4 August 2021

Committee Chair: Ron Melton

Vice-Chair: Johanna Mathieu

Secretary: Yashen Lin

Meeting Description: Annual face-to-face[*] meeting of the Smart Buildings, Loads, and Customer Systems Technical Committee held in conjunction with the IEEE Power and Energy Society annual meeting.  The general business of the committee will be reviewed and discussed.

Agenda:

  1. Welcome and Introductions
  2. Approval of Agenda
  3. Meeting minutes approval – SBLC meeting minutes from 2020 PES GM (https://site.ieee.org/pes-sblc/pes-general-meeting-2020-sblc-committee-meeting-notes/)
  4. Leadership Transitions
    1. New SBLCS Chair – Johanna Mathieu
    1. New SBLCS Vice-Chair – Yashen Lin
    1. New SBLCS Secretary – Qun Zhou
    1. New SBLCS Past Chair – Ron Melton
    1. New SBLCS TCPC Co-Leads – Bishnu Bhattarai and Sumit Paudyal
  5. Subcommittee Updates
    1. Architecture
    1. Smart Buildings and Customer Systems
    1. Loads
  6. Working Group / Task Force Updates
    1. P2418.5 Energy Blockchain Working Group
    1. P2781 Working Group
    1. P2783 Working Group
  7. Future Events
    1. PES GM 2022 Panels
    1. PES Call for Tutorials – Due August 6, 2021 https://www.ieee-pes.org/ieee-pes-2022-call-for-tutorials
    1. ISGT NA 2022, Feb. 21 – 24, 2022, Washington, DC  – Papers due August 15 (https://ieee-isgt.org)
    1. IEEE PES T&D, April 25 – 28, New Orleans, LA – Paper & Panel proposals due August 15, 2021.  Tutorial proposals due August 6, 2021. (https://ieeet-d.org)
    1. IEEE-TESC 2022 – May 2022 (ieee-tesc.org) – Organizing Committee just getting started.  If anyone is interested in helping contact Karen Studarus (karen.studarus@pnnl.gov)
    1. Others?
  8. Administrative Items
  9. Round Table (if there is time)
  10. Adjourn

[*] For 2021 this meeting is being held as an online virtual face-to-face meeting due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic