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IEEE PELS SBC at Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi Observes PELS Day [Society News

IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Student Branch Chapter (SBC) Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University, New Delhi, India, and JMI student branch jointly organized a virtual panel discussion on the topic “Power Electronics-Reliability, Artificial Intelligence (AI) are future research directions.” The event was organized on 21 June 2022 on the occasion of PELS Day ( <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Figure 1</xref> ), which was celebrated all across the world. The panelist was distinguished world renowned professors in the area of power electronics and green energy. They included Prof. Frede Blaabjerg, past president of PELS and IEEE Fellow, Prof. Huai Wang of Aalborg University, Denmark, Prof. Saad Mekhilef, the University of Malaya, Malaysia, and IEEE Fellow, Prof. Rajesh Kuma, MNIT, Jaipur, India, Dr. Sreenivas Karanki, Head, IEEE PELS India Committee, IIT Bhubaneswar, and Dr. Ahteshamul Haque, faculty advisor IEEE PELS SBC and branch counsellor JMI.

The IEEE PELS UK and I Section Chapter Runs Successful PELS Day Event [Society News

On 29 June 2022, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) United Kingdom and Ireland (UK&I) Section Chapter hosted a series of online talks on professional developments with IEEE in honor of PELS Day. Chapter Chair Bing Ji began the event with an opening speech and presentation of the vision and mission of the Chapter. Dr. Ji also explained the importance, benefits, and opportunities of joining the PELS community, such as supporting the Distinguished Lecturer program, receiving best thesis awards, and establishing new student branches. Over 80 joined the event by Zoom and positive feedback was received from the attendees (Figure 1). The Chapter would like to thank all who joined this event and is looking forward to engaging with participants in the future events.

IEEE PELS Swiss Chapter Resumes In-Person Events for 2022 [Society News

With the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions easing and the slow restart of traveling, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Swiss Chapter has returned to in-person technical events. For example, Prof. Dr. Victor Veliadis (North Carolina State University, USA) gave a lecture on the topic “SiC Power Device Commercialization: Status and Barriers to Overcome” in January 2022 and Prof. Dr. Leon Tolbert (University of Tennessee, USA) presented a lecture on the topic “Application of HV SiC MOSFETs for Medium Voltage Converters” in May 2022. Both talks were hosted by Prof. Johann W. Kolar at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. The most recent lecture was presented by Prof. Dr. Minjie Chen in June 2022 and the topic was “Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Circuits and Magnetics for High-Performance Power Conversion.” It was given at the EPFL, Lausanne, and hosted by Prof. Drazen Dujic ( <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Figure 1</xref> ).

IEEE PELS SBC at VJCE Organizes RDL Presentation [Society News

On 30 June 2022, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Student Branch Chapter (SBC) at the Vimal Jyothi Engineering College (VJEC) organized a Regional Distinguished Lecture (RDL) program with the topic “High Power Converters Contributing Power Grid Stabilization in Japan.” The lecture was presented by IEEE Senior Fellow Dr. Noriko Kawakami of Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation.

Electricity for Humanity: Global Impacts of Smart Cities and Villages [Editors’ Voice

Over a decade ago, the seeds for what is now the IEEE Smart Village initiative were planted. Thanks to champions like Robin Podmore and Ray Larson as well as countless volunteers, the Smart Village logo and community-building sessions have become familiar to those of us who attend the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting. Somewhat more recently, IEEE created the Smart Cities Initiative that links together contributions from six technical societies and two councils “. . . to advance the state of the art for smart city technologies for the benefit of society. . . .”

IEEE PELS: 35 Years of Growth and Excellence [President’s Message

<fig orientation="portrait" position="float" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <graphic orientation="portrait" position="float" xlink:href="chang-3193859.tif"/> </fig> The IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) celebrates the 35th anniversary in 2022 for its establishment as a full IEEE society by the visionary pioneers of the power electronics community. Many PELS Chapters and Student Branch Chapters around the world have organized virtual or in-person events to celebrate the PELS Day throughout June this year. You may have seen the fascinating photos of these events posted on our PELS website. Now our society has become the eighth largest society within IEEE, and is continuing its steady growth in membership throughout the world, including higher quality in publications, more agility in technical programs, and excellence in conferences and expositions. In addition, PELS is expanding initiatives to fully serve its members.

IEEE PELS SBC at JMI New Delhi Organizes Distinguished Lecture [Society News

On 6 May 2022, IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Student Branch Chapter (SBC) at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University, New Delhi, India, organized a distinguished lecture (DL) by Prof. S. K. Panda of the University of Singapore, Singapore. The lecture was delivered online on the topic “Single Phase Inverter Control Techniques for Interfacing Renewable Energy Sources.” The virtual mode lecture was delivered on the Webex platform.

Guest Editorial: Situational awareness of integrated energy systems

Guest Editorial: Situational awareness of integrated energy systems

Hope for Resuming Our In-Person Events [President’s Message

The hybrid format of IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) 2022, held 20–24 March in Houston, Tx, USA, was a refreshing change from the virtual conferences of the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to the tremendous efforts of hundreds of organizers and volunteers, APEC 2022 signals the return to our in-person events. It was a joyful reunion of IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) members, volunteers and exhibitors. The breakfast event of “WiE, YP, and You: How to become involved with PELS and PSMA too” was a huge success, the fruit of the tireless work of the PELS Women in Engineering (WiE) and Young Professionals (YP) Committees. You can find detailed materials including FAQs of many programs of the PELS, prepared by dozens of PELS volunteers on the WiE events website: <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://www.ieee-pels.org/membership/wie/wie-events</uri> . The “YP Reception at APEC 2022” cosponsored by PELS and Industry Applications Society (IAS) attracted over 100 young professionals and students to a social gathering at The Grotto, Houston. Our hybrid Spring Administrative Committee (AdCom) Meeting and several PELS standing committee meetings held during APEC 2022 presented a venue for our volunteers and friends to catch up.

A Long Road to Singularity: Making Inroads With Artificial Intelligence [Editors’ Voice

Did you hear the one about the self-driving car that wrote its autobiography? I hear the groans, but introducing an issue devoted to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) needs an icebreaker. <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Power &amp; Energy Magazine</i> topics tend to focus on power system challenges and then the cool techniques or technologies being applied to address them. With the topics of AI and ML, this issue inverts the paradigm to explore the data science and methodology underlying AI as a disciplinary toolbox for power system applications.

2022 T&amp;D Conference and Exhibition: A Welcome Message from Jessica J. Bian, President, IEEE Power &amp; Energy Society [Letter

2022 T&amp;D Conference and Exhibition: A Welcome Message from Jessica J. Bian, President, IEEE Power &amp; Energy Society [Letter

A Vital 35-Year-Young Society [President’s Message

At the Townhall meeting of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) held virtually on 15 December 2021, Prof. John Kassakian, the first president of our society, reflected on the historical era when the pioneers drove the innovation in power electronics, initiated INTELEC, PESC (the predecessor of ECCE), and APEC conferences, created IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL), and established the IEEE PELS on 20 June 1987. Now our vibrant society is 35 years young, reaching another milestone in its short history with a record level of membership as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Figure 1</xref> . The record of the Townhall Meeting can be viewed at IEEEtv ( <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://ieeetv.ieee.org/channels/pels/pels-2021-town-hall</uri> ).

Welcome back!: In-person meetings return [Leader’s Corner

The past two years have challenged all of us to rethink and reimagine everything we do. With many of us “pent up” since 2020, we can hardly wait to attend the upcoming 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) T&D Conference and Exposition on 25–28 April 2022.

The Roaring 20s: A Decade Helping Reshape the Face of IEEE PELS [Women in Engineering

Looking back, 2020 was a year of great reflection for many of us—an opportunity to re-evaluate some of our patterns and make decisions on how we want to invest our time moving forward. While the world waited for the end of a pandemic, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Women in Engineering (WiE) committee made important strides towards reshaping our strategy for supporting the IEEE PELS membership. As a part of this evolution in mission, we strive to not only elevate women in our technical society but to create inclusive environments to promote learning for all of our membership—regardless of gender identity. This evolution is key to acting on one of our society’s core values: Diversity and Inclusiveness is the first core value listed within the PELS Strategic Plan. <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">“PELS embraces the imperative to encourage and assure the diversity and inclusion in our membership, volunteers, local and AdCom leadership. We shall respect each other’s needs and values with honesty and transparency.”</i>

Strategic Protection Against FDI Attacks With Moving Target Defense in Power Grids

Moving target defense (MTD) is a new defensive strategy protecting the power system state estimation from cyberattacks. Using the distributed flexible ac transmission system (D-FACTS), MTD works by actively perturbing the branch parameters that are needed to construct the false data injection (FDI) attacks. Although there are many pioneer works on MTD, the relationship between the construction of MTD and detection of FDI attacks has not been revealed. In this article, we reveal the correlation between MTD design and FDI detection and optimize MTD’s performance in terms of detecting FDI attacks. We provide a sufficient condition for a specially designed MTD to detect and identify the FDI attack and a necessary condition for general MTDs to protect the state estimates from being independently modified. With the aim to reduce the number of measurements that can be manipulated by the attacker after MTD, we develop a heuristic algorithm to compute a near-optimal solution for the deployment of D-FACTS devices. Moreover, we prove that the coordinated design of consecutive perturbation schemes within an MTD cycle can improve the performance of MTD in terms of detecting FDI attacks. Finally, we conduct extensive simulations with the IEEE power system test cases to validate our findings.

2021 Best Papers, Outstanding Associate Editor, and Outstanding Reviewers

The Editorial Board of the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (OAJPE) would like to recognize the following best papers selected from all papers published between October 2018 and September 2021 in OAJPE and its preceding journal, IEEE Power and Energy Technology Systems Journal (PETS-J).

Wildfires across the world: Power system resilience [Guest Editorial

Extreme weather events, earthquakes, floods, and wildfires in the past few years have resulted in major power disruptions around the world, leading to unplanned electricity interruptions lasting from hours to weeks. This issue of <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Power &amp; Energy Magazine</i> focuses on wildfires.

&gt;IEEE Power and Energy Society information for authors

&gt;IEEE Power and Energy Society information for authors

More Power to the Future: New Technologies and Directions [Leader's Corner

With the transformation of the grid and the use of electric energy worldwide, the IEEE Power & Energy Society’s (PES’s) importance and value to the industry are growing rapidly. Through a vast array of resources, we focus on crucial topics affecting the environment and society as a whole. Our commitment to the continued education of our 40,000-plus members and the public is second to none. We provide our members, their organizations, and their constituents with unique, high-value and robust educational platforms through seven operating units, as shown in our logo chart. Technical activities, meetings and conferences, publications, and education are core activities supporting the membership and chapter activities. The outer layer of initiatives and outreach pursues emerging technologies and collaborative opportunities within PES, other professional societies, industry-related entities, and the public. As one of the initiatives, PES plans to launch a Grid Edge Technologies Conference and Exposition to share the latest developments in grid-edge technology. Also, PES plans to form its first Life Members Committee in 2022. To reduce the number of emails and still effectively disseminate the invaluable content produced and keep our members updated, PES implemented the following weekly news rollup schedule in 2021, focusing on the following core areas: 1) technical activities (whitepapers, technical reports, standards, and so on); 2) conferences and meetings; 3) publications; 4) education (PES University and Resource Center); 5) Chapters; and 6) membership development. Besides the preceding new initiatives and programs, PES’s long-range plan also emphasizes the most pressing issues facing PES for the next three to five years.

The Portuguese City of Aveiro Welcomes SPI 2023: The 27th IEEE Signal and Power Integrity Workshop

The Portuguese City of Aveiro Welcomes SPI 2023: The 27th IEEE Signal and Power Integrity Workshop