Conference & Workshops Organization - School of Engineering

Inaugural Workshop of the NSF EuReCa Global Center on Equitable, Resilient, and Clean Energy for Grid-Interactive Communities (3/25, Monday).

Registration link at https://forms.gle/t1bACS72o1qkiQzZ8

Distributed energy resources (DERs) have tremendous potential to transform operators and users toward more clean and resilient energy supplies by harvesting and distributing various renewable energies tailored to the profiles of distinctive local communities. An equitable and user-centric market is essential in this transformation. New designs, mechanisms, and technologies are needed to establish a DER-based, self-sustaining clean energy ecosystem at the grid edge for a diverse spectrum of communities and stakeholders. In this inaugural workshop of the NSF EuReCa Global Center, we try to connect stakeholders from communities, federal agencies, utilities, private sectors, and academia to discuss the challenges, exchange ideas, and explore user cases and possible solutions.

This workshop will be held on March 25, 2024, in Santa Clara, CA, USA, and is sponsored by the NSF Global Centers Program¹. It aims to attract a broad range of DER stakeholders across the Bay Area, including attendees from the co-located 8th Al International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications hosted at Santa Clara University. The workshop will be held in person to connect and facilitate the discussion among stakeholders. As the workshop date approaches, we would like to share some important information below.

1. The event will be hosted at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA, on March 25, 2024. The detailed address is below:

Room: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation (SCDI) 1302,

500 El Camino Real,

Santa Clara,

CA, 95053

2. The workshop website is available at https://www.scu.edu/engineering/eureca/conferences. Onsite registration and networking will start at 9:00 a.m., and the program will officially start at 9:30 a.m. We have updated a tentative schedule and speaker information on our website. Please feel free to check out the detailed information. Please note that we are still confirming the details with one or two potential speakers, which may lead to minor schedule changes. We'll keep our website updated.

3. How to get here:

Please note that if you type in 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA in Google map, you may be directed to some other entrance to campus. The easiest way to park is to get into the campus from the main entrance (with the Caltrain station, Starbucks, and Bank of America just across the street). After passing the main entrance, make a left turn and you will see the main parking building. Please refer to the two maps (one Google map + one SCU campus map) right below, with the main entrance, parking building, and the Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation (SCDI) highlighted. In addition, please feel free to check out our campus map at https://www.scu.edu/map/

4. Parking permit:

Please get a parking permit from the main entrance Koisk by mentioning that you are a speaker for the NSF EuReKa Workshop. Please note that your permit will only allow you to park with an E type of parking lot (available on the 2nd and 3rd floor of the main parking building).

5. Online participation option:

We will also offer online participation through Zoom. Please feel free to share the Zoom meeting information with your connections:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://scu.zoom.us/j/93868391945?pwd=RmprYS9lcWJoUmRSVHUxYzNlYTZoUT09

Meeting ID: 938 6839 1945
Password: 344624

Join by phone:
+1 (669) 900-6833
Meeting ID: 938 6839 1945

One tap mobile
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Should you have any questions or need any other information or help for the workshop, please feel free to contact us at any time:

Yuhong Liu: yhliu@scu.edu

A tentative schedule is as follows.

9-9:30	Reception and Networking, Coffee
	Technical Presentation chaired by Yi Fang	Presenter	Affiliation
9:30-9:40	Welcome from the associate dean of research and interdisciplinary program	Christopher Kitts	Santa Clara University
9:40-10:00	EuReCa Center	Yuhong Liu	Santa Clara University
10:00-10:20	Human Interactions with Cyber-Physical Systems	Thomas Roth	Nat'l Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST)
10:20-10:40	Load Restoration in Islanded Microgrids: Formulation and Solution Strategies	Yu Zhang	UC Santa Cruz
10:40-10:50	Break
10:50-11:10	Operational Coordination in a High DER Grid	Farrokh Rahimi	Open Access Technology International, Inc. (OATI)
11:10-11:30	A Microgrid Controller that Facilitates DER and Renewables	George Zhou	S&C Electric
11:30-11:50	Resilient power generation using solid ixude fuel cells	Razvan Panati	Bloom Energy
11:50-12:10	Empowering Global Solar Adoption through Data Communication Standard	Susanna Huang	Enso Circle Space
12:10-1:10	Lunch & Networking & Poster
	Panel Discussion moderated by Hohyun Lee	Presenter	Affiliation
1:10-1:20pm	Applications of AI/ML for electric grids: A GE Vernova perspective	Tapan Shah	Ge Vernova Research
1:20-1:30pm	James Kempf, Whygrene	James Kempf	Whygrene
1:30-1:40pm	Stephen Honikman, Electriq Power	Stephen Honikman	Electriq Power
1:40-1:50pm	Hamed Nademi, Cal State University, San Marcos	Hamed Nademi	Cal State University, San Marcos
1:50-2:00pm	Open Questions
2:00-2:30pm	Panel Discussion (Additional Panels: Farrokh Rahimi (OATI), Jun Yan (Concordia Univ.))
2:30-3:00pm	Audience Participation

We have confirmed invited panelists/speakers from NIST, GE (https://www.ge.com/), Bloom Energy (https://www.bloomenergy.com/), Whygrene (https://whygrene.com/), Concordia University (https://www.concordia.ca/), and Santa Clara University (https://www.scu.edu/). If you are interested in participating in the poster/demo session, please feel free to contact Yuhong Liu (yhliu@scu.edu) for further details.

Workshop organizers:

five people

Dr. Y. Fang, Dr. H. Lee, Dr. Y. Liu, Dr. J. Yan, and Dr. M. Ghafouri

Sponsors: words

¹https://new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-international-partners-invest-764-million