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| Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 | | |
| 8:00 am - 11:00 am | Closed Meeting - IAB Members
Open to all attendees of companies that are Industry Members of CAPER - Research Proposal Presentations | |
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| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Dominion EIC Tour | Ramtin Hadidi
Clemson University
CAPER Co-Director |
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| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | General Meeting Registration | |
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| 12:30 pm - 12:40 pm | Welcome Statement | Kevin Tomsovic
Clemson University
CURI Director |
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| 12:40 pm - 1:00 pm | Safety Moment and Meeting Objectives | Ramtin Hadidi
Clemson University
CAPER Co-Director |
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| Session I - Accommodating Load Growth | Andrew Clarke
Duke Energy
CSC Chair |
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| 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm | Accommodating Load Growth from Dominion Energy Transmission Planning’s Perspective | Ramtin Khalili
Dominion Energy |
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| 1:20 pm - 1:40 pm | Accommodating Load Growth from Dominion Energy Distribution Planning’s Perspective | Shawnta Sivells & Joshua Pollock
Dominion Energy
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| 1:40 pm - 2:00 pm | Load Growth from Duke Energy’s Generation Planning Perspective | Thomas Beatty
Duke Energy |
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| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Session I Q&A | |
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| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Break | |
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| Session II - Changing Generation Implication to the Grid | Ramtin Hadid
Clemson University
CAPER Co-Director
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| 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm | The Role of Nuclear Energy in Meeting Surging Load Growth | Andrew Sowder
EPRI |
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| 2:50 pm - 3:10 pm | What’s Behind All the Attention Nuclear Energy Is Receiving These Days | Steve Rea
Chair Emeritus Nuclear Advisory Council
(Virtual)
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| 3:10 pm - 3:30 pm | Grid Code Compliance for Wind Turbines | Samir Dahal
Siemens Gamesa
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| 3:30 pm - 3:50 pm | Planning for High IBR Penetration in ERCOT | Fred Huang
ERCOT
(Virtual) |
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| 3:50 pm - 4:10 pm | Session II Q&A | |
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| 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm | MRA-02-EP: Impacts of Managed Charging and Other Innovative Rates for Electric Vehicle Charging on Utility Load and the Grid System | CAPER Students intro
duced by Badrul Chowdhury
UNCC/NCSU
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| 4:30 pm | Day 1 Adjourn | |
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| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Poster Session / Meet & Greet Reception | |
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| Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 | | |
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| 8:00 am - 8:30 am | General Meeting Registration | |
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| 8:30 am - 8:40 am | Highlights from Day 1 and objectives for Day 2 | Robert Cox
UNC Charlotte
CAPER Director |
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| Session III - Flexible Loads | Robert Cox
UNC Charlotte
CAPER Director |
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| 8:40 am - 9:00 pm | Data Centers: Large Load Challenges, Impact and Modeling | Ali Mehrizi-Sani
Virginia Tech
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| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Duke Energy’s Grid Edge Evolution | Melanie Kaytes
Duke Energy
(Virtual) |
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| 9:20 am - 9:40 am | Session III Q&A | |
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| 9:40 am - 10 :00 am | PD-06: A Machine Learning based Automated Load Model Parameterization Tool | CAPER Students introduced by Ning Lu
NCSU/Clemson
CAPER Co-Director
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| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Break | |
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| Session IV - CAPER Sponsored Senior Design Project | Kat Sico
Duke Energy
CAPER IAB Vice-Chair
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| 10:20 am - 10:40 am | Clemson Team # 1 | CAPER Students introduced by Ramtin Hadidi |
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| 10:40 am - 11:00 am | UNC Charlotte Team | CAPER Students introduced by Badrul Chowdhury |
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| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | NC State Team | CAPER Students introduced by Ning Lu |
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| 11:20 am - 11:40 am | WCU Team | CAPER Students introduced by Bora Karayaka |
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| 11:40 am - 12:00 pm | Clemson Team # 2 | CAPER Students introduced by Ramtin Hadidi (Video) |
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| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
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| Session V - Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) | Kat Sico
Duke Energy
CAPER IAB Vice-Chair
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| 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm | EPRI GETSET Initiative: Accelerating adoption of Grid Enhancing Technologies | Andrew Phillips
EPRI
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| 1:20 pm - 1:40 pm | Boosting Transmission Capacity Quickly | Amrit Iyer
Smart Wires
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| 1:40 pm - 2:00 pm | Southern Company Research – Hydrogen Microgrid & Superconductors | Andrew Ingram
Southern Company
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| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Session V Q&A | |
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| 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm | PD-05: Inertia Estimate Using Synchrophasor Measurements | CAPER Students introduced by Ramtin Hadidi
Clemson/UNCC
CAPER Co-Director
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| 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm | Break | |
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| Session VI - Economics of Grid Expansion | Ning Lu
NC State University
CAPER Co-Director
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| 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm | Rate Design for Grid Modernization in the Carolinas | Zach Flowers
Duke Energy |
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| 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm | MRA-01-PD/EHP-10-PD: Improving Power Flow Performance for IVVC Application on NC Distribution Feeders with DERs | CAPER Students introduced by Valentina Cecchi
UNCC/NCSU
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| 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Session VI Q&A | |
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| 4:00 pm - 4:10 pm | Closing and Next Meeting – March 2026 hosted by NC State University | Andrew Clarke
Duke Energy
CSC Chair
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| 4:10 pm | Day 2 Adjourned | |
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