Bits & Watts Initiative is a cross-campus effort of the Precourt Institute for Energy.

Bits & Watts Initiative

Past Smart Grid Seminars

All videos are available on the Smart Grid Seminar playlist of the Stanford Energy YouTube channel.

Winter 2024 Autumn 2023 Previous Smart Grid Seminars

Spring 2024

Mitigating Grid Vulnerability

Zhecheng Wang

Winter 2024

Offensive and Defensive Strategies in Smart Grid Cybersecurity: Balancing Protection and Proactivity

Mostafa Mohammadpourfard | Smart Grid Seminar

Energy Systems Decarbonization: Perspectives on Electric Vehicles and Grid Integration

Matteo Muratori | Smart Grid Seminar

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities & Defenses for EV Charging Systems

Jay Johnson | Smart Grid Seminar

AI-assisted Power Grid Dispatch and Control: Optimization, Safety, and Real-world Demonstrations

Di Shi | Smart Grid Seminar

Integration of EVs in Electric Systems

Bin Wang | Smart Grid Seminar

Autumn 2023

The Role of Digitization in Energy Decarbonization

Le Xie | Smart Grid Seminar

Bits & Watts in Motion: Our Much Better Electricity Future

Bruce Nordman | Smart Grid Seminar

Countdown to 2045: Realizing California’s Pathway to Net Zero

Aurora Winslade & Erica Bowman | Smart Grid Seminar

On the Integration of Hydrogen into Hybrid Energy Systems: Reliability Assessment, Optimal Operation and Planning

Jianhui Wang | Smart Grid Seminar

Previous Smart Grid Seminars

Spring 2023

Power System Digital Twins for Distribution Systems

Ning Lu | Smart Grid Seminar

Winter 2023

Peninsula Clean Energy: Achieving 24/7 Renewable Energy

Jan Pepper | Smart Grid Seminar

Real-world Battery and DER Optimization

Julian Lamy | Smart Grid Seminar

Design, Modeling & Deployment of Scalable EV Charging Systems

G. Lee & S. Low | Smart Grid Seminar

Autumn 2022

AI Platform for Energy Infrastructure Inspections

Vikhyat Chaudhry | Smart Grid Seminar

Challenges of the German Energy System

Munib Amin | Smart Grid Seminar

Detection of Faults in Large Power Grids Using Few PMU Measurements

Ali Abur | Smart Grid Seminar

Assured AI for the Decarbonization Era

Yang Weng | Smart Grid Seminar

TYRRHENIAN LINK: The Record-breaking Double HVDC Underwater Connection Between Sicily, Sardinia, and the Italian Peninsula

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Matteo Simoncini, International Business Development North America, Terna SpA

Summer 2022 and Previous

HiPAS GridLAB-D: CEC Development Status Update

David Chassin

Long-term Planning for EV Charging

Siobhan Powell

Marginal Emissions and Damage Factors

Inês Azevedo

Energy Atlas: Fine-Grained ML Mapping of DERs & Infrastructures

Zhecheng Wang

Computational Tools for Sustainable Urban Energy Systems

Jacques de Chalendar

Data-driven Control of Distributed Energy Resources

Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia

ML and AI for Grid Stability with Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems

Panos Moutis

Predictive Analytics for Power Systems with High Penetrations of DER

Rui Yang

Distribution System Planning: DERs & the Smart Grid

Andy Eiden & Angela Long

Evolution & Challenges of Alaska's "Railbelt" Electric System

Cicilio & Colt

Decarbonizing a Public Utility

Lena Perkins

Designing a 100% Renewable Energy System

Jens Madrian