BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Canada/Mountain BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210617T202522Z UID:491FC335-C1C2-4D20-B722-8F7C17D6C88A DTSTART;TZID=Canada/Mountain:20210617T120000 DTEND;TZID=Canada/Mountain:20210617T131500 DESCRIPTION:Program for Thursday\, June 17th\, 2021:\n\n• Team Introducti ons (5min)\n• Introduction to FACTS devices (General Overview) (5min)\n • Key Drivers and Challenges facing the Electrical Grid (Transmission Gr id and Industrials) (5min)\n• Selecting the appropriate FACTS Solutions (5min)\n• Differentiators and Modeling\n• Static Converters (SVCs and STATCOMs): (25min)\n• Design\, Main Components\, Substation Layout\n• Synchronous Condensers: (15min)\n• Design\, Main Components\, Substation Layout\n• Q&A (15min)\n\nAbstract\n\nOverview of Static Compensators (S VCs-Static Var Compensators and STATCOMs-Static Synchronous Compensators) and Synchronous Condensers for electric utility and industrial application s. Key drivers for selecting the appropriate solution along with the desig n/ratings basics\, description of main components\, substation layout\, an d modeling will be discussed.\n\n"Fine Print"\n\n- The webinar is free for active IEEE members.\n- There is a $5 registration fee for people who are not active IEEE members.\n\n- The fee must be paid in advance through the registration process below (credit card through PayPal) in order to recei ve the link to the webinar.\n- Upon successful payment of the fee\, you wi ll receive 2 emails: one from noreply_vtools@ieee.org with title "IEEE vTo ols Reservation Confirmation\," and a second from service@intl.paypal.com with title "Your payment to The Institute of Electrical and Electronics En gineers\, Inc." Both emails are required to ensure your payment was succes sfully processed.\n- Incomplete non-member registrations (payment not rece ived) will be deleted.\n- A link to the WebEx registration will be sent to the email address you provided during this vTools registration\, on June 16\, by "IEEE Northern Alberta". Please double check the spelling of your email address when registering.\n- The mechanism used to email the WebEx l ink requires you to accept the IEEE Privacy Policy and consent to receivin g emails from IEEE. If you have not opted-in to receive email communicatio ns from IEEE\, or have opted-out of email communications from IEEE in the past\, you might not receive the email containing the WebEx link. IEEE me mbers can go to https://www.ieee.org/ieee-privacyportal/app/ibp and ensure that "Local IEEE Communications" is checked under the category Communicat ion Preferences > Member Benefits. Former members and non members who opte d-out of email communications in the past can contact the [IEEE Support Ce nter](https://supportcenter.ieee.org/) to find out how to adjust their ema il communication preferences.\n- You will need to complete the brief WebEx event registration prior to joining the webinar.\n\nCo-sponsored by: GE P ower Conversion & GE Grid Solutions\n\nSpeaker(s): Reginald Mendis\, P.E.\ , Senior Technical Sales Manager\, Application Engineering\, Shreyas Zingr e\, Senior Application Engineer\, FACTS\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools. ieee.org/m/272610 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/272610 ORGANIZER:ayres.hugo@gmail.com SEQUENCE:3 SUMMARY:IEEE Webinar Static Converters (SVCs and STATCOMs) and Synchronous Condensers URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/272610 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><strong>&n bsp\;Program for Thursday\, June 17th\, 2021:</strong></span></p>\n<p>&bul l\; Team Introductions (5min)<br />&bull\; Introduction to FACTS devices ( General Overview) (5min)<br />&bull\; Key Drivers and Challenges facing th e Electrical Grid (Transmission Grid and Industrials) (5min)<br />&bull\; Selecting the appropriate FACTS Solutions (5min)<br />&bull\; Differentiat ors and Modeling<br />&bull\; Static Converters (SVCs and STATCOMs): (25mi n)<br />&bull\; Design\, Main Components\, Substation Layout<br />&bull\; Synchronous Condensers: (15min)<br />&bull\; Design\, Main Components\, Su bstation Layout<br />&bull\; Q&amp\;A (15min)&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n <p><span style="font-size: 14pt\;"><strong>Abstract</strong></span></p>\n< p>Overview of Static Compensators (SVCs-Static Var Compensators and STATCO Ms-Static Synchronous Compensators) and Synchronous Condensers for electri c utility and industrial applications. Key drivers for selecting the appro priate solution along with the design/ratings basics\, description of main components\, substation layout\, and modeling will be discussed.</p>\n<p> &nbsp\;</p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 12pt\;">&nbsp\;<strong>"Fine Print "</strong></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li>The webinar is free for active IEEE membe rs.&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>There is a $5 registration fee for people who are not active IEEE members.</li>\n<ul>\n<li>The fee must be paid in advance thro ugh the registration process below (credit card through PayPal) in order t o receive the link to the webinar.</li>\n<li>Upon successful payment of th e fee\, you will receive 2 emails: one from&nbsp\;<em>noreply_vtools@ieee. org</em>&nbsp\;with title "IEEE vTools Reservation Confirmation\," and a s econd from&nbsp\;<em>service@intl.paypal.com</em>&nbsp\;with title "Your p ayment to The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers\, Inc." Bo th emails are required to ensure your payment was successfully processed.< /li>\n<li>Incomplete non-member registrations (payment not received) will be deleted.</li>\n</ul>\n<li>A link to the WebEx registration will be sent to the email address you provided during this vTools registration\, on <s pan style="color: #e03e2d\;"><strong>June 16</strong></span>\, by "IEEE No rthern Alberta".&nbsp\; <strong>Please double check the spelling of your e mail address when registering.</strong></li>\n<li><strong>The mechanism us ed to email the WebEx link requires you to accept the IEEE Privacy Policy and consent to receiving emails from IEEE.&nbsp\; If you have not opted-in to receive email communications from IEEE\, or have opted-out of email co mmunications from IEEE in the past\, you might not receive the email conta ining the WebEx link.&nbsp\;</strong>&nbsp\;IEEE members can&nbsp\;go to&n bsp\;<a href="https://www.ieee.org/ieee-privacyportal/app/ibp">https://www .ieee.org/ieee-privacyportal/app/ibp</a>&nbsp\;and ensure that "Local IEEE Communications" is checked under the category Communication Preferences & gt\; Member Benefits.&nbsp\; Former members and non members who opted-out of email communications in the past can contact the&nbsp\;<a href="https:/ /supportcenter.ieee.org/">IEEE Support Center</a>&nbsp\;to find out how to adjust their email communication preferences.</li>\n<li>You will need to complete the brief WebEx event registration prior to joining the webinar.< /li>\n</ul> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR