
Date of publication: 30 December 2015

letters to the editor (continued from p. 20)
"the region of lowest cost" is a major portion of the total system cost profile, making
it difficult to easily select a suitable point.
The working group of the AIEE
Subcommittee on the Application of
Probability Methods stated in their
1960 AIEE paper that "the selection
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of a satisfactory level of reliability or
a corresponding index appropriate to
any methods of measurement requires
at some point an exercise of informed
judgement." This comment is as applicable to the determination of an appropriate capacity reserve margin using

a value-based reliability assessment
approach, as it was to the determination of the LoLP index of one day in
ten years over 50 years ago.
-Roy Billinton and Kelvin Chu
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