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Robert Fahey Wins 2020 UConn-AAUP Excellence Award
Eversource Energy Center Associate Director Robert Fahey has been named the early career recipient for Excellence in Research & Creativity Award. Each year the University of Connecticut works with AAUP, a faculty-based union, to recognize UConn faculty who have gone above and beyond in teaching. Congratulations to Professor Robert Fahey on behalf of the EEC! Categories: Recent News |
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EEC Colloquium Series: Dr. Ha Nguyen
Dr. Ha Nguyen will be giving a talk titled “Challenges and research opportunities of real-time simulation in modern power systems.” Real-time simulation application is well recognized as an effective approach for modeling, developing and testing components in power systems with high accuracy, low cost and more flexibility before field deployment. This talk first presents some […] Categories: Recent News |
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EEC 2019 Annual Report Published
Eversource Energy Center’s 2019 Annual Report has been published and can be viewed or downloaded as a PDF here. The Annual Report contains information on research, publications, and finances of the Eversource Energy Center. PDF Link: https://www.eversource.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EEC-Annual-Report-2019-Web-Version.pdf Categories: Recent News |
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EEC Colloquium Series: Dr. Lei Wu on Feb 24th
Associate Professor Lei Wu will be giving a talk on February 24th, 2020 at 1:30 pm in UConn building ITE 336. The talk is titled “Interdependency of Gas and Electricity Infrastructures for Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Security.” For a PDF version of the flyer, click here. Categories: Recent News |
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EEC Colloquium Series: Dr. Hasan Ul Banna on Feb 10th
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Announcing New Faculty Positions at EEC
Eversource Energy Center is seeking to hire three new positions. Positions are described and linked below. Endowed Chair position for Eversource Energy Center and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. This is a a tenure-track faculty position at the associate or full professor level. The candidate will be expected to develop and sustain an internationally-recognized […] Categories: Recent News |
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EEC Welcomes Dr. Cory Merow
Eversource Energy Center would like to welcome Cory Merow, Ph.D., a quantitative ecologist specializing in mechanistic models forecasting population and community responses to environmental change. Dr. Merow received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2012. More information on Dr. Merow and his research can be found at https://cmerow.github.io/index.html. Categories: Recent News |
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2019 Annual Meeting a Success
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Center’s Berk Alpay Featured in UConn Magazine
Berk Alpay, a UConn honors undergraduate and 2019 Goldwater recipient, met with reporters at UConn magazine to discuss his academic interests and recent internship with the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany. Alpay works on undergraduate research with Center director, Professor Emmanouil Anagnostou. See the full story here. Categories: Recent News |
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Center’s Feifei Yang Competes in AVANGRID’s Better Energy Future Innovation Challenge
Eversource Energy Center’s graduate researcher Feifei Yang, joined with UConn graduate student Himaja Nagireddy, presented their research findings earlier this month at the Third Annual AVANGRID Research Forum. AVANGRID’s forum, titled “Innovation for Sustainable Development,” showcased graduate research projects from several select universities centered on clean energy and innovation. Nagireddy and Yang presented their findings […] Categories: Recent News |
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Announcing our 2019 Annual Meeting
Our annual meeting provides an opportunity to discuss research updates from our faculty and students, and to meet some of our Center’s Advisory Board members. Speakers include: Katie Scharf Dykes (Commissioner, CT DEEP) Anne George (Vice President of External Affair and Corporate Communications, ISO New England) Marissa Gillett (Chair, Public Utilities Regulatory Authority) Arthur House […] Categories: Recent News |
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Center Director to Speak at Provost’s Distinguished Speaker Series
Eversource Energy Center’s director, Dr. Emmanouil Anagnostou, has been invited to speak at University of Connecticut’s Provost’s Distinguished Speaker Series. His talk, titled “Probing Precipitation from Space: Key to Advancing Predictability of Storm Hazards,” will take place in the Konover Auditorium on October 9th. Information on the Provost’s Distinguished Speaker Series can be found on […] Categories: Recent News |
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EEC’s Satellite-Based Flood Mapping Featured in UConn Today
Director of Eversource Energy Center, Dr. Emmanouil Anagnostou,spoke to the journalists at UConn Today about our ability to map flooding using satellite-based radar techniques. Flood maps are based on data from the European Space Agency and can be provided within days of a major flooding event. The full article is available at the following link: […] Categories: Recent News |
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Hurricane Dorian flooding in Bahamas
On Sunday, September 1st, Hurricane Dorian made landfall on Great Abaco Island unleashing unprecedented destruction on the Northern Bahamas, causing at least 40 deaths. Dorian was characterized by extreme wind gusts – up to 220 mph – extensive coastal flooding – up to 20 feet storm surge – and impressive precipitation – up to 40 […] Categories: Recent News |
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Center Study Shows Tree Trimming Can Reduce Power Outages 16-65%
A recent study published in Electrical Power Systems Research shows regular tree trimming and vegetation management can reduce power outages during storms. This study was conducted by Center faculty members Drs. Diego Cerrai, Peter Watson, and Emmanouil N. Anagnostou. By using statistical methods the group determined power outages would drop by 49% to 65%, whereas […] Categories: Recent News |
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Grid Modernization Summit
When you turn on a light or power up your laptop, you might not think about the engineering marvel – the electric grid – that makes it possible. You almost certainly don’t think about the age of the existing grid and the need to move towards more modern systems. To […] Categories: Recent News |
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Congratulations to Drs Bhuiyan and Cerrai!
Two of our graduate students were awarded their doctorate degrees this year. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ehsan Bhuiyan and Dr. Diego Cerrai! Categories: Recent News |
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Center’s Berk Alpay Awaded Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Berk Alpay, a student with UConn’s Eversource Energy Center, has been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship for excellence in scientific research. For more information, see UConn’s article on the Goldwater Scholars here. Categories: Recent News |
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Eversource Center Director Given Distinguished Professorship Award
The Center is proud to announce our Director, Prof. Emmanouili (Manos) Anagnostou, has received the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professorship Award. This is highest academic honor the University of Connecticut can award to faculty. Beyond Professor Anagnostou’s numerous achievements, he has directed and advised graduate students and colleagues. His leadership has fostered the Center’s growth. […] Categories: Recent News |
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Dr. Anagnostou Presents at the 2019 Spring Engineering & Operations Conference
Dr. Emmanouil Anagnostou presented the Center’s progress on recent developments and applications of our Weather-Based Outage Prediction Modeling project. The conference was hosted by the Energy Council of the Northeast in Warwick, RI from March 20th-22nd. Categories: Recent News |
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New Press Release: Does tree trimming reduce power outages?
We love to stay in a warm and fully functioning house during a snowstorm. At the end of a busy day, prolonged by a cold, messy commute home, we like to take a hot shower and nestle in a cozy bed. At the same time, we adore our trees, prize our shaded driveways and roads […] Categories: Recent News |
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Stormwise Featured in ‘The Day’ Article
The Day Editorial Board published an article discussing how Eversource’s Stormwise group is working to reduce power grid disruption during storms through vegetation management. The full length article can be found here: https://www.theday.com/article/20190204/OP01/190209779. Categories: Recent News |
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Drs. Anagnostou and Nikolopoulos Present at Google-Machine Learning Workshop in Tel Aviv
Drs. Emmanouil Anagnostou and Efthymios Nikolopoulos traveled to the Google campus in Tel Aviv, Israel to present at the Google Flood Forecasting Meets Machine Learning Workshop this month. The workshop was focused on improving flood forecasting by addressing issues in available data sets and modeling processes, and applying statistical and machine learning tools to forecasting abilities. For more […] Categories: Recent News |
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Eversource Researchers Present at AGU Fall 2018 Meeting
Many of our researchers traveled down to D.C. this winter to present at the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU’s) Fall 2018 Meeting. This year’s meeting focused on ethics, diversity, and inclusion in the geophysical sciences. Presenters from a wide array of backgrounds and disciplines met to discuss challenges, accomplishments, and the future of geophysical sciences. Our […] Categories: Recent News |
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EDITOR’S CHOICE: Resilience Assessment of Overhead Power Distribution Systems under Strong Winds for Hardening Prioritization
Professors Amvrossios Bagtzoglou & Wei Zhang have had their paper titled “Resilience Assessment of Overhead Power Distribution Systems under Strong Winds for Hardening Prioritization” chosen as an Editors Choice feature on the ASCE/ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Part A page in the ASCE Library. To see this paper please click here. Categories: Recent News |
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CPES Excellence in Energy Award Winner Peng Zhang
CPES is thrilled to announce it is presenting two Excellence in Energy Awards at the holiday party on Tuesday, December 11, 2018. Please click here for more details. Categories: Recent News |
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Yan Li Honored with 2018 Rising Star Award!
Connecticut Power and Energy Society (CPES) has announced that Yan Li, a UConn Ph.D student has been awarded the 2018 rising star award for her help in shaping the energy landscape in Connecticut and the New England Region. Her work includes inventing new technologies that have significantly increased the hosting capacity of distributed energy resources! […] Categories: Recent News |
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Eversource Invests an Additional $7 Million!
Eversource Energy has announce that they will be investing an additional $7 million in our center to continue to lead research in the field. In particular the fund will be used to create a state-of-the-art grid simulator among other research endeavors. The work done in this center has helped to provide vital and timely science-based […] Categories: Recent News |
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Prof. Peng Zhang awarded $800K by NSF to research Smart Programmable Microgrids
Eversource Energy Center researcher Peng Zhang, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received $800,000 from the National Science Foundation to research microgrids. This award comes on the heels of the Center’s revamping research to increase resilience of the present and future grid, and recognizes Prof. Peng and his team’s work […] Categories: Recent News |
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Colloquium Series
This semester the Eversource Energy Center will be hosting seminar series from many professionals leading innovative research in the field. for full details on the presenter, time, and location of the seminar please click on the link below! Colloquium Series Categories: Recent News |
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