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June 28 - July 2, 2016 Livingstone, Zambia

THEME: Electrifying Africa: Affordable Energy Enabling Socio-Economic Development

IEEE PES Power Africa Conference 2016



June 28 - July 2, 2016 Livingstone, Zambia

IEEE PES Power Africa Conference 2016Programme


Draft Programme

General Information Social Poster Session Invited Panel Session

Tutorials Plenary Paper? Presentation Sessions Technical Visit

DAY 0 - Tuesday, June 28, 2016

13:00 - 16:30

Tutorial A - Fundamentals of Micro Grid Design Operation and Management

Hall Section 1

13:00 - 16:30

Tutorial B - IEEE Smart Village Humanitarian Technology and Education Business Development for Africa Prof. David Wessner, Prof. Henry Louie, etc.

Hall Section 2

13:00 - 16:30

Tutorial C - Innovative Entrepreneurial Opportunities – How To Pursue Them? Ken Stauffer, Dr. Rakesh Kumar

Hall Section 3

13:00 - 16:30

Tutorial D - Effective Use of Technology in Engineering Education Dr. L.R. Linares

Hall Section 4

19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception (location to be defined)

DAY 1 - Wednesday, June 29, 2016

PES Power Africa Conference 2016

“Electrifying Africa: Affordable Energy Enabling Socio-Economic Development”

Venue: Livingstone, Zambia (Avani Resort and Convention Center)

Date: June 28 - July 2, 2016



7:30 - 18:30 Conference Registration (location to be defined)

8:30 - 16:30 Companion Hospitality Lounge

7:30 - 8:30Continental Breakfast

(location to be defined)

9:00 - 9:30

Opening Session Onyewuchi, Urenna, Chair, PES Power Africa Conference 2016 - “Welcome Address”

Robin Podmore, Vice President, IEEE PES - “IEEE PES in Africa” Senior Government Official-Conference Opening

Room: Main Hall

9:30 - 10:00 Keynote address: Socio-Economic Development in Africa through Electrification Prof. Jorry Mwenechanya

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break – (location to be defined)

10:30 - 12:00 Plenary: Challenges in Electrification in African Countries

12:00 - 13:15 Lunch Break (location to be defined)

13:30 - 15:00

Smart Grids 1

Room: S1

Demand-side Management 1

Room: S2

Solar and Solar/Diesel Hybrids Generation: Afri-can Examples Room: S3

International Experience in Electrification Projects

Room: S4

System Planning - Innovative Means to Enable Electrification in Africa at the Proper Pace

Room: TBD


15:30 - 17:00

Power System Monitoring, Operation and Control 1

Room: S1

Energy Management 1

Room: S2

Power Quality and Reliability 1

Room: S3

Micro-grids 1

Room: S4

Power Markets Invited Panel Session

19:00 - 21:00 Cocktail Networking Reception (TBD)

DAY 2 - Thursday, June 30, 2016

7:30 - 18:30Registration


7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast (location to be defined)

8:30 - 10:00

Plenary: Financing: a key role in the development of projects in Africa

Room: Main Hall




10:30 - 12:00

Plenary: Regulatory Environment and its Role in Electrification of Africa

Room: Main Hall

12:00 - 13:15Lunch Break

Students/Industry Networking Lunch (location to be defined)

13:15 - 14:45

Smart Grids 2

Room: S1

Ancillary Services

Room: S2

Power System Stability and Security

Room: S3

Micro-grids 2

Room: S4

Non-Technical Aspects of Electrification Invited Panel Session


15:15 - 16:45

Power System Monitoring, Operation and Control 2

Room: S1

Demand-side Management 2

Room: S2

Photovoltaic System Operation

Room: S3

Wind Generation: African Examples

Room: S4

19:00 - 22:00Gala Dinner at the Hotel

(Hotel Restaurant)

DAY 3 - Friday, July 1, 2016

7:30 - 18:30

Registration


7:30 - 8:15

Continental Breakfast


8:30 - 10:30

Panel: “Voice of Industry: Investments and Breakthrough Technologies to Help Electrify Africa”

Speakers: TBD

Room: Main Hall


11:00 - 12:30

Plenary: Skills Development through Partnerships- a critical path to the electrification of Africa Speakers: TBD

Room: Main Hall



12:30 - 13:45 Lunch Break (location to be defined)

Technical Tour Victoria Falls Hydro Power Station 13:00 - 16:1513:45 - 15:15

Power System Protection Room: S1

Communications suited to Africa & Minimizing Environmental Impact While Keeping the Growth Pace Needed

Room: S2

Regional Integra-tion and Flexible AC,HVAC and HVDC Transmission Systems

Room: S3

Energy Management 2

Room: S4

17:00-18:00

Closing Session Onyewuchi, Urenna, Chair, PES Power Africa Conference 2016 - “Closing Remarks and plans for

the next conference”

Room: Main Hall

19:00 - 21:00

Women in Power and IEEE Smart Village Reception


DAY 4 - Saturday, July 2, 2016

8:00 - 17:00 Technical Meetings

Urenna Onyewuchi, Ph.D. (Conference Chairman.) is the general chair for the 2016 IEEE PES Power Africa conference. She studied electrical engineering at George Mason University in Virginia, U.S.A. and graduated with a doctorate degree in the field of asset management from Georgia Institute of Technology’s (GATech’s) electrical and computer engineering program. GA Tech is in Atlanta, GA and is renowned for its engineering program. Her work in asset management entailed developing algorithms for the maintenance and reliability of power equipment, infrastructural and other systems. She has a passion for improving power in Nigeria and the continent of Africa.

Urenna is currently a senior power engineer at Corning Incorporated, the world leader in specialty glass, ceramics and optical physics. She specializes in applying power quality data analysis/ data science towards building resiliency into plant manufacturing and environmental processes; simulating and modeling electrical manufacturing processes for testing, optimization and process improvements; energy management; and power failure investigations, among other things.

Ken Stauffer has spent 30+ years in the telecommunications industry. In 1986 he received his MSEE and began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Ken left AT&T Labs in 2000 to become part of a $480M equity based start-up, called EPIK Communications, a wholesale carriers’ carrier based in Orlando, Florida. He designed EPIK’s advanced services strategy, created both the Product Innovation Group and EPIK Labs, and implemented a suite of “enlightened” IP and Ethernet products. He later served as EPIK’s Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Technology Officer. In 2003, Ken continued as an entrepreneur and formed Technology Assurance Labs to provide consulting, design, and testing services to venture capital groups, network equipment manufacturers, and service providers.

Technology Assurance Labs started developing products in 2010 and in 2011 received venture capital funding to develop RFID products used in the rail industry and wireless sensor products for the propane and natural gas industry. Ken was born and raised in Tanzania.

Thomas Appelt was appointed president coming international Emerging Markets in July 2013.In this role, Appelt is responsible for corning‘s business operations, strategy and business development ,and entity management in India, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Russia and portions of Western Europe.Prior to his position, Appelt served as vice president and global business director, Environmental Technologies for nearly three years.

Thomas Appelt joined corning GmbH, Germany, in February 1990 as a sales manager, industrial and speciality products group .He moved to the United States in October 1993

as sales and marketing manager, Diesel Products, Environmental Products division.From April 1997 to December 1998, Appelt was product line manager for worldwide automotive substrates. He became business marketing manager, Speciality ceramics, environmental products division in January 1999 was appointed business marketing director, mobile emissions products in November 1999.In April 2001,Appelt was appointed director, Automotive substrates, Environmental Technologies .Effective March 2003,Appelt was appointed president, corning frequency control Europe. In this role ,he assumed regional leadership for

all business operations in Europe. In January 2005, Appelt was appointed general manager, corning shanghai company Ltd, responsible for environmental Technologies manufacturing and commercial operations within china. In July 2009, he was appointed vice president and general manager, corning automotive technologies. In July 2009,he was appointed vice president and general manager, corning life sciences.Prior to joining corning, Appelt spent eight years in various sales, marketing, and application engineering positions within two German companies.

Appelt holds a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Siegen in Germany and successfully completed the general manager program (TGMP) at Harvard Business School.January 2016

Dr. Rakesh Kumar is a 42-year microelectronics industry veteran. He has worked in technical and managerial roles at Motorola, Unisys, and Cadence Design. Dr. Kumar has successfully started and managed two start-up companies, and has consulted with over 20 emerging companies. He has authored the book “Fabless Semiconductor Implementation”, published by McGraw Hill. Currently he is also focused on encouraging and enabling the expanding interest among young professionals to become entrepreneurs. He serves as a Business and Technology Advisor at University of California, San Diego’s Entrepreneurship Center. Dr. Kumar has developed and teaches a very popular “Successful Entrepreneurship” course for undergraduate engineers. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, is a

long time IEEE volunteer and has held many key leadership positions.

L.R. Linares A Canadian engineer born in South America, Luis Linares has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, for the past sixteen years where is a tenured faculty member. He has served as Associate Head of this department (2005-2010). Dr. Linares is a winner of the highly coveted Killam Teaching Prize (among the highest recognitions that a Canadian university teacher can aspire to). He has been former chair of the Killam Teaching Prize Committee for Applied Science at UBC; and the architect of the “Millennium” curriculum for electrical engineering at UBC (chair of the Millennium Curriculum Task Force); he has also drafted the ‘project-centered’ new curriculum for electrical engineering at UBC.

He is known in one hundred and twenty two countries, where over twenty thousand engineering students and professors follow his YouTube channel. His Channel has over four hundred of his video tutorials and lectures and is visited at a rate of several thousands a day. His activity in the field of educational video/movies goes back several decades. In the eighties, he was among the very first proponents of what is now labeled as “flipped-classroom” , this was well before this style of teaching had a name. In most recent years he has been including more and more technology in his teaching style and is a passionate speaker for novel approaches to teaching in the engineering field.Dr. Linares had been a consultant for SGS, principal investigator of projects for l’Electricite de France, as well as for Mitsubishi, and a sub-contractor for Microsoft, among others. What brought him back from industry to academia is his sincere belief that “training the next generation of engineers, so they rescue the planet and re-inject hope for the future in the new waves of people” is our most sacred duty.

Bai K Blyden Over his 34 year professional career has contributed his expertise to over forty major and minor power plant projects and their associated interconnections around the world. This involved detailed power plant and transmission systems design engineering, Systems and operations planning, project development feasibility assessment oversight and construction management.

Among his more notable assignments, Mr. Blyden served as Project Manager on the Calpine team, which planned a 70,000 MW development program which included EPC oversight. Within this scope he also served as a site Construction Manager for the

Emergency Peaker Program which constructed and commissioned eleven (11x 45 MW) General Electric simple cycle gas turbine units in response to California executive order D-26-01 issued to protect the grid around Silicon Valley at the peak of the 2001 California energy crisis. Mr. Blyden has also worked on large Nuclear, Hydro and mid to small distributed energy systems having held senior technical consulting and staff positions with various utilities, AE and Manufacturing firms such as TVA; Pacific Gas & Electric; Bechtel, ABB, Cummins, The New York Power Authority, Texas Utilities. He is currently completing the updates on the electrical systems computer models for the 2 x 940 MW Plant Hatch power station at Southern Company as part of the Calculations Design Basis Validation Program for Configuration Management and Post Fukushima retrofits.

An early advocate of an Integrated African Grid, Mr. Blyden has presented a conceptual framework and technical analysis for a centralized African Power pool with links to North Africa at the first IEEE Region 8 conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, December 1983. Since then authored several papers on African Energy Development with a particular emphasis on the strategic role of Regional Power Pool Interconnections, Micro Grids and Knowledge development. Towards this end he has developed The African Power Development Knowledge Engine which is an advanced training and development conceptual framework designed to harness the dynamic results created by linking African technical colleges and universities to current international R&D focused on Power.

Mr. Blyden earned an MS.EE from Moscow Energetics Institute in Power Systems, Generation and Industrial Distribution Systems. And has been awarded numerous professional development certifications and accreditations. Fluent in multiple languages which include English, French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic. Mr. Blyden brings a multicultural mindset and an exceptional relationship building acumen. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as Chair of the IEEE PES International Practices subcommittee for Africa. He serves as a Senior Advisor to Centric Ltd a commercial startup with 21st century structurally advanced and sustainable Green building systems. He is also the founder of the Strategic consulting group BBRM.

Bruce H. Krogh is director of Carnegie Mellon University in Rwanda (CMU-R), the Kigali-based location of Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering, which offers CMU’s master’s programs in information technology (MSIT) and electrical and computer engineering (MSECE). Dr. Krogh was a systems engineer with the Energy Systems Division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation before joining Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1983, where he is currently professor of electrical and computer engineering.

He moved to Rwanda to become founding director of CMU-R in 2012. Throughout his career, Professor Krogh’s research has concerned the theory and application of computer control systems in a number of areas. His current research interests include methods for leveraging ICT to develop new operating and business strategies for the emerging electrical power systems in Africa. He has served as an editor for several journals and conference proceedings, and was founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He is a Distinguished Member the

IEEE Control Systems Society and a Fellow of IEEE.

Douglas Gorham is a Senior Member of IEEE and served as the Managing Director of the Educational Activities Department for nearly 10 years where he was responsible for the department’s products and services in continuing education, pre-university education, university education, standards education, EAB Awards and IEEE-HKN. He served as the staff lead in organizing several conferences involving engineering educators, industry, government and pre-university educators. He is the creator of IEEE’s Teacher In-Service Program and co-creator of TryEngineering.org. He served as the professional lead in the formation of two accrediting bodies: one in Peru and the second in the Caribbean. Prior to his tenure at IEEE Doug served as a high school educator for 26 years including twelve

years as a high school principal. He earned his Ed.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S.Ed from Northern Illinois University and his undergraduate degree from Elmhurst College.

Gertjan van Stam, Professional with broad exposure within many contexts, cultures, leadership, and innovation systems. Global experience in infrastructure, Information and Communications Technologies, engineering, social ecosystems, and sustainable progress. Personal strengths include strong analytical and holistic conceptualization skills, linked with results focus and hands on action, sustained through collaboration. Strong developed interpersonal skills and broad networking experience. Lived in urban and rural areas, in Belgium, India, Netherlands, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Professor Jorry M. Mwenechanya previously lectured in electrical engineering at the University of Zambia where he also served as Dean of the School of Engineering and Deputy Vice Chancellor. For about twenty years he has been an independent consultant in energy and related areas. Professor Mwenechanya focuses on policy, regulation and institutional frameworks. His recent preoccupation has been the training of African energy regulators especially in new and emerging areas of importance like Renewable Energy integration. Professor Mwenechanya has served on the Boards of the major energy institutions and companies in Zambia. These include chairmanship of the Energy Regulation Board and the

Rural Electrification Authority. On the Board of ZESCO Limited, he was Chairman of the Technical Committee, and on the privately-owned Zambian Energy Corporation, he was an independent director. A Past President of the Engineering Institution of Zambia, Professor Mwenechanya holds PhD and Master’s degrees from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zambia

Sonile Katungula Musonda, a lecturer of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at the Copperbelt University (CBU) with twelve years experience in teaching at undergraduate level. A dedicated team player with extensive knowledge in Digital Communication concepts, design and configuration of Computer networks. My research areas include the following: Use of Renewable Energy in Mobile Communication Networks in Zambia, Achieving Universal access to Communication services by means of Optical Communication on the last Mile and Digital Migration - Transmission options for Zambia. I am also a registered Engineer and member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia. Major accomplishments in my career are:

Heading the Electrical Engineering department under School of Engineering at CBU and encouraging innovativeness among members of staff and students, which has contributed to the institution winning awards at both trade and engineering fairs for innovative projects done in the department.Promoting and Supporting Skills Training through the Educational Partnership for Africa (EPA) where I am representing the School of Engineering for CBU Councilor for the Standards Council at Zambia Bureau of Standard and chaired the Marketing and Public Relations Committee upon its inception as a committee of the standards council.

Volunteer at Zambia Consumers Association (ZACA) and served as technical committee member in charge of Energy and Information and Communications Technology Affairs. Actively participated and represented ZACA in the Energy programmes for Restructuring the Electricity Market in Zambia and Issues and options for Rural Electrification in Zambia which were facilitated by the Ministry of Energy.

I am a holder of a Master of Science in Communications Technology and Policy from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland (2004) and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical/ Electronics Engineering from the Copperbelt University in Kitwe, Zambia (2001).

Walter Olawale Akintunde attended Liverpool John Moores University to study for a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biomedical Science and Southbank University in London to study for a B.Sc. Hons in Accounting and Finance and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) of England and Wales. Walter Akintunde (“Walter”) is an Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in the Financial Services industry. He has worked as an Auditor and Liquidator with Deloitte

and Touché, where he was involved in the liquidation of Bank of Credit Commerce and Industry BCCI; as a Financial Analyst with General Electrics, UK; in Legal and General UK, a top UK financial services company, where he prepared and worked on Budgets, Forecast and Management reports; as an Asset Accountant with British Petroleum (“BP”) where he oversaw saw the groups assets in the UK; and as a corporate and Investment Banker with HSBC, where he worked with Currency derivatives trading, Mergers and Acquisitions, Treasury bills and bond trading.

Walter has also worked as a Value Added Tax (“VAT”) Accountant and as a Treasury Accountant with Shell International Limited, where he produced the groups VAT returns in the UK and the EU on a monthly and Quarterly basis.

Walter is a seasoned Entrepreneur, who has been involved at various times in a number of startups including ownership and management of a record label; operations and management of a Fruit Juice bar, Real Estates, Luxury Chauffeuring business and a Recruitment agency. He has also been involved in a number of infrastructural projects predominately in Africa, where he was a major stakeholder in one of the companies that were short-listed in the privatization of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria.

He is an expert in crude oil trading with over 10 years’ experience, where he has single handedly set up an oil company that ended up turning over $150m per annum by exporting and importing crude oil and oil products into and out of Africa.

Walter has also been involved in the Internal Revenue collection of one of the States in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is also involved in the structuring of Loans for complex projects and has succeeded in raising loans for companies across the globe to the tune of $250m.

Walter Akintunde is a prolific Bible teacher and part of the I Am Who I Am (“IAWIA”) Foundation, a not-for-profit non-governmental organization in the UK, whose primary focus is working with children between the ages of 10-14 years old, where they are taught Christian values, based on the Bible as the word of God. Happily married for the last 20 years, with two children, Walter is a keen supporter of Liverpool Football Club in the UK.

Peter Butt (“Peter”) has over 25 years’ experience in the power industry. He has substantial experience in project development, the development of rules and codes for the power industry, the development/modifications of licenses, assessment of bidding strategies and market behaviour, the development of risk management strategies and the designing and delivery of management training and regulatory training programmes.

Peter has worked with the Confederation of British Industry as energy policy adviser and for Eastern Energy of the UK (now part of Eon) as regulatory adviser and as information and forecasting manager, where he was responsible for producing electricity price

forecasts. He managed the commercial evaluation of a new generation unit loading and dispatch scheduler of the UK electricity market.Internationally, Peter has had project management roles in major projects concerned with the restructuring of the electricity industry in South Korea, with capability development for the electricity regulatory agency in Pakistan, with advising on risk management strategies in the Netherlands, as a special adviser to the Saudi Electricity Regulatory Authority and with specifying and implementing management information system for a newly corporatized distribution companies in Bangladesh.Peter was the Team Leader and Resident Economic Regulatory Expert for the capacity building of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission. He was the energy economist responsible for advising a team of consultants working for Kaduna State in Nigeria on power generation of multi-purpose hydro-dams.

He was a member of a team of economists engaged to review the Petroleum Industry Bill passing through the Nigeria National Assembly on behalf of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Peter Butt was also selected to prepare and deliver management and regulatory training to senior NNPC staff.

Peter supported the African Development Bank in assessing the Nigerian power sector. He also managed the development of an emergency power station in Sao Tome and Principe.

Adeyemi (‘Yemi) Akisanya obtained the LL.B, with honours, from the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1976 and an LL.M, in 1979, from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in July, 1977 and enrolled as a Notary Public in October 2011.

He worked with the Oyo State (of Nigeria) Ministry of Justice, (1977-1978); the law firm of Odujinrin and Adefulu, in Lagos, Nigeria, (1979-1980); the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, in New York, USA, (1980-1981) and the Law Department of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (“MPNU”), an ExxonMobil subsidiary, (1981-2002). He retired

voluntarily from MPNU in March 2002, after over twenty years of service in various capacities, including Senior Counsel, International Transactions Counsel, Company Secretary and Acting General Counsel. During the twenty-year period with MPNU, he gained in-depth, hands-on experience both in Nigeria and overseas, in about every aspect of the business and operations of the upstream energy (oil, gas & power) industry and the pertinent processes, transactions and agreements. The scope of this experience covered, inter alia, Farm-out/Farm-in Agreements, all forms of Joint venture Agreements, Joint Operating Agreements and related agreements, EIAs (preparation, submission and defence), EPC Contracts, as well as land settlements and acquisitions.

‘Yemi Akisanya is presently engaged in private law practice as Principal of Adeyemi-Akisanya Associates,

a highly skilled, service oriented “boutique” law firm with specialized expertise in: Energy, Natural Resources & Power (Transactions, Projects & Financing); Dispute Resolution Advisory & Practice (Mediation, Mediation Advocacy & Conflict Management); Corporate Governance; Ethical Laws (US FCPA, UK Bribery Act, etc.); Corporate & Personal Taxation; Joint Ventures and other Commercial Transactions; Estates & Wills; and Properties (Documentation, Due Diligence, Title Rectification & Perfection), as its core areas of practice.

Through the Firm, Yemi has advised clients in major transactions and projects including Asset Acquisition/Disposal, Project Financing, Taxation, Joint Ventures and New Business Ventures.

He has a special focus on marginal field operations, legal support and advisory to indigenous E&P operators and oil service companies, local content development & compliance, Power Projects and the resolution of disputes through Mediation, Mediation Advocacy, Dispute Resolution Counselling and Conflict Management Advisory.

Apart from membership in Nigerian and international professional organizations, Yemi is a member, Trustee and the Honorary Secretary, of the Musical Society of Nigeria.

He is also an ordained Pastor and Minister of the Word; and he is married with three children.

James A. Momoh is a professor and former chair (1990-2000) of the Department of Electrical Engineering as well as the founder and director of the Center for Energy Systems and Controls at Howard University, Washington, D.C. Additionally, he served as the program director of the Electrical and Communication Systems division at the National Science Foundation (2001-2004), where he was responsible for the development of the interdisciplinary program, Electric Power Network Efficiency and Security. He was also a principal consultant at Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR, as well as the affiliate staff scientist at Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Seattle, WA. Dr. Momoh has authored Electric Power System Applications of Optimization, best seller book on

Optimization and co-authored several others including Smart Grid: Fundamentals and Application, Electric Systems, Dynamics and Stability with Artificial Intelligence Applications (Marcel Dekker, Inc.) etc. He is an associate editor of the journals ‘Power Letters’ and ‘Electric Machines and Power Systems’.

Dr. Momoh is the Founder and Leader of US-Africa collaboration, widely known as International Conference for Power Systems Operation and Planning (ICPSOP), in research between US-Africa professors in energy and power sustainability. He has developed several partnerships with government agencies and national laboratories. His pioneering work in the areas of optimal power flow, computational intelligence with application to power systems, micro grid and smart grid has led to the development of production grid software in use currently by the power industry. Dr. Momoh’s proven research success has demonstrated commitment to educational research in the engineering education both in the US and Africa.

Dr. Momoh received the B.S.E.E. degree (1975) with honors from Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the M.S.E.E. degree (1976) in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; the M.S.E.E. degree (1980) in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and the Ph.D.

degree (1983) in electrical engineering from Howard University, Washington, D.C. In addition, he received an M.A. degree (1991) in theology from the School of Divinity at Howard University, Washington, D.C. He is a recipient of the 1987 National Science Foundation U.S. White House Presidential Investigator Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the National Academy of Engineering (Nigeria), and also holds membership in numerous other professional and honor societies.

Dr. Dan Wessner is Professor of Politics and chairs the History and Politics Department at Regis University, Denver, Colorado. He also directs the university’s undergraduate and graduate programming in Development Practice. He works extensively among international nonprofits committed to just and sustainable development. He has served in community-based development in eight countries, and connects this work to ongoing research of international education, social capital, and post-war empowerment. He also collaborates among more than sixty international nonprofits at a path-breaking consortium of global development enterprises headquartered in Denver – The Posner Center for International Development. His degrees are in international studies, law, theology, and

history. He serves on the boards of The Posner Center, International Development Enterprises (iDE), the Center for Teaching International Relations, and is Chair of the Education Committee for IEEE Smart Village.

The major goal of education development for Smart Village is a unique Community Based Online model which engages the community in developing the curriculum over a broad base of needs, not just technical training; this model is deemed an essential pillar for successful sustainable development. Dr. Wessner is a pioneer in this field and is helping Smart Village build broad partnerships through engaging members of the Posner Center in a holistic approach “beyond the Lightbulb.”

Dr. Henry Louie is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seattle University where he researches electrification in the context of less economically-developed countries. Dr. Louie is on the Governing Board of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES), where he has served as Vice President of Membership & Image and as Member-at-Large. Henry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seattle University, and co-founder of KiloWatts for Humanity, a non-profit organization seeking to bring electricity to the energy impoverished. He is the recipient of a 2015/2016 Fulbright Scholarship to the Copperbelt University in Kitwe, Zambia.

Michael Wilson began volunteering with IEEE Smart Village in 2013. Since becoming senior program manager for IEEE Smart Village in December 2014, he has worked to advance IEEE Smart Village by providing overall coordination and management of the program and ensuring that key goals are met toward the mission to bring renewable energy and technology to improve the lives of people in remote energy-impoverished communities in a sustainable way. IEEE Smart Village has achieved considerable success—

Steve Szablya received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Washington State University and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Washington. He is an adjunct professor for the Seattle University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department serving as a faculty advisor for senior design projects. Over the years the projects have related to appropriate technology including micro-hydro, wind, solar and human powered generation. He has co-authored a number of papers on the topic with Dr. Henry Louie. In 2014, Steve’s student team won the NCEES Grand Prize Award for the engineering combined wind – solar microgrid at a small school in rural Kenya. Prior to working at Seattle University he and his wife Kristy did humanitarian work in Africa,

including opening a medical clinic with a standalone solar power system and a small school in rural Kenya. He served as an engineer in Louisiana on the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort. He is member of IEEE Smart Village as well as President of KWH.

Likonge Makai works for Konkola Copper Mines plc (KCM), Zambia’s biggest copper producer, as Sectional Engineer Projects – Electrical. In 2014, she received her Master’s in Energy Systems in Nepal at Kathmandu University. Her motivation for Masters came as a result of high electricity consumption by mining activities leading to low access of electricity for the household sector. Her research interests include effective, affordable and efficient energy to allow even the poorest people in remote rural areas Zambia to have access to clean and sustainable energy development in order reduce poverty and increase energy mix. As founder of Lichi Community Solutions Ltd., a non-profit organization, she is currently working with rural communities that do not have grid power, helping them

gain access to electricity. She has been working with Kilowatts for Humanity and IEEE Smart Village to install a community solar kiosk in Filibaba, Zambia and her business plan was recently approved for IEEE Smart Village support.

Dr. Lawrence E. Jones is the Vice President of International Programs at Edison Electric Institute (EEI). Lawrence is a member of numerous U.S. and international industry advisory committees, and serves as Co-Chair of the 21st Century Power Partnership Leadership Forum, as a member on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee, and as a member of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Smart Grid Advisory Committee. Born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia, Lawrence lived in Sweden for more than a decade, where he received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Power Systems Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

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