AGENDA
Monday, October 27th - Substation Day
7:30a: Welcome & Registration
8:00a: Housekeeping Announcements and Utility Reports
8:30a: Remediation of a Major Transformer Oil Spill by Oday Wadee & Doug Greer, Albarrie (PDS)
9:30a: Questions for a Consultant's GPR Study by Brian Turner, NPPD
10:15a: BREAK
10:30a: Understanding the Demands on Generator Sync Breakers by Michael A. Lane, Hitachi Energy (PDS)
11:30a: Beyond Blueprints: Unveiling the Power of 3D Modeling in Design by Richard McCoy & Peter Bergamini, Olsson
12:00p: Lunch
1:00p: Recloser Applications by Vladimir Kirienko & Sean Killins, Tavrida Electric North America (PDS)
2:00p: Enhancing Busbar Protection Reliability: Addressing Grounding Transformer Challenges in High-Voltage Systems by Mahfooz Hilaly, Burns & McDonnell
2:30p: BREAK
2:45p: Digital Monitoring by Menasha Abrams, Hitachi Energy (PDS)
3:45p: Securing the Grid: Past Lessons, Present Actions, Future Resilience by Andrew Henecke, OPPD
4:15p: Closing Remarks
Tuesday, October 28th - System Protection Day
7:30a: Welcome & Registration
8:00a: Vendor Fair Open
8:00a: Housekeeping Announcements and Utility Reports
8:30a: Challenges and Solutions for Distance Elements Protecting Transmission Lines with Tapped Loads by Josh LaBlanc, SEL
9:30a: Critical Redundancy Solutions by Renee Schaefer, RFL Products & Hubbell Power
10:10a: BREAK
10:30a: Enhancing Timekeeping in the Power Industry Through Multi-Constellation GNSS (Clocks) [from whitepaper] by Shane Singleton & Saurabh Rajpal, Novatech
11:15a: Case Study: 25 Years of Using Digital Messaging for Communications Assisted Protection by David Dolezilek, SEL
12:00p: Lunch
1:00p: Revisiting Open-Phase Detection for Fuse-Protected Power Transformers by Saurabh Kothari, SEL
1:45p: Ethics Presentation by Rob Bramon, Burns & McDonnell
2:45p: Device and Data Management for Evolving Power Systems by Pankaj Bhatt, SEL
3:25p: BREAK
3:40p: NPPD 2025 Outage Highlights by Steve Wadas, NPPD
4:20p: Improving Safety and Reliability on High-Voltage Lines with Broken Conductor Detection, A Utility's Perspective by Josh LaBlanc, SEL
5:00p - 7:00p: Hospitality Night
Wednesday, October 29th - Grid Edge Technologies Day
7:30a: Welcome & Registration
8:00a: Housekeeping Announcements
8:10a: Leveraging Intelligent Line Sensors to Improve Situational Awareness and Outage Response with OPPD by Tim Figura, Sentient Energy & Maurice Kimsey, OPPD
9:10a: Automatic Throwover Switches and Communicating Reclosers by Aaron Rasmussen, OPPD
10:00a: BREAK
10:15a: Smarter Substations Start Here: Practice AI Applications for Engineers by Mark Staubly & Julia Whelan, Expedium Consulting
11:15a: Distributed Energy Resources by Jim Helmberger, OPPD
12:00p: Lunch
1:00p: Application of Synchro-Waveforms to Successfully Detect Impending Faults for CMI/SAIFI & Improve Grid Resilliency by Mir Mousavi, Sentient Energy
2:00p: Advanced Metering Infrastructure by Aaron Smith, OPPD
2:45p: BREAK
3:00p: Future of SCADA Modeling and Management for Electric Utilities by Mark Staubly & Julia Whelan, Expedium Consulting
3:45p: Improving Circuit Volt/VAR Optimization with Advanced Voltage Regulator and Capacitor Bank Controls by Saurabh Kothari, SEL
4:30p: Closing Remarks


