BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250501T034320Z UID:5EE671D9-DCF4-4BC9-9655-7AC3774D7225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T180000 DESCRIPTION:[]\n\nExperience commissioning protection and excitation system s for small hydro refurbishment. The Oldman River Hydro plant\, jointly ow ned by ATCO and the PIkanee nation was first commissioned in 10/2003. The refurbishment after two decades presented certain challenges related to ou tdated protection settings\, lack of protection philosophy from the client side\, non-existent protection logic diagram and differences between onsi te relay logic and the recommendations made in the study.\n\nAbout the Spe aker:\n\n[]\n\nOmer Idrees is a Saudi-born\, U.S. educated engineer regist ered in three Canadian provinces and is currently based out of Montreal. H e works as a Protection & Control engineer for ANDRITZ Canada Inc and is a lso leading the global grid stability initiative for ANDRITZ Hydro GmBH (A ustria). He also has significant experience as an entrepreneur in Saudi Ar abia\, the Nordics\, and the UAE where he helped run a family engineering business and a tech startup.\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/ 481352 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/481352 ORGANIZER:srazanaq@uwo.ca SEQUENCE:50 SUMMARY:IEEE PES Lecture: Protection and Excitation Systems for Small Hydro Systems URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/481352 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><br><img style="display: block\; margin-le ft: auto\; margin-right: auto\;" src="https://events.vtools.ieee.org/vtool s_ui/media/display/06e0bce6-c310-46f1-b63a-22d828ed4fda" alt="" width="756 " height="86"></p>\n<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span data-olk-copy-source="Mes sageBody">Experience commissioning protection and excitation systems for s mall hydro refurbishment. The Oldman River Hydro plant\, jointly owned by ATCO and the PIkanee nation was first commissioned in 10/2003. The refurbi shment after two decades presented certain challenges related to outdated protection settings\, lack of protection philosophy from the client side\, non-existent protection logic diagram and differences between onsite rela y logic and the recommendations made in the study.</span></p>\n<p class="x _MsoNormal">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline\; font -size: 12pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; text-decoration: under line\;"><strong>About the Speaker:</strong></span></span></p>\n<p><img src ="https://events.vtools.ieee.org/vtools_ui/media/display/fd992649-0970-412 9-98c0-3a43965d0cb1" alt="" width="351" height="263"></p>\n<p class="MsoNo rmal" style="text-align: justify\;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt \; font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\;"><strong>Omer Idrees</str ong>&nbsp\;</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt\; font-family: ar ial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\;"><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">i s a Saudi-born\, U.S. educated engineer registered in three Canadian provi nces and is currently based out of Montreal. He works as a Protection &amp \; Control engineer for ANDRITZ Canada Inc and is also leading the global grid stability initiative for ANDRITZ Hydro GmBH (Austria). He also has si gnificant experience as an entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia\, the Nordics\, an d the UAE where he helped run a family engineering business and a tech sta rtup.</span></span></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR