Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Leyi Wang
IEEE Fellow
Wayne State University, USA
Le Yi Wang received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1990. Since 1990, he has been with Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of complexity and information, system identification, robust control, H-infinity optimization, time-varying systems, adaptive systems, hybrid and nonlinear systems, information processing and learning, as well as medical, automotive, communications, power systems, and computer applications of control methodologies. He was a keynote speaker in several international conferences. He serves on the IFAC Technical Committee on Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and several other journals, and an Associate Editor of Journal of Control Theory and Applications. He was a Visiting Faculty at University of Michigan in 1996, a Visiting Faculty Fellow at University of Western Sydney, Australia, in 2009 and 2013, a Visiting Faculty at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 2016, an Organizer and Lecturer of the Advanced Study Institute in INSA Bourges and INRIA Lille, France, in 2022 and 2023. He is an Eminent Engineer in Tau Beta Pi, a member of Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University, and a Fellow of IEEE.
Speech Title: Joint Estimation of Continuous States and Discrete Events in Stochastic Hybrid Systems with Applications to Detection of Power System Contingencies
Traditional types of uncertainties in control and estimation of dynamic systems involve modeling errors and measurement noises. However, cyber-physical contingencies in modern power systems involve sudden and random changes in system structures, topologies, or parameters, exemplified by transmission line faults, generation failures, communication uncertainties, system reorganizations, physical and cyber attacks, etc. The interaction between continuous physical dynamic systems and discrete events of stochastic contingencies can be naturally modeled as stochastic hybrid systems. Randomly switching uncertainties interrupt system observability and controllability, and introduce some fundamental technical challenges. In this presentation, we summarize some recent progress on observability, observer design, and event detection for randomly switched linear systems whose subsystems are unobservable. An operator must combine information from different subsystems and sensors, and integrate observer design with stochastic data of the switching process to achieve simultaneously estimation of the system’s continuous states and detection of contingencies. The coordinated design methods for subsystem observers and their organization for estimating both continuous and discrete states will be discussed. Fundamental conditions and limitations, and convergence properties will be summarized. Applications of the new methodology on state estimation and contingency detection of modern power systems will be presented on some common IEEE bus systems.
Keynote Speaker II
Dr. Pierluigi SIANO
Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management & Innovation Systems
University of Salerno, Italy
Pierluigi Siano (12,700+ citations, 55+ H-Index) has an MS in Electronic Engineering and PhD in Information and Electrical Engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy. He is a Professor and Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management & Innovation Systems, University of Salerno. Since 2021 he has been Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg. His research activities are centered on demand response, on energy management, on the integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids, on electricity markets and on planning and management of power systems. In these research fields he has co-authored more than 650 articles including more than 370 international journal papers.
Speech Title: Smart Energy Communities for the Energy Transition
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Plenary Speaker I
Dr. Hossam Gabbar
Founder and General Chair of IEEE SEGE
Ontario Tech University, Canada
Dr. Gabbar is a full Professor in the Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, and cross appointed in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, at Ontario Tech University (UOIT), where he has established the Energy Safety and Control Lab (ESCL), Smart Energy Systems Lab, and Advanced Plasma Engineering Lab. Dr. Gabbar is the recipient of the Senior Research Excellence Aware for 2016, UOIT. He is recognized among the top 2% of worldwide scientists with high citation in the area of energy. He is leading national and international research in the areas of smart energy grids, energy safety and control systems, and waste to energy using advanced plasma technologies. Dr. Gabbar obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1988 with first class of honor from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University (Egypt). In 2001, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Okayama University (Japan). From 2001 till 2004, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), as a research associate. From 2004 till 2008, he joined Okayama University (Japan) as an Associate Professor, in the Division of Industrial Innovation Sciences. From 2007 till 2008, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. He also worked as process control, safety, and automation specialist in energy and oil & gas industries. Dr. Gabbar has more than 230 publications, including patents, books / chapters, journal and conference papers.
Speech Title: Resilient Energy and Transportation Infrastructures
This talk will present design and operation scenarios of resilient energy and transportation infrastructures. The talk will discuss development strategies of hybrid charging stations and their integration witihn energy and transportation infrastructures. The design and control strategies of fast charging stations will be presented with hybrid energy storage. Hardware-in-the-loop and real time simulation are used to evaluate the proposed design and implementation scenarios. Integrated nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems using Small Modular Reactor (SMR) or Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) wihitn micro energy grids are used to achieve resilient energy supply within charging stations. Intergation betweeen hyrdogen and fuel cell systems are demonstrated to achieve hybrid charging stations and support the transition to clean transportation. Transactive mobility will be discussed to support the deployment of charging stations within energy and transportation infrastructures, as integrated with community applications in city, urban, and remote communities. Performance measures are modeled and evaluated for different design and operation strategies. Resiliency and performance measures will be discussed in view of number of operation and control strategies to meet user requirements.
Plenary Speaker II
Dr. Michael Fowler
University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Gabbar is a full Professor in the Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, and cross appointed in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, at Ontario Tech University (UOIT), where he has established the Energy Safety and Control Lab (ESCL), Smart Energy Systems Lab, and Advanced Plasma Engineering Lab. Dr. Gabbar is the recipient of the Senior Research Excellence Aware for 2016, UOIT. He is recognized among the top 2% of worldwide scientists with high citation in the area of energy. He is leading national and international research in the areas of smart energy grids, energy safety and control systems, and waste to energy using advanced plasma technologies. Dr. Gabbar obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1988 with first class of honor from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University (Egypt). In 2001, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Okayama University (Japan). From 2001 till 2004, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), as a research associate. From 2004 till 2008, he joined Okayama University (Japan) as an Associate Professor, in the Division of Industrial Innovation Sciences. From 2007 till 2008, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. He also worked as process control, safety, and automation specialist in energy and oil & gas industries. Dr. Gabbar has more than 230 publications, including patents, books / chapters, journal and conference papers.
Speech Title: Colours of Hydrogen Production
One of the key questions to be addressed in the 'hydrogen economy' is the clean production and distribution of hydrogen. Hydrogen production is now investing in the ‘colours of hydrogen’. Through a series of over 40 publications and presentations, his work has furthered the concept of 'clean energy hubs' as distributed energy generation systems. This includes systems such as wind and solar, and large-scale systems with CO2-free nuclear energy as a key component of the hubs. Unique to this work is the consideration of the electrical transmission system, specifical congestion in the system as a constraint. This work has principally included hydrogen as an energy vector, but also considered the impact of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles within such clean energy hubs. The techno-economic analysis of the use of excess off-peak power to generate hydrogen gas for industrial applications, heating and fuel cell vehicle (FCV) propulsion is a clear outcome of this work. Policy issues explored include a comparative lifecycle assessment of the use of hydrogen produced within a Power-to-Gas concept for powering FCVs and an economic analysis which compared the use of hydrogen as renewable fuel with the use of biofuels/methanation. Power-to-gas (P2G) is a technology concept that converts electrical power into hydrogen through electrolysis, and then used through a variety of energy storage and transformation pathways and is being explored internationally also. A number of publications have demonstrated the potential of Hydrogen Econony for Energy Vectors and energy storage, including energy storage over an extended seasonal timeframe. This work showed the potential for the 'colours' of various ways to produce hydrogen to use CO2 free nuclear and renewable energy (wind and solar), specifically the using surplus power for environmental and economic benefit in Ontario and how Power-to-Gas pathways can play a role toward a fossil-free economy in the long term.