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Power Quality Issues due to Growing IBR Penetration
Learn about power quality issues due to the rapid growth of IBRs in the system. In addition, Bob Arritt will cover lessons learned from various studies such as system strength, impact scenarios when the load levels are low, Electro-Magnetic Transients (EMT), and ramping rates of the IBRs etc.
Bob Arritt – EPRI Technical Executive Grid Operations and Planning Power Delivery and Utilization (PDU)
Bob Arritt is a Technical Executive at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). His current research activities include leading the geomagnetic disturbance work, system transients and harmonic analysis.
Mr. Arritt joined EPRI in 2007. Prior to joining EPRI, Mr. Arritt worked for Raytheon in Sudbury, MA where he worked in the Power and Electronic Systems Department. At Raytheon he was awarded the 2006 Raytheon Technical Honors Award for Peer and Leadership Recognition for Outstanding Individual Technical Contribution and received a 2005 Raytheon Author’s Award for design of a Phase -Shifted Transformer for Harmonic Reduction. Mr. Arritt has authored several technical papers and is a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). During Mr. Arritt’s time at EPRI, he took leave and served in a position as Vice President of Engineering and Technical Services at Power System Sentinel Technologies to assist in the technology transfer of a product of which he was the lead inventor at EPRI. Mr. Arritt holds a US Patent as the lead inventor for “Method for Detecting an Open - Phase Condition of a Transformer.” For this, Mr. Arritt was awarded the Chauncey Award for his outstanding innovative and achievements in science and technology. Mr. Arritt received a BS, magnum cum laude, in electrical engineering from West Virginia Institute of Technology in Montgomery, West Virginia. He received a MS degree in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Arritt is a Professional Engineer, licensed in the State of Tennessee.
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