Fernando will give an overview of the IEEE Energy Policy Committee in action. He will focus on the mandate of the committee and on an overview of recent actions and positions taken. His perspective is one that effective engineering policy positions and recommendations need to be supported by sound technical, economic and political underpinnings, and he will discuss how the interplay between these needs sheds an entirely new light on purely technical issues.
He will then discuss in some detail the specifics of some of the actions the committee recently took in connection with providing legislative support to the recent blackout as an example of the kind of capabilities of the committee. He will then discuss furture directions that the committee is expected to undertake, and invite participation by the audience with comments and suggestions for action.
Fernando L. Alvarado is a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin and a Senior Consultant at Christensen Associates. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1972, a Masters from Clarkson University in 1969 and a PE and BEE degree from the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru. He is a fellow of IEEE. He is the Vice-Chairman of the IEEE Energy Policy Committee.
He has served as a member on the panel of experts for the US National Transmission Grid Study, reporting results to the Secretary of Energy in December 2001. He participated in a Presidential Task Force on Critical Infrastructures during 1997 and 1998. He has hundreds of journal publications, articles, book chapters, reports and conference presentations.
He is recognized for his work on the integration of economics and electric power networks. He has developed methods for efficient trading in power networks, including a method for hedging against price uncertainty (with R. Rajaraman). He has done extensive work for CIGRE on the topic of ancillary services. He is a well-known software expert, with emphasis on large scale computation, sparse matrices and least squares methods and co-author of several software packages.
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| IIT Rice Campus, Room 166 (Auditorium) | 6:00 PM | Social | |
| 201 East Loop Road | 7:00 PM | Presentation | |
| Wheaton, IL 60187-8488 | 9:00 PM | Adjourn | |
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