Tuesday May 19
Morning: Project meetings
Open to attend
- 10AM-noon: The IEDA Resilience Toolkit Communities meeting: Guest speakers Jeff Geerts and Molly Kiick, IEDA, and Connie Maluwelmeng, Alliant Energy. (Cardinal Room, Memorial Union)
- 9 AM-noon: Agrivoltaics Technical Advisory Committee, keynote speaker Jordan Macknick, NRL (Great Hall, Memorial Union)
EPRC Business meeting for Technical Advisory Committee and ISU Power Group
Noon-1 pm Buffet lunch, Great Hall, ISU Memorial Union
- Lunch Speaker: Jordan Macknick, National Laboratory of the Rockies, The State of Agrivoltaics Research: Global insights, trends, and frontiers
1:00 PM EPRC Energy Conference begins in the Great Hall
- 1:00 PM, Keynote address: Dr. Barry Mather, Group Manager of the Integrated Devices and Systems Group at the National Laboratory of the Rockies, Grid Forming Technologies – the modern grid and the UNIFI Consortium
- 2:00 PM, Keynote Address: Dr. Mark Nutt, Chair of the Iowa Nuclear Task Force and Nuclear Energy Sector Manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Nuclear Energy – A Strategic Pillar for Long-Term Energy Security
- 3:00-3:15 PM, Break
- 3:15 PM, Dr. Ian Dobson, Sandbulte Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ISU. “New metrics for tracking resilience and quantifying the resilience benefits of investments”
- 4:00 PM, Anne Kimber, EPRC Director: The broad collaboration impact of EPRC 2025-2026
- 4:15 PM, Poster reception and competition
6:00 PM Banquet
- 7:00 PM, Banquet Speaker Dr. Stephen Pekarek, E.O. Schweitzer Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, “Advances in Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer for Electrified Transportation Systems”
- 8:00 PM, concludes the first day.
Wednesday, May 20
Large Loads Workshop, ISU Memorial Union Sunroom
(order of speakers is tentative)
- 7:00 AM, Breakfast
- 8:00 AM, Workshop Opening Keynote address: Dr. D.L. Oates, MISO Executive Director of Markets and Grid Research, Keynote Address: MISO’s Large Load Integration Approach
Morning: Modeling
9:00 AM, Dr. Jim Follum, PNNL Power Systems Research Engineer. Foundational Studies and Technical Solutions for Reliable Integration of Data Centers with the Grid
10:00 AM, Nick Giffin, Lead Engineer, Elevate, Modeling Data Centers and Mitigations and Compliance with Evolving Grid Requirements
11:00 AM, Drs. Zhaoyu Wang, Salish Maharjan, Junyuan Zheng, Iowa State University, and Min Lwin, Tamojit Chakraborty, Soummya Roy and Tuan Ngo, INS Engineering, Building Generic Electromagnetic Transient Models of Large Data Center Loads
Lunch, Keynote Speaker
Kyle Thomas, VP of Engineering & Compliance Services, Elevate, “Practical Guidance and Considerations for Large Load Interconnections”
Afternoon: Devices and Controls
1:00 PM, Dr. Hugo Villegas, ISU, Deciphering the Controls of DC AI Data Centers for Reliable and Resilient Integration
1:20 PM, Dr. Joe Zambreno, ISU, GPU Power Control for AI Datacenters
1:45 PM, Drew Cannon, SEL, Theory and Practice of Large-Load-Driven Subsynchronous Oscillation Detection
2:30 PM, Dr. Ross Wilcoxon, Collins Aerospace, Cell phones, avionics, data centers: methodologies, needs, and future trends in electronics cooling
3:30 PM, Conference wrap-up.
