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leader's corner
I
I am pleased to report that
we achieved several valuable milestones
in 2017 under the New Initiatives and
outreach program to power the future.
one is the formation of an executive ad-
visory Committee (eaC) to support the
Ieee power & energy society's (pes's)
Board of directors. the other is the cre-
ation of a strategic plan for Ieee's smart
Cities initiative. Both achievements will
contribute to the Ieee's overall mission
to advance technology for humanity as
well as creating new opportunities for
our members to contribute to that mis-
sion and, in turn, derive more value from
their affiliation with the Ieee.
powerful forces are driving a signi-
ficant transformation of the electric grid.
society's increased environmental con-
sciousness and focus on addressing
climate change, greater consumer ex-
pectations for and demands on the grid,
the integration of new technologies
onto the existing electric system, and
flat load growth are among the forces
we must address.
all of this is happening at once. at the
same time that the frequency and severity
of extreme weather events are increasing,
consumer expectations for reliable, af-
fordable power continue to grow. While
consumers and enterprises adopt more
distributed energy resources (ders), in-
creasing der penetration affects both
the operations of and planning for the
distribution system. the challenges are
many, and they are simultaneous.
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new milestones
smart cities and executive advisory committees
as the energy industry's neutral,
trusted advisor, Ieee pes is committed
to working more closely than ever with
industry practitioners and stakeholders
to address these challenges. that means
analyzing technical issues, developing so-
lutions and standards, and holding global
executive forums to share best practices
and lessons learned.
Facilitating the society's ability to ad-
dress industry challenges translates into
opportunities for our members to provide
strategic guidance to the Board of direc-
tors. thus, it's my pleasure to announce
that we've recently created an eaC for
regions 1-7, which covers the United
states and Canada. Work on eaCs for
regions 8 and 9 is underway.
the eaC's main goal is to benefit
pes members by giving them more di-
rect access to the Board of directors and
their valuable industry insights and con-
cerns to help them share their expertise
on power industry challenges to those
who need it. this brings greater value
to the pes's contribution to solving so-
cietal power issues, to members' orga-
nizations, and to members themselves.
this partnership will allow the soci-
ety's best practices guidelines and stan-
dards to be developed in a more timely
fashion and assist in aligning pes's pri-
orities with the needs of society and the
industry alike. It will also bring greater
attention to the many organizations and
enterprises that sponsor and support
their executives' involvement in pes to
achieve the greater good. this year the
eaC focused on knowledge transfer,
workforce development and standards,
and how our talent can drive standards
to power the future.
A Strategic Plan
for Smart Cities
the power industry, in general, and
utilities, in particular, have much to
offer as we all explore how to achieve
the vision of smart cities developing
across the world. But the holistic view
that this is a multidisciplinary endeavor
means that pes, for instance, is sim-
ply one stakeholder and contributor to
such efforts.
a new 2017-2020 strategic plan for
the Ieee smart Cities initiative, as ap-
proved by the Ieee smart Cities steer-
ing Committee on 1 august 2017, offers
a vision and mission statement-and
practical means to achieve them-that
reflects a holistic approach involving at
least half a dozen Ieee societies. the
new direction took time to gestate. In
June 2017, after two years as an incu-
bation project of the Future directions
Committee (FdC), the Ieee voted to
graduate Ieee smart Cities from the
FdC to a fully functioning Ieee pro-
gram. By consensus, pes has become
the administrator of the initiative.
In a sense, this strategic plan takes a
new, more effective direction than the
initial thrust of the Ieee smart Cities
effort, which took a top-down approach
and selected core and affiliate cities
to focus on. While those efforts move
ahead based on local consensus and
support, a more bottom-up approach
embodied in the new strategy will make
smart city capabilities available to any and
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