8:00                 Registration Table Open, Refreshments

 

8:30- 8:45        Opening Remarks, Steve Hietpas, Coordinator of the CPSS

 

8:45- 9:45        The 3M Composite Conductor:  A new class of overhead conductors

Doug Johnson

Product Development Specialist Composite Conductor Program

3M Company

Minneapolis, MN

 

9:45- 10:00      Break with Refreshments

 

10:00-11:00     Distribution Generation Power Quality Issues (wind generation)
Bob Zavadil,

                        Enernex Corporation

 

11:00-12:00     Corn, more than Animal Feed and Squeezens --

                        Novel Technologies to Produce Valuable Products from Corn Byproducts

Jim Julson, Ph.D.

Agriculture Engineering Dept.

South Dakota State University

 

12:00-1:00       Lunch

                        A Description and Discussion of the “PV in the Parks” Program
Mike Ropp, Ph.D.

                        Electrical Engineering Dept.

                        South Dakota State University

 

1:00-2:00         Rapid City DC Converter Station

                        Vance Crocker, P.E.

                        Black Hills Corporation
Rapid City, SD

 

2:00-3:00         Substation Ground Grid Design

Sarah Kilgore, P.E.,

Transmission & Distribution Services Staff Electrical Engineer

Burns & McDonnell
Kansas City, MO

 

3:00-3:15         Break with Refreshments

 

 

 

 

 

3:15-4:15         Lake Yankton SVC Installation
John Grimm, P.E.,

Principal Engineer

Xcel Energy

Minneapolis, MN

 

5:30                 Social

 

6:00-7:45         CPSS Annual Banquet

 

8:00 – 9:00      Wind Power in the Midwest: Progress and Challenges
Matt Schuerger,

Consultant

Energy Systems Consulting Services

                        St. Paul, MN