IEEE Power & Energy Magazine - May/June 2015 - 6

leader's corner

Miroslav Begovic, Ken Edwards, and Damir Novosel

our technical committees
how they can best serve our membership

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you information about recent events,
thoughts about new initiatives, or any
other topic that improves the communication between our members and
PEs leadership.
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in this column, we have a particularly interesting topic (and will be continued in the "leader's corner" column
in the next issue). this topic will attract
the attention of many of our members
who are active in the technical committees (tcs) and the PEs technical
council. it concerns the assessment
of needs for restructuring and improving the reach, quality, and efficiency
of our many technical activities. this
need has been discussed within PEs for
years, and the justification for it comes
both from the changing landscape of
our industry as well as the changing
priorities and interests of our 30,000plus members. For that reason, this
column is authored by PEs President
miroslav Begovic, PEs President-Elect
Damir Novosel (who leads the longrange Planning committee), and technical council chair Ken Edwards. We
are also grateful to former technical
council chair Jeff Nelson for his work
on much of what is described herein, as
well as many valuable comments.
our industry has continued to
experience exciting developments in
recent years as global power grids have
become more complex to plan, operate, and maintain to accommodate grid
changes, such as renewable generation
resources, energy efficiency, electrical
vehicles, storage, and load growth. as
our nature is to do better, the goal of
the PEs is to address these changes
to support our membership in this
changing environment. We are doing
it by benefiting from our membership's
diversity, the wide variety of technical
backgrounds, and innovative ideas.

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initiatives we take now will help
shape our future. the iEEE PEs, with
our amazing team of volunteers, is constantly improving and taking a leading role in benefiting and shaping not
only our industry but the whole society. as an example of those initiatives,
our technical council in cooperation
with the Governing Board continues
to address how to facilitate continuous
improvements of our tcs.
in November of 2012, the PEs
technical council held a strategy
planning retreat to review opportunities for the tcs to serve our membership. the key objective was to
recommend solutions and priorities
for the organization and develop an
action plan. twenty-five PEs leaders,
including 16 tc representatives, two
representatives of the coordinating
committees, and regions 8-10 representatives, participated in the retreat.
the team concluded that there is a
strong PEs brand with a reputation for
technical quality, but that the existing
organization, processes, and resource
limitations make us less responsive to
emerging technologies.
one of the highest priorities identified was the concern with committee
structure and coordination due to a
perceived proliferation of an overlap
between existing tcs, subcommittees,
and task forces. these overlaps, in
some cases, resulted in duplication of
scope and effort, with additional time
demands placed upon those members
who participate in multiple committees. it may also result in isolated work
within committees, without knowledge
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