ELECTRA Digital October 2020

Summary

Welcome to ELECTRA, the signature magazine of CIGRE for our digital world. CIGRE is excited to offer our members and subscribers this platform to access the latest news, global connections, expertise, and work from the world of CIGRE.

In the October 2020 edition:

Editorial

• A message from our new President
• A message from our new Treasurer

Centennial Celebration
The Inter-war years

Global Connections

• CEO COVID-19 Diaries: Impacts on energy supply, impacts on grids, impacts on people
• Knowledge Sharing: State Grid's effective response to Covid-19 pandemic
• How the COVID-19 pandemic contaminated the Brazilian electric system’s operation
• Load profile of a Pandemic: California by areas counties
• The New Normal: Perspectives from across the U.S. power industry
• ETIP SNET views on post COVID 19 recovery

Technology E2E

• Using citizen science to address bird electrocutions on overhead distribution networks
• Electric transportation energy supply systems
• Dielectric testing of HVDC gas-insulated systems fundamentals for a future standard

Life of Association

• In Memoriam - Patrick Paul Ryan
• e-session, that’s a wrap!
• Journey of a CIGRE Green Book: "Electricity supply systems of the future"
• CIGRE Science & Engineering (CSE) - The technical magazine of choice

Reference Paper
Changes of new unused insulating kraft paper properties during drying - Impact on degree of polymerization

Annual Reports

• SC C1 > Power system development and economics
• SC C4 > Power system technical performance
• SC C5 > Electricity markets and regulation
• SC C6 > Active distribution systems and distributed energy resources

Technical Brochures

• TB 810 - WG B5.54 - Protection and automation issues of islanded systems during system restoration/black start
• TB 811 - WG B4.68 - DC side harmonics and filtering in HVDC transmission systems
• TB 812 - WG A2.53 - Advances in the interpretation of transformer Frequency Response Analysis (FRA)
• TB 813 - WG A1.49 - Magnetic core dimensionning limits in hydro generators
• TB 814 - WG B3.39 - LPIT applications in HV Gas Insulated Swithgear
• TB 815 - WG B1.57 - Update of service experience of HV underground and submarine cable systems

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