Electric Power Forum 2025
EPRC Conference
May 20, ISU Memorial Union
765-kV design workshop
May 21, ISU Memorial Union, Sun Room
- Extra High Voltage: The Evolution of 765-kV Transmission
Cory Henderson, Burns & McDonnell
Presentation: https://iastate.box.com/s/c2q5mjjvybcd0l23yeym8b6cdn43m2wa
- AEP’s 765-kV operating experience
Evan Wilcox, AEP
Presentation: https://iastate.box.com/s/0b7lx5nxaszatzlc984bkl97rfe3zbr4
- MISO 765 kV Minimum Facility Design Requirements and Recommendations
Matthew Tackett, MISO
Presentation: https://iastate.box.com/s/qk4facv7802e80zg19btksuonxgrhyvg
- ITC’s Journey to 765 kV line standards
Aaron Graber, ITC Holdings
Presentation: https://iastate.box.com/s/1ta3i352ohvzue3jck1a3pq11md1erhf
- GMD: the role of the USGS Geomagnetics program
John Spritzer, USGS
Presentation: https://iastate.box.com/s/kt3db1vndocu4do3mc4vy1877zjw3utp
- ITC approach to 765 standards development for substations
Alex Rannow, ITC Holdings
Presentation: https://iastate.box.com/s/7xwff3fy3hgvsw6n1hya61570s4xs0a1
- Hitachi 800 kV Dead Tank Circuit Breakers
Michael Lane, Hitachi
Presentaiton: https://iastate.box.com/s/7zllhlu897zr8bnd70mdwzjhoc5sz4ix
- Cold, Complex, and Critical: Navigating 765kV Substation Challenges
Stephen Moerer, Burns & McDonnell
Presentation: https://iastate.box.com/s/d0wnnkadku82aikp0yy0h87e720n0z0m
- Testing and Development of 765kV configuration
Jean-Pierre Marais, EPRI
Presentation: https://iastate.box.com/s/k8kgbw4j4k89tmmvznbjae7uds7xd4qj
HVDC Transmission Short Course
May 22, ISU Memorial Union, Great Hall
- P. Lof, National Grid, Introduction to HVDC Technology
- Jim McCalley, ISU, Point-to-Point HVDC
- X. Fang, Mississippi State University, Offshore Wind Power Integration
- Matthew Tackett, MISO, Legacy EHV vs 765 kV vs HVDC
- A. Mehrizi-Sani, Virginia Tech, Power Electronics 101: Fundamentals of switching power converters and EMT
- L. Tolbert, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Modular multilevel converter design
- H. Cui, North Carolina State University, VSC-HVDC Converter station technologies
- Raj Rajan, SOO Green, HVDC short course lunch speaker
Poster Winners
- 1st prize, Charlie Phillips (advisor: Jim McCalley)
- 2nd prize, Luis Guillen (advisor: Hugo Villegas)
- 3rd prizes
- Zohreh Parvini (advisor: Jim McCalley)
- Kebei Wang (advisor: Manimaran Govindarasu)
- Santoyani Bose (advisor: Manimaran Govindarasu)