Above and beyond: Enhancing power quality within Toronto Hydro’s grid
- Date
- May 31, 2018
- Time
- 12:00 PM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT
- Location
- Computer Science Conference Room (ENG 288/9), George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street, Toronto, ON M5B 1Z4
Seminar description
In recent years, efforts have been devoted to enhancing the quality of electricity supply to mission-critical customers, a benefit evolving out of smart grid technologies.
In this area of work, distribution companies are working to reduce momentary power interruptions and enhance their service quality beyond the North American standards.
Toronto Hydro supplies its customers with electricity that meets and exceeds North American standards of power quality. However, some customers with sensitive equipment (such as hospitals and manufacturing facilities) can still benefit from a higher supply quality beyond the required standards. Enhancing power quality for these customers, to avoid momentary power interruptions, will improve their performance and minimize the impact on their mission-critical processes and equipment.
In this seminar, Dr. Omid Alizadeh, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Energy (CUE) at Ryerson University, will discuss the outcomes of CUE’s collaboration with Toronto Hydro in this area. Drawing on case studies, including energy storage implementation studies and utilization of reclosers in distribution systems, Dr. Alizadeh will present new enhanced power quality standards for customers with sensitive equipment within Toronto Hydro's distribution system, as well as technical solutions to meet these new standards.
We are delighted to welcome Gary Thompson, Supervisor, Generation, Planning and System Studies at Toronto Hydro, who will introduce Dr. Alizadeh.
Speaker biograpies
Dr. Omid Alizadeh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Energy (CUE). He received the Ph.D. degree from Western University, London, Ontario, in Electrical Engineering.
Since joining CUE in 2014, Omid has been involved in several research and development projects funded by and in close collaboration with industry partners such as Hydro One, Toronto Hydro, and eCAMION. The projects include the integration of emerging technologies for fault current limitation in transmission and distribution systems and the application of battery energy storage systems for power quality enhancement.
Omid's general research interests include transient analysis of power systems, power systems protection and control, distributed energy resources, renewable integration, and microgrids.
Gary Thompson is an engineer with over 25 years experience, recognized as a leader, strategic thinker and smart grid innovator. His responsibilities currently involve the management of a team that plans, engineers and facilitates assets related to transmission and distribution electricity systems for the grid and industrial infrastructure, including: smart grid; protection and coordination; monitoring and control (SCADA); solar PV; combined heat and power plants; and Energy Storage. He has facilitated the review and interconnection planning of over 1600 distributed energy resources. In 2016 he received the CANSIA Game Changer Award.
Gary is a member of CSA, UL and IEC technical standard committees covering solar, wind and energy storage. An educator and researcher, he is currently an Honorary Fellow and lecturer at the Centre for Urban Energy at Ryerson University.
He is currently a member of the boards of Energy Storage Canada, (ESC) and Canadian Solar Industry Association (CANSIA).
Program
12:00 PM ET Arrival, registration and refreshments
12:15 Introduction by Gary Thompson
12:30 Talk by Dr Omid Alizadeh
1:00 Q&A
1:20 Wrap up and opportunity for networking
Accessibility
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Notices
- Light refreshments (pizza) will be served.
- This is a free event but you must register via Eventbrite (external link, opens in new window) beforehand.
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