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NATIONAL POWER SYSTEMS CONFERENCE

INDIAN INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY GANDHINAGAR

Sustainable Energy and Resilient Future GridDECEMBER 17 -19, 2020 | IIT GANDHINAGAR

21ST NATIONAL POWER SYSTEMsCONFERENCE (NPSC 2020)

TECHNICAL SPONSORSEVENTS.IITGN.AC.IN/2020/NPSC2020

PROGRAMBOOKLET

CONTENTS

About NPSC

About IIT Gandhinagar

The Committees

Advisory Committee

Core Steering Committee

Organising Committee

Message from Various Personnel

Chief Guest

Patron

Chairman, NPSC

Conference Chair

Program Schedule

Profiles of Keynote and Tutorial Speakers

Abstracts of Keynote and Tutorial Sessions

Awards

Paper Presentation Schedule

List of Authors

List of Reviewers

List of Sponsors

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About NPSC 2020National Power Systems Conference (NPSC) has been India's premier conference in the area of power engineering since 1981. It is a biennial conference providing a forum for academics, industry, and students to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of electrical power and smart energy systems.

The 21st edition of NPSC (NPSC 2020) is held online at IIT Gandhinagar during 17-19 December 2020 with the theme of “Sustainable Energy and Resilient Future Grid”. It is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), IEEE Gujarat Section, and Power & Energy Society (PES) Gujarat Chapter. NPSC 2020 focuses on modern power systems, electricity markets, smart grid, renewable energy, distributed generation, power electronics, electrical machines, system integration, and operational challenges. It features Four Tutorial sessions, 14 Keynote talks, Two dedicated industry-academia panel sessions, and 132 Technical paper presentations.

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About IIT Gandhinagar The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar strives to offer the best undergraduate and graduate education in India. IITGN is committed to promoting excellence in science and technology, as well as the humanities and social sciences, and to the development of rounded and nuanced minds. The Institute promotes critical thinking and appreciation of the interdisciplinary character of knowledge. It emphasizes the liberal arts, project-oriented learning, courses in design and life sciences, diversity and globalization. The five-week immersive Foundation Programme for all new undergraduate students pioneered by IITGN is now emulated by many IITs and other institutions in the country. More than a third of IITGN undergraduates receive the experience of studying abroad during their time at the Institute.

IITGN was founded in 2008 and is located in Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, on the banks of river Sabarmati. Gandhinagar is close to Ahmedabad, one of the oldest living cities in India, and known both for its rich cultural past as well as state-of-the-art infrastructure, thriving industries, and many modern amenities. The city is also the hub of prestigious academic and research institutes such as the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the National Institute of Design. Additionally, Gujarat’s long- standing mercantile and business traditions encourage excellence and entrepreneurship. IITGN is rated India’s first 5-star GRIHA LD (Green) campus for minimizing the negative impact on the environment. The campus has also been declared India’s first 5-star campus for ensuring food safety and promoting healthy dining.

IITGN offers BTech programmes in Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. The Institute also offers MTech programmes in all these disciplines and also in Biological Engineering and Earth Science. MSc programmes in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Cognitive Science are also offered. A unique MA programme in Society and Culture attracts very promising students. PhD programmes are offered in all engineering and science disciplines, as well as in Humanities and Social Science.

IIT Gandhinagar encourages interdisciplinarity in its research activities. Our faculty and students are engaged in cutting edge research that has the potential to solve real-world problems and create an impact on society. The IIT Gandhinagar Research Park seeks to foster a powerful interplay between industry and academia, and thereby push the boundaries of innovation and research. The Park enables industry partners to be part of a vibrant community and gain access to R&D professionals, students and state- of-the-art R&D infrastructure at IIT Gandhinagar.

Aerial view of the Lal Minar at IIT Gandhinagar

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Advisory CommitteeA M Gole University of Manitoba, Canada

Nagaraja Ramappa PRDC, Bangalore

Anjan Bose Washington State University, USA

S A KhapardeRetd Professor IIT Bombay

Arindam Ghosh Curtin University, Australia

Anil Kulkarni IIT Bombay

Bhim Singh IIT Delhi

S A Soman IIT Bombay

Chanan Singh Texas A&M University, USA

S C Srivastava IIT Kanpur

D ThukaramRetd Professor IISc Bangalore

S K Soonee Advisor, POSOCO

I S Jha, CMD POWERGRID

S S Venkata University of Washington, USA

Jay Giri University of Washington, USA

S P Singh IIT BHU

K Bhattacharya University of Waterloo, Canada

P R Bijwe IIT Delhi

K R Padiyar Prof Emeritus, IISc Bangalore

Vijay Vittal Arizona State University, USA

M Ramamoorty Ex DG, CPRI Bangalore

B G Fernandes IIT Bombay

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Core Steering Committee

COMMITTEE CHAIR PERSONS C Srivastava, IIT Kanpur

COMMITTEE MEMBERSD Thukaram Retd Professor IISc Bangalore

S A Khaparde Retd Professor IIT Bombay

P R Bijwe Retd Professor IIT Delhi

Bhim Singh IIT Delhi

S N Singh IIT Kanpur

K S Swarup IIT Madras

A K Pradhan IIT Kharagpur

Anil Kulkarni IIT Bombay

N P Padhy IIT Roorkee

S P Singh IIT (BHU) Varanasi

Sukumar Mishra IIT Delhi

K Sreekant Chairman & Managing Director PGCIL

K V S Baba Chairman & Managing Director POSOCO

S K Soonee Advisor POSOCO

V S Nandakumar Director General CPRI Bangalore

A K Mishra Director NSGM-NPMU, MOP

Nagaraja Ramappa Managing Director PRDC Pvt Ltd

DISTINGUISHED MEMBER (SPECIAL INVITEE)M Ramamoorty, Ex Director General, CPRI Bangalore

SPECIAL INVITEEN Kumaresan, Convenor, NPSC 2018, NIT TrichyNaran M Pindoriya, Organising Chair, NPSC 2020, IIT Gandhinagar

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Organising Committee

PATRONSudhir K Jain, Director, IIT Gandhinagar

GENERAL CHAIRS• Manik Lal Das, IEEE Gujarat Section Chair• S N Singh, IEEE India Council Chair

ORGANISING CHAIRNaran M Pindoriya, Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Naran M Pindoriya IIT Gandhinagar

Ragavan K IIT Gandhinagar

Gopal Gajjar IIT Bombay

S R Samantaray IIT Bhubaneswar

Prabodh Bajpai IIT Kharagpur

Praveen Tripathy IIT Guwahati

Saikat Chakrabarti IIT Kanpur

Bhavesh Bhalja IIT Roorkee

Barjeev Tyagi IIT Roorkee

Anshuman Shukla IIT Bombay

B Kalyan Kumar IIT Madras

A R Abhyankar IIT Delhi

Ankush Sharma IIT Kanpur

Ashwani Kumar NIT Kurukshetra

Suryanarayana Doolla IIT Bombay

Sanjoy Kumar Parida IIT Patna

Bharat Singh Rajpurohit IIT Mandi

Trapti Jain IIT Indore

Ranjana Sodhi IIT Ropar

P K Agarwal POSOCO

FINANCE

Nihar Mohapatra IIT Gandhinagar

Nirmal Jha IIT Gandhinagar

Anand Pandey IIT Gandhinagar

Harshad Patel IIT Gandhinagar

PUBLICATION

Nithin George IIT Gandhinagar

Nitin Khanna IIT Gandhinagar

Himanshu Shekhar IIT Gandhinagar

PUBLICITY

Neeldhara Mishra IIT Gandhinagar

Uttama Lahiri IIT Gandhinagar

Santosh Vora Nirma University

Priyesh Chauhan IITRAM

Praghnesh Bhatt PDPU

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IT SUPPORT

Sachin Patel IIT Gandhinagar

Sudeep Narayan Banerjee IIT Gandhinagar

Rohit Chaudhary IIT Gandhinagar

Dharmesh Kapadiya IIT Gandhinagar

Jayant Mahawar IIT Gandhinagar

LOGISTIC SUPPORT

S Rajendran IIT Gandhinagar

Ravi Hegde IIT Gandhinagar

Madhu Vadali IIT Gandhinagar

Joycee Mekie IIT Gandhinagar

Shanmuganathan Raman IIT Gandhinagar

Gaurav Shukla IIT Gandhinagar

Devarsh Barbhaya IIT Gandhinagar

Hatim A. Sham IIT Gandhinagar

Shivashankar Sukumar IIT Gandhinagar

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Message from Chief Guest

I would like to congratulate Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, for organizing National Power Systems Conference (NPSC) 2020

during 17-19, December 2020 online, with the theme “Sustainable Energy and Resilient Future Grid”.

We, at POSOCO as Indian power system operators, see and feel the power system in waves. Human life is always moving in waves. Sometimes it is calm, and sometimes it is quite hectic

when many issues must be confronted. The challenge of skillset and mindset, especially in the aftermath of Covid pandemic, has

to be confronted with industry and academia collaboration, and the same is possible through this conference platform.

For a modern technical society like India’s, NPSC is one of the premier platforms where all aspects of power systems attract attendees in a world which is becoming more and more decentralized, decarbonized and digitalized with a flush of social media and IT. A lot of history, hard work and commitment has gone into NPSC, which laid the foundation for modern power systems in India since 1981. In terms of age, NPSC is around 40 years old. And, thus, according to the human timescale, it has moved into its second generation. NPSC has now evolved into knowledge sharing platform on recent trends and future directions in the multidisciplinary aspects of complex electricity systems such as Cyber-physical systems, Prosumers participation, Smart Buildings, IoT, Resource Aggregation, Transactive energy systems etc.

I wish the interactions with experts and inspiring icons, through various tutorials, keynote sessions, panel discussions on state of art in power system technologies and practices motivate the young scientists, researchers and practitioners to find the contents of the proceedings helpful to set roadmaps for their future endeavors.

I take this opportunity to request everyone to stay engaged online, throughout this conference, be proactive and contribute towards shaping the future of our humanity.

I wish you all a very fruitful and rewarding conference.

Shri K V S Baba CMD, Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO)

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Message from Patron

I am delighted that the Discipline of Electrical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, is hosting the 21st edition of the prestigious National

Power Systems Conference (NPSC). I appreciate the extraordinary efforts made by everyone concerned during the prevailing pandemic situation to hold the conference in online mode. It will allow the conference to retain its biennial nature, which will be much appreciated by future generations.

I understand that over the last four decades the conference has provided an outstanding forum for experts from academia and

industry. The theme of the conference is of interest to most utilities, practicing engineers, and academics. It will encourage the participants to discuss the challenges in the field of power engineering.

I am delighted that experts from across the globe are participating in the conference. Keynote lectures in the fields of power systems, smart grid, power electronics, renewable energy systems, and soft computing are a major attraction for the conference.

I warmly welcome the delegates to this esteemed conference. Of course, we were expecting to host the conference in our beautiful campus. We had hoped to meet you in person and show you some extraordinary work that IIT Gandhinagar is doing. On one side, our faculty and students are working at the frontiers of contemporary challenges. On the other side, IIT Gandhinagar is emerging as a very vibrant laboratory for innovations in curricula, in student and faculty governance and in resource management.

I take this opportunity to appreciate the tireless efforts of faculty members, staff, and students of the Discipline of Electrical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, to organize the 21st National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2020).

I wish NPSC 2020 all the success.

Prof Sudhir K JainDirector, IIT Gandhinagar

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Message from Chairman

NPSC CORE STEERING COMMITTEE

I join the members of the National Power Systems Conference (NPSC) core steering committee in welcoming all the participants, invited

speakers, experts, and guests attending the 21st NPSC, organized by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar. It is unfortunate that we could not meet this time physically due to the prevailing COVID 19 pandemic, but I hope that, in its virtual mode, the NPSC 2020 will bring all the intellectual excitement and interactions among the participants. Starting from 1981,

the NPSC, which is being organized every two years, has served as an important platform for power engineering professionals from

academics, industry, utility, R&D organizations, regulatory bodies, and students to deliberate the issues of recent concerns and bring out the future

roadmap of the power sector. It is quite encouraging to observe that the NPSC is playing a catalytic role in strengthening industry-academia interactions.

In the recent past, the power sector has globally seen phenomenal changes. To address the environmental concerns and to make the system more sustainable, resilient, and smart, a large deployment of power electronic interfaced renewable energy sources, storage systems, ICT infrastructure, sensors, and decision support systems are taking place, along with the new regulatory framework and operating philosophy. The conventional large transmission grid is seamlessly getting connected with several distributed energy resources, micro and nano grids at the power distribution end. This also requires flexibility to be built at all the stages to make the future grid sustainable under varying output from the growing penetration of renewable sources.

The theme selected for the NPSC 2020 “Sustainable Energy and Resilient Future Grid” is quite appropriate in the present scenario. I am sure that the research papers being presented at the conference, along with the tutorials, keynote lectures being delivered by the eminent international as well as national experts, and the discussions in the panel sessions will help in bringing out clear guidelines in shaping the future grids in the country. I would like to congratulate and thank the team involved from IIT Gandhinagar and its administration for all their efforts and support provided in organizing the 21st NPSC and wish the conference a grand success.

Prof Suresh Chandra SrivastavaIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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Message from Organising Chair, NPSC 2020

I am grateful to have an opportunity to serve as Organising chair of the 21st National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2020), organized by

Discipline of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. I am also thankful to the organising committee and participants for their active support and participation in NPSC 2020 at this extraordinary circumstance caused by COVID-19. As the institution, we stand to bridge the academics and industry partners to harvest solutions for challenging problems and to

navigate innovative ideas for technical, social, and economic enhancements. The motivation of this conference is to gain,

share and explore the knowledge in the field of power engineering and to encourage the researcher to disseminate the research for the

larger benefit of society in the area of smart and sustainable energy. The conference hosted under the theme of “Sustainable Energy and Resilient Future Grid'' is aimed to diversify and harmonize the grid with Renewable Energy Resources. The theme of the conference is well suited to embark renewable resources as epitome of sustainable development. The conference also encourages to seek the challenges in the broader domain of modern power systems, electricity markets, smart grid, renewable energy, distributed generation, power electronics, electrical machines, system integration, and operational challenges.

We received a total of 297 paper submissions. After a peer review process, total 141 papers were accepted for the final manuscript submission, out of which, 132 manuscripts have registered for the paper presentation. The conference features Four Tutorial sessions, 14 Keynote talks, Two dedicated industry-academia panel sessions, and 132 Technical paper presentations.

I would like to thank the NPSC Core Steering Committee for choosing the IIT Gandhinagar for hosting this premier conference. We are extremely honoured to have Shri K V S Baba, CMD, POSOCO as the chief guest in the Inaugural session. We wish to thank IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), IEEE Gujarat Section, and Power & Energy Society (PES) Gujarat Chapter for their technical sponsorship. We greatly appreciate the financial sponsorship by PGCIL, POSOCO, ENPHASE, and OPAL-RT technologies. I extend my gratitude to the keynote speakers for sharing their knowledge in the power engineering domain. I would like to thank all the authors for their interest and participation. Finally, I extend my sincere thanks to the Director of IIT Gandhinagar, faculty and staff colleagues, and students of Electrical Engineering and IIT Gandhinagar for their valuable support in organising NPSC 2020.

Dr Naran M Pindoriya

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

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Program Schedule

Day 1: 17 December, 2020 (Thursday)

09:15-11:00Inaugural Session and Keynote Address

Chief Guest: Mr K V S BABA, CMD, POSOCOInaugural keynote address byProf Anjan Bose (Washington State University, USA)Title: "The Continuing Evolution of Grid Operation and Control"

11:15-12:00 Keynote Session-1

Title: "Smart Meter-Driven Approaches for PV-Rich Low Voltage Network Modelling, Operation, and Planning"

Prof Luis (Nando) Ochoa (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Session Chair: Prof Naran Pindoriya (IIT Gandhinagar)

Title: "Energy-Communication-Data Infrastructure through the Lens of Zero-Carbon Climate Change Adaptation and Natural Hazard Resilience"

Prof Nirmal Nair (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Session Chair: Prof K S Swarup (IIT Madras)

12:15-13:15Paper Presentation-1

Three Parallel Tracks (15 Papers)

13:15-14:15 Break


Title: "Local and Wide-Area Control in Power Systems"

Prof Anil M Kulkarni (IIT Bombay, India)

Session Chair: Prof Saikat Chakrabarti (IIT Kanpur)

Title: "Emerging Power System: Clean, Flexible and Digital"

Dr Subir Sen (PGCIL, India)

Session Chair: Prof N P Padhy (IIT Roorkee)




Title: "Building Atma Nirbhar Bharat in Power Electronics and Power Systems"

Prof B G Fernandes (IIT Bombay, India)

Session Chair: Prof Ragavan K. (IIT Gandhinagar)

Title: "Flexibility in Indian Power System"

Mr S K Soonee (POSOCO, India)

Session Chair: Prof A K Pradhan (IIT Kharagpur)


Title: "The Future Structure of Electrical Power Industry"

Prof Furong Li (University of Bath, UK)

Session Chair: Prof Rohit Bhakar (MNIT Jaipur)

Title: "Future Power Systems: Issues and Potential Solutions"

Prof Campbell Booth (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)


18:30-19:30

Industry-Academia Panel Session-1(Power System Flexibility/ Electricity Market)

Prof S N Singh (IIT Kanpur) - Moderator

Prof Abhijit R Abhyankar (IIT Delhi)

Mr S R Narasimhan (Director, System Operation, POSOCO)

Mr B B Chauhan (Ex MD, GETCO)

Mr Uday Trivedi (Vice President, Adani Power Ltd)

Mr Rohit Bajaj (Head, Business Development, IEX)

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Day 2: 18 December, 2020 (Friday)


Title: "Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Reliability Evaluation of Electric Power Grid"

Prof Chanan Singh (Texas A&M University, USA)

Session Chair: Prof S R Samantaray (IIT Bhubneswar)

Title: "Challenges to Power System Protection in the Presence of Renewables"

Prof Sukumar Brahma (Clemson University, USA)

Session Chair: Prof Bhavesh Bhalja (IIT Roorkee)


Title: "A View into the Future Power Systems"

Prof Anil Pahwa (Kansas State University, USA)

Session Chair: Prof Nilanjan Senroy (IIT Delhi)

Title: "Building Resilience for Future Power Grids and Power Workforce including International Collaborations"

Prof Noel Schulz (Washington State University, USA)

Session Chair: Prof Ankush Sharma (IIT Kanpur)



13:15-14:15 Break

14:15-15:15

Industry-Academia Panel Session-2(Renewable Energy/ Grid Storage and EV)

Mr Alekhya Datta (Area Convenor, Electricity & Fuels Group, TERI) - Moderator

Prof N P Padhy (IIT Roorkee)

Mr Vishal Pandya (Co-Founder & Director, ReConnect)

Mr Abhishek Ranjan (Additional VP and Head Renewable and DSM, BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd)

Mr Narayanan Rajagopal (Lead Smart Grid Research, TCS Bangalore)

Mr Mayank Bansal (President, Strategy & Operations, ReNew Power)

15:30-18:00 Tutorial Session-A

Tutorial 1 (Theme: Blockchain and AI in Power & Energy)

Tutorial 2 (Theme: Power Converters & System Integrations)

Title: "Blockchain Technology: Inspiring Energy Applications and Grid Resiliency"

Mr Vinod Tiwari (Power Ledger, Australia)


Title: "Power Converters in Smart Distribution Grid"

Prof Santanu Mishra (IIT Kanpur, India)

Session Chair: Prof Ragavan K (IIT Gandhinagar)

Title: "AI & ML based Precision Predictive Analytics for Energy Asset Management with Industrial Use Cases"

Dr Ashutosh Natraj (Vidrona Ltd, UK)

Session Chair: Prof Abheejeet Mohapatra (IIT Kanpur)

Title: "Power Quality Aspects in Microgrid Connected Power System"

Prof Mahesh Kumar (IIT Madras, India)

Session Chair: Prof Prabodh Bajpai (IIT Kharagpur)



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Day 3: 19 December, 2020 (Saturday)


Title: "Power Engineering Education in the Age of Climate Crisis – A Holistic View"

Prof Ned Mohan (University of Minnesota, USA)

Session Chair: Prof Bhim Singh (IIT Delhi)

Title: "Reliability Impact of Low-Inertia Generation"

Prof Joydeep Mitra (Michigan State University, USA)

Session Chair: Prof Abhijit R. Abhyankar (IIT Delhi)

10:00-12:30 Tutorial Session-B

Tutorial 3 (Theme: Microgrids Protection)

Tutorial 4 (Theme: Cyber-Physical Grid)

Title: "Renewable Distributed Energy Resources and Microgrids: Issues, Challenges, and Mitigation"

Prof Rama Gokaraju (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) & Dr Mukesh Nagpal (BC Hydro, Canada)

Session Chair: Prof A K Pradhan (IIT Kharagpur)

Title: "Cyber-Physical Resiliency of the Future Grid"

Prof Anurag K Srivastava (Washington State University, USA) & Prof B K Panigrahi (IIT Delhi, India)

Session Chair: Prof Suryanarayana Doolla (IIT Bombay)



13:45-14:45 Break

14:45-16:15Paper Presentation-6A


16:30-18:00Paper Presentation-6B


18:30-18:50 Best Paper Awards and Valedictory Function

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Profiles of Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ANJAN BOSEAnjan Bose is a Regents Professor and the Distinguished Professor of

Electric Power Engineering at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, where he also served as the Dean of the College of

Engineering & Architecture from 1998 to 2005. He served the US Department of Energy as a Senior Advisor on the electric power grid in the Obama administration. He is a leading researcher on the operation and control of the electric power grid. He has worked in the electric power industry as well as academe for

five decades. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D., all in Electrical Engineering, from the Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur,

University of California – Berkeley, and Iowa State University, respectively.

Dr Bose is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Foreign Member of both the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineers (CSEE). He has served on the governing boards of both the US NAE and the Washington State Academy of Sciences of which he was also the President. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, the Third Millennium Medal, and the Herman Halperin Electric Transmission & Distribution Award from the IEEE. He has been recognized by both Iowa State University and the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur with their distinguished alumni awards. He has served on several editorial boards and on many national and international technical committees. He has consulted for many electric power companies and advised government agencies throughout the world.

NOEL SCHULZNoel N. Schulz is the Edmund O. Schweitzer III Chair in Power Apparatus

and Systems in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Pullman, US. She has

a joint appointment as a Chief Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as part of the PNNL/WSU Advanced Grid Institute (AGI). In January 2020, she started her role as Interim Co-Director of AGI. Dr Schulz has been active for over 26 years in teaching, research, and service at six U.S. universities. She has a joint appointment at PNNL as part of the PNNL/WSU

Advanced Grid Institute (AGI). Her research includes Integration of DER into distribution systems including renewable sources,

storage, and electric vehicles; intelligent system applications in power

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system design, control and operation; outage and storm management including smart metering and resilience efforts; rural electrification and microgrids, and shipboard power systems. In research and graduate studies, she has graduated 45 MS and 13 Ph.D. students, published 175 papers and two book chapters, and brought in over $40M in external research through individual and collaborative projects including a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award. She is the US administrative lead for the US DOE funded project, US-India Collaborative for Smart Distribution System with Storage (UI-ASSIST), involving 15 US partners including PNNL and 15 Indian partners. In addition to her technical activities, Dr Schulz has been very involved in activities related to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women and multicultural students and professionals in STEM careers. She is also an advocate for advancing the power engineering workforce. Dr Schulz is an IEEE and ASEE Fellow, and she was awarded the IEEE HP Harriet B. Rigas Award, recognizing outstanding faculty women who have made significant contributions to electrical/computer engineering education in 2014.

ANIL PAHWAAnil Pahwa received the B.E. (honors) degree in electrical engineering

from BITS-Pilani, India, in 1975, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Maine, Orono, in 1979, and the Ph.D.

degree in electrical engineering from Texas A & M University, College Station, in 1983. He has been a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Kansas State University since 1983, where he is currently University Distinguished Professor and holds the Logan-Fetterhoff Chair.

The National Academies selected him for the Jefferson Science Fellowship in 2014.

He served as a Senior Scientific Advisor in the Economic Policy Office of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Department of State as

a part of the fellowship. He served as Program Director for power and energy at the National Science Foundation from 2018 to 2020. He has received several awards over his professional career, including the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award in 2012, IEEE PES Prize Paper Award in 2013, KSU College of Engineering Distinguished Researcher Award in 2020, and Outstanding Alumni Award from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in 2014. He is a Fellow of IEEE. His research focuses on reliability, automation, and optimization of power distribution systems. His research has provided innovative and practical solutions for the application of advanced communication and cyber technologies for the automation of electricity distribution to customers and large-scale integration of renewable energy resources in the system.

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CHANAN SINGHChanan Singh is a Regents Professor and Irma Runyon Chair Professor

in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. He served as the Department

Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M from 1997 to 2005 and then again from 2012 to 2015. He also served as Program Director at the National Science Foundation of USA and a Guest Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research and consulting interests are in the foundational

developments and applications of probabilistic methods for the planning and operation of electric power grids.

Dr Singh is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a member of the Academy of Medicine, Engineering

and Science of Texas, a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and a Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering. He is the recipient of the IEEE-PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award and the inaugural recipient of the IEEE-PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award. He was recognized with the Merit Award by the PMAPS International Society for lifelong achievements.

NED MOHANNed Mohan (LF-IEEE) joined the University of Minnesota in 1975, where

he is Oscar A. Schott Professor of Power Electronic Systems and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor. He received his Bachelor's

degree from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur in 1967. His Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Master's in Nuclear Engineering are from UW-Madison. He has written six textbooks; altogether, they have been translated into nine languages. He has graduated 47 PhDs. His area of research is in power electronics

applied to power systems, and he holds several patents.

Ned Mohan received the H.T. Morse Distinguished Teaching Award for undergraduate education from the University of Minnesota in 2007. He

has received the 2008 IEEE-PES Outstanding Educator Award, 2010 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2010 UWIG Achievement Award from Utility Wind Integration Group, 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT-Kharagpur (India), and 2012 IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award. In 2013, he received the Innovative Program Award from the ECE Department Heads Association, made up of over 250 U.S. universities. In 2014, he received the Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award from the University of Minnesota and the IEEE Nari Hingorani FACTS Award from the IEEE Power & Energy Society.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Regents Professor, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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JOYDEEP MITRAJoydeep Mitra (Ph.D., FIEEE) is Professor of Electrical Engineering

at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Director of the Energy Reliability & Security (ERiSe) Laboratory, and Senior Faculty

Associate at the Institute of Public Utilities. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, and a B.Tech.(Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Prof Mitra is known for his contributions to power system reliability analysis and reliability-based planning. He has over 200

publications and patents in the power systems area; he is co-author of the book, "Electric Power Grid Reliability Evaluation: Models and

Methods," and of IEEE Standard 762, a standard on reliability reporting. He is the recipient of the 2019 IEEE-PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award and the 2020 PMAPS Merit Award. Prof Mitra serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Power Engineering Letters and for the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. In the past, he has served as Chair of the IEEE-PES Analytic Methods for Power Systems Committee, Chair of several IEEE-PES Subcommittees, and as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Prof Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE-PES Distinguished Lecturer.

SUKUMAR BRAHMASukumar Brahma received his Bachelor of Engineering from Gujarat

University in 1989, Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1997, and Ph.D. from Clemson University in

2003, all in Electrical Engineering. He joined Clemson University as the Dominion Energy Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering in August 2018. He also serves as the director of the industry-funded Clemson University Electric Power Research Association (CUEPRA). Before joining Clemson, he was William

Kersting Endowed Chair Professor at New Mexico State University, USA. Dr Brahma has chaired IEEE Power and Energy Society's Power

and Energy Education Committee, LifeLong Learning Subcommittee, and Distribution System Analysis Subcommittee. He is a member of

the Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRCC), where he has been contributing to and leading working groups that produce reports, guides, and standards in the area of power system protection. He has been an editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery and served as Guest Editor-in-Chief for the Special Issue on Frontiers of Power System Protection for the journal. His research, widely published and funded by the National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, utilities, and other government agencies, has focused on different aspects of power system modeling, analysis, and protection. Fundamentally, it spans across diverse areas of electrical engineering and computer science, integrating signal processing, machine learning, control, and communication to holistically approach the emerging problems in the power and energy domain. Current research, funded by the US Department of Energy, investigates and addresses protection and

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fault location issues in the integration of renewables with power systems and develops new paradigms in the protection of smart grids at both transmission and distribution levels.

Dr Brahma is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE. He was elected IEEE Fellow "for contributions to power system protection with distributed and renewable generation".

NIRMAL NAIR

Nirmal-Kumar C Nair has B.E. from M.S. University, Baroda, M.E. in High Voltage from IISC, and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. He

has held several industry, research, and academic posts in India, USA, and New Zealand. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering at the University of Auckland. He works on protection, renewable grid integration, electricity markets, blackouts, restoration, and resilience

and engages in industry projects through consultancy. He is passionate about lifelong learning, energy policy, innovation, and

media outreach.

He is actively involved with IEEE Power and Energy Society and N.Z. Electricity Engineers Association (EEA). He is a CIGRE NZNC Executive Committee member and its AORC representative since 2008, elected as Secretary (2014-17) and Observer Member for CIGRE B5 (Protection and Automation) since 2010, participating and leading working groups. In IEEE PES, he has held various leadership positions and was nominated for elected positions of Candidate IEEE Division VII (Power &Energy) Director Elect 2017 and Candidate IEEE PES Treasurer (2018-19). He was the General Organizing Chair for IEEE PES 2012 POWERCON, IEEE PES ISGT-ASIA 2017, 2017 CIGRE AUCKLAND, and 2018 AUPEC held in Auckland. He was the special reporter for "Protection under System Emergency Conditions" during the CIGRE B5 Paris session (26-31 Aug 2018). He received Distinguished Member of CIGRE in 2018 and currently also serves in IEEE R10 Governing Board, as Chair of Professional Activities Committee.

LUIS (NANDO) OCHOALuis (Nando) Ochoa is a Professor of Smart Grids and Power Systems

at The University of Melbourne, Australia, and part-time Professor of Smart Grids at The University of Manchester, U.K. His expertise

in network integration of distributed energy resources (DER) and his extensive portfolio of industrial and academic projects have led to 170+ publications, 60+ technical reports, and two patents. Prof Ochoa is an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer and is also an Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Power and Energy

Magazine. Prof Ochoa is an IEEE Senior Member since 2012. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

from UNI (Peru), and a Research MSc and a Ph.D. in Electrical Power Engineering, both from UNESP Ilha Solteira (Brazil). For more info: https://sites.google.com/view/luisfochoa/

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FURONG LIProf Furong Li is the Director of Centre for Sustainable Power Distribution

at the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, U.K. Her research sits between two major disciplines -

electrical power systems and market economics, concerned with smart energy systems, smart markets, and energy transition.

She has undertaken research and consultancies for the U.K. government, the energy regulator for the U.K.- Ofgem and Brazil

- ANEEL, NPower, Centric, all the U.K.'s seven transmission and distribution licensees. She is the co-Director for EPSRC Supergen

Hub for Energy Networks, responsible for Markets and Regulation and the Hub's international strategy. She is an expert in the U.K.

Government's Independent Electricity Standards Review Panel (2019-2020).

CAMPBELL BOOTHProfessor Campbell Booth is presently the Head of the Electronic and

Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. This is one of the largest EEE departments in

Europe, with approximately 80 academics, 100+ research staff, 200+ Ph.D. students, and a taught student population of around 1,000. He received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic and Electrical engineering from Strathclyde, and worked in a variety of positions, including as a Senior Research Fellow within the

Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre at Strathclyde, before taking up an academic position in 2007.

He is a member of the IET and has worked on organizing various conferences, including Chairing the IET International Conference on

Developments in Power System Protection in 2018. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an IET member, and active in CIGRE. Professor Booth has established a portfolio of research in the areas of power system protection, control and monitoring, working with a range of government and industrial funding partners. He also teaches a range of power engineering classes to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as leading training and continuing professional development courses for industry partners.

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SUSHIL KUMAR SOONEEMr. Sushil , the former and Founder Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Power

System Operation Corporation Ltd (POSOCO), is presently serving as Advisor to the POSOCO. He has first-hand more than four decades

of experience in Power System Operation of various Regional Grids of India and has worked extensively towards Integration of State Grids to form Regional Grids, and subsequent integration of Regional Grids leading to the formation of the National Grid and now SAARC Grid.He specializes in Power System Operation,

Planning, Commercial, Settlement, Restoration, and the entire gamut of Power Pooling and Governance. Other areas of interest

include Electricity Markets, Open Access, Regulatory affairs, besides expertise in Load Despatch Technology, integration of Renewable Energy, including REC Mechanism, Transmission Pricing, and the development of Ancillary Services.

He is a Life Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), Fellow of IEEE, Fellow INAE, Distinguished Alumnus IIT Kharagpur, Distinguished Member CIGRE, Foreign Member NAE USA. He has represented India on the CIGRE Study Committee C2 on Power System Operation and currently represents India on the CIGRE Study Committee C5 on Electricity Markets and Regulation.

BAYLON G. FERNANDESProf B.G. Fernandes received his B.Tech. degree from NIT Surathkal in

1984, and M.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1989. He obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay in 1993. Subsequently,

he joined IIT Kanpur as an Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, in the year 1993. He joined IIT Bombay as an Assistant Professor in 1997.

He has been in teaching and conducting research for more than 25 years. The broad area of his specialization is power electronics,

electric machines, and drives. More recently, he has been working in the area of power electronic interfaces for Photovoltaics, motors

and drives for electric vehicles, and GaN-based semiconductor devices. He is the Head of the E.E. Department at IIT Bombay since 2015 and has

also been leading two national centers, one on Photovoltaics and another on internal security.

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ANIL M. KULKARNIA. M. Kulkarni, a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, IIT

Bombay India. He obtained his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Roorkee, India in 1992, and his M.E. and Ph.D.

degrees in 1994 and 1998, respectively, from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.

His broad areas of interest are in Power System Dynamics, HVDC, and FACTS. Recently, he has focused on Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS). He has worked closely with utilities in India on

several projects, including the PSS tuning exercise in the Eastern and Western regional grids and Sub-synchronous resonance studies.

His current focus is on the use of WAMS for stability and control.

SUBIR SENDr Subir Sen is currently working as Chief Operating Officer, CTU & Smart

Grid activities in Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. Dr Sen has more than 30 years of professional experience in the field of Power System

planning, system studies & analysis, open access, technology integration, project management, operation of the transmission system, renewable integration, smart grid, renewable energy management center, and energy efficiency.

He was involved in the development of the National Grid comprising 400kV/765kV/1200kV and HVDC technology, GIS,

FACTS devices, and Green Energy Corridors, synchrophasor technology for real-time dynamic state measurement, deployment

of Smart Grid integrated with intelligent devices, monitoring, I.T. & communication technology, energy storage system, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, energy audit, implementation of energy conservation measures, etc.

He has published more than 100 technical papers in various international and national journals/conferences. He has guided research students and co-authored a number of books titled "Renewable Energy Technology", "Next Generation Unit commitment problems", "Smart Grid Fundamental & Applications". He has applied 4 patents in the Smart Grid area. He has also served as adjunct faculty at IIT, Kanpur.

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Tutorial SpeakersRAMAKRISHNA GOKARAJU

Ramakrishna Gokaraju received the B.E. degree (with Distinction) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of

Technology, Trichy, India, in April 1992. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. During 1999–2002, he was a Research Scientist with the Alberta Research Council and a Staff Software Engineer with IBM Toronto Lab. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan as an Assistant Professor in 2003 and is currently a Professor with the Department.

His current research works are in high-speed digital relaying, controlled/ active islanding, fault detection in ac and dc systems, the impact of inverter-based resources on protection, and dynamic modeling

of nuclear-based ("SMR") power plants.

MUKESH NAGPALDr Mukesh Nagpal is a Senior Member and distinguished lecturer of IEEE

Power and Energy Society, an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.), a Professional

Engineer in the Province of B.C., and a Fellow of Engineers Canada.

Currently, he is a Principal Engineer/ Manager with the Protection and Control Planning Department of B.C. Hydro. He has about 34 years of experience in electric utility research and power system protection. He published about 50 technical papers, including

two IEEE-PES Best Papers.

In 2016, Dr Nagpal received the highest engineering order of B.C. – R.A. McLachlan Memorial Award – for exceptional leadership in developing practical ways to connect renewables to the grid and to improve the

utility power system in the industry.

ANURAG K. SRIVASTAVAAnurag K. Srivastava is an associate professor of electric power engineering at Washington State University and the director of the Smart Grid Demonstration and Research Investigation Lab (SGDRIL) within the Energy System Innovation Center (ESIC). He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2005. In past years, he has worked in different capacity at the Réseau de transport d´électricité in France; RWTH Aachen University in Germany; PEAK RC, Idaho National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Lab, PJM Interconnection, Schweitzer Engineering

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Lab (SEL), GE Grid Solutions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mississippi State University in USA; Indian Institute of Technology

Kanpur in India; as well as at Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. His research interest includes data-driven algorithms for power system operation and control including resiliency analysis. Dr Srivastava high impact research projects resulted in tools installed at the utility control center supported for more than $50M by US Department of Energy, National Science

Foundation, Siemens Corporate Research, Electric Power Research Institute, Schweitzer Engineering Lab, Power System Engineering

Research Center, Office of Naval Research and several National Labs. He is a senior member of the IEEE, vice-chair of the IEEE Power & Energy

Society’s (PES) PEEC committee, co-chair of the microgrid working group, secretary of power system operation SC, chair of PES voltage stability working group, chair of PES synchrophasors applications working group, past-chair of the IEEE PES career promotion subcommittee, past-chair of the IEEE PES student activities committee, and past vice-chair of the IEEE synchrophasor conformity assessment program.

He organized NSF sponsored "Data analytics workshop for the power grid resiliency" in 2018, Siemens sponsored "data analytics for the smart grid" workshop in 2017, North American Power Symposium in 2014, and IEEE sponsored workshop on Testing and validation of synchrophasor devices and applications in 2012. He also co-organized a Workshop on "Modeling and simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems" supported by IEEE and IES in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Dr Srivastava is an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy and Elsevier Sustainable Computing. He is an IEEE distinguished lecturer and has delivered 30+ keynotes/ tutorials in more than 15 countries. He is an author of more than 300 technical publications, including a book on power system security and three patents.

BIJAYA KETAN PANIGRAHIDr B K Panigrahi is presently working as a professor in the Electrical

Engineering Department and also serving as head of Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART), IIT Delhi, India. Prior

to joining IIT Delhi in 2005, he served as a faculty in the Electrical Engineering Department, UCE Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, India, from 1992 to 2005. His research interest includes the application of A.I. and ML tools and techniques to power system planning, operation, control, protection, and management. He also works

in the area of Cybersecurity for Smart Grid and other critical infrastructure. Professor Panigrahi is presently also looking into

the issues of E.V. charging infrastructures and the impact of fast charging infrastructure on the grid. He is serving as the editorial board

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member/associate editor/special issue guest editor/editorial board member of different international journals published by IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Springer, etc. He is also associated with various international conferences in various capacities and delivered keynotes in more than 50 conferences. Dr Panigrahi has published more than 500 research papers in various international and national journals. He is a fellow of INAE and a Senior Member of IEEE. Presently he is also serving as the IEEE CIS Chapter Chair of Delhi Section.

SANTANU KUMAR MISRASantanu K. Mishra (S’00-M’04-SM’12) received a B.Tech. degree in

Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India, in 1998, an M.Tech. degree in Energy Systems

Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 2006.

He worked as a senior application engineer with the International Rectifier Corporation in Rhode Island, USA, from

2004 to 2008. Currently, he is the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology,

Kanpur, India. His research interests include power converter design, implementation, control, and applications in rural scenarios. He serves as an associate editor of several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (IPCC and IACC), IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, IET Power Electronics, and IET Rapid Communication.

MAHESH KUMARMahesh K. Mishra (S’00–M’02–SM’10) received the B.Tech. degree from

the College of Technology, Pantnagar, India, in 1991, the M.E. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, in 1993, and

the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 2002, all in electrical engineering. He has about 28 years of teaching and research experience. For about ten years, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. He is currently

a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, India. His research

interests include the areas of power distribution systems, power electronics, microgrids, and renewable energy systems.

Prof Mahesh has completed a dozen of sponsored projects and consultancies. Under his research supervision, about 18 Ph.D., 12 MS, and 50 M. Tech. students have been awarded. Prof Mahesh and his scholars have been awarded many International, National, and Institute level awards. He has around

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250 research publications in International and National peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has written an NPTEL webbook on "Power Quality in Power Distribution Systems: Concepts and Applications".

Prof Mahesh is a Life Member of the Indian Society of Technical Education. He received the IETE Prof Bimal Bose Award in 2015 for his outstanding contributions to Power Electronics Applications in Power Systems. He has served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. In Nov. 2017, he was elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

VINOD TIWARIBased in Perth, Western Australia, Vinod leads Power Ledger's Global

Business Development and Sales teams. Vinod is leveraging his many years working within the energy sector with Perth Energy, Future

Effect, and Regen Power to connect with client stakeholders and formulate global partnerships and alliances across power and business domains, as well as across various third party providers in Australia and overseas markets to support the delivery of Power Ledger's blockchain offerings for energy trading, renewable

energy certificates trading and renewable asset financing.

Vinod has been a thought leader and has presented on Blockchain Energy Use Cases at various energy forums around the world, including

UNESCO and the U.S. Capitol Hill.

Vinod has over 25 years of experience in operations, developing strategic partnerships, new markets, and providing leadership in senior sales and business development roles within the renewable energy and other engineering industries. Most recently, Vinod was General Manager Retail at Perth Energy (2007 - 2016), where he successfully grew the energy sales portfolio turnover to more than $300 million in a short period. Previous roles include managing engineering, technical sales, and business development for General Electric Company's joint venture with Wipro in India.

Vinod holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Australia. He also participated in the Executive Leadership Program at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

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ASHUTOSH NATRAJAshutosh is an Oxford University researcher turned Entrepreneur with a

specialization in Computer Vision and Robotics engineering. He holds work experience in world-leading institutions both in academia and

in industrial sectors. He has been active in the startup domain to understand and solve challenging industrial problems as part of the Vidrona Team. He worked in the past on robotics and computer vision research and drone implementation at Oxford University under EPSRC project on multi-UAVs along with their

industrial partners and consortium members such BAE systems, Sellafields Ltd, National Nuclear Laboratory, Network Rail, and

Schlumberger.

He has varied work and research experience with the industry, research labs, and universities.

He has managed projects from its initial ideas till final execution and getting products live.

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Industry Panel SessionS R NARASIMHAN

Shri S R Narasimhan is the Director (System Operation), POSOCO since 29th Nov 2018. Prior to this assignment, he was Executive Director,

National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC) and responsible for reliable and economic operation of the All India electricity grid, which is

also connected to the neighboring countries of Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Shri S R Narasimhan has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) Finance. He has over three decades’ experience in power

system operation spread across CEA, POWERGRID, and POSOCO after an initial stint with BHEL.

After a 23-year stint at Northern Regional Load Despatch Centre (NRLDC), New Delhi and Western Regional Load Despatch Centre, Mumbai, Shri

Narasimhan joined NLDC in July 2011. He has extensive experience in the interconnection of regional grids leading to a synchronous All India electricity grid. He has handled all facets of power system operation ranging from operational planning, scheduling, real-time operation, and post despatch analysis besides deployment of the necessary tools for visualization and Situational Awareness. He has also implemented several electricity market reforms such as the Availability Based Tariff, interstate open access, Day-Ahead Markets (DAM) through Power Exchange (PX), Point Of Connection (POC) method of transmission charges sharing, Frequency Control Ancillary Services (FCAS) & introduction of Automatic Generation Control (AGC) in Indian power system, Security Constrained Economic Despatch (SCED), etc.

Shri S R Narasimhan has contributed to several Expert Committees at the Government and regulatory levels in different areas ranging from system operation, grid integration of Renewable Energy (RE) resources and optimization to institution building. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of CIGRE. He was conferred with the IEEE-PES, Delhi Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2019 and the CIGRE Distinguished Member in 2020. He has published over fourty papers at the national and international level.

He is passionate about making our energy systems more reliable, resilient, economical, and clean, along with a commitment to technical excellence and the highest ethical standards.

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B B CHAUHANB B Chauhan has more than three decades of experience in generation

and transmission segments. He has obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and started his career as a Graduate

Apprentice in the erstwhile Gujarat Electricity Board (GEB) in 1984. Prior to working at GETCO, associated with Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited, where he was a part of the team that commissioned the 1,450 MW Sardar Sarovar hydro project (6x200 MW+5x50 MW) and a 400 kV gas-insulated switchgear substation.

From January 2011, he served as Chief Engineer in the Project Department of GETCO. He has been handling more than 100

projects every year while managing an investment of almost Rs 25 billion annually.

He spearheaded the adoption of new technologies like GIS, hybrid switchgear, SCADA systems, and optical bays ranging from 66 kV to 400 kV at GETCO. He has successfully tied up funding from overseas financial institutions like the Asian Development Bank and KfW for various projects and took over as a Managing Director in 2017.

He has successfully undertaken the following key initiatives: identifying potential load pockets, replacing aging and obsolete assets, integrating the renewable energy projects coming up at remote locations, deploying state-of-the-art technologies, and undertaking the integration of the asset management process.

UDAY TRIVEDIThe Energy Business of the Adani Group is the largest player in Power

Generation and Transmission nationally, with forays in Power Generation, Transmission, and Renewable sectors.

For the last 12 years, Mr. Trivedi is Working as head of a group catering to requirements of Thermal and Transmission Projects and Operating assets in areas of Power Systems, its Protection, System Studies, Automation, and Metering.

He has more than three decades of experience in the Private and Public sectors in areas of Power Generation and Transmission,

with some of the critical initiatives having far-reaching implications in improving reliability and stability of Systems and Assets to his credit.

Mr. Trivedi is a member of BIS and CIGRE (India) and is a member of many Study committees.

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ROHIT BAJAJMr. Rohit Bajaj is spearheading the Business Development function at

the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX).

He has over 26 years of rich experience in the energy domain, especially in the power, oil & gas sector. Prior to IEX, Rohit worked at National Energy Trading & Services (NETS), serving as the whole-time Director, where he led the power trading business of the company overseeing the short-term and medium-term power sales through bilateral and power

exchanges.

Prior to NETS, he worked with Lanco Amarkantak, Avantha Group, Reliance Industries, and Jindal Stainless Steel. He has extensive

experience in managing power plant operations, strategic planning, commercial activities related to power sales, including long-term PPAs with a deep understanding of regulatory matters.

He has represented the company in various forums and associations in the recent past.

Mr. Bajaj holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA specializing in Marketing & Operations.

ALEKHYA DATTAEr. Alekhya Datta is a Fellow and Area Convenor, Electricity and Fuels

Division, TERI. He is working on the grid integration aspects of renewable energy and micro-grids, implementation of Battery

Energy Storage Systems (BESS), and vehicle-to-grid concept through Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) in electric vehicles.

He has earlier worked in flagship projects such as R-APDRP/IPDS, Solar Resource Assessment, etc., and in developing the solar rooftop program in India under the National Solar Mission. He is

also an active member of committees/working groups formulated by the Govt. of India through the Ministry of Power, Ministry of New

& Renewable Energy, Niti Aayog, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), and Central Electricity Authority (CEA).

He has published/presented research papers/articles in national and international journals, conferences, and newspapers. He is also guest faculty in capacity-building programs related to renewable energy and energy transitions, organized by academic institutions and corporates.

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VISHAL PANDYAVishal is co-founder of REConnect Energy - India's largest Energy Analytics

scaleup. Vishal has about 12 years of experience in energy markets with expertise in renewable energy policies, predictive analytics,

restructured power markets, and energy trading. His current role at REConnect Energy involves strategic business development, utility-scale projects management, team building, growth hacking, and everything else required to keep his organization growing!

Vishal is an electrical engineer (specialization in Power Systems) from IIT Bombay and a Chevening Fellow (St. Cross College, Oxford)

with a passion for clean energy markets.

ABHISHEK RANJANAbhishek has about two decades of experience in the Power and

Information Technology sectors in India. He started his career with Infosys Technologies Limited, an I.T. company based in India,

where he worked on the development of enterprise applications for a major US utility and a technology MNC. He is currently leading a team in the areas of Energy Efficiency & Demand Side Management, Renewable Integration and Rooftop Solar, grid-level Energy Storage solutions, E.V. charging infrastructure,

Power scheduling & demand forecasting, and Energy Analytics at BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL), New Delhi.

NARAYANAN RAJAGOPALNarayan Rajagopal has obtained a Bachelor's (B.E) degree in Electrical

Engineering from Madras University and a Master's degree (M.Eng.) in Electrical Engineering from Memorial University, Canada.

He has 28 years of experience in Power Systems, T&D Automation Solutions. As part of the RnI team in TCS Electricity Analytics Development, he closely works with research teams in leading academic institutions to develop new solutions. He has Supported

Smart Grid Pilots, Consulting and Roadmap definition projects as a technical lead. He has experience in Product Development,

System Application, Test system development, training areas of Substation, Distribution Automation systems (S.A. and DA) as part of

ABB Research. He has expertise in Real-Time dynamic test environments for IEDs and Substation automation products and has vast experience

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in the implementation of communication protocols used in Substation and Distribution Automation, including IEC 61850.

He is actively engaged in IEEE and IET local chapters, workgroups/forums in the area of electricity grids and renewable integration. He served as the SEI Certified Smart Grid Maturity Model navigator to assess the smart grid for two utilities.

ABHIJIT R. ABHYANKARAbhijit R. Abhyankar (Ph.D.) is an NTPC Chair Professor of Electrical

Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.

He has acted as an expert member of various committees established by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to provide technical support to resolve regulatory issues. He is a member of the National Reliability Council for Electricity

(NRCE), set-up by the Ministry of Power, Government of India, through Central Electricity Authority (CEA). He is also a member of

Taskforce on PoC Transmission Pricing Review, constituted by CERC, New Delhi.

He is a lead investigator in international collaborative research projects that involve academia and industry from the U.K., USA, and Netherlands. He has handled important projects and done consultancies for various Government and private agencies like POWERGRID, Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission, Department of Science & Technology, Indian Energy exchange, Mercados EMI Pvt. Ltd., ReNew Power, and State Electricity Utilities.

His current research interests: Smart Grids, Electricity policy and regulatory matters, Power system flexibility, Power system optimization, Power markets, and Distribution systems.

SRI NIWAS SINGHProf S. N. Singh obtained his M. Tech. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering

from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1989 and 1995. Presently, he is a Professor (HAG), Department of Electrical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Before joining IIT Kanpur as Associate Professor. Dr Singh worked with UP State Electricity Board as Assistant Engineer from 1988 to 1996, with Roorkee University (now IIT Roorkee) as Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2000, and with Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok,

Thailand as Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2002. He was Vice-Chancellor of the Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology

Gorakhpur from April 2017 to July 2020. Dr Singh received several awards, including the Young Engineer Award 2000 of the Indian National

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Academy of Engineering (INAE), Khosla Research Award of IIT Roorkee, and Young Engineer Award of CBIP New Delhi (India), 1996. Prof Singh is the recipient of the Humboldt Fellowship of Germany (2005, 2007) and Otto-Monsted Fellowship of Denmark (2009-10). Prof Singh became the first Asian to receive the 2013 IEEE Educational Activity Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education. He is also the recipient of the INAE Outstanding Teacher Award 2016 and IEEE R10 region (Asia-Pacific) Outstanding Volunteer Award 2016. Dr Singh is appointed as IEEE Distinguished Lectures of Power & Energy Society from 2019 and Industry application Society for 2019-2021.

His research interests include power system restructuring, FACTS, power system optimization & control, security analysis, wind power, etc. Prof Singh has published more than 450 papers in International/ national journals/ conferences and supervised 30 Ph.D. (12 Ph.D. under progress). He has also written 18 book chapters and two books, one on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution and the second is Basic Electrical Engineering, published by PHI, India. Prof Singh has completed three dozen projects in India and abroad.

Prof Singh was Chairman, IEEE UP Section for 2013 & 2014, and presently, he is IEEE R10 (Asia-Pacific) Conference &Technical Seminar Coordinator 2015-18. Presently Prof Singh is India Council Chairman and R10 Vice-Chair, Technical Activities (2019-2020) of IEEE, the largest professional body in Engineering. Dr Singh is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), FIET (U.K.), FNAE, FIE (I), FIETE.

NARAYANA PRASAD PADHYDr Narayana Prasad Padhy, born on 31st August 1969 in Berhampur (Orissa),

India and received his Degree in Electrical Engineering, Masters (Power Systems Engineering) with Distinction and Ph.D., (Power Systems

Engineering, Guindy engineering college, Anna University, Chennai, India) in the year 1990, 1993 and 1997 respectively. Immediately after his Ph.D., he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS), Pilani, India, as an Assistant Professor and worked till July

1998. Then he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Roorkee and now Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Roorkee, India, as a Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor during July 1998, Feb. 2001, Feb. 2006 and April 2008

respectively.

During 2005-2006 he visited the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, U.K. under Better Opportunities for Young Scientists in Chosen Areas of Science & Technology (BOYSCAST) Fellowship Scheme of Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. During 2009-2010 he visited the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has also been awarded the "Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers" by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, in the year 2009 to carry out research in the area of renewable generations at University Duisburg Essen, Germany.

He has profound research experience in power systems and Smart Grid and received a research grant of

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Rs 17 crores (equivalent to 2.388 million USD) to carry out the following international projects as a lead/co-lead principal investigator: Indo-UK Smart Energy Grids and Energy Storage technologies project titled "High Energy and Power Density (HEAPD) Solutions to Large Energy Deficits", Demonstration of MW-scale Solar Integration in weak grids using Distributed Energy Storage architecture (D-SIDES), Indo Danish collaboration for data-driven control and optimization for a highly Efficient Distribution Grid (ID-EDGe), U.S.-India collaborative for smart distribution System with Storage (UI-ASSIST), Zero peak Energy building Design for India (ZED-I) and e-PV Diesel generator.

He has handled more than 20 consultancy/research contracts that include Office of Gas and Electricity Market (OFGEM), U.K. in the area of Distribution Network Pricing with Wind Generations. He has delivered more than 100 invited guest lectures and attended 25 international academic/regulator meetings. He has published (single author) a textbook titled 'Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems' with Oxford University Press in 2005, Prepared the S.I. Version of the textbook and solution manual for Cengage Learning Publishing Company titled Power Systems Analysis and Design by Glover, J. Duncan, Sarma, Mulukutla S., Overbye, Thomas. in 2009 and a textbook titled 'Soft Computing with Matlab Programming' with 'Oxford University Press' in 2015. He has also delivered a popular NPTEL course on "Introduction to Smart Grid," which has received wide attention across the country with over 30K views since July 2018 and has been requested to rerun for the upcoming session. He has 33 Ph.D., 62 M.Tech guidance, and over 180 International Publications to his credit.

Currently, he is a full-time Senior Professor, Dean of Academic Affairs, Institute Chair Professor, and also worked as Professor in Charge Training and Placement at IIT Roorkee and NEEPCO Chair Professor. He has been Nominated both as a Fellow of Indian National Academy of India (FNAE), Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K. (FIET), Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (FIE), Fellow of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE) and Senior Member IEEE (SMIEEE). Recognizing his contribution to the power system and smart grid, IEEE Power & Energy Society, USA awarded him with IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in the year 2018. His contribution to the technical society has been recognized by the Institution of Engineers and awarded as an Eminent Engineer. Tata also awarded Prof Padhy for his valuable contribution to smart city and smart grid technologies in India. He is also the chair of the working group on network pricing, PES IEEE. He is also representing India as a national leader in Mission Innovation Challenges #1 on Smart Grid and is also handling a resource center on Mission Innovation challenge on Smart grids at IIT Roorkee funded by DST, India.

MAYANK BANSALMr. Mayank Bansal is responsible for the overall strategy, investment

decisions, business, and project monitoring. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience across wide-ranging verticals like

Automotive, Heavy Equipment/ Industrial, Metals & Mining, Infrastructure, and Consumer Goods. Prior to joining ReNew, he has worked with AT Kearney as Senior Partner. He also has prior experience at McKinsey & Company for eight years and at Hindustan Unilever for three years. He holds an MBA degree from

ISB Hyderabad, B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay.

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Abstract of Keynote SessionsTHE CONTINUING EVOLUTION OF GRID OPERATION AND CONTROL

BY ANJAN BOSE

Abstract: The first digital grid control centers were installed in the 1960s, with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) being accomplished with digital signals over communication lines connected to a central control center. The improvements in computer technology allowed more sophisticated applications at the control center resulting in the modern Energy Management Systems (EMS). With computing and communication becoming cheaper, the same technologies could be applied to distribution level control centers resulting in the proliferation of DMS. Better measurement systems are now adding phasor measurements to the EMS and smart meter data from individual customers (AMI) to the DMS. As the information technologies continue improving, the potential for more powerful applications to operate and control the rapidly changing grid also increases.

BUILDING RESILIENCE FOR FUTURE POWER GRIDS AND POWER WORKFORCE INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

BY NOEL SCHULZ

Abstract: Over the last several years, resilience has become a timely topic related to electric power systems. As we add distributed energy resources across the grid and enhance our cyber-physical systems and interactions, opportunities arise for more advanced solutions to challenges with storms, outages, and daily operations. This is especially true for electrical distribution systems as we look at new solutions, including microgrids, for short-term and long-term challenges. In this talk, Dr Schulz will discuss advances in modeling, simulation, monitoring, and control that are enabling new methods for providing more resilience in our smart electric grids. Additionally, she will discuss how universities are working to build a resilient power workforce through collaborations across electrical engineering and computer science areas as well as through international collaborations.

A VIEW INTO THE FUTURE POWER SYSTEMS

BY ANIL PAHWA

Abstract: The power grid has evolved from Edison’s first electric grid in 1882, which provided sufficient electricity to 59 customers to light one lamp each in a one-square-mile area, to today’s that provides electricity to millions of people around the world. The National Academy of Engineers named electrification as the number one engineering achievement of the 20th century in 2002. While the grid became a complex machine in the 20th century, it suffered from collapse and blackouts. The concept of a smart grid evolved in the wake of several blackouts, such as the one of 2003 in the Northeast USA. The basic idea is to leverage progress in communications, computing, sensors, and power electronics to make the grid more reliable, resilient, efficient, and flexible. Integration of these technologies also allows larger penetration of renewable energy resources, both large and small scale. Continued innovation and integration of these technologies will have unprecedented effects on the grid, and the digital grid of the future will be very different from the grid of today. Some possible scenarios suggest that customers will be more engaged. They will own electric vehicles and will have generation

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and energy storage in homes. There could be real-time prices and markets at the distribution level. Implementation of artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning techniques, and advanced power electronics will enhance real-time control and operation of systems both in normal and emergency states to improve efficiency and resiliency. The system will rely less on fossil fuels, and battery storage will be widespread. This presentation will provide a brief history of power systems and some projections for the future power system.

ROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE RELIABILITYEVALUATION OF ELECTRIC POWER GRID

BY CHANAN SINGH

Abstract: The primary objective of the power grid is to supply electricity to its customers. Reliability evaluation of power systems involves identifying the events of failure or degradation of the system or a part of the system to satisfy the customer load. This translates into a search procedure that can identify states to be examined and then a procedure to characterize the identified states whether demand can be successfully met in those states. Traditionally reliability analysis methods are based either on an enumeration process or Monte Carlo simulation. Since the dimensionality of state space is a huge issue, the enumeration processes employ some technique to manage the state space, such as to group states into subsets, whereas Monte Carlo methods use sampling. In the past two decades, methods based on artificial intelligence have been investigated both as an alternative to Monte Carlo for a more intelligent search process as well as making state evaluation techniques to be more efficient. This talk will examine the conceptual basis of the overall reliability evaluation process and explore the role of artificial intelligence methods in this context.

POWER ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CRISIS – A HOLISTIC VIEW

BY NED MOHAN

Abstract: Climate change is the gravest threat facing humanity. Power engineering and its education have an important role to at least delay, if not avert, the catastrophes ahead. However, as reported by ASEE, in the EE part of ECE, student enrollments are declining nationwide just when we need them the most.Most young people are now very much aware of climate change and its consequences, and thus it is a great opportunity to create a pipeline of young students to recruit them into power engineering to pursue their undergraduate and graduate studies. This would require a holistic view where we integrate power systems that are needed for the delivery of power, power electronics that is ubiquitous and is used in all aspect of energy generation, transmission, and end-use, and electric machines that are the primary users of electricity especially if we are to transfer as much of energy use to electricity and generate that by renewables.

This presentation will present one view of doing such integration mentioned above and how it can be done in a collaborative manner using the educational technologies on hand.

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RELIABILITY IMPACT OF LOW-INERTIA GENERATION

BY JOYDEEP MITRA

Abstract: Since the beginning of this century we have witnessed an acceleration in the adoption of renewable energy resources and technologies. Various forces – social, political, economic, regulatory and technological – have conspired to create a climate that fosters the development and proliferation of numerous technologies that enable the conversion, control and integration of renewable energy resources. Although the mix of renewable resources is diverse, ranging from wind and solar to tidal and biomass, the bulk of recent investments have gone into wind and solar, both of which are considered non-inertial or low-inertia generation because these resources do not contribute to the regulation capability of the grid. This creates several challenges and opportunities in exploiting their benefits, particularly when operating them in coordination with other resources. Most countries have codes and requirements for frequency regulation, and measures must be implemented to ensure secure operation with low-inertia generation. This talk will discuss approaches for assessing the impact of low-inertia generation on frequency security, and of quantifying how this affects grid reliability. It will investigate some mitigation strategies, including the use of energy storage. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of ongoing research toward developing solutions for enhancing grid reliability in the presence of low-inertia generation.

CHALLENGES TO POWER SYSTEM PROTECTIONIN PRESENCE OF RENEWABLES

BY SUKUMAR BRAHMA

Abstract: Power system protection has been conceived and refined through decades of innovation and experience. However, the underlying assumptions behind all protection design and implementation have been that the faulted power system behaves as a linear system, and load currents can be neglected compared to fault currents. These assumptions are under scrutiny as more and more renewables connect at transmission and distribution levels. Renewable generation like solar and wind connect through power converters. The response of the renewable generation to faults depends largely on the converter controls. The controls restrict the fault currents to values comparable to load currents, and can also control the power factor of the fault current. Such response creates problems with various protection functions, and system analysis that underpin the design of some of the protection functions. This keynote speech will describe the challenges in detail for both transmission and distribution systems, including microgrids, and offer insight into some potential solutions.

ENERGY-COMMUNICATION-DATA INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH THE LENS OF ZERO-CARBON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND NATURAL HAZARD RESILIENCEBY NIRMAL NAIR

Abstract: Globally energy networks will be undertaking generational transitions in the next 3 decades to help deliver the low-carbon future in a world where high-intensity and high-frequency natural and climate-related events are becoming increasingly commonplace. “Decarbonization, Digitalization and Democratization” is the mantra that will guide this transition and dictate how

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energy and communication lifelines is expected to operate/perform Developing original, scalable and inter-dependent ideas particularly for future low-carbon data enable energy future will help prepare nations towards potentially addressing most if not all of the emergent threats.

This keynote begins with a quick primer on energy/electricity viewed from the prism of natural hazards and extreme climate/ambient conditions that it currently operates under. It will then summarize some experiences gained through a recently completed project with electricity and communication lifeline service operators for potential large earthquakes as part of a New Zealand National Science Challenge research program on Resilience to Nature’ Challenge and New Zealand’s Centre of Research Excellence Quake Core. This project has helped better understand the futuristic quake-science information that the lifeline assessment had to undertake and flesh out what the resilience metrics will be useful for electricity and communication infrastructures going forward.

The speaker in recent years has also been experimenting with distributed-ledger applications to highly distributed prosumer driven transactive electricity market operating environments, which will also be shared.

This keynote will conclude by speculating future inter-couplings of the transport and data infrastructures with the energy-communication nexus in an emergent highly networked, digitized and zero-carbon world resilient to natural disasters and cyber disruptions.

SMART METER-DRIVEN APPROACHES FOR PV-RICH LOW VOLTAGE NETWORK MODELLING, OPERATION AND PLANNING

BY LUIS (NANDO) OCHOA

Abstract: Residential solar PV is installed behind the meter of mainly single-phase customers connected to three-phase low voltage (LV) feeders (e.g., 400V line-to-line). This means that for distribution companies to adequately quantify the impacts from reverse power flows due to excess solar PV generation, the corresponding electrical models are required. These models are critical when calculating voltages given the non-linear and unbalanced nature of LV feeders. However, the task of producing electrical models of thousands of LV feeders is already a significant challenge for distribution companies around the world, which, in turn, makes the operation and planning of PV-rich LV networks even more challenging. It is in this context that the exploitation of historical smart meter data can not only help distribution companies with their modelling tasks but also provide radical alternatives to how they operate and plan future PV-rich LV networks.

This talk presents and discusses the findings of three advanced smart meter-driven approaches using realistic case studies from Victoria, Australia. The first, enhances LV models. Using simplified three-phase voltage drop equations and multiple linear regression, is able estimate three-phase and single-phase line impedances which, in turn, allows for the quick and accurate calculation of customer voltages for operational purposes. The second, a more radical approach, goes LV model free. It demonstrates that neural networks can be trained to capture the physics of three-phase LV feeders with dozens of single-phase customers; making it possible to have fast and accurate voltage calculations. The last one, from a planning perspective, also demonstrates that regression techniques and data from early solar PV penetrations can be used to quickly estimate the hosting capacity of LV networks without the need of complex and detailed network studies.

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THE FUTURE STRUCTURE OF ELECTRICAL POWER INDUSTRYIN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ENERGY LANDSCAPE

BY FURONG LI

Abstract: Economies of scale have served the electricity industry well in the past, this talk will introduce economies of flexibility to complement economies of scale under the rapid changing energy landscape. In a hybrid economy, economies of scale will continue to apply to parts of the system where energy customers have limited flexibility and the scale of the electro-mechanical system continues to offer the best efficiency. Economies of flexibility will be introduced at the edge of the supply system, where energy customers have wide and diverse flexibility to take advantage of low-cost, low-carbon (albeit intermittent and low-quality) supply. Hybrid economies will essentially decompose the supply system into fixed and flexible systems. It will simplify the highly complicated supply system and enable all energy players, big and small, to actively contribute to whole-system resource optimization, shaping a win-win energy ecosystem to deliver low-cost, low-carbon supplies with customized energy security.

FUTURE POWER SYSTEMS: ISSUES AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

BY CAMPBELL BOOTH

Abstract: Resilience and reliability in an uncertain future are crucial, and even more so in these challenging times. Power and energy systems underpin all aspects of modern society and this talk will cover a range of issues associated with future power systems. Particular focus on the power system of Great Britain will be placed, and it will be shown how the changing nature of generation and demand, coupled with changes to the structure and operation of the power system, is introducing a number of challenges to system operators. These challenges are primarily associated with a “weakening” of the power system due to the replacement of a relatively small number of large generators, typically connected directly at the transmission level, with a relatively very high number of smaller scale generators, many of which are connected at the distribution level, and interfaced to the power system via power electronics converters, and, at the micro scale, relatively “uncontrolled” and perhaps “invisible” from the system operators perspective. This is already leading to reducing fault levels, increases in frequency dynamics following major disturbances due to falling levels of inertia, and a number of other issues, all of which will require enhanced and novel approaches to the monitoring, protection and control of the power system, which will be underpinned by communications. A number of projects that are being undertaken to combat these challenges will be introduced, along with an overview of laboratory and demonstration facilities at the University of Strathclyde, including the Power Networks Demonstration Centre, that are being used to facilitate the investigations and demonstrate the outcomes of the projects.

FLEXIBILITY IN INDIAN POWER SYSTEM

BY SUSHIL KUMAR SOONEE

Abstract: Power systems are already flexible, designed to accommodate variable and uncertain load. In many power systems, sufficient flexibility exists to integrate additional variability, but this flexibility may not be fully accessible without changes to power system operations or other institutional factors.

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The keynote identifies flexibility as a prized characteristic in the twenty-first century Indian power system. Flexibility in power systems is inherently tied to the regulatory and market rules that help shape operations. This keynote would attempt to highlight that as Indian power system evolves to incorporate more renewable energy and flexibility across all elements of the electricity ecosystem must be addressed.

BUILDING ATMA NIRBHAR BHARAT IN POWERELECTRONICS AND POWER SYSTEMS

BY B. G. FERNANDES

Abstract: Several national missions such as National Solar Mission and National Wind Energy Mission are ongoing in order increase the renewable power generation in India. Under the Electricity Act 2003 and the National Tariff Policy 2006, the central and the state electricity regulatory commissions must purchase a certain percentage of grid-based power from renewable sources. Power electronics plays an important role in developing the renewable sources integrated power system grid. In this talk, we shall discuss about the power electronics being used in the integration of renewables and other applications. The national and global trends of power electronics in power system (PEPS) will also be discussed. Few examples of PEPS based prototypes developed at Nation Centre for Photovoltaics Research and Education (NCPRE), INDO-UK clean research initiative and other national/ international projects will also be presented. Towards the end the recommendations in context to PEPS for Atma Nirbhar Bharat would be discussed. The talk concludes with the importance of collaboration requirement among academia, industry and the government.

LOCAL AND WIDE-AREA CONTROL IN POWER SYSTEMS

BY ANIL M. KULKARNI

Abstract: Power Systems use feedback control for the regulation of quantities like frequency, voltage and power. Most controllers are decentralized, that is, they use locally measured feedback signals and local actuators. The controller strategies are designed to facilitate the sharing of real and reactive load among the various generators and other connected equipment. Some degree of centralized oversight exists, and is generally affected through the scheduling of the controller set-points. In addition to the regulation of voltage or power or frequency, auxiliary feedback loops are also implemented to improve the stability of the system. These too, tend to be decentralized.

With the advent of better communication and time-synchronization, it has become possible to use wide-area measurements to implement controllers which use remote measurements. In this talk, the possible applications, issues and prospects for wide-area control will be assessed. Some wide-area strategies for power swing damping control will also be discussed.

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EMERGING POWER SYSTEM: CLEAN, FLEXIBLE AND DIGITALBY SUBIR SEN

Abstract: Power System has been traditionally designed to handle change in load through flexibility in generation to a certain degree. With emphasis on clean energy, intermittency & variability of Renewable Energy sources, has developed new scenarios where load as well as generation (RE) are changing and require flexibility in the entire power supply chain. This has also necessitated intelligent digital solutions for enhanced observability and controllability of the grid components. Cutting edge research aimed at solving challenges faced by Utilities has produced innovative solutions towards data-driven, flexible and reliable Power Systems.

Abstract of Tutorial Sessions

RENEWABLE DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES AND MICROGRIDS: ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND MITIGATION

BY RAMAKRISHNA GOKARAJU & MUKESH NAGPAL

Abstract: Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and Microgrids provide benefits to customers, utilities and society as renewable energy resources but, they present new challenges to the electric protection systems. Traditional protection schemes are suitable for two source terminal transmission lines and single source terminal distribution lines with unidirectional power flow. New protection schemes are required to protect multi-terminal lines. In the integrated electric grid, the basic principle of short circuit detection is on the premise that short circuits produce currents which are orders of magnitudes higher than the current which is drawn by consumers, even during high demand periods. In a Microgrid environment, large utility synchronous generators are absent and the available short circuit current drops significantly. This compromises the protection’s ability to distinguish between short circuits and high demand load currents. New protection systems, that are either capable of detecting low magnitude short circuit currents, or which automatically adapt (by changing their relay settings) to the network topology reconfiguration (from grid-connected to Microgrid), are required.

Unlike synchronous generators, modern renewable energy resources (wind, solar and battery storage generators) do not have a universal short circuit response because they are connected to the grid through power electronic inverter interface. Their short circuit current characteristics (magnitude and phase angle relative to internal source voltage) are dependent upon specific, and often proprietary, interface control designs of these generators. In addition, many of these generators output only positive sequence current even for unbalanced short circuits. Essentially, they act as a high impedance path to negative sequence short circuit current and allow little circulation of negative sequence current without any predictable phase angle relationship to the negative sequence voltage at the generator terminal. Thus, commonly used negative sequence directional relaying available in the existing protection systems can no longer be applied to the lines connected to renewable generators with inverter interface. It is essential that a line protection scheme must accommodate non-universal, low magnitude, positive sequence and non-inductive short circuit characteristics. The development and enforcement of new grid codes are necessary to ensure the renewable’s short circuit responses closely match those of synchronous generators.

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The tutorial will also discuss the impact of the connection of renewable resources on the performance of power swing protection. Since these sources with inverters have no inherent rotational inertia, power swing characteristics may be substantially different than that with synchronous generation. Such different swing characteristics may result in the mis operation of conventional power swing protection systems. This tutorial will provide examples of the mis operation of power swing blocking (PSB) and Out-of-Step Tripping (OST) functions. Advanced power swing relaying schemes to address this issue will be discussed.

The primary objectives of this tutorial are as follows:1. Expose participants to the new protection challenges due to hierarchical changes in electric

system’s architecture introduced by large scale penetration of DERs2. Identify protection challenges of Microgrid and new methodologies to overcome them 3. Introduce participants to non-universal, low magnitude, non-inductive and only positive sequence

current response of the renewable inverter resource to both balance and unbalance short circuits4. Expose participants to the protection methodologies taking into dissimilarities between short

circuit responses of conventional synchronous and renewable inverter resources5. Introduce participants to power swing protection challenges associated with connection of

renewable based resources. Discuss new power swing relaying schemes to address the challenges6. Introduce participants to new grid codes necessary as footprint of renewable inverter resources

are becoming dominant in overall utility resource mix

CYBER-PHYSICAL RESILIENCY OF THE FUTURE ELECTRIC GRID

BY ANURAG K. SRIVASTAVA & B K PANIGRAHI

Abstract: Information and communication technologies enable us to realize the smart grid vision but also bring vulnerabilities. It is important to analyze the impact of possible cyber-attacks on the power grid and develop defense mechanisms. Cyber-physical security analysis needs to be performed to minimize the impact of the potential cyber attacks on the power grid. Keeping the power on to critical facilities such as hospitals and fire departments during cyber events is essential. There is a need for formal metrics to quantify resiliency of the electric grid, or different configurations of the same network. Number of resources are available with integration of microgrids and DER to improve the resiliency of the critical loads during cyber-attacks and grid disturbances. Additionally, sensor data availability such as smart meters, phasor measurement units and cyber data as well as weather data makes it possible to do resiliency analysis with enhanced situational awareness. This tutorial will cover basic of cyber infrastructure for the power grid, cyber vulnerabilities, common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) score, recent cyber attacks against the power grid, cyber-physical security analysis, defining resilience, and a tool to study the cyber-physical resiliency of the electric grid.

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TOWARDS A SMART DISTRIBUTION GRID: A POWERELECTRONICS PROSPECTIVE

BY SANTANU KUMAR MISRA

Abstract:Smart LV distribution system will have numerous low-power distributed energy resources (DERs) in the form of rooftop solar PV systems, grid-tied inverters, etc. These DERs will be responsible for power backup, power trading with distribution grid, and local reactive power support. However, to make the distribution system smart it is essential to make the overall distribution system cohesive as far as operation and management with DER is concerned. This talk will discuss the challenges in achieving these objectives from a power electronics view-point.

POWER QUALITY ASPECTS IN MICROGRID CONNECTED POWER SYSTEM

BY MAHESH KUMAR

Abstract: Power quality is an important aspect in microgrid connected power systems. As we know, the distribution energy resources (DERs), such as PV plants or wind energy systems, are connected to the power grid through power converters. One important converter is voltage source inverter (VSI), which is an interface between the DC bus and AC grid. The operation and control of the VSI plays a significant role in addressing power quality issues. In this talk, various functions of the VSI to compensate for power factor, reactive power and load balancing, in addition to requisite real power exchange from the DERs, will be explored.

BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY: INSPIRINGENERGY APPLICATIONS AND GRID RESILIENCY

BY VINOD TIWARI

Abstract: The energy industry globally is rapidly transitioning from a traditional and centralised system to a more distributed energy system, driven largely by the deployment of renewable energy and the proliferation of distributed energy resources (DER) like rooftop solar and battery storage. This presentation will discuss the role of blockchain technology in energy use cases and solutions that help facilitate the integration of renewables on the grid in an orderly and innovative manner through the use of DERs. Power Ledger provides such innovative solutions and uses the Blockchain technology to provide new applications enabling people and businesses to transact energy, flexibilities and trade in environmental commodities. The technology provides companies and communities the tools they need to develop a new energy system that is resilient, low-cost and low-carbon.

Power Ledger has developed an integrated business model which utilises Blockchain to capture multiple value streams to improve the efficiency and transparency of distributed energy markets. The Power Ledger Platform is now being deployed in every major region including the United States, Europe, India, North and South East Asia and Australia.

Energy and flexibilities TradingPower Ledger’s Platform provides a real-time transactive financial layer. Self-executing smart contracts integrate with system controls, creating an autonomous, energy market with secure value

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transfer between customers, networks and markets participants. Blockchain is the technology which essentially connects a financial transaction to a physical transaction of energy, and ensures all participants are paid for the services they provide.

The Power Ledger Platform enables buying and selling of electricity in real time in a range of different environments. Consumers with solar panels on their rooftops can use our P2P energy trading Platform to sell excess energy to their neighbours. Households and businesses with battery storage and EVs can participate in our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and sell their surplus energy at the peak to maximize profit from the solar power they generate while contributing in solving price spikes and demand shortages. They can also participate in offering grid stabilisation and ancillary services such as Frequency Response as well as flexibilities service for distribution network management.

Utilising Blockchain additionally opens up the possibility for a cross-retailer VPP ecosystem and settlement system, where the financial transaction is pinned to the physical transaction, regardless of who the energy provider is. It enables the interaction between VPPs across networks that supports an economic framework and marketplace where owners of solar and batteries are incentivised to keep supporting the overarching system, rather than defecting from the grid altogether.

Environmental commodities tradingBlockchain technology can be used to ensure the trading of environmental commodities and renewable energy credits is more transparent, liquid, secure and efficient. Our proprietary Blockchain technology can be utilised to track energy from renewable sources to offset emissions as well as track the multitude of transactions relating to environmental commodities and renewable energy credits (RECs).

AI AND MACHINE LEARNING INSPIRED PRECISIONPREDICTIVE ANALYTICS FOR UTILITIES

BY ASHUTOSH NATRAJ

Abstract: Vidrona is a Precision Predictive Analytics Energy Asset Management company. Our suite

of solutions is an Artificial Intelligence inspired web based analytical software to helps it’s customers ensure uninterrupted services with higher operational time and higher return on invested assets.

Our predictive analytics product utilises data analysis and analytics to generate insights from imagery data collected using sensors on various automated platforms like UAVs/drones, ground robots, satellites, helicopters and even mobile phones. We then process and analyse this data using our proprietary Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms; to furnish actionable items to the customers on our web based software platform, vSense®.

In addition, our product allows the customer's operations managers to better track their maintenance activity. No maintenance task is marked as complete till such time as the client’s maintenance personnel takes a picture of the corrected component using their mobile phones and uploads these images on to vSense®. Our algorithms then analyse these imagery data for fixes, and escalate the issue in case the corrective measures taken aren’t sufficient.

The tutorial will cover the case study on a few of the challenging aspects most utilities across the world face with and how Vidrona's AI and ML inspired predictive solutions meet the needs of the industry.

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Awards

NPSC ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD-2020

PROF SRI NIWAS SINGHFIEEE (USA), FNAE, FIET (UK), IE(I), IETE(I), FAvH

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Prof SN Singh obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology (Avadh University) in 1987; M. Tech. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 1989 and 1995,

respectively. Presently, he is Professor (HAG), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.

Before joining IIT Kanpur as Associate Professor, Dr Singh worked with UP State Electricity Board as Assistant Engineer from 1988 to 1996, with

Roorkee University (now IIT Roorkee) as Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2000 and with Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand as Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2002. He was Vice-Chancellor, Madan Mohan Malviya Univ. of Technology Gorakhpur, April 2017-July 2020.

Dr Singh received several awards including Young Engineer Award 2000 of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Khosla Research Award of IIT Roorkee, and Young Engineer Award of CBIP New Delhi (India), 1996. Prof Singh is receipt of Humboldt Fellowship of Germany (2005, 2007) and Otto-Monsted Fellowship of Denmark (2009-10). Prof Singh became first Asian to receive 2013 IEEE Educational Activity Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education. He is also recipients of INAE Outstanding Teacher Award 2016 and IEEE R10 region (Asia-Pacific) Outstanding Volunteer Award 2016. Dr Singh is appointed as IEEE Distinguish Lecturer of Power & Energy Society from 2019 and Industry application Society for 2019-2021.

His research interests include power system restructuring, FACTS, power system optimization & control, security analysis, wind power, Smart grid, AI applications to power systems, etc. Prof Singh has published more than 500 papers in International/national journals/conferences and supervised 31 PhD (12 PhD under progress). He has also written 23 book chapters, 6 Edited books and 2 text-books one on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution and second is Basic Electrical Engineering, published by PHI, India. Prof Singh has completed three dozen of technical projects in India and abroad. His two NPTEL (YouTube) video lectures on HVDC Transmission and Power System Operation & Control are very popular. Dr Singh has carried out 22 sponsored research projects of Indian and abroad. He has completed 15 consultancy projects.

Prof Singh was Chairman, IEEE UP Section for 2013 & 2014 and IEEE R10 (Asia-Pacific) Conference & Technical Seminar Coordinator 2015-18. Presently Prof Singh is India Council Chairman and R10 Vice-Chair, Technical Activities (2019-2020) of IEEE, the largest professional body in Engineering. He has several important administrative experiences including; BoG Chairman, FET, MJPRU Bareilly; BoG Chairman, IET, DRMLAU Ayodhya; BoG Members of IIT Kanpur, GEHU Dehradun, KNIT Sultanpur; Chairman JEE (Advanced) 2016; Chairman, Council of Wardens, Head, EED, IITK; Academic Council members of many University/Institutes, Vice-Chancellor, MMMUT Gorakhpur. Dr Singh is Fellows of IEEE (USA), FIET (UK), FNAE, FIE(I), FIETE, AvH. The organising committee of the 21st National Power Systems Conference 2020 feels privileged in conferring the Academic Excellence Award 2020 to Prof Sri Niwas Singh.

NPSC INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE AWARD-2020

SHRI K. RAMANATHANDistinguished Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Former Member (Power Systems), Central Electricity Authority

Shri K. Ramanathan graduated in Electrical Engineering from Kerala University in 1960. He obtained Post Graduate Diploma and Masters in Water Resources Development - Electrical Engineering from University of Roorkee in 1971 and 1973 respectively, both with

the distinction of achieving first rank in the University. He has about 58 years of rich and varied experience in various capacities leading

to Member (Power Systems), Central Electricity Authority & ex-officio Additional Secretary to Government of India and Distinguished Fellow, The

Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). His contribution spans across development of transmission and distribution systems, long-term generation expansion planning, techno-economic clearance of power projects, integrated operation of regional power systems, planning, design and implementation of load despatch centres, study of transnational interconnections, evaluation of rural electrification programmes, technology development & research and development in power systems, reform related studies, capacity building of utility and regulatory professionals in India and abroad, etc.

His key contributions include preparation of a manual on transmission system planning criteria, operationalizing updated planning models for generation expansion, establishment of state-of-art load despatch centres, implementation of country’s first Despatcher’s Training Simulator, implementation of country’s first heterogeneous computer-to-computer software link between WRLDC and SLDC of Maharashtra, development of National Power Plan for 1997-2012, National Energy Map for India – Technology Vision 2030, an assessment of technology development in the power sector in India up to 2030, support to ADB and JBIC/JAICA in ex-post evaluation of power projects funded by them, etc.

He has guided more than 150 research and consultancy studies/projects in various domains of power sector including power sector reforms and regulatory issues/assistance, sustainable development, etc. His current focus areas include technical impacts of high degree of penetration of renewable energy to the grid, demand side management and energy efficiency, low carbon pathways for power sector, cross-border energy transactions, capacity building, etc.

He has made contribution as part-time Director of PowerGrid Corporation of India, Rural Electricity Corporation of India, Chairman of Standing Committee of CPRI, Chairman of Project Review Committee of National HVDC project, Chairman of Committee on Testing and Certification of CPRI, Member of Governing Council of CPRI, Technical Committee on FACTS and Working Group of 9th Five Year Plan, Advisory Committees of CERC and DERC, Chairman of Committee to examine Grid Disturbance in Western Region in mid-nineties.

Shri Ramanathan is recognised for his immense contribution in almost all the aspects of power system development in the country including technical, research & development, policy and regulatory aspects. He is a role model for any budding power sector professional. The organizing committee of the 21st National Power Systems Conference 2020 feels privileged in conferring the Industry Excellence Award 2020 to Shri K. Ramanathan.

MALAVIYA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN POWER SYSTEMS - 2020

PROF DWARKADAS PRAHLADADAS KOTHARIDirector Research and Professor, S.B. Jain Institute of

Management, Research and Technology, Nagpur

Born on 7th October, 1944, Prof Dwarkadas Prahladadas Kothari, obtained his BE (Electrical) in 1967, ME (Power Systems) in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1975 from BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan. From 1969 to 1977, he was involved in teaching and development of several courses

at BITS Pilani.

Prof Kothari has served as Vice Chancellor, VIT, Vellore, Director in-charge and Deputy Director (Administration) as well as Head in the Centre of Energy Studies at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and as

Principal, VRCE, Nagpur. He was visiting professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, during 1982-83 and 1989. He has been an NSF Fellow at Purdue University, USA in 1992. He taught at Melbourne University Australia in 1989.

Prof Kothari, who is a recipient of the Most Active Researcher Award, has published and presented 812 research papers in various national as well as international journals, conferences, guided 50 Ph.D. scholars and 68 M. Tech students, and authored more than 60 books in various allied areas. He has delivered several keynote addresses and invited lectures at both national and international conferences. He has also delivered 42 video lectures on YouTube with a maximum of 40,000 hits.

Prof Kothari is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), Fellow of Indian National Academy of Science (FNASc), Fellow of Institution of Engineers (FIE), Fellow IEEE, Hon. Fellow ISTE and Fellow IETE.

His many awards include the National Khosla Award for Lifetime Achievements in Engineering (2005) from IIT, Roorkee. The University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India has bestowed the UGC National Swami Pranavandana Saraswati Award (2005) in the field of education for his outstanding scholarly contributions. He is recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award (2009) conferred by the World Management Congress, New Delhi, for his contribution to the areas of educational planning and administration. Recently he received the Academic Excellence Award at NPSC-2014 held at IIT Guwahati. He has received 6 LifeTime Achievement awards by various agencies. On 20th April 2016 he received ‘Living Legend’ Award in a conference organized at Adhiparashakthi Engineering College, Chennai.

Currently Prof Kothari is with S.B Jain Institute of Management, Research and Technology, Nagpur serving as Director Research and Professor. He is also Chairman, Board of Governors of THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, Tehri.

Reputed for the wealth of research output, technical competence and unassuming personality, Prof Kothari has endeared himself to all those who came in contact with him. At the 21st National Power Systems Conference (2020), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT(BHU) feels privileged to honour “Malaviya Award for Excellence in Power Systems -2020” to Prof Dwarkadas Prahladadas Kothari who is an outstanding academician who has made immense contributions in the area of power system research, development and teaching.

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Paper Presentation Schedule

DAY 1 - 17/12/2020 (12:15-13:15) Track 1.1 - Modern Power and Smart Energy Systems

Session Chair: Prof Praveen Tripathy

Date Time Paper ID Paper Title

17/12/2020

12:15 14Adapting Tellegen's Theorem for Synchrophasor-Assisted Fault Identification in Active Distribution Networks - An Illustration

12:27 40A Serverless Cloud Computing Framework for Real-Time Appliance-Usage Recommendation

12:39 91Synchrophasor based Data Driven Approach for Fault Identification using Multi-class Support Vector Machine

12:51 242 Smart campus management with advanced learning management system

13:03 281Load Frequency control of a Non-linear Power System via Demand Response Control Strategy Based Fractional Order Fuzzy Controller

Track 1.2 - Renewable Energy Systems and Distributed Generation

Session Chair : Prof Ankush Sharma


17/12/2020

12:15 111 Battery Storage System Planning in an Academic Campus Distribution Network

12:27 161Multi-Objective Information Gap Decision Theory Based Operation of Smart Distribution Grid Integrated With Demand Response

12:39 173Application of continuous-time Kautz functions in the MPC formulation for standalone micro-grid control

12:51 182 Multi-agent Distributed Control and Power sharing between Microgrid DERs

13:03 185 Fault Management Scheme for Islanded DC Microgrid

Track 1.3 - Power Electronics, Electrical Machines & System Integrations

Session Chair: Prof Priyesh Chauhan


17/12/2020

12:15 63 A New Short-Circuit Protection Scheme for Boost Converter

12:27 133Decoupled Alpha-Beta control for distortion reduction in three-phase low-voltage Inverters

12:39 165Utilization of Resilient Back Propagation Algorithm and Discrete Wavelet Transform for the Differential Protection of Three Phase Power Transformer

12:51 179 An Adaptive P-Q Management Technique For Grid Voltage Regulation Using PV Inveter

13:03 237Optimal Choice of Frequency Modulation Index for Even-Order Harmonic Mitigation in a Space Vector Modulated Two-Level Inverter

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Session Chair: Prof Gopal Gajjar


17/12/2020

15:15 49 The Control Loop Shaping in Grid Tied Inverter for Weak Grid Scenario

15:27 107 Quadrature based over-current relay for PV penetrated primary distribution system

15:39 118 Optimal Overcurrent Relay Coordination Scheme for Microgrid

15:51 244A Metaheuristic approach for Conservation Voltage Reduction in Unbalanced Active Distribution Networks

16:03 236 Evaluation of Time Delay Intervals in the Wide-Area Damping Controller Design


Session Chair: Prof Sanjoy Kumar Parida


17/12/2020

15:15 56 A Fast Fault Detection Scheme for Low Voltage DC Microgrid

15:27 71Improved Power Sharing and Voltage Regulation with Modified Droop Control in Microgrid

15:39 121Improved Detection Time and Performance of Frequency Relay for Islanding Detection of DG

15:51 137 Detection of Islanding for Microgrid Based on Discrimination Factor of Islanding

16:03 238Optimal Allocation of DG for Minimization of Power Loss and Total Investment Cost using an Analytical Approach


Session Chair: Mr. P K Agarwal


17/12/2020

15:15 30 Condition Assessment of Silicon Rubber Insulator used in Overhead Systems

15:27 172Output Voltage Modulated Half-bridge Series Resonant converter for LED driver application

15:39 176 Planning and Operations of Indian Power System during the Pan India Lights Off Event

15:51 216 Electrical Vehicle Recharge Scheduling in a Shopping Mall Charging Station

16:03 256A Fiber Optic Communication Module to Interface RTDS with Power Amplifier for PHIL Simulations

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Session Chair: Prof Praghnesh Bhatt


18/12/2020

11:00 28 A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Harmonic Phasors Estimation in Real-time

11:12 33 Limiting Short circuit levels through network reconfiguration: An experience in India

11:24 55 System Identification-based Estimation of Power System Inertia Using PMU Data

11:36 57 Protection of DC Ring-main Microgrid by observing line-losses during fault

11:48 81 Risk Assessment of Cyber-Attacks in Multi Area Load Frequency Control

12:00 89Frequency regulation of hybrid power system using reduced order disturbance observer based integral sliding mode controller

12:12 92 A comprehensive review: AC & DC Microgrid Protection

12:24 143 Challenges in maintaining a Grid comprising of 100% Gas based Generation

12:36 233Simultaneous Three-phase Line Parameter Estimation and Instrument Transformer Calibration using PMU Data

12:48 289 3D Electric Field Modelling for UHV class AC Composite Transmission Line Insulators


Session Chair: Prof Ashwani Kumar


18/12/2020

11:00 6 LQR Based PI Controller for Load Frequency Control with Distributed Generations

11:12 25 Multi-Objective Framework for Optimal Scheduling of Electric Vehicles

11:24 75Artificial Neural Network for Reliability Evaluation of Power System Network with Renewable Energy

11:36 116Voltage Control and Energy Management of Solar PV fed Stand-alone Low Voltage DC Microgrid for Rural Electrification

11:48 128An Ensemble Model for Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting using Deep Learning and Gradient Boosting Algorithms

12:00 199 An Integrated Small-Signal Model of Photovoltaic System for MPPT Applications

12:12 243Participation of Battery Energy Storage Technologies in Co-Optimized Energy and Reserve Markets

12:24 246 Flexibility Analysis of Thermal Generation for Renewable Energy Integration in India

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18/12/2020

12:36 259An Efficient SPV Power Forecasting using Hybrid Wavelet and Genetic Algorithm based LSTM Deep Learning Model

12:48 291 ADMM Algorithm based Distributed Energy Management in Active Distribution Network


Session Chair: Prof Ragavan Kanagaraj


18/12/2020

11:00 97 Impact Assessment of APFC and Solar PV on IITGN Ring Main Distribution Network

11:12 99 Battery-swap Technology for e-Rickshaws: Challenges, Opportunity and Scope

11:24 124Application of Sweep Frequency Response Analysis (SFRA) for detection of Hidden Winding faults in Power Transformers- A Field Experience

11:36 141 Current Slope Detection Technique for Estimation of Rotor Position of PMSM Drive

11:48 192Optimal allocation of Wind Turbine & SVC using Cuckoo Search Algorithm for enhancement of techno-socio-environmental benefits in distribution network

12:00 198 Real-time simulation of V2G operation for EV battery

12:12 211 Different Design Considerations for Designing of High Speed Permanent Magnet Motors

12:24 235LED Driver with Three-Phase Series Resonant Converter with Reduced Source Ripple Current

12:36 275 LVRT Improvement of DFIG driven Wind Generator with Rotor Control

12:48 286Aging Effect of Transformer Failure Rate on Distribution System Reliability Based on Weibull Distribution Function


Session Chair: Prof Bhavesh Bhalja


18/12/2020

18:15 74Probabilistic Approach for Optimal Power Flow Using Cornish Fisher and Gram Charlier Series Expansion

18:27 157Long Short Term Memory Based Deep Learning Method for Fault Power Line Detection in a MV Overhead Lines with Covered Conductors

18:39 189Empirical Mode Decomposition Assisted Fault Localization for UPFC Compensated System

18:51 263 Modified Distance Relaying Blocking Scheme For Low Inertia System

19:03 294Combined Fault Classification and Location Scheme for TCSC-compensated Transmission Lines using Machine Learning Techniques

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Session Chair: Prof Tripta Thakur


18/12/2020

18:15 8 Comparative Analysis of Maximum Power Point Algorithms for Solar PV Applications

18:27 12 Communication Assisted Protection Scheme with Localized backup for AC microgrid

18:39 58 Performance Analysis of Fast Charging Stations for G2V and V2G Microgrid Systems

18:51 88 High Performance MPPT Controller based on Adaptive Sliding Mode Control

19:03 251 A Solar PV System for Reliable Supply in Areas with Erratic Grid


Session Chair: Prof Trapti Jain


18/12/2020

18:15 15 A Novel Frequency Estimator for Protection Applications in Active Distribution Networks

18:27 37Communication-free Approach for Frequency Support in the MTDC grids - A Comparative Study

18:39 61Impact of Sine-Wave LC filter on Two-Level PWM VSI fed IM drive considering the long leads

18:51 113 Multiple Solutions for Micro-PMUs Placement in Active Distribution Networks

19:03 295Parallel power tapping from LCC HVDC transmission system with Full Bridge Modular Multilevel Converter


Session Chair: Prof S R Samantaray


19/12/2020

12:45 195 Making Graduating Engineers Industry Ready

12:57 50Online Voltage Stability Assessment Using Artificial Neural Network considering Voltage stability indices

13:09 142Real Time Power Scheduling incorporating Thermal Based Dynamic Line Ratings and Temporal Decomposition

13:21 178 Design of Damping Controller Based on the Wide-Area Signal Strength

13:33 273Cascaded Sliding DFT Based Grid Synchronization Technique With DC Offset Removal Capability

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Session Chair: Prof Sachin Jain


19/12/2020

12:45 31 Advancements in Microgrid Voltage Control Schemes

12:57 184 SPV/Wind Hybrid Energy System:Future of Rural India

13:09 186Forecast and Energy Management System (F-EMS) Framework for Optimal Operation of Sewage Treatment Plants

13:21 220 Solar PV Generation Based Microgrid Control Interfaced to Utility Grid

13:33 258A Novel Online Protection Scheme based on Hybrid Grading technique for variable Active Distribution Systems


Session Chair: Prof M K Verma


19/12/2020

12:45 105An Interleaved Dual Double-Ended Forward Converter Based LED Driver for DC Lighting Grids

12:57 169 A WABP Scheme for Faulted Line Identification with Limited PMUs

13:09 227Simulation of Partial Discharge Acoustic Wave Propagation Using COMSOL Multiphysics and Its Localization in a Model Transformer

13:21 241 An Efficient DC-Grid Based Half-Bridge LED Driver

13:33 260 Characteristics Analysis of Acoustic Partial Discharge in Cable Defects

DAY 3 - 19/12/2020 (14:45-16:15) Track 6A.1 - Modern Power and Smart Energy Systems

Session Chair: Prof Arvind Jain


19/12/2020

14:45 65 A Simple Cyber Attack Detection Scheme for Smart Grid Cyber Security Enhancement

14:57 73 Cyber Security Enhancement of Smart Grids Via Machine Learning - A Review

15:09 79 Cyber Physical System Enabled Smart Grid Based Optimal Controller placement

15:21 100 Fault Detection Scheme for Grid-connected PV based Multi-terminal DC Microgrid

15:33 190Blockchain: Elements of Physical Architecture, Empowering Features and Applications in the Indian Power Sector

15:45 224 A Review on 5G Technological Intervention in Smart Grid

15:57 264 Near Real Time Load Forecasting in Power System

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Track 6A.2 - Renewable Energy Systems and Distributed Generation

Session Chair: Prof Barjeev Tyagi


19/12/2020

14:45 27 Combined Two-Point and Three-Point Interpolated DFT for Frequency Estimation

14:57 29Reconfiguration and Coordination of V2G EVs in Distribution System Penetrated with Renewables

15:09 66Optimal Demand Response Using Dynamic Electricity Price Limit in a Hybrid AC/DC System

15:21 77Optimal siting and sizing of battery in varying PV generation by utlizing genetic algorithm in distribution system

15:33 78Modeling and Simulation of Fuzzy Expert System for Mitigation of Power Fluctuation in AC-DC Hybrid Microgrid Connected to a Distribution Network

15:45 109 Fuzzy-C Means Clustering Based ANFIS wind speed forecast

15:57 201 Ensemble deep learning model for wind speed prediction

Track 6A.3 - Power Electronics, Electrical Machines & System Integrations

Session Chair: Prof Santosh Vora


19/12/2020

14:45 94 DCCB sizing requirements in an LCC-MMC hybrid HVDC network

14:57 102Performance Improvement of Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motor through Cogging Torque Reduction Techniques

15:09 154Comparative Analysis of External Configuration based DFIG-LVRT Enhancement Schemes

15:21 168 Imrproved Power Quality Ceiling Fan with BLDCM

15:33 174Performance Analysis of Fault Current Limiters for Low Voltage Ride Through Improvement of DFIG based Wind Farms

15:45 226Core Capacity Enhancement of a Three-Phase Core Type Transformer by Injection of Two-Level DC Excitation

15:57 274 Effect of Multiple Winding Layers on Eddy Current Loss in Magnets of PMSM

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DAY 3 - 19/12/2020 (16:30-18:00) Track 6B.1 - Modern Power and Smart Energy Systems

Session Chair: Prof Naveen Jain


19/12/2020

16:30 72An Improved Affine Arithmetic-Based Optimal DG Sizing and Placement Algorithm Using PSO for Radial Distribution Networks with Uncertainty

16:42 136 Blockchain and Smart Contract based Decentralized Energy Trading Platform

16:54 181 Quick Learn Approach for load forecasting during COVID 19 lockdown

17:06 187 Impact of Filler Configurations on Properties of Epoxy-based Nanocomposites

17:18 213 Experience of PSS Tuning in Indian Power System

19/12/202017:30 240 Identification & Reduction of Circulating MVAR Loops at High Voltage Substations

17:42 257 Double Consensus based Optimal Dispatch considering Communication Delay and Noise

Track 6B.2 - Renewable Energy Systems and Distributed Generation

Session Chair: Prof N Kumaresan


19/12/2020

16:30 53 Clustering Based Consumer Baseline Estimation for Demand Response Implementation

16:42 103Automatic Generation Control in a Two Area Power System with Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage

16:54 132 Optimal Bidding Strategy with Ancillary Services in Hybrid Competitive Markets

17:06 158 Development of Real-Time Distribution System Testbed Using Co-Simulation

17:18 193 Micro grid level holistic approach for scheduling heating loads and electric vehicles

17:30 250Robust Seventh Order Complex Filter Controller for PV-BES System with Seamless Grid Synchronization

17:42 296 Optimal Scheduling of Home Appliances Under Automated Demand Response

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Track 6B.3 - Field trials, Regulatory and Energy Policies

Session Chair: Mr. P K Agarwal


19/12/2020

16:30 38 Impact of human error on Grid Events in Western Regional grid

16:42 39 Grid Standards Conformity Assessment of RES in Western Region of Indian Grid

16:54 42Management of North-Eastern Grid during High Power Order Operation of HVDC - a Case Study

17:06 44 Harnessing Flexibility of Hydro Resources for Grid Balancing - Case studies in India

17:18 164Experience of Indian Electricity Market Operation and other events during COVID-19 pandemic

17:30 188 Implementation of Real Time Market in India

17:42 83Analysis with Frequency-fractions and Lookup Table Dynamics for '9 pm-9-minute' Event

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List of AuthorsA V Ratna Manikyavani Irfan Ahmed S Sivasubramani

A. Srivastava Jai Kumar Maherchandani S. P. Singh

Aastha Kapoor Janmejaya Pradhan S. R. Samantaray

Abheejeet Mohapatra Jatinkumar Patel S.A Soman

Abhijit Abhyankar Jaydip Agravat S.C. Srivastava

Abhimanyu Gartia Jayesh Priolkar S.P Singh

Abhinav Ahuja Jignesh Shah S.P. Kumar

Abhineet Prakash Jyotsna Singh S.R. Narasimhan

Abhishek Kanhe K V N Pawan Kumar Sachin Kumar Jain

Abhishek Tiwari K V S Baba Sachin Sharma

Adarsh Jaiswal K.B.V. Ramkumar Sachinkumar Suthar

Aditya Prasad Das K.R. Niazi Saeed Sepasi

Adnan Iqbal Kalyan Kumar Boddeti Sagar Bhutada

Ajeet K. Yadav Kapil Chauhan Saibal Ghosh

Akash Modi Kapil Thukral Saidi Reddy Parne

Akhilesh Kumar Mishra Ketan Badgujar Saikat Chakrabarti

Alok Pratap Singh Kevin Davies Sakthivelu Subramanian

Altaf Q H Badar Kishore Kalita Samir C Saxena

Aman Gautam Kodakandla Muralikrishna Sandeep Anand

Ambuj Gupta Krupa Shah Sanjib Ganguly

Amit Kumar Kuldip Nayak Sanjoy Kumar Parida

Ampolu Maneesha Kundan Kumar Sankarsan Mohapatro

Amulya L Rajesh Reddy Sanny Machal

Anamika Dubey L Sharath Chand Sanober Mirza

Anamika Dubey Lankipalli Vinod Kumar Santanu Mishra

Anamika Yadav Lata Gidwani Santhosh M

Anandarup Das M P Selvan Santosh Vora

Anandsingh Chauhan M S Athulya Saswati Mishra

Anil Jampala M Venkateswara Rao Satish Chetwani

Animesh Garg Malyala Venkata Satya Sai Chandra Satish Kumar Ancha

Anirban Chowdhury Mandeep Singh Rana Satish Kumar Singh

Anju Meghwani Manish Goyal Saumendra Sarangi

Anju Meghwani Manish Kumar Saurav Sahay

Ankur Kanapara Manju Bhashini Seema Kewat

Ankush Sharma Manohar SinghSelvamani Prabaharan Manoharan

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Anoop V Eluvathingal Manoj Kumawat Shalini

Anubrata Das Md Irshad Ansari Shankar Pandit

Anupam Kumar Md Tuhin Rana Shanti Swarup

Anurag Gupta Megha Gupta Shaorong Wang

Aprajay Verma Mihir Velani Shashank Vyas

Arbagoast Nyndani Miliya Anna George Shashikumar Bhagat

Arpan Malkhandi Mohd Alam Sheshadri Shekhar Rauth

Arunima Verma Mounika Dasohari Shitikantha Dash

Ashok Chavda Murilo E. C. Bento Shivashankar Sukumar

Ashok Kumar Pradhan Naran Pindoriya Shri Ram Vaishya

Ashutosh Kumar Baranwal Narsa Reddy Tummuru Shubhra Shubhra

Ashutosh Vishwakarma Naveen Jain Shubhrata Gupta

Atul Yadav Neel Patel Siddhant Kumar

Avinash Kumar Nikhil Gupta Siddharth Joshi

B.S. Umre Nikhil Kumar Sharma Siddhi Jaiswal

Badatya Deepak Balkrushna Nilanjan Senroy Sindhu T K

Bala Sai Kiran Patnam Nilesh Hadiya Smita Lokhande

Balasubramani S Nilesh Hiremath Soumya Mudgal

Balwinder Sodhi Niraj Choudhary Soumya Ranjan Sahoo

Bandi Ravi Kumar Nirav Chavda Sourav De

Barjeev Tyagi Nishchal K Verma Sourav K. Ghosh

Barjeev Tyagi Nitai Pal Sourav Mandal

Baru Chauhan Nitesh Kumar Sreedhar Madichetty

Bhagwan K Murthy Olive Ray Sreeraj E.S. Sreeraj

Bharat Singh Rajpurohit P. M. Naina Sri Niwas Singh

Bhavesh Bhalja Padmavathi Lakahsmanan Subba Rao P.V.V.

Bhavesh Vyas Partha Sarathee Bhowmik Subhendu Mukherjee

Bhim Singh Pawan Saini Subrat Mishra

Bhim Singh Payal Dahiwale Sukumar Mishra

Bibhu Prasad Padhy Poojith U Rao Suman Biswal

Boda Pool Singh Porpandiselvi S Suniil Kumar Maurya

C. N. Bhende Prabhakar Tiwari Sunil Singha

Chandan Kumar Prabodh Bajpai Surajit Banerjee

Chandan Kumar Pradeep Kumar Sanodiya Suresh Varwandkar

Chandra Sekhar Valluru Pradeep Sanodiya Suresh Velamuri

Chandrasekaran S Praveen Gupta Suryanarayana Gangolu

Cheemala Vaishnavi Praveen Kumar Mishra Swapnil Gupta

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Chintan Mehta Pravin Kumar Swati Devabhaktuni

Chintan Patel Preet Patel Syed Bilal Qaiser Naqvi

Chitrankshi Ghangrekar Preeti Jain Syed H Saeed

Darshana Mathur Premalata Jena Tanuj Rawat

Debaprasad Kastha Priya Singh Toshiba Suman

Debasis De Priyam Jain Trapti Jain

Deepika Mitra Priyanka Gangwar Tukaram Moger

Devesh Kumar Puneet Mishra Umesh Agarwal

Devesh Shukla Pushpa Seshadri Utkarsh Kumar

Dewashri Pansari Puvvula Vidyasagar V. Suresh

Dharani Sai M R.K. Porwal V.K. Shrivastava

Dilshad Ahmad Rachakonda Shri Rama Akshay Vahid Madani

Dinesh Kumar Ragavan K Valentin Mateev

Dr Kamal Krishna Mandal Rahul Dogra Varsha Yadav

Dr Ranjit Roy Rahul Shukla Vasundhara Mahajan

Dr Mahaveer Prasad Sharma Rahul Verma Vasupalli Sagar

DrHimansu Misra Rajesh Joseph Abraham Venugopal Reddy Barry

Ebin Cherian Mathew Rajesh M. Pindoriya Vijay Borghate

Efstratios Batzelis Rajib Sutradhar Vijay P Babu

Ekta Purwar Rajive Tiwari Vikas Patel

Faizan A Khan Ram Prakash Vineeth Vijayan

G. Avinash S. Gandhi Ramanuja Panigrahi Vinod Raj

Gade Kesava Rao Ramesh Babu M Viral Rathod

Gagandeep Singh Dua Rampelli Manojkumar Visakh Arjun

Ganesh Kumbhar Ramu Ramanathan Vishal Kachhad

Gaurav Dhiman Ranjana Sodhi Vishal Kumar

Gaurav Verma Ravikiran Hiremath Vishal Puppala

Gopal Gajjar Ravindra Kuhada Vishnu P. Menon

Govind Kunkolienkar Richard Cselko Vishwanathan Neti

Harish Kumar Varma Gadiraju Rishabh Abhinav Vivek Pandey

Harish Kumar Verma Ritesh Patel Vivek Pandya

Harsh Tanwar Rohit Kumar Jain Vivek Patel

Hemantkumar Goklani Ruturaj Pattanayak Yangyadatta Tripathy

Hemasundara Rao Kolla S Hari Charan Cherukuri Yash Shah

Himanshu Goyel S K Soonee Yash Verma

Hitesh Datt Mathur S R Narasimhan Yashasvi Bansal

Iliana Marinova S S Barpanda

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List of ReviewersAastha Kapoor Kailash Srivastava Ravi Shankar

Abheejeet Mohapatra Kalyan Dasgupta Ravi Teja

Abhishek Kumar Kamakshi Swain Ravikumar Bhimasingu

Abhishek Tiwari Kanungo Barada Mohanty Ravindranath A

Adil Usman Kapil Chauhan Rishabh Abhinav

Aditya Nadkarni Karthik Thirumala Ritesh Patel

Ajay Soni Kartik Pandya Rohit Bhakar

Ajit Kumar Kaustav Kalita Rohit Bhakar

Ajit Kumar Upadhiya Kritika Saxena Roushan Kumar Mishra

Akhil Raj Krupa Shah S Hari Charan Cherukuri

Alam P Singh Kunal Bhatt S Krishna

Alamanda Sudheer Kumar Kuntal Bhattacharjee S Sivasubramani

Amarkumar Kushwaha Lenin N C Sachidanand Sen

Amit Ojha M Jaya Bharata Reddy Sachin Kumar Jain

Amod C Umarikar Mahamad Alam Sachinkumar Suthar

Amod Umarikar Mahmadasraf A Mulla Sandeep Shahu

Anirudh Guha Mala De Sanjay Joshi

Anmol Ratna Saxena Manas Jena Sanjeev Kumar Aggarwal

Annoy Das Maneesh Kumar Sanjeev Kumar Mallik

Anubrata Dey Manish Kumar Sanjoy Parida

Anup Shukla Manju Bhashini R Santosh Kumar Jain

Arghyadip Bhattacharya Manjunath K Santoshkumar Vora

Arindam Mitra Manoranjan Sahoo Satish Belkhode

Arvind Dhingra Minal Chougule Satish Kumar

Asheesh K Singh Mohd Aquib Satish Sharma

Ashish Doorwar Mosaddique Nawaz Hussain Saumendra Sarangi

Ashok Jadhav Motakatla Reddy Saurabh Chanana

Ashu Verma Moumita Das Selvan M P

Avinash Reddy Mr. Umesh Chaudhary Shadab Ansari

Bala Sai Kiran Mudassir Maniar Shaik Affijulla

Bala Surendra Adusumilli Mukesh Bhesaniya Shajith Ali

Balaganesh Boomiraja N Kumaresan Shalini .

Balamurugan P Nagarjuna Koppakula Shanti Swarup

Balwinder Sodhi Nagesh Geddada Sharma Naveen Kumar

Bandopant Pawar Nand Kishor Shelas Sathyan

Bellakunda Dwiza Nand Kishor Meena Shitikantha Dash

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Bharat Singh Rajpurohit Naren Bharatwaj V Shiv Kumar Singh

Bhargav Reddipalli Naveen Deepak V Shivashankar Sukumar

Bidyadhar Subudhi Naveen Jain Shreyasi Som

Biswajit Sahoo Naveenkumar Endla Shri Ram Vaishya

C Nagamani Nita Patne Shwetank Agrawal

Chakradhar Reddy Chandupatla Nitin Kumar Saxena Siba Kumar Patro

Chanakya Bhatt O P Rahi Siddhant Kumar

Chandra Sekhar Obulesu Yeddula Sivakumar K

Chandrasekaran Subramanian Olive Ray Sivanand Kumar Nunna

Chandrashekhar Bhende P Pavani Sooraj V

Deep Kiran P.N.Kapil Soumitri Jena

Deep Kiran Paresh Kumar Nayak Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra

Deepak Kumar Parth Upadhyay Sourav De

Deepika Chhetija Pinkymol K.P Srinivas Karanki

Devender Kumar Piyush Sharma Subhransu Samantaray

Devendra Parmar Poojith U Rao Subir Majumder

Devesh Shah Poonam Chaudhary Subrat Sahoo

Dharmendra Dheer Poornachandra Rao Suman Mandal

Dinesh Kumar Jain Prabhakar Tiwari Sumedh Puradbhat

Dr Amutha N Pradeep Kumar Supriyo Das

Dr Kalyani Mandadi Pradeep Yemula Surender Reddy Salkuti

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