Panel Translating Power Systems Research into Practice

Translating Power Systems Research into Practice ("From the lab into the field")
Chair: Keith Bell, Daniel Molzahn
Panelists: Tom Overbye (Texas A&M University), Andreas Ulbig (Adaptricity), Britta Buchholz (ABB), Susana de Graaff (TenneT)
The aim of the session is to share experiences of trying to take research work on software or methods for power system analysis or market facilitation into 'real world' use.
Our intentions in the session are to
a) encourage PhD students, researchers, and academics to think how their work might progress to practical applications;
b) help both industry people and university people move towards best practice in collaborations;
c) share learning from experiences in commercialising ideas.
We are very pleased to have a number of different perspectives on the panel:
1. An experienced academic who has successfully taken something ‘out of the lab and into the field’,
2. A younger academic who is active in a fairly recent commercial start-up,
3. A TSO person who is interested in innovations coming out of universities and has collaborated with them,
4. A person from a large vendor who is interested in innovations coming out of universities.