May Webinar- Practical Implementation of Engineering Automation for Protection and Control Utilities have increasingly turned to the digital transformation of processes and data to address the challenges brought on by emerging new technologies, increased regulatory requirements, and an aging workforce, and to optimize the efficiency and capabilities of their engineering departments. This webinar presents the innovative engineering automation program undertaken by a major west coast utility’s Protection and Control department to integrate software-based automation techniques for system-wide analysis, reporting, compliance, and safety applications. This discussion will include considerations for holistic data management, technical requirements, and strategies for transitioning the engineering team to the utilization of automation-based processes. The real-world experience of employing these automation, integration, and data management solutions at San Diego Gas & Electric provides one potential implementation for the successful digital transformation of data and processes to assist protection engineers in meeting the challenges of the modern power systems industry. Who should attend: Protection engineers, Compliance managers, Data management specialists Quanta Technology Panelists: Saman Alaeddini San Diego Gas & Electric: Chris Bolton May 20, 2021- 11am-12pm EDT https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2144010705081717519

Keynote Title: "Benefits of Deploying Synchronized Measurements in the T&D Systems - Key Success Factors and Examples" Keynote 2 Speaker: Damir Novosel (President of Quanta Technology) Date & Time: Wednesday, May 26:  9:00am-10:00am EDT   Panel 4 Title: Synchronized Measurements in the Utility Control Center San Diego Gas & Electric Quanta Technology Panelist: Dan Brancaccio Date & Time: Thursday, May 27: 11:45am-1:00pm EDT

Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1091223923884524043 Abstract: The federal government is considering more than $250 Billion in proposed spending for EV incentives, the electric grid, and clean energy. Though utilities have been preparing for EV adoption, an increased pace of adoption, as well as expansion of electrification to medium/heavy duty vehicle classes, may create issues in how best to respond to the expected charging needs.   Quanta Technology is hosting a two-part webinar that provides a holistic view of the challenges facing the electricity grid and how industry stakeholders can work with utilities to ensure seamless integration of vehicles to help States realize their decarbonization goals. June 24 Webinar: This is the first of two webinars on Electrification Infrastructure. This webinar will focus specifically on infrastructure planning, starting at the electric utility system level.  From the system level to the substation and feeder level, the webinar will present the effects of expanded light-duty adoption as well as the impact of medium and heavy-duty fleet electrification with its accompanying fast charging – the applications which are likely to have the most dramatic impacts on utility infrastructure in the near-term.  Two examples of technology and process that are being used to address these impacts will be presented, the Service Center of the Future and the Mobility of Freight Distribution across the U.S. Event Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1091223923884524043 Pt 2 webinar link:: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5320315080856495631  

Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5320315080856495631 Abstract: The federal government is considering more than $250 Billion in proposed spending for EV incentives, the electric grid, and clean energy. Though utilities have been preparing for EV adoption, an increased pace of adoption, as well as expansion of electrification to medium/heavy duty vehicle classes, may create issues in how best to respond to the expected charging needs.   Quanta Technology is hosting a two-part webinar that provides a holistic view of the challenges facing the electricity grid and how industry stakeholders can work with utilities to ensure seamless integration of vehicles to help States realize their decarbonization goals. This is the second of two webinars on Electrification Infrastructure.  This webinar will focus on the implementation and testing of charging infrastructure which is essential to enabling advanced and emerging concepts such as managed charging and vehicle to grid (V2G).  The webinar will present examples of testing scope and methodology to ensure the proper operation of chargers and charger aggregation.    

Presentations: Transmission Planning for Offshore Wind Session Track: Resource and Transmission for Future Power System Monday, July 26, 2021  12:00 PM -  12:00 PM 21PESGM2638-TBD David Elizondo; Quanta Enabling Technologies for Data Analytics in Wide Area Monitoring Protective and Control Systems Monday, July 26, 2021  12:00 PM -  12:00 PM 21PESGM2951-Applications and Benefits of Data Analytics in Wide Area Monitoring, Protection, and Control Richard Hunt; Quanta Technology Distribution System Planning & Operation Monday, July 26, 2021  12:00 PM -  12:00 PM 21PESGM2192-Agent-Based Modeling of Feeder-Level Electric Vehicle Diffusion for Distribution Planning Lisha Sun; Quanta Technology Young Professional Panel Session Monday, July 26, 2021  12:00 PM -  9:45 PM 21PESGM2936-Young Professionals and the Power Systems of the Future Julio Romero Aguero; Quanta Technology Energy Storage Grid Integration Monday, July 26, 2021  6:00 PM -  8:00 PM 21PESGM2364-Energy Storage and Non-Wire Alternative Planning Richard Fioravanti; Quanta Technology Key Success Factors for Green, Resilient, and Affordable Electrical Energy Delivery Tuesday, July 27, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM- Damir Novosel, Quanta-Technology. Late Breaking News - Resilience Framework, Methods, and Metrics for the Electricity Sector Tuesday, July 27, 2021  10:00 AM -  12:00 PM Session Chair 1: Shay Bahramirad Quanta Technology   The Power & Energy Industry Wednesday, July 28, 2021 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Shay Bahramirad, Quanta Technology.   Eugene Litvinov Tribute Wednesday, July 28, 2021  8:00 AM -  10:00 AM Damir Novosel; Quanta-Technology 21PESGM2595-Eugene Litvinov Tribute   Vision for the Future Grid: Industry Perspective Wednesday, July 28, 2021  10:00 AM -  12:00 PM 21PESGM2871-Vision for the Future Grid: Industry Perspective David Elizondo; Quanta Technology    

Presenter- Guanhua Wen   Date-August 4th, 10:00am PST   Info- ASPEN’s 1 hour GoToWebinar session regarding their new V15 release

August 31 - September 1 https://pacworld.vfairs.com/ Papers Being Presented. 1.Tools and Approaches for Automation of Protection Settings Evaluation in Advanced Software Models- Daniyal Qureshi, Ish Anand, Hadi Khani James Kelly, Muna Anazodo, Pankaj Sharma (Hydro One) 2. Cost and Time Efficient Methodologies for Evaluation of the CT Saturation Impact on Bus Differential Protection Using Real-Time Digital Simulator Testing- Juergen Holbach, Ahmadreza Momeni, Aghil Davari, Hadi Khani Mohsen Khanbeigi, Athul Hangilipola, Matthew Leung (Hydro One) 3. Using Analytics to Understand the Evolving Electric Grid- Rich Hunt, David G. Hart, Juergen Holbach

Climate change is increasingly threatening the electric power system and causing major disruptions, through more severe and frequent weather events. These threats are exacerbated in the face of aging infrastructure. Disruptions to the electrical infrastructure propagate to other critical sectors causing a domino effect of health and community impacts. Developing resilience planning frameworks to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of severe events on the functions of the electric grid is necessary. This webinar will focus on ways to bridge resilience needs with grid modernization and decarbonization goals. Today, there are no widely accepted metrics in the industry to measure resilience, as opposed to reliability. This is complicated by the fact that there is no “one-size-fits-all” framework and metrics for resilience, as they depend on regional and functional factors. Therefore, there is a need for robust, risk-assessment-based resilience metrics and methods that should enable benchmarking across the industry, facilitate continuous improvement, and quantify risk to guide investment prioritization decisions. The increasing severity and frequency of extreme events call for resilience planning and investment prioritization to be part of coordinated planning and span generation, transmission, and distribution. A resilient infrastructure enables a sustainable economic future and is the building block for renewables and emerging technologies into the grid. Presenters- Shay Bahramirad, Kevin Dasso, Gregg Lemler   Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8290025619825400332

Mon October 18- 4:15pm-5:45pm CIGRE Track 2, Paper Session 3B- Selin Yanikara-Speaker, A Comprehensive Metrics-based Climate/Resilience Plan and Investment Strategy. Authors: Shay Bahramirad, Selin Yanikara, Elli Ntakou, Jeff Schlegelmilch, Khash Mahani Mahani, Ralph Masiello.   Mon October 18- CIGRE Track 3. Paper session 3 C, Hisham Othman- session speaker. Energy Storage Siting and Sizing Methodology to Unlock Transmission Transfer Capacity- A Case Study in the UK National Grid.   Tuesday October 19- 9:45am-11:15am, CIGRE Track 4, Paper session 4D. Richard Hunt- Speaker- Protection and Automation Session “What is Sustainable Design?” Authors: Richard Hunt & Eric Udren.   Tuesday October 19, 2:15-3:34 CIGRE Track 1, paper session 5A, Steven Wang - Speaker. Hurdles in Renewable Integration- Some Practical Considerations. Authors- Steven Wang & Henry Chao. https://cigre-usnc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-GOTF-Program-for-website-10-7-21.pdf

October 19-21, 2021 Quanta Technology will be presenting two papers (utility authors on the papers, but no utility co-presenters) at this conference. We do not have utility co-presenters because they are unable to attend – utility names do not appear anywhere in the presentation. Two papers and presentations: Development and Implementation of Practical Processes for NERC CIP-010 Compliance Evaluation Thursday Oct.21 1:15pm-4:45pm PST Session Presented by Tim Chang Practical Implementation of the Stepped-Event Analysis in Protection Evaluation Thursday Oct.21 1:15pm-4:45pm PST Session Presented by Xinyang Dong https://www.wprconf.com/event/13c97154-e01d-47d0-988f-f27f73f454c2

November 2-3, 2021 Quanta Technology will be presenting two sessions with utility co-presenters. Two presentations: Challenges and Considerations in Implementation Practical Solutions for NERC CIP-010 Compliance Evaluation November 2, 3:00-5:00pm EST Session Presented by Guanhua Wen, Christopher Bolton (SDG&E), Tuan Nguyen (PG&E) Opportunities for Digital Transformation in Addressing NERC Compliance Requirements November 2, 3:00-5:00pm EST Session Presented by Saman Alaeddini, Scot Hayes (PG&E), Christopher Bolton (SDG&E)