GRAND CHALLENGES IN ELECTRIC POWER ENGINEERING PANEL
IEEE PES 2002 Winter Meeting, New York, NY
Sponsored by the Power Engineering Education Committee

Organizer and Chair:

Peter W. Sauer
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1406 W. Green St.
Urban, IL 61801
217-333-0394
217-333-11162 (fax)

Panelists:

S. Talukdar (Carnegie Mellon)
C. DeMarco (University of Wisconsin)
G. Heydt (Arizona State University)
S. Meliopoulos (Georgia Tech)
S. S. Venkata (Iowa State University)
M. Amin (EPRI)

Summary:

This panel was organized to identify and discuss a group of grand challenges in electric power systems. The panelists have prepared presentations on the research challenges associated with the benefits of decentralization, data availability, system reliability, distributions systems, state estimation, and operation and control. The challenges that are presented indicate major research needs in the power systems area.