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Why Did The Power Go Out? Texas, Puerto Rico, & Other Major Power Outages

Join us for a panel discussion on major power outages and why they happen.

ongoing: 8:30 - 10:00 AM
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Why Did The Power Go Out? Texas, Puerto Rico, & Other Major Power Outages

During this panel, we will cover a broad overview of what power grids are, what the major grids are and what states/territories they cover, what causes the grids to fail or be unstable, what the future looks like, and more.

Panelists include:

Doug Houseman, Executive Consultant for 1898 & Co.

Chris Irwin, ​Program Manager for Transactive Energy, Communications and Interoperability in Smart Grid, U.S. Department of Energy

Pete Wung, Ph.D., Educator-In-Chief of the IEEE Smart Grid Academy

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ongoing

Contact

Kaity Woody, Advancement Director School of Computing and Engineering
  zayk@umkc.edu
  816-235-2332

Location

  Online

More Information

https://www.umkcalumni.com/s/1236/16/index.aspx?sid=1236&gid=1&pgid=4180&cid=7982&ecid=7982&crid=0&calpgid=2277&calcid=4030

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