BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Canada/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190125T002605Z UID:B016A2B0-07A9-49A5-AB34-BC52684EE29A DTSTART;TZID=Canada/Eastern:20180329T183000 DTEND;TZID=Canada/Eastern:20180329T200000 DESCRIPTION:Access to electricity is a critical factor in ensuring high qua lity of life\, economic growth\, educational advancement and social develo pment. However\, often\, access to electricity is taken for granted. We do n't think about the complexity of the electrical grid and the amount of im pressive sophisticated engineering designs that go into it.\n\nIEEE Indust rial Relations Committee is excited to be hosting a series of educational seminars that aim to give participants an insight into the planning\, desi gning and work that goes into operating the grid to make sure we have a re liable access to electricity every minute of every day.\n\nThe Topic of th e seminar on Thursday\, March 29\, 2018\, is 'Distribution Planning'. The fundamental objective of Distribution Planning is to provide an orderly an d economic plan for additions to\, and changes in the power system’s equ ipment and facilities so that it can continue to meet future electrical de mands with an acceptable level of reliability and at the lowest possible c ost.\n\nThe seminar will provide:\n\n- An overview of Ontario’s Power Sy stem\n- A detailed overview of the Planning Process\n- Review of the Utili ty’s Loading & Outage Reports\n- Documentation of stations\, feeder and system peak loading\n- Load Growth Rate\n- Model of distribution system & predict expected system deficiencies in accordance with established planni ng criteria\n- Identify supply options to mitigate system deficiencies\n- Evaluate and rank the supply options in terms of economic and technical me rits\n- Obtain approval for the recommended option\n- Provide Planning Spe cifications for the preferred option\n- Issue project for implementation\n \nSPEAKER:\n\nJoe Bonadie\, has over 30 years of experience in the Electri cal Distribution business. He has worked for a number of Ontario’s Local Distribution Companies (LDC’s) in various capacities including System P lanning Engineer\, Supervising Project Engineer\, Senior Distribution. Per formance Engineer and Manager of Engineering Services and Contracts.\nAs m anager of Engineering Services (Ontario Hydro/Hydro One) Joe’s responsib ility included the Voltage Conversion Program for Ontario with an initial budget of $20M.\nJoe Co-Authored an IEEE technical paper on “Series Capa citors\, Application on Distribution Systems” and was presented at the I EEE winter meeting in Atlanta in 1990. Most recently\, Engineers Canada be stowed Joe with the title of “Fellow Engineers Canada (FEC)“ for advan cing the Profession through some 25 years of volunteer work with the Assoc iation of Professional Engineers Ontario.\nJoe has thorough knowledge and understanding of the planning\, design\, construction\, and operation of t he distribution system including the appropriate standards for both underg round and overhead distribution system.\n\nDATE AND TIME:\nThursday\, Marc h 29\, 2018\, 6:30pm - 8pm\n\nLOCATION:\nSandford Fleming Building\, Room 2202\nUniversity of Toronto\n10 King's College Rd\, Toronto\, ON M5S 3G8\n \nLight refreshments will be provided.\n\nThis seminar is organized by IEE E Toronto's Industry Relations Committee in collaboration with the Power & Energy Chapter.\n\nRoom: 2202\, Bldg: Sandford Fleming Building\, Univers ity of Toronto\, 10 King's College Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada\, M5S 3 G8 LOCATION:Room: 2202\, Bldg: Sandford Fleming Building\, University of Toron to\, 10 King's College Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada\, M5S 3G8 ORGANIZER:maryam.alsomahi@yahoo.com SEQUENCE:7 SUMMARY:Electrical Grid Educational Seminar: Distribution Planning URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160154 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Access to electricity is a critical factor in ensuring high quality of life\, economic growth\, educational advancem ent and social development. However\, often\, access to electricity is tak en for granted. We don't think about the complexity of the electrical grid and the amount of impressive sophisticated engineering designs that go in to it.</p>\n<p>IEEE Industrial Relations Committee is excited to be hostin g a series of educational seminars that aim to give participants an insigh t into the planning\, designing and work that goes into operating the grid to make sure we have a reliable access to electricity every minute of eve ry day.</p>\n<p><strong>The Topic of the seminar on Thursday\, March 29\, 2018\, is 'Distribution Planning'.&nbsp\;The fundamental objective of Dist ribution Planning is to provide an orderly and economic plan for additions to\, and changes in the power system&rsquo\;s equipment and facilities so that it can continue to meet future electrical demands with an acceptable level of reliability and at the lowest possible cost.</strong></p>\n<p>&n bsp\;</p>\n<p>The seminar will provide:</p>\n<p>- An overview of Ontario&r squo\;s Power System<br />- A detailed overview of the Planning Process<br />- Review of the Utility&rsquo\;s Loading &amp\; Outage Reports<br />- D ocumentation of stations\, feeder and system peak loading<br />- Load Grow th Rate<br />- Model of distribution system &amp\; predict expected system deficiencies in accordance with established planning criteria<br />- Iden tify supply options to mitigate system deficiencies<br />- Evaluate and ra nk the supply options in terms of economic and technical merits<br />- Obt ain approval for the recommended option<br />- Provide Planning Specificat ions for the preferred option<br />- Issue project for implementation</p>\ n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>SPEAKER:</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Joe Bonadie< /strong>\, has over 30 years of experience in the Electrical Distribution business. He has worked for a number of Ontario&rsquo\;s Local Distributio n Companies (LDC&rsquo\;s) in various capacities including System Planning Engineer\, Supervising Project Engineer\, Senior Distribution. Performanc e Engineer and Manager of Engineering Services and Contracts.<br />As mana ger of Engineering Services (Ontario Hydro/Hydro One) Joe&rsquo\;s respons ibility included the Voltage Conversion Program for Ontario with an initia l budget of $20M.<br />Joe Co-Authored an IEEE technical paper on &ldquo\; Series Capacitors\, Application on Distribution Systems&rdquo\; and was pr esented at the IEEE winter meeting in Atlanta in 1990. Most recently\, Eng ineers Canada bestowed Joe with the title of &ldquo\;Fellow Engineers Cana da (FEC)&ldquo\; for advancing the Profession through some 25 years of vol unteer work with the Association of Professional Engineers Ontario.<br />J oe has thorough knowledge and understanding of the planning\, design\, con struction\, and operation of the distribution system including the appropr iate standards for both underground and overhead distribution system.</p>\ n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>DATE AND TIME:</strong><br />Thursday\, March 29\, 2018\, 6:30pm - 8pm<br /> <br /><strong>LOCATION:</strong><br />Sandf ord Fleming Building\, Room 2202<br />University of Toronto<br />10 King's College Rd\, Toronto\, ON M5S 3G8</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Light refreshme nts will be provided.</p>\n<p>This seminar is organized by IEEE Toronto's Industry Relations Committee in collaboration with the Power &amp\; Energy Chapter.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR