IEEE PES FORT WORTH MONTHLY MEETING – January 17th, 2023

The IEEE PES Fort Worth chapter will have our next monthly meeting on January 17^th presented in person at the Stockyards Conference Room at Burns & McDonnell. The address is 100 Energy Way Suite 1700, please see below for parking instructions.

Lunch will be available for $18, please RSVP if you would like lunch at the event. Also, please email me personally if you have any dietary restrictions.

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Fort Worth IEEE PES members, we will have our next IEEE PES meeting on January 17^th from 11:30am to 1:00pm. We have Sudarshan Byreddy from Burns & McDonnell presenting on how space weather can impact our power grid.

Title:

Is the power grid for the next “space weather” event?

Abstract:

This presentation highlights the effects of Geomagnetic disturbances (GMD) on Power Grids. GMD is caused by ejection of plasma from the sun, due to coronal mass ejections (CME) and highspeed solar wind streams and its interaction with earth’s magnetic field. GMDs create low frequency GIC (Geomagnetic Induced Currents) which circulates between the transmission lines and high-side Y-grounded transformers and ground. GIC flows in Y-grounded transformers may cause Asymmetrical saturation of transformer core and damage through over-heating. The other effect is distortion of fundamental frequency which results in increased Var loading and harmonics. This reduces reliability and moves the system closer to voltage collapse. This presentation will discuss some mitigation measures and FERC & NERC regulations.

Bio:

Sudarshan received his MS degree from University of Missouri Kansas City in 2015. He is working as a Staff Electrical Engineer with 7 years of experience in Substation and Protection & Control Design at Burns & McDonnell. Sudarshan is also a licensed Professional Engineer registered with the Texas Board of Professional Engineers(TBPE). He is the vice chair for the IEEE PSRC I-46 working group. He is actively contributing in revising IEEE standards C37.101 guide for generator ground protection, C37.243 guide for the application of digital line current differential protection using digital communications, and C57.13.3 guide for grounding instrument transformer secondary circuits.