ISGW 2018 Compendium of Technical Papers

Advance Distribution Management System: An Integrated System.- Damage and Exposure Prevention of Energy Infrastructure through strategies in PEER: Evolving Trends for Efficiency, Reliability, and Resiliency.- Protection Scheme for Smart Distribution Networks with Inverter Interfaced Renewable Power Generating Sources.- Wide Area Monitoring System (WAMS): The Foundation Block of Smartgrids For Event Analysis.- A Decentralised Approach for Load Management in An Islanded Distribution Network During Contingency.- Roadmap for Digital Control System (DCS) Implementation in Utility Substations.- Utility Power Transformers' Performance Enhancement in Smart Grids.- Roll out and learnings of Smart Grids (The French Experience).- Evaluation of Heterogeneous Last Mile Technology for  Smart Metering and Smart LED Streetlighting Application.

Reji Kumar Pillai has been the President of India Smart Grid Forum since its inception in 2011 and Chairman of the Global Smart Grid Federation, a global umbrella organization of smart grid associations from 16 countries and the European Union, since November 2016. With over three decades of experience, he is spearheading a mission to leverage technology to transform the electric grid in India and light every home at an affordable cost through sustainable developmental models.
Girish Ghatikar is a seasoned smart grid, demand response, and clean energy technology innovator. Before joining Greenlots, he led research on enabling technologies and open standards for grid integration at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he also established the Demand to Grid (D2G) Lab.
Vijay L Sonavane was a member of the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) prior to his retirement in 2014.He is currently a member of the committee set up by Government of India to prepare regulations for smart grids, as well as the Mentor for the MAHA-Smart Grid Coordination Committee, set up by MERC for the development of smart grid projects in Maharashtra. He has over 33 years of experience in MSEB/MSEDCL.
SA Khaparde is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He co-authored the book Computational methods for large sparse power systems analysis: An object oriented approach" published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. He is a member of advisory committees to the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Indian Energy Exchange.Pradeep Kumar Yemula is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad. His research interests are in the areas of smart grids, power system control centers, information technology architectures, ontologies for power system events, common information models (cim), interoperability and standards.
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