As the power industry moves forward with a focus on clean energy what are the new challenges they face? Distributed generation and storage, in particular, bring many engineering challenges to be solved. Is DG safe? Is customer scale or utility scale solar the answer? How will DG affect an aging infrastructure? What will the protective relaying schemes look like with multi-direction power flow on the distribution system contributed by intermittent energy sources? These are a few of the questions that will be addressed during this technical session. As the power industry landscape changes the utilities must adapt to survive and each utility has their own approach to addressing the issues. We will also take a look at SCE&G’s approach and the progress we have made.

Speaker(s): William K. Bledsoe,

Location:
Room: Faculty Lounge 1A03
Bldg: Swearingen Engineering Center
University of South Carolina
300 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina
29208