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IEEE Croatia Section Power and Energy Society Chapter

IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter Award (OCA)

Prepared by Igor Kuzle

IEEE Croatia Section PES Chapter Chair

March, 2015, Zagreb, Croatia

IEEE Croatia Section - PES OCA Submission, 2014

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1) Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................... 1

1.a Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................... 1

1.b Region Representative Nomination ............................................................................................. 3

2) Activities .......................................................................................................................................... 4

2.a - Technical Activities ...................................................................................................................... 4

2.b - Educational Activities .................................................................................................................. 6

2.c - PES/Engineering Profession Promotion ....................................................................................... 8

2.d - Student Activities ........................................................................................................................ 9

2.e - Affinity Groups (WIE, GOLD, etc.) ............................................................................................. 12

2.f - PES Conferences ......................................................................................................................... 13

3) Members ....................................................................................................................................... 17

3.a - Member Awards / Recognition / Nominations ......................................................................... 17

3.b - Member Advancement ............................................................................................................. 18

3.c - Membership Growth / Retention .............................................................................................. 18

4) Chapter Operations ....................................................................................................................... 20

4.a - Chapter Web Page ..................................................................................................................... 20

4.b - PES Only (non-joint) Chapter .................................................................................................... 21

5) Other Activities .............................................................................................................................. 21


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1) Executive Summary

1.a Executive Summary

The PES Chapter of the IEEE Croatia Section was founded in 1998. The Chapter has grown in number

of members and in number of activities. The year 2014 can be characterized as a successful year.

The overview of activities includes 16 technical lectures that were organized in different cities in

Croatia, including 3 DLP lectures. Furthermore Srete Nikolovski got Chapter Outstanding Engineer

Award for year 2014. Additionally PES Chapter Croatia was highly involved in organization of the IEEE

Region 8 flagship conference IEEE Energycon 2014 that was held in Dubrovnik for 13-16 May 2014

(http://www.energycon2014.org/). Igor Kuzle was the general chair of the Conference, Tomislav

Capuder was track chair and Ninoslav Holjevac was conference secretary. The second conference

Croatian PES Chapter was included in the organization was PAC World 2014 conference that was held

in Zagreb fro 23-26 June 2014 (http://conference.pacw.org/). Igor Kuzle was organizing committee

chair and Ninoslav Holjevac was member of that committee. As already mentioned this year 3

distinguished lecturers held their speeches:

Damir Novosel and Qing-Chang Zhong (DL of PELS) gave lectures in Zagreb. These lectures

were the joint activity together with the colleagues from the IEEE PES Chapter from Austria

and IEEE IE13/IA34/PEL35 Joint Chapter of Serbia and Montenegro;

Mladen Kezunovic gave the DLP lecture in Split (this was done in collaboration with

colleagues from PES Chapters from Italy and Slovenia).

Compared to the previous years there is an increment in number of members, number of technical

activities and size of PES Student Branch. Comparison to previous year (2013) can be seen in table

below:

Table 1 IEEE Croatia section PES Chapter overview of activities and plans

2013 2014 Plan for 2015

Number of technical activities 8 16 Increase the number of activities

DLP lectures 2 3 Organize additional DLP lectures

Member number 170 191 Attract new members

Conferences PES members organized 1 2 Apply for the organization of at least one

conference

Technical visits 2 2 Organize additional technical visits and

educational excursion for PES members and students

PES Student Branch members increase +37 +34 Maintain the high increase rate

The Chapter has intention to even further increase the number activities and expand the influence

and number of members in coming years.

Several technical student excursions were organized, among others the visits to Hydro Power Plants

Zakucac and Kraljevac and Wind Power Plant Vostane. The Student Branch members participated in

both organization and execution of mentioned technical excursions. Additionally PES Student Branch

organized several different activities and participated in organization of a curriculum course on

University of Zagreb (LabVIEW course).

http://www.energycon2014.org/

http://conference.pacw.org/


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The Croatia chapter of the IEEE PES has been actively promoting power and energy to students, and

junior engineers (GOLD) as part of our activities. These activities include arranging tours of power

engineering companies for undergraduate students, advocating new power engineering courses at

local universities and promoting closer relationships between the Croatia chapter of the PES and the

student chapter.

All meetings were well attended with IEEE members and, perhaps, our prospective future members.

The Croatia PES Chapter has worked closely together with other IEEE Section chapters for mutual

benefits. This cooperation has resulted in high quality technical, educational, social and professional

programs. Above all the Croatian PES Chapter maintains engagement to promote IEEE values in

several Universities in Croatia, mainly Universities of Zagreb, Osijek, Rijeka and Split.

The Chapter officers are:

Table 2 IEEE Croatia section PES Chapter officers

Chair (Program

Year) Chair (present) Vice Chair Treasurer / Secretary

Name Igor Kuzle Igor Kuzle Tomislav Capuder Ninoslav Holjevac

Member No. 40096420 40096420 90407956 92529003

E-mail [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Start Date 1.1.2012 1.1.2012 1.1.2012. 1.10.2013.

The presently active officers and all other PES volunteers involved will pursue in future years to

maintain the positive trend. New DLP lectures will be organized along with dozen of other technical

activities. There are plans already in creation to organize the educational visits for students and other

interested colleagues. The visits will include a trip to transformer factory Končar, visit to the power

substation of 400 kV voltage level and hopefully visit to the newest Croatia hydro power plant Lesce.

As always the membership will be promoted among students and new members will be encouraged

to join.

mailto:[email protected]





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1.b Region Representative Nomination

IEEE Croatia Section, POWER AND ENERGY SOCIETY

Jovica V Milanovic

The University of Manchester

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

[email protected]

1 April 2015

Mr. Ed C. Carlsen,

Chairman, OCA Selection Committee.

Georgia Power Co, Bin 20020,

241 Ralph McGill Blvd.NE

Atlanta, GE 30308-3374

Email: [email protected];

Nomination of Croatia PES Chapter for Outstanding Chapter Award (2014)

Dear Mr. Carlsen,

This letter follows up our PES Chapter Representative’s nomination of the Croatia Chapter for the 2014 Outstanding Chapter Award. The IEEE Croatia Section PES Chapter was nominated in a letter from Prof Igor Kuzle, dated 31 March, 2015. Enclosed is a report reviewing the Chapter’s performance in achieving the various selection criteria.

I believe you will find that Croatia Chapter delivered a very strong program to our members as part of our ongoing work. The performance is excellent across the board including 16 technical lectures, 3 DLP lectures, growth in member numbers, active Student Branch and commitment to achieve even better results in coming year. Significant plans for upcoming year include expanding PES Chapter membership even further, encouragement and support of new active student branches and chapters, organization of another DLP Lecture and applications for future IEEE conferences.

You may contact me by e-mail at [email protected] if you have any questions on this

report.




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2) Activities

2.a - Technical Activities

Croatian PES Chapter has conducted technical meetings on a variety of topics including nuclear

energy technology, power system reliability and control, power system operation problems,

renewable energy sources, smart grids, energy storage and more. The chapter has intention to

increase the number of activities in following year.

The list of all technical activities is given below:

Table 3 Technical activities

No. Description / Title Date # of

Attendees Total / PES

1 Integral Inherently Safe Light Water Reactor (I2S-

LWR) Concept February 10,

2014 #28/#11

2 - DLP Next Generation Smart Grids: Completly Autonomous

Power Systems (CAPS) May 12, 2014 #32/#21

3 - DLP Improvements With Wide Area Monitoring, Protection

And Control May 12, 2014 #32/#21

4 - DLP Flexible Load: Why, When and How May 13, 2014 #29/#15

5 Power Management in Renewable Energy Microgrids with Hybrid Storage: Optimal Schedule and Operation

September 10, 2014

#50/#20

6 Control and Interconnection Issues of AC and DC

microgrids September 10,

2014 #50/#20

7 Optimal Distributed Generation Placement in Power

Distribution Networks September 10,

2014 #50/#20

8 Integration of Wind Power Plant in the Transmission

Network September 10,

2014 #50/#20

9 From Smart Buildings to Smart Grids - Integration

Concepts to Smart Cities September 10,

2014 #50/#20

10 Distributed Energy Storage Systems In Transmission

Network December 11,

2014 #34/#15

11 Role of High-Temperature Reactors in Sustainable Development and Synergy with Renewable Energy

Sources

December 16, 2014

#31/#7

12 Statistical and Dynamical Properties of Electricity

Generation from a Large System of Wind Plants – A Case Study

December 16, 2014

#25/#10

13 - EA Dinamičke karakteristike hidroagregata (The dynamic characteristics of hydro units) – educational lecture

March 17, 2014

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14 - EA Tržište i trgovanje električnom energijom i iskustva iz HEP trgovine (Electricity trade and market, HEP trade

Ltd. experiences) – educational lecture

November 6, 2014

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15 - GOLD

Condition Monitoring And Maintenance Of Wind Power Plants

June 10, 2014 #13/#9

16 - PP Research Challenges In Microgrid Technologies October 27,

2014 #32/#15


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Figure 1 A photo from first technical lecture in year 2014 presented by Bojan Petrovic on Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Figure 2 A photo from last technical lecture in year 2014 presented by Dubravko Sabolić on Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing


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2.b - Educational Activities

Since significant number of Croatia PES Chapter is from academia there is student branch and very

rich cooperation with joint meetings related to various topics.

The full day technical excursion for students was organized with the aim to make them more familiar

with one of the newest wind power plants in Croatia. Also, the students were given a detailed tour

through all the segments of biggest Croatia hydropower plant Zakučac that was undergoing a yearly

maintenance which allowed the inspection of generator and turbine parts. Certain topics related to

the dynamic characteristics of power system elements and electricity wholesale market were

presented as educational lectures mainly aimed for students enrolled in subjects connected with

power and energy field. First hand experience from the plant operators at the control room and

inside the hydropower plant was shared in an educational lecture. Furthermore the damn site was

visited and a little bit more upstream one of the oldest hydropower plants Kraljevac was also visited.

Figure 3 PES Members with students (majority are PES student memebers) at wind power plant Voštane site


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Figure 4 Inspection of generator unit at hydro power plant Zakučac

Figure 5 Hydropower plant Kraljevac


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The list of educational activities is given below:

No Description / Title Date # of

Attendees

Full day educational excursion to Wind Power Plant "Voštane" and Hydro Power Plant "Zakučac" and “Kraljevica” that included several practical lectures and on site detailed exploration of all the elements

June 16, 2014

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Dinamičke karakteristike hidroagregata (The dynamic characteristics

of hydro units) – educational lecture March 17,

2014 63

Tržište i trgovanje električnom energijom i iskustva iz HEP trgovine

(Electricity trade and market, HEP trade Ltd. experiences) – educational lecture

November 6, 2014

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Figure 6 Educational lecture in year 2014 presented by Miljenko Brezovec on Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing titled Dinamičke karakteristike hidroagregata (The dynamic characteristics of hydro units)

During 2015 we plan to organize technical visit of Croatian and Bosnian PES students to NPP Krsko.

2.c - PES/Engineering Profession Promotion

The lecture given by Tomislav Dragičević, PhD included both the personal perspective of advantages

of pursuing the doctoral degree in engineering and concrete opportunities a field of Microgrid

technologies offers. The lecture was aimed to strengthen the bond between the IEEE members in

Aalborg University, Denmark and PES members in Croatia. The cooperation is already strong and

work is in progress on international projects.


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Additionally activities that were promoting IEEE values and encouraging new members to join were

held.

No. Description / Title Date

# of Attendees

Total / PES

1 Research Challenges In Microgrid Technologies October 27,

2014 #32/#15

2 The second IEEE membership expansion action 12\12 16 new

memebers enrolled

The Croatian PES Chapter has a clear vision of engineering standards that are being promoted. All the

project dissemination presentations of the projects PES members are working on are open to public

and proper promotion is given to even further attract people and raise awareness of the engineering

problems connected with power and energy topics. The positive work will be continued throughout

the next year.

Figure 7 IEEE membership action (Student Branch PES members)

2.d - Student Activities

The majority of students that participate in the Student Branch activities on the University of Zagreb

come from power engineering background. In year 2014 due to promotion of IEEE Values 30 new

members enrolled.

All the students have free admission for most of the activities within Chapter. They are a significant

part of all Chapter activities, including conference organization and organization of technical

activities. PES student Chapter members were of significant value in organization of IEEE Energycon

2014 conference and were assisting in communication with speakers and other participants. Majority

of students in IEEE Croatia branch are perspective future members. We supported formation of a

second IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter (at the Osijek University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer).


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Meetings of PES Student Branch Zagreb (http://www.ieee.hr/ieee/chapter/pes) were held every

week during the academic year. Members of the PES Zagreb were participating actively in

organization of the LabVIEW course, software package of company National Instruments. LabVIEW

course started on 10th March and was performing during four weeks on Mondays and Thursdays. All

students who successfully passed the exam have been awarded with so-called CLAD certificate.

These training and accreditation courses are usually attended by industry employees with

corresponding course fees but our PES Chapter ensured they are held for free for our graduate

students. Furthermore, PES chapter organized study visit to the nuclear power plant Krško in Slovenia

on the 23th May 2014. The operation of the nuclear power plant was demonstrated to students,

theoretical knowledge was given by professor Grgic and practical knowledge was given by the worker

of the nuclear power plant. In cooperation with the Student Branch held two actions of membership

enlargement (about 30 new members joined as stated before). Eight members of PES participated in

the 4th congress of student branches Croatian section (CroSBC - Croatian Student Branch Congress)

international organization IEEE, which was held at the Rijeka Faculty of Engineering In December our

PES chapter participated in the Christmas charity (selling cakes and so collected donations for a

family of a single mother of twelve children).

Table 4 List of of PES Student Branch activities

Date Description / Title Attendees Total / PES

Type (Tech., Admin. Social, other)

3/10/2014-4/7/2014 LabVIEW course 60/20 Technical

3/18/2014-5/5/2014 English course 40/40 Technical

5/23/2014 Study visit to the Nuclear Power Plant Krško 28/28 Technical

3/6/2014 -3/7/2014 The first IEEE membership action 10\10 Administrative

11/26/2014 IEEE dinner 149/20 Social

10/4/2014 - 10/5/2014 CroSBC 8\8 Social / Technical

12\9/2014 Creative workshop 6\6 Social

11/29/2014 Team Building - mountain 25/25 Social

16/12/2014-19/12/2014 Christmas charity 80/13 Social

10/30/2014 STEP event "Public Speech" 40/6 Technical

In 2015 we will support student members in Rijeka to reactivate Student Branch Rijeka PES chapter.

http://www.ieee.hr/ieee/chapter/pes


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Figure 8 The first IEEE Membership action

Figure 9 Creative workshop (Zagreb Student Branch PES members)


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Figure 10 Christmas charity action of the PES Student branch

2.e - Affinity Groups (WIE, GOLD, etc.)

We organized technical lecture for the GOLD members (PhD students). The presentation given by

Prof. Maciel Barbosa from INESC PORTO (Dean of Faculty) consisted of two parts. In first part Prof.

Barbosa gave an inside about the advantages of engineering carrier/doctoral study that offers

opportunities for students exchange and broadening of perspectives. In second part he has share his

research and experience connected with wind power plants maintenance which is very developed

field of study in University of Porto.

This is the field the PES Chapter of the Croatia section can make biggest improvements. Connect

more with the Young Professional activities and bear in mind importance of WIE activities and relate

to them and organize new activities in cooperation.

During the 2015 we plan to send a few IEEE PES Young Professionals on 3 months specialization to

China, upon return they will present research results to other Young Professionals at the IEEE Elevate

event.


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Figure 11 Lecture for the young professional in year 2014 presented by Maciel Barbosa on Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing titled Wind Power Plants Maintenance

2.f - PES Conferences

PES Chapter Croatia was highly involved in organization of the IEEE Region 8 flagship conference IEEE

Energycon 2014 that was held in Dubrovnik for 13-16 May 2014 (http://www.energycon2014.org/).

Igor Kuzle was the general chair of the Conference, Tomislav Capuder was track chair and Ninoslav

Holjevac was conference secretary.

http://www.energycon2014.org/


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Figure 12 IEEE ENERGYCON 2014 – organizing commitee (Igor Kuzle, Marko Delimar, Željko Tomšić) with IEEE Region 8 Director and PES member Costas Stasopoulos

Figure 13 IEEE ENERGYCON 2014 successful organization plaque


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Figure 14 ENERGYCON 2014 Conference website

The second conference Croatian PES Chapter was included in the organization was PAC World 2014

conference that was held in Zagreb fro 23-26 June 2014 (http://conference.pacw.org/). Igor Kuzle

was organizing committee chair and Ninoslav Holjevac was member of that committee.

In 2015 we are included in organization of the International Conference on Power System Transients

(IPST 2015) http://ipst2015.com/.

Also, in 2015 we will apply for the organization of the IEEE PES Conference on Innovative SMART

GRID Technologies (ISGT 2016 or ISGT 2017 – Europe).

http://conference.pacw.org/

http://ipst2015.com/


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Figure 15 PACWORLD 2014 Conference website


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3) Members

3.a - Member Awards / Recognition / Nominations

Srete Nikolovski got Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award for year 2014.

A member of Croatia Section PES Chapter, Dr. Marko Delimar has been re-elected for IEEE Director

and Secretary for 2014. Igor Kuzle is Chapter Representative for Region 8 - Central Europe &

Scandinavia.

IEEE Croatia Section PES Chapter applied for High Performance Chapter Award for 2014 year.

Membership recognition activities included travel to Nuclear power plant Krško which was only for

PES members.

In following year nice tradition of awarding the Outstanding engineer award will continue.

Additionally PES members will continue to participate in the global work and organization of both

PES and IEEE generally.


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Figure 16 IEEE Student Branch PES Members in Nucler power plant Krško

3.b - Member Advancement Igor Kuzle has been elected for IEEE Region 8 Vice Chair for Technical Activities for 2015.

The Croatian PES Chapter has a clearly defined program to retain all the student members and

promote them to Member status. Additionally more experienced engineers in the field are

encouraged to fulfill the applications for life members.

List of graduating students elevating to Member grade is given below:

Table 5 List of graduating students elevating to Member Grade

1 2 3 4

Name Zora Luburić Anamarija Antonić Štefica Vlahović Ivan Martić

Member No. 92537646 92628236 92537650 92537679

5 6 7 8

Name Matea Filipović Marin Ivanjko Kristijan Jalšić Domagoj Horvat

Member No. 92537628 92981779 93082618 92995740

9 10 11 12

Name Neven Vukadinović Ivana Vurbić Andrea Flis Matija Mance

Member No. 93214542 93214613 93214521 93214569

3.c - Membership Growth / Retention

On 31 December 2013 Croatia Section PES chapter had 170 members. On 29 December 2014 Croatia

Section PES chapter had 191 members. PES membership increase equals to 21 members or 12%.


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The PES Croatia section has a defined plan to even further increase the number of members. At the

moment number of members in Croatian PES Chapter comes mainly from the academia but there is a

significant presence from the industry. Student Branch held two actions of membership enlargement

(about 30 new members joined as stated before).


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4) Chapter Operations

4.a - Chapter Web Page

The web page is presently used as a section's defined sub section and is kept up to date with the

information on programmed activities and archive with all the activities.

Figure 17 PES Chapter web page http://www.ieee.hr/ieeesection/odjeli_chapteri/pe31

On the page there can be found in timeline fashion information on all of the held lectures.

Additionally in the repository to the right all the material from the lecture is available alongside the

information about Outstanding Engineer Award of PES Chapter of the Croatia Section.

http://www.ieee.hr/ieeesection/odjeli_chapteri/pe31


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Figure 18 Available archive of all the held lectures and repository with the presentation material

4.b - PES Only (non-joint) Chapter

PES Only Chapter in Croatia is a part of IEEE Croatia Section.

5) Other Activities

All listed activities come under previously specified structure and there were no further activities.

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