Speakers

Bob Uluski has over 40 years of experience in electric utility Transmission and Distribution (T&D) automation systems. His experience includes planning and implementing energy storage, microgrid control systems, advanced distribution management systems (DMS), feeder automation systems, substation automation, protective relay systems, and distributed resource energy management systems (DERMS). Bob has helped numerous North American and International electric utilities to plan, design, and implement computer and communication systems for automating distribution feeders and T&D substations, along with DMS and enterprise level systems that make optimal use of these automation facilities. Bob is also a recognized expert in developing the business case for implementing these systems. Bob has considerable experience in implementing technologies for improving Distribution network resilience in the face of weather events, including: ·         Design and implementation of a microgrid for PECO Energy’s Smart Energy Campus. This microgrid is powered by numerous distributed energy resources, including solar PV and wind-power generators. A natural gas fired AC generator, and battery energy storage system (BESS), with load balancing capabilities using controllable loads (demand response). Thie microgrid can perform a seamless transition from grid connected to islanded mode upon loss of normal grid supply and can maintain proper voltage and frequency to supply Campus loads using available DERs for up to 8 hours. This microgrid also has black start capabilities. This project has demonstrated that microgrids can play a significant role in maintaining critical loads during widespread weather events. ·         Design and implementation of Fault Location Isolation and service restoration (FLISR) solutions that are being used by ENMAX Power Corporation (City of Calgary Alberta, Canada), Barbados Light and Power, and Dubai Electricity and Water Association (DEWA) to automatically isolate faulted feeder sections and restore power to healthy (unfaulted) feeder sections via available sources in minutes The automatic operation of such self-healing solutions is particularly important during widespread weather-related events when many feeder faults occur at roughly the same time. During such events, distribution system operators are burdened with many high priority duties. By offloading the operators from numerous events that can be handled automatically by self-healing, these operators can focus on major high priority events that require manual intervention.  ·         Design and implementation of Outage Management Systems (OMS) at Hydro Quebec, Eversource Energy, and other utilities. These systems are currently helping these utilities respond to major outage events, including widespread outages caused by major storms (e.g., hurricanes, ice storms). These OMS solutions include “storm mode” that allows the utility company to manage additional resources, such as foreign crews and other temporary work-force, that supplement the normal field work force when major events occur. These OMS solutions include features such as outage filtering and prioritization and damage assessment, that enable more accurate predictions of estimated time of restoration. The OMS training simulator also enables these utilities to conduct realistic training scenarios for simulated widespread events so that these utilities ar better prepared to perform effectively when actual major events occur.  Membership in Professional Associations: Chair of IEEE PES Working Group on Distribution Management Systems Vice Chair of IEEE PES Working Group on Smart Distribution Systems Vice Chair of IEEE PES Task Force on Volt-VAR Optimization. IEEE P2030.7 standard development committee "Standard for the Specification of Microgrid Controllers" (Member) Member of DistribuTECH Advisory Committee (Microgrids track) ​Education ·     Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin (1973) Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University (1972)