Dr. Shay Bahramirad, Vice President of Engineering and Smart Grid at ComEd, explains how the technology can help the grid withstand impacts of climate change.
February 13, 2020
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"We have to think about accommodating more and more renewable energy and distributed energy resources in the system. That means that we need to rethink the design and how the electric grid works."
DR. SHAY BAHRAMIRAD, VICE PRESIDENT, ENGINEERING AND SMART GRID, COMED
In this episode, Marty talks with Dr. Shay Bahramirad who is the Vice President of Engineering and Smart Grid at ComEd in Chicago. The subject is ComEd's urban microgrid project. The microgrid's software evaluates the state of the system and determines what resources to draw upon to keep the grid up and running during any kind of event. Dr. Bahramirad explains how the technology can help the grid withstand the impacts of climate change and how they are designing the community of the future.
Dr. Bahrminrad joined ComEd in 2013. She earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.
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