The CIGRE US National Committee regularly recognizes the significant contributions of our membership to CIGRE.  This serves as a call for nominations for two awards, the Attwood Associates Award and the Phillip Sporn Award. Please send your nominations to Beth LaRose at Elizabeth.larose@ge.com for consideration by the nominating committee no later than Monday, May 9th, 2022.…

THANK YOU TO ALL 2022 MEETING ATTENDEES! See Below and Stay Tuned for updates on next year’s meeting Previous (2022) Meeting Powerpoint 2023 Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 11:30 – 1:00, Orlando, FL In conjunction with IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED Accommodations TBA

Thursday, November 18, 2021, 1-2 pm EST (10-11 pm PST) Presented by Deepak Ramasubramanian Technical Leader at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Register Here Summary The changing resource mix of the bulk power system, particularly the increasing deployment of wind power and solar PV, has resulted in an increasing portion of the resource mix…

Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 9-10 am EDT CIGRÉ Ireland NGN and CIGRÉ France NGN are delighted to present an informative session on interconnection, with an emphasis on the upcoming Celtic Interconnector. Interconnection plays a crucial role in the future of ensuring system stability for European electricity grids and is being encouraged in all European TSOs.…

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 6-8 am EDT Join this CIGRE NGN social networking event to meet with young professionals and students in the power industry from all over the world. To conclude the CIGRE Next Generation Network activities for the Centennial Session we would like to invite you to join this social networking event from…

We want to congratulate the following award recipients for their noteworthy contributions. The following awards were announced at the 2020 CIGRE e-Session: CIGRE Fellow Award | Pouyan Pourbeik The “CIGRE Fellow” award is attributed for active participation in the activities of the technical work of the study committees and for providing a lead technical role…

Colleagues – I hope this unusual year finds you and your loved ones in good health. The impact of COVID-19 continues to ripple through the nation and unfortunately has impacted our ability to hold the 2020 Grid of the FutureTM event. The folks at National Grid have a tremendous program developed and if not for this…

As each of you know the 2020 Paris Session has been postponed due to COVID-19 issues affecting the world.  In lieu of the 2020 Paris Session, CIGRE’s Administrative Council will hold an e-Session in 2020 and the Paris Centennial Session will be held in Paris in the last half of August, 2021.  This will be a tremendous…

With the continuing worldwide effort to deal with the on-going pandemic, the IEEE has decided today to hold a virtual PES Power General Meeting (https://www.ieee-pes.org/2020-pes-general-meeting-going-virtual) in lieu of a meeting in Montreal, Canada in August. As you know, we typically hold our Annual Members meeting in conjunction with this conference. Given today’s announcement, we have…

Grid of the Future™ date has changed to November 1 – 4, 2020, in Providence, Rhode Island hosted by National Grid. The Executive Committee after much deliberation has decided to delay this year’s Grid of the Future™ from October 18 – 21, 2020 to November 1 – 4, 2020. The location will remain the same…