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leader's corner
Miriam Sanders, Ken Edwards, Damir Novosel, and Miroslav Begovic
member feedback wanted
a continuation of PES technical committee updates
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ONCE AGAIN THIS COLUMN IS
coming to you, the reader and IEEE
Power & Energy Society (PES) member, from the PES president, presidentelect, vice president of Technical Activities, and Technical Council vice-chair
to update you on the restructuring of the
PES technical committees (TCs) and
technical activities.
As noted in our previous column
"Our Technical Committees: How
They Can Best Serve Our Membership," in the May/June 2015 issue,
groundwork has been laid for realigning the TCs to the changes that are
happening in the power and energy industry with new technologies and their
applications and impact. The Technical Council has formed the Committee Structure Task Force, led by Doug
Houseman, to make restructuring recommendations. Based on those recommendations, the Technical Council
formed the Committee Structure Task
Groups (CSTGs), currently in the process of reviewing specific areas of the
proposed structure changes with feedback from TC members. Our goal is to
have a transparent review process of
the proposed structure and to include
membership comments in the process.
This is an important and far-reaching
endeavor, and it behooves every PES
member involved in technical activities to
provide his or her views on the changes
being proposed or discussed. The end
goal is to eliminate the shortcomings of
the system we have had in the past and to
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prepare for the changes brought about by
new technologies and the way we will all
do business. Some of the salient features
of the structural changes being evaluated
are outlined in the following text.
In the present configuration, there
are 21 TCs encompassing traditional
subjects such as transmission and distribution, transformers, switchgear, relaying, communications, substations, operations and planning, battery storage,
and energy development, as well as coordinating committees addressing wind
and solar power, intelligent grid, marine
systems, and emerging technologies.
But through technical council review (as described in the previous
"Leader's Corner") and three surveys
conducted with the TCs, several areas
of no coverage or weak coverage were
exposed. Some of those areas are cyber and physical security, microgrid
systems and operations, direct current
systems (although related components
have been covered), customer premise
(such as home area networks), markets,
and environmental aspects. In addition, several subjects, such as communications, are covered across several
committees but require improved coordination.
So the proposal by the task force
was to combine several coordinating
committees, redistribute subject matters among them, and create new committees where needed. Two coordinating committees (Intelligent Grid and
Emerging Technology) were combined,
and the Wind and Solar Coordinating Committee was folded into a new
Energy Development Committee. Furthermore, several TCs were merged
with existing or new TCs, and several
were renamed. This resulted in 18 coordinating and TCs as shown below. (Note
that those marked with an asterisk indicate no change.)
Proposed Coordinating
and TCs
✔ Intelligent Grid and Emerg-
ing Technologies Coordinating
Committee
✔✔ Marine Systems Coordinating
Committee*
✔✔ Conductors
✔✔ Electric Machinery*
✔✔ Energy Development
✔✔ Energy Storage and Stationary
Battery
✔✔ Grid Communications and Cyber Security
✔✔ Nuclear Power Engineering*
✔✔ Power System Analysis Methods
✔✔ Power System Dynamic Performance*
✔✔ Power System Planning and Operations
✔✔ Smart Buildings, Loads, and
Customer Systems
✔✔ System Protection
✔✔ Substations
✔✔ Surge Protective Devices*
✔✔ Switchgear*
✔✔ Transformers
✔✔ Transmission and Distribution.
These changes to the names and total number of committees will require
updating the scope of existing committees and restructuring the subcommittees
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