IEEE Metro LA PES Chapter: Advances in Series Compensation of Power Systems
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Monterey Park, CA 91754
USA
Who: IEEE Power and Energy Society– PES
IEEE MetroLA PES Chapter
What: Advances in Series Compensation of Power Systems
When: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM (PDT)
Where:
3500 West Ramona Boulevard
Monterey Park, CA 91754
Speaker:
Mr. Bharat Bhargava is a Consulting Engineer with Advanced Power System Technologies, Inc. This is a new company providing services in Synchro-phasor technology applications and other advanced power system technologies such as advanced series compensation, battery energy Storage and blackout prevention etc. Mr. Bhargava worked for Southern California Edison from 1978 to 2009 and was very intimately involved with advanced power system technologies such as Synchronized Phasor Measurements, Sub Synchronous Resonance analysis and mitigation, and series capacitor applications etc. He was the project leader for NGH SSR protection scheme evaluation, development and installation at Southern California Edison during 1979 to1984. This NGH technology used the Thyristors with series capacitors for the first time and later developed in to Thyristor Protected Series Capacitors (TPSC) with several installations at SCE during 1997 to 2001. The use of thyristors with series capacitors were also used in Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor (TPSC) applications. Mr. Bhargava retired from SCE in 2009, and joined Electric Power Group (EPG), LLC, a Company based in Pasadena, California, that pioneers in Synchro-Phasor technology. He has since retired from EPG effective February 1, 2016 and is providing consulting services in some of the above mentioned advanced power system technologies. His other areas of interest include power quality, transient analysis and power system studies.
Bharat is a senior life member of IEEE and member of CIGRE. He has participated in several IEEE working groups dealing with series capacitors, sub-synchronous resonance, thyristor Controlled series capacitors etc. He is also a participant in CIGRE A3.33 series capacitor working. Mr. Bhargava graduated from Delhi University in 1961 and obtained Masters of Science (Power Systems) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1976. Before moving to United States, he worked as Executive Engineer with the UP State Electricity Board in India from 1968 to 1975.