AUEnergy 2025 Conference & Power Quality Workshop

Day 1 – AUEnergy 2025 Conference & Power Quality Workshop

Welcome to the AUEnergy 2025 Conference & Power Quality Workshop! Join us for a day filled with insightful discussions, engaging presentations, tours, and networking. The theme for this years’ conference is “Emerging Technology for a Resilient Grid”.

This year’s event features high-powered speakers, including:

• Patricia Nilsen, CEO, Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation & New York State Electric & Gas / Avangrid
• Dr. John Edmond, Founder and Research Fellow, Wolfspeed
• Dr. John Simmins, Director, GE Vernova Advanced Power Grid Lab at Alfred University
• Dr. Brian Seal, Sr. Program Manager, EPRI (formerly Electric Power Research Institute)
• Dan Arczynski, President, IndexAR
• Abdelrahim Brown, Center Director, Center for Grid Innovation Development and Deployment (GrIDD) and Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC) Stony Brook University
• Dr. Behrouz Azimian, Senior Electricity Market Software Engineer, GE Vernova
• A Panel of Emerging Technology Companies

Additional invited speakers include Doreen Harris, President & CEO of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority

This year’s event will also feature a ribbon-cutting for the brand-new Edibon Advanced Power Grid Simulation Lab, including tours of labs across the McMahon Engineering Building. Students from our Renewable Energy Engineering and Electrical Engineering Departments will present posters on current research, and a networking reception will follow.

Day 2 – Power Quality Workshop (optional)

As a bonus, join us on Friday, October 24th, for an optional second day as we present EPRIs Power Quality Workshop with Mark Stephens, Program Manager at EPRI.

Why attend the Power Quality Workshop?

Power quality (PQ) has become a core enabler of operational and economic excellence. Utilities worldwide tie PQ directly to three business outcomes—grid system performance, utility economics, and customer satisfaction. Interest is surging because the grid must deliver more from existing assets, cut operating and repair costs, manage rising edge-of-grid complexity (DERs, EVs, power-electronics loads), and retain and attract load with superior PQ and customer support.

You’ll connect with industry leaders, top alumni, and innovators in energy technology, leveraging Alfred University’s network to accelerate your career and projects. Stay ahead with cutting-edge strategies for power quality and energy efficiency as you learn industry-standard frameworks from EPRI experts, see live demonstrations and real-world case studies, and get access to actionable templates—monitoring plans, mitigation checklists, and ROI tools.

The content is tailored for every audience: manufacturers looking to cut downtime and boost process reliability, utilities aiming to enhance grid resilience and customer satisfaction with proven PQ methods, and IEEE members seeking deeper standards expertise (and eligible continuing-education credits, where applicable).

You’ll walk away with a ready-to-implement monitoring plan, a mitigation checklist for common and advanced PQ issues, and an ROI template to justify investments and improvements. In short: turn hidden PQ problems into uptime, yield, and credibility—learn the standards, see the failures live, and leave with an ROI-backed fix plan.