This document discusses holistic transmission and resource planning to achieve optimal allocation of resources for the entire electric power system. It proposes considering all parts of the system and all operating scenarios to develop plans that are robust, flexible and achieve economic efficiency, reliability and environmental goals. Key aspects include probabilistic reliability criteria, integrating supply and demand options, and ensuring individual incentives align with overall system optimization through fair cost/benefit allocation.
Schneider’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) e-government solutions change the very nature of how citizens interact with local governments, improving constituent service while lowering costs. Our innovative approach allows Schneider to serve as the GIS/IT service provider for hundreds of local governments across the country.
In 2013, The Schneider Corporation saved tax payers over 11 million trips to the courthouse by providing innovative, industry-leading solutions to help organizations get the most from their limited resources. With creative product solutions such as Beacon™ a typical, local government client can save on average over $150,000 each year in employee benefits from reduced counter traffic. The estimated financial impact of Schneider’s e-government solutions reach into the tens of millions of dollars each year.
I was amazed at how quickly they were able to get my info on the web; and within days, the phone calls and traffic at my window dropped by 70%. We had about 400 appeals the year before Schneider. The following year after we implemented our Schneider website we had less than 20 appeals. – Dan Whitman, Martin County, MN.
Designing Your Future:Networking without the IckCindy Li
My talk was sponsored by the Unversity of TN Chattanooga. This talk was on April 9, 2009. It was part 1 of 2 presentations. I spoke about how to use the social networking sites to increase your visibility and how finding things online can improve your life offline.
Improving your brand (simple as your avatar) can help people relate to you vs an Illustration.
Some websites and companies are keeping an eye out for your privacy but some arent.
Schneider’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) e-government solutions change the very nature of how citizens interact with local governments, improving constituent service while lowering costs. Our innovative approach allows Schneider to serve as the GIS/IT service provider for hundreds of local governments across the country.
In 2013, The Schneider Corporation saved tax payers over 11 million trips to the courthouse by providing innovative, industry-leading solutions to help organizations get the most from their limited resources. With creative product solutions such as Beacon™ a typical, local government client can save on average over $150,000 each year in employee benefits from reduced counter traffic. The estimated financial impact of Schneider’s e-government solutions reach into the tens of millions of dollars each year.
I was amazed at how quickly they were able to get my info on the web; and within days, the phone calls and traffic at my window dropped by 70%. We had about 400 appeals the year before Schneider. The following year after we implemented our Schneider website we had less than 20 appeals. – Dan Whitman, Martin County, MN.
Designing Your Future:Networking without the IckCindy Li
My talk was sponsored by the Unversity of TN Chattanooga. This talk was on April 9, 2009. It was part 1 of 2 presentations. I spoke about how to use the social networking sites to increase your visibility and how finding things online can improve your life offline.
Improving your brand (simple as your avatar) can help people relate to you vs an Illustration.
Some websites and companies are keeping an eye out for your privacy but some arent.
Typical Meteorological Year Use in Solar Energy Assessments by VaisalaGwendalyn Bender
When determining energy output from utility scale solar projects when is it appropriate to use just a TMY and when should you use a long-term time series? This presentation compares both methodologies at 20 project sites to help answer the question.
Economical and Reliable Expansion Alternative of Composite Power System under...IJECEIAES
The paper intends to select the most economical and reliable expansion alternative of a composite power system to meet the expected future load growth. In order to reduce time computational quantity, a heuristic algorithm is adopted for composite power system reliability evaluation is proposed. The proposed algorithm is based on Monte-Carlo simulation method. The reliability indices are estimated for system base case and for the case of adding peaking generation units. The least cost reserve margin for the addition of five 20MW generating units sequentially is determined. Using the proposed algorithm an increment comparison approach used to illustrate the effect of the added units on the interruption and on the annual net gain costs. A flow chart introduced to explain the basic methodology to have an adequate assessment of a power system using Monte Carlo Simulation. The IEEE RTS (24-bus, 38-line) and The Jordanian Electrical Power System (46bus and 92-line) were examined to illustrate how to make decisions in power system planning and expansions.
The 5 core tools are recognized as standard quality tools for the automotive ...arvindsinghrathore6
The 5 core tools are recognized as standard quality tools for the automotive industry by AIAG, although they are also used in other manufacturing sectors such as aerospace, defense, medical, and pharmaceutical.
Verification process for DER modeling in interconnection-wide base case creationPower System Operation
As the penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs)
continues to grow across many parts of North America
and around the world, it is becoming increasingly
important to model and study the impacts that DER
may have on bulk power system (BPS) reliability. In
particular, representing DER in the interconnectionwide
powerflow and dynamics cases using reasonable
modeling assumptions is becoming critical. Various
forms of DER model verification, using historical data
and future projections of gross demand and DER, will
provide a technical basis for the modeling assumptions
applied. Further, understanding the operating conditions
and challenges that may be faced when attempting to study
these conditions in planning models is also important.
This paper provided recommended practices, and a case
creation and verification process, for integrating DER
into planning assessments of interconnection-wide
reliability. These practices can be expanded or adapted
by local transmission planners for their footprint.
How Integration of Systems Will Bring Concrete Benefits to the Earth and to M...Stephen Lee
Presentation made to the Hong Kong Bio- and Eco-Energy Industry Assocation, Dec 14, 2011. The world is at an uncertain divide, with the East on the rise and the West on the decline. Excesses of capitalism, and escalating costs of social benefits brought imbalances to the world, potentially pitching the young generation against the old. Will the vision of a green planet be shattered because it is unaffordable and too much of an economic burden on mankind? It is more imperative than ever that efforts to clean up the planet be based on the idea of integrating, automating and optimizing past systems which were operated in isolation from one another. New and concrete benefits will be turned up by innovative ways to explore synergistic relationships among proximate systems and to optimize their joint operation. An example can be found in bringing together systems of waste treatment, electricity production, and steam or heat production. However, real benefits must exceed real costs before the world will remain committed to the path of a green planet.
A Vision for a Holistic and Smart Grid with High Benefits to SocietyStephen Lee
Presented on Dec 2, 2009 as a keynote speech to the 2009 T&D Asia Conference in Bangkok and followed by moderating a round-table discussion of top utility executives in SE Asia.
An Alternative to Capitalism and Planned Economy? A Third Way economic system? A way to reduce the Boom and Bust tendency of free markets? A way to narrow global wealth disparity by returning the financial benefits of using the Earth's natural resources to all inhabitants.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf
Holistic Planning (For the Good of the Whole)
1. Holistic Transmission and
Resource Planning
- For the Good of the Whole
Stephen Lee
Senior Technical Executive
Power System Planning and Operation
March 3, 2008
Presented to IEEE Power Engineering Society
IEEE Power and Energy Magazine,
San Francisco Chapter
Sept/Oct 2007 Hosted by California PUC, San Francisco