Bi-annual Newsletters Vol. 2 | Page 2

WELCOME from The Director Kevin Tomsovic It is time once again to update you on recent activities in CURENT. This bi-annual publication is one of the ways we inform our members, peers and stakeholders about significant achievements, upcoming events and related activities. As we approach the mid-point of our third year, we want to showcase the value of “Centertype” research - a research model where we bring a diverse group of researchers, students and industry leaders together to focus on comprehensively addressing a challenging problem. A key objective this year is to demonstrate closed-loop wide area controls for voltage and frequency. We will have several demonstrations of the developed concepts on our large scale test-bed and hardware test-bed at this year’s Industry Meeting and Site Visit (don’t forget to mark your calendar for May 13-15th!). Some results of the demonstration projects are detailed in this Newsletter. Another way we want to highlight the Center value proposition is to continue to increase engagement with our industry partners. We are approaching this not only through the monthly project reviews but through our co-sponsorship of industry meetings, in particular, the North American SynchroPhasor Initiative (NASPI), which will be held in Knoxville March 11-12th. We also invite you to join us for a reception on the evening of March 11th in our nearby facilities. Additionally, we are expanding offerings of short courses and training in collaboration with industry. Finally, our progress to date has helped us land additional funding to address Data Architecture and Analytics issues for wide area controls. This is a natural and important extension of our work to date. We will be reporting more on those efforts later this year. As always, let us know if there are ways that we can continue to improve CURENT. Best Wishes, Kevin Tomsovic 1