Welcome to the 2020 Virtual CIGRE Canada Conference & Expo
On behalf of CIGRE Canada, Hydro One and all our sponsors and exhibitors, we would like to thank you for attending and presenting at the first Virtual CIGRE Canada Conference & Expo. The whole conference was recorded and is now being edited. It will be available soon as an On-Demand option on this site.
CIGRE Canada and Siemens Energy would like to congratulate the Students and CIGRE NGN finalists and winners of the 2020 Student/NGN Awards
| STUDENT PAPER AWARD FINALIST | ||||
| Paper ID | Title | Presenter | Location | |
| 275 | Increasing Dispatchability of a PV Power Plant through Modular Multilevel Converter-Based Embedded Battery Energy Storage (MMC-EBES) | Nuwan Herath | University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada | Winner |
| 322 | Determination of AC test currents for thermo-electric laboratory stresses on gas-insulated HVDC systems | Martin Hallas | Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany | Finalist |
| 375 | Control Interaction of Two PV power plants with Volt - Var Control | Sibin Mohan | University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario | Finalist |
| NGN PAPER AWARD FINALIST | ||||
| Paper ID | Title | Presenter | Country | |
| 323 | Permanent Overload Operation of the Hydro-Québec – New England Multiterminal HVDC Interconnection: Simulation Study and Live System Testing | Sermad Badawi | Hydro Quebec, Montreal, Quebec | Finalist |
| 329 | Energy Storage as a Tool for Enhanced Reliability: Framework Development and Lessons Learned | Gaurav Singh | Palo Alto, California, United States | Finalist |
| 373 | Comparison of Unidirectional and Bidirectional charging optimization using a composite EV load model | Patrick Bampanga | University of Toronot, Toronto, Ontario | Winner |
