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Abstracts:Presents informationon the new IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy.

Abstracts:Discusses the digitization of the railway industry. The digital transformation in different sectors has not been an option but rather a necessity caused by the change of habits of its customers. Sectors, such as insurance, media, and financial, are currently at very high rates of digitalization throughout their internal processes and value chain. For example, the banking sector has experienced an acceleration in its digitalization because the economic crisis has necessitated the closing of many of its branches. Conversely, customers want to interact with the bank at any time, from any place, and using their mobile phones. Operations, such as opening an account, making a transfer, or requesting a loan, must be performed digitally. We can now open a bank account with complete certainty of identification and security from a mobile phone and conduct all types of transactions.

Abstracts:Presents information on the IEEE PES University.

Abstracts:Reports on IEEE PELS initiatives to organize a global competition to crowdsource energy-access solutions that would be scalable, sustainable, affordable, expandable, extendable, and regionally relevant. More than 475 teams signed up, 170 proposals were submitted from more than 70 nations, 82 teams went to a Shark Tank-style regional round (covering four continents), and 23 teams went on to fieldtest their solutions before competing at the Global Final on 29 September 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. While competition prizes are a valuable outcome, the feedback teams received from experts in energy access, business, and technology was invaluable. With the data gleaned from field testing in communities without energy services, where people live on under US$1.90 per day, the IEEE was essentially eliminating risks associated with market entry for solutions to energy poverty while supporting the IEEE mission and growing a more cohesive energy-access community.

Abstracts:Reports on the mission and activities of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Community (TEC), a technical community within the IEEE that serves as one voice for transportation electrification and coordinates broad and deep activities in the growing electrification revolution across transportation domains.

Abstracts:Process, computational tools, and trends in the design and simulation of vehicle electrical distribution systems. The automotive industry is experiencing unprecedented requirements to fulfill higher expectations from customers and include new functionalities in vehicles, such as driving assistance, gadget connectivity, sharing capabilities, and electrified traction. The electrical network is currently one of the most challenging onboard systems to be designed and prototyped because these demands add to its intrinsic complexity. A single vehicle contains tens of electronic control units (ECUs), hundreds of power consumers, and more than a thousand wires having an aggregate length of more than 3 km and a weight of more than 50 kg. As a consequence, there may be up to 10¹⁰ possible wiring architectures, which requires a great logistics effort to integrate, disperse, and store data from manufacturers and suppliers. The development of software platforms must suitably visualize, analyze, and simulate these intricate vehicular electrical networks in multiple possible configurations and scenarios.

Abstracts:This article presents a test facility for design validation of microgrids with high penetration of renewable energy, developed as a joint effort with industry, government, and academia. The Canadian Renewable Energy Laboratory (CANREL) described here is a physical simulation tool for the design, development, and performance testing of islanded and grid-connected microgrid projects. CANREL is equipped with a diesel generator, different renewable energy sources, various renewable energy generation simulators and physical systems, a bidirectional power-flow grid simulator, a battery- based energy-storage system, and controllable resistive?inductive?capacitive and electronic test loads for the design and testing of a variety of microgrid solutions. The test facility provides project performance demonstration and validation services at each stage of a microgrid project development to help utilities and project developers reduce risks. It is also a physical simulation tool for benchmarking microgrid equipment and controllers for research and development purposes. Some facility test results are presented in this article to demonstrate the capabilities of CANREL for simulating a wide range of scenarios.

Abstracts:Recent developments toward selfdriving cars combined with technology for wireless inductive power transfer can enable electric vehicles that are fully autonomous with respect to operation and energy requirements. Furthermore, technology for wireless opportunity charging and dynamic on-road inductive power transfer can facilitate autonomous electric vehicles with unlimited driving range. This article discusses the technological progress toward self-driving vehicles and the potential capability for an autonomous energy supply enabled by dynamic on-road wireless power transfer.

Abstracts:Microgrids are nascent, with many lessons still to be learned. Work at Mount Holly has shown that microgrids may not follow common design or standard algorithms. Protection, transformers, grounding, operations, fault detection, and islanding all require attention to detail and may not operate in the manner the toolset currently in use indicates they should.