Attendance: The Group met on March 11, 2008 with 35 members and guests.
Name Company
Allen MacPhail Cabletricity
Awat Ilkharuizadeh ABB
Badrinath Comar Hydro One Networks
Bill Temple General Cable
Chris Grodzinski EHV Power
Dave Bogden ITC Transmission
Dave Purnhagen USi
David Campilli National Grid
Deepak Parmar Geotherm
Don Koonce Dominion Virginia Power
Erich Schoennagel Centerpoint Energy
Forest Rong Black & Veatch
Frederic Lesur RTE
FrederikRuter CIGRE B1
Gary Eggen EPCOR
Geeta Parmar Geotherm
Jay Williams PDC
Ken Romano Georgia Power
Lily Zhang Univ. of Connecticut
Loraine Patsco IEEE-SA
Mark Lancaster Southwire Co
Matthew Cox Centerpoint Energy
Mohamed Chaaban Hydro Quebec
Mohammad Pasha United Illuminating Co.
Phil Warton Horizon Wind Energy
Robert Uddin CAI
Rusty Bascom PDC
Sayed Hajassadonah Florida Power & Light
Simon Foster SensorTran
Stan Stephan Dekoron Wire & Cable
Steve Swingler Univ. of Southampton
Sudhakar Cherukupalli BC Hydro
Tiebin Zhao EPRI
William Barton Tampa Electric
William Black Georgia Tech
Minutes:
1. The meeting was opened by the group chairman Mohamed Chaaban. He reminded all participants about the formal procedure and timeline. Until then all parts of the Guide have to be reviewed and agreed upon.
2. Since the group status has been changed from discussion to working the participants were informed about the requirements regarding copyrights.
3. Discussion about each part of the Guide:
a. Agreed on dividing the Guide on 2 sections.
b. Dave Purnhagen requested description of different sensor locations for discrete and distributed measurements.
c. Dave Purnhagen and Forest Rong suggested adding in section 3 the difference between distributed and discrete sensors.
d. Sudhakar Cherukupalli requested adding more warning on the discrete sensors.
e. There was a proposal to include a sample of specification in our guide. Sudhakar Cherukupalli agreed to prepare a presentation as a base for further discussion for the next meeting.
f. Discussed contents of appendices
i. What to include as a spec: measuring unit only or measuring unit plus fiber or entire system.
ii. Discrete units – discussion evolved if these should be included in our system specification or not as it is well known to the engineering.
4. Data handling – discussed adding this subject to the Guide. A proposal should be prepare for the next meeting.
