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:20171105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190125T003204Z UID:3BE9CC1A-3F5C-4374-A780-4C80746A4C92 DTSTART;TZID=Canada/Eastern:20180223T173000 DTEND;TZID=Canada/Eastern:20180223T193000 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 Toront o's Industrial Relations Committee is excited to be hosting a series of ed ucational seminars that aim to give participants an insight into the plann ing\, designing and work that go into operating the grid to make sure we h ave a reliable access to electricity every minute of every day.\n\nThe Top ic of the seminar on February 23rd is Microgrids. The global demand for el ectricity will increase by 28% by 2040. At the same time the availability of electricity is hampered by increasing adverse weather events\, price fl uctuations and emerging technologies and business models. Microgrids are i n the front line to tackle these new challenges. But what are microgrids a nd why do they matter? This seminar will answer these questions and more b y looking at specific examples of microgrid deployments and business cases that have been undertaken by Alectra Utilities\; one of the largest munic ipally owned utilities in North America\, serving almost a million custome rs in the GTA.\n\nSPEAKER:\n\nShuvo Chowdhury serves as a the Manager of M icrogrid Technologies at Alectra Energy Solutions Inc. His particular focu s is in utility grid\, commercial/industrial and residential scale microgr ids that incorporate battery energy storage technologies and their accompa nying Energy Management Systems. Shuvo has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechan ical Engineering with a focus on Mechatronics from the University of Toron to.\n\nPrior to joining the Alectra Energy Solutions team at\, he was empl oyed by Quanta Technology. In his capacity as senior engineer at Quanta\, he worked on R&D & pilot projects for a number of North American Utilities such as SDG&E\, Xcel Energy and National Grid.\n\nDATE & TIME:\nFebruary 23rd\, 5:30pm–7:30pm\n\nLOCATION:\nGalbraith Building\, Room 220\, Unive rsity of Toronto\, 35 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1A4\n\nLight refresh ments will be provided.\n\nThis seminar is organized by IEEE Toronto's Ind ustry Relations Committee in collaboration with the Power & Energy Chapter .\n\nRoom: Room 220\, Bldg: Galbraith Building\, University of Toronto\, 3 5 St George St.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada\, M5S 1A4 LOCATION:Room: Room 220\, Bldg: Galbraith Building\, University of Toronto\ , 35 St George St.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada\, M5S 1A4 ORGANIZER:maryam.alsomahi@yahoo.com SEQUENCE:2 SUMMARY:Electrical Grid Educational Seminar: Microgrids URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/161050 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 Toronto's Industrial Relations Committee is excited to be hosting a series of educational seminars that aim to give participants an insight into the planning\, designing and work that go into operating the grid to make sure we have a reliable access to electricity every minut e of every day.</p>\n<p><strong>The Topic of the seminar on February 23rd is Microgrids. The global demand for electricity will increase by 28% by 2 040. At the same time the availability of electricity is hampered by incre asing adverse weather events\, price fluctuations and emerging technologie s and business models. Microgrids are in the front line to tackle these ne w challenges. But what are microgrids and why do they matter? This seminar will answer these questions and more by looking at specific examples of m icrogrid deployments and business cases that have been undertaken by Alect ra Utilities\; one of the largest municipally owned utilities in North Ame rica\, serving almost a million customers in the GTA.</strong></p>\n<p>&nb sp\;</p>\n<p><strong>SPEAKER:</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Shuvo Chowdhury</st rong> serves as a the Manager of Microgrid Technologies at Alectra Energy Solutions Inc. His particular focus is in utility grid\, commercial/indust rial and residential scale microgrids that incorporate battery energy stor age technologies and their accompanying Energy Management Systems. Shuvo h as a Bachelor&rsquo\;s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Me chatronics from the University of Toronto.</p>\n<p>Prior to joining the Al ectra Energy Solutions team at\, he was employed by Quanta Technology. In his capacity as senior engineer at Quanta\, he worked on R&amp\;D &amp\; p ilot projects for a number of North American Utilities such as SDG&amp\;E\ , Xcel Energy and National Grid.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>DATE &amp \; TIME:</strong><br />February 23rd\, 5:30pm&ndash\;7:30pm</p>\n<p><stron g>LOCATION:</strong><br />Galbraith Building\, Room 220\, University of To ronto\, 35 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1A4</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Lig ht refreshments will be provided.</p>\n<p>This seminar is organized by IEE E Toronto's Industry Relations Committee in collaboration with the Power & amp\; Energy Chapter.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR