August 2021I am grateful to my friend and collaborator at the IET Renewable Power Generation journal, Prof. Ramteen Sioshansi for kindly inviting me to offer a seminar at the Dept. of Integrated Systems Engineering at Ohio State University on November 10. I will talk about my earlier work at CMU on the Dept. of Energy SHINES project, on how batteries can allow residential end-customers to widely benefit from behind-the-meter photovoltaics. Reducing the costly effects of demand charges promises additional value to that of net-metering or self-consumption from photovoltaics, while鈥 Read More 禄
Last Updated December 2021 (originally published August 2021) Call for Papers (deadline Jan. 28t, 2022) 鈥 2022 IET RPG Conference, London, UK Initiatives, policy proposals, legislation and cheap capital have been defining the framework of a broad and accelerating shift towards cleaner infrastructure and processes in all sectors and aspects of society. The race to zero carbon emissions is on and organizations and consortia all around the world are bringing together experts, scholars, thought leaders and industry stakeholders to exchange views and inform each other about the what,鈥 Read More 禄
February 2021After many efforts over about a 5-year period I am happy to report the publication of the IEEE Standard 2660.1-2020 titled 鈥淩ecommended Practice for Industrial Agents.鈥 You can find it here. We are moving fast into an IoT era where local decision making either in the form of optimization, control action or system assessment, becomes critical and widespread. The most typical software entity that performs some type of any activity at a local level and in the form of a module is the 鈥榓gent.鈥 Agents have been the backbone of many approaches, paradigms and architectures鈥 Read More 禄
January 2021I am delighted to report that the Editor- and Deputy-Editor-in-Chief at the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) Renewable Power Generation (RPG) journal have appointed me Regional Editor of these publications for North America. I am humbled by the role and will work hard to promote the activities of the journal.This appointment follows that of the Associate Editor in the same journal and on the subject of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, as of my expertise on Virtual Power Plants. Although, as you may know, I am senior member, volunteer and 鈥榖ig fan鈥 of鈥 Read More 禄
December 2020I am joining the IEEE USA Energy Policy Committee (EPC), following the particularly honoring nomination by Prof. Parisini, President of the IEEE Control Systems Society. I am looking forward to serve my role in resolving the energy challenges in the US by offering my best technical counsel.The IEEE-USA EPC publishes position statements and white papers targeted at the legislative and executive branches of the US government and revolves around the matters of energy modernization and diversification, workforce training and advancement, security of infrastructure,鈥 Read More 禄
March 2020I would like to update you about some of my recent publications with great colleagues on particularly interesting topics.Starting from the latest one, my work with Omid Mousavi from DEPsys SA on the Digital Twin of the Medium Voltage side of a Distribution Transformer based on Low Voltage side measurements was published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. The proposal, practically, eliminates the requirements for costly medium voltage side instrument transformers, that also require network disruptions to be installed. Harmonics and system faults are captured鈥 Read More 禄
Last updated October 2021 (originally published March 2020)Update: The IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy is now indexed on Scopus! This is great news for an Open Access effort in the field of Power and Energy research that has started no more than 2 years ago! Many congratulations to the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Fran Li for his role in ensuring the highest quality of publications and to everyone who has worked to bring IEEE OAJPE to this first milestone of prominence. I am very proud to work by their side from the very first few days of this Open Access journal!~ * ~As of鈥 Read More 禄
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