The meeting was called to order at 1:30p by Chris Searles, Chair of the EESB Committee.

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1 IEEE ESSB Summer Meeting, Piscataway, NJ June 25, 2018 Minutes of ESSB Committee General Meeting The meeting was called to order at 1:30p by Chris Searles, Chair of the EESB Committee. The Chair began the meeting by expressing his appreciation of the support of Mike Kipness, IEEE SA liaison and Tina Alston, SA Senior Administrative Assistant, for their work in allowing us to conduct this session at IEEE HQ in Piscataway. The chair also thanked Hoppecke and Nick Fortune from Hoppecke for agreeing to provide support for the ESSB General Meeting and Working Group sessions. John Eddins was recognized as attending the meeting on behalf of Nick Fortune, who had a conflict in his schedule. The Committee and Subcommittee Chairs welcomed first time guests and the addition of 12 new members to the Committee. The chair thanked Tom Carpenter for an excellent job in organizing the meeting. This was followed by introduction of all members in attendance. The Chair then introduced PES staff members Angie Rajski Parashis, LaToya Gourdine. Maureen Dalton, Daniel Roland, Phyllis Caputo, and Shanon Nason. Quorum: 34 members in attendance out of 67 registered members so a quorum was confirmed for officially commencing the meeting. Members were asked to review the minutes of the Jacksonville General Meeting and approve. Members approved meeting minutes with no opposition. This was followed by an introduction on how to use the Imat tool for registration and meeting participation by Jim McDowall. He explained the process for registering and obtaining credit for attendance at the meeting and Working Group sessions. But, a full tutorial demonstration was not done at this time. The Chair introduced Jessica Bian, Secretary of IEEE PES and member of the IEEE PES Board of Governors. She gave an overview of the PES Governance structure and the expectations for technical committees, especially on the importance of growing the EESB Committee. This was followed by presentations of the invited IEEE PES staff members. Angie Rajski Parashis, LaToya Gourdine, Daniel Roland, Phyllis Caputo, and Shanon Nason each gave a presentation on their roles within IEEE PES. - Angie indicated that PES is working on 123Signup transition plan. This will lead to an easier transition process for TCs in the use 123Signup. It was noted that ESSB has been using 123 successfully, and don t want to see any major changes that would impact the smooth way in which 123 is working.

2 - Angie also explained a number of Technical Committee objectives she will be working on, along with a call for ESSB Chair participation in web meetings to address these objectives. - Dan Toland gave a presentation on the development of the PES Scholarship program. He also informed the members that PES has taken over the IEEE Smart Cities initiative and was looking for active participation from volunteers. - Phyllis Caputo gave an update on the IEEE Smart Grid Smart Grid initiative and thanked ESSB members who participated in both the energy storage white paper and the ESS web seminar. - Shanon Nason described her role as Staff liaison for Award selection and recognition. She was joined at the end of her presentation to present a special ESSB Committee award (Distinguished Service Award) to Jim McDowall. It was noted that this was only the second time an award was presented to a member of the Committee outside of outgoing Chairs. The Chair then gave a description of Jim s accomplishments in just the last two years that augmented the legacy of outstanding contributions over his 20 years plus of IEEE service. The Chair then proceeded to announce the status of the three awards that the previous Awards Chair submitted just prior to the January Jacksonville meeting. - The Women s Professional Service Award has been tabled for the 2018 calendar year. - Bill Cantor received IEEE PES Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award. Bill will receive this award at the special Awards Luncheon at the General Meeting in Portland in August. To the current Committee s knowledge, this is the first time an award beyond selection by the ESSB Committee has been achieved. Congratulations to Bill were given. Chair announced the IEEE ESSB Committee Transition appointments for 2019/2020 and introduced the new additions (Steve Vechy as incoming Secretary of the IEEE ESSB Committee, Dan Martin as Secretary/Vice-Chair of the SBEE subcommittee and Dave Franklin as Secretary/Vice-Chair of the DCRS subcommittee). The full slate of ESSB Officers was introduced as follows: Brandon Bartling, Chair, SBEE Subcommittee Rich Hutchins Chair, DCRS Dan Martin Secretary, SBEE SC David Franklin Secretary, DCRS SC Lesley Varga Chair, Awards Committee Ray Byrne IEEE Fellows Coordinator Paul Hector Web master

3 Jim McDowall sponsored a motion to express appreciation for the service of Chris Searles as EESB Chair and for the excellent job he has done in growing the Committee. Curtis Ashton seconded the motion. The Membership provided a unanimous voice vote, thanking him for his service over the past 2+ years. The Chair recognized the 12 new ESSB members. He also recognized Andy Keels for winning the 2017 IEEE Phoenix Section Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award. The Chair then presented the ESSB committee highlight report. He discussed the success of the tutorial program at FERC, IEEE T&D. He also informed the members that a tutorial is planned for delivery at Next Era Corporate Headquarter in Oct This was part of the Society s effort to grow membership from utilities. Plans for a tutorial at ESNA has been postponed to The ESSB Chair announced that he was selected to serve as guest editor for the September issue of IEEE Electrification magazine. The Chair highlighted that 10 articles that will be featured in the upcoming special issue on energy storage. Treasurer s Report - Tom Carpenter presented the Treasurer s report. He mentioned that one of the challenges has been to grow reserve sufficient to cover advance hotel and meeting room expenses. AdCom agreed that a reserve in the neighborhood of $50,000 would be desirable. - Tom requested that attendees for future meetings make registrations at least two weeks in advance of meeting. This would give sufficient time for meeting logistics including ordering of meals and snacks for events as well as ensuring that sufficient revenues are received from 123 to pay bills on time. Codes and Standards WG Report - Bill Cantor provided an update on Standards and Codes WG. - He gave an update on three standards. He indicated that NEC NFPA has an Aug 30 deadline for comments - NFPA 855 is a brand new document. NFPA is looking for leadership in the committee. Public Comments are due July NFPA 70E is coming up for revision as well. - With new data on arc flash, Bill Cantor is looking for volunteer participation in the NFPA 70E standards process. PES Technical Council Update Curtis Ashton presented PES Tech Council update - He thanked WG chairs for their service. He recognized Dan Lambert, Michael Kipness, Bill Cantor, Mike Nesbit, and Jim McDowall for their services and presented WG Chairs with Service Awards - Provided updates on forthcoming meetings of interest.

4 EESB 2019 Winter meeting is planned for Feb 4-8 at CenturyLink HQ building in downtown Phoenix. IEEE PES Technical Council is scheduled for Nov Location TBD. Fellow Coordinator s Report - There was no report from the Fellow Coordinator at this meeting. The nomination of Jim McDowall for Fellow was acknowledged with a meeting coming up in Italy that will review the nominations and make final selections. SBEE Subcommittee Report Kurt Uhlir - Chair recognized Kurt Uhlir for his exceptional service. - Kurt Uhlir provided a summary of SBEE (and DCRS) Subcommittee PAR activities 450 will be meeting, PAR is open until par is Does not have any officer than the chair, looking for VC and Sec 946 has two sessions planned. In the middle of ballot comments It appears that all 450 comments have been resolved. 946 par expires end of 2018, getting one year extension, VC position open 1184 expires in expires in will be meeting, spot open for Secretary 1187 needs a Secretary 1491 is on the schedule 1578 expired in A request was made to the WG Chairs to submit their minutes to Brandon Bartling (and Richard Hutchins) before leaving this summer meeting - Alan Burns suggested that we move the two technical symposiums to Sunday, so that EESB Committee meetings can end on Thursdays. Lesley Vargas commented that technical sessions were always done on Sunday previously and AdCom should consider moving the symposiums back to Sundays. It was pointed out that one of the major reasons for moving the tutorials to Monday or Tuesday was so that members would not have to travel on Saturdays to participate in Sunday tutorials. The Chair stated that the issue will be taken up at the next AdCom meeting. DCRS Subcommittee Report - Rich Hutchins did not feel it necessary to give a separate report on DCRS SC as Kurt Uhlir covered it adequately. However, he did emphasize the need for submitting premeeting and post-meeting documents as well as minutes at the end of the WG sessions. Awards Chair s Report - The report from Awards Chair was covered in the preceding Awards section of the meeting.

5 Webmaster s Report - Chair recognized Paul Hectors for his good work with the upkeep and maintenance of ESSB website, indicating that in his opinion, the ESSB website is recognized as one of the best TC websites within PES. SC21 and ESTF Report - Charlie Vartanian gave an update on active projects/standards within the IEEE 1547 family of standards. He highlighted P Energy Storage Interconnection Guide. Review by NesCOM March 8, He updated the Committee on the status of the following SCC 21 projects: entity project Test procedures and evaluation of large-scale PV plants interconnection to the trans electric power systems. Updated on Solar PV Standards Updated on SC21 initiatives for Communication initiative related to IEEE1547 webinars in Jan PAR has been approved, officers have been selected. Charlie is looking for WG members - It was noted that Charlie is now a member of ESSB as well as SCC 21 and will serve as Secretary of P Member Proposal: - ESSB member David Rosewater of Sandia National Laboratories presented a proposal for a new PAR on Battery Management Systems (BMS) for use within Energy Storage Systems. He discussed developing this as a new proposed Recommended Guide in relation to 1459, P946 and P1375 and why a new PAR is needed. He indicated that this would be intended to be a system level Recommended Guided. He requested that ESSB sponsor a new WG on Battery Management Systems. During the discussion Jim McDowall indicated the proposed PAR is quite different from Charlie Vartanian discussed a MESA standard as an example and indicated his support for a new PAR. Curtis Ashton made a motion to create a study group to develop a PAR on BMS. This was seconded by Andy Keel. After further discussion, the motion was passed The ESSB Chair appointed David Rosewater to head the efforts of forming this study group with the objective of creating a proposed PAR for submission to ESSB and the Standards Association. The meeting was adjourned at approximately 6:10p.