GUESTS WILL NEED TO SCAN QR CODE AVAILABLE ON PARKING LOT SIGNAGE OR AT FRONT DESK, ENTER THEIR LICENSE PLATE NUMBER AND VALIDATION CODE T6TGJ TO RECEIVE COMPLIMENTARY PARKING. Santa Clara Valley IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies Co-hosted by SF PES, OEB PES Join us October 2nd for a presentation and discussion on: PG&E & Community Microgrids Speakers: Shreya Kodnadu and []Franz Stadtmueller: Grid Innovation | Clean Energy and Sustainability Advocates, PG&E Cost: IEEE Members $15 by 9/26 Non-Members $25 by 9/26 (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/432373) (After 9/26, if space available, registration will be $5 more and non-refundable) Date: October 2, 2024, 6:00 to 8:30 PM Place: Delta/Marriott Hotel Santa Clara-Silicon Valley About the talk: About the talk: When severe weather or other events take the electric grid down is your community ready? If your answer is no, a community Microgrid might be the solution. A Microgrid (MG) can provide a source of localized power during a grid outage due to extreme weather, a Public Safety Power Shutoff event or other outage. In addition, they can offer efficiency, cost and environmental benefits. A community MG is a group of PG&E customers and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) within a clearly defined electrical boundary able to disconnect and reconnect to the grid, so critical facilities can be safely energized. They are typically designed to provide energy resilience to important community facilities, such as Hospitals, Police and Fire Stations, Gas Stations and Markets. The local DERs, such as a solar photovoltaic (PV) system and battery, can be owned by third parties and can participate in wholesale markets for energy and related services. PG&E will continue to own and operate the distribution system on which the Microgrid capability is built. PG&E’s Community Microgrid Enablement Program (CMEP) and Microgrid Incentive Program (MIP) offer both financial and technical support. Creating a community MG requires collaboration between your community, a technical engineering firm, and PG&E. The CMEP and MIP can help you take your community’s energy resilience ideas from concept to reality. This presentation will offer a general definition of community MGs, including architecture, electrical design, operational modes, DER’s etc., and offer an example of an implemented solution. Also, it will describe CMEP steps including Consultation, Application, Study & Analysis, Development, Operation. The CMEP and MIP work together to fund all aspects of a community Microgrid. They support the development of clean community Microgrids in disadvantaged and vulnerable communities (DVCs). You can apply for either one individually, or for both programs together. (https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/) and (https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/event/pge-community-microgrids/) Speaker(s): Franz, Shreya Agenda: Agenda: 6:00 Check in, Meet and Greet 6:30 Dinner buffet 7:00 Talk 8:00 Q&A 8:30 Conclude Room: PARKING VALIDATION CODE T6TGJ, Bldg: Delta/Marriott Hotel Santa Clara-Silicon Valley, 2151 Laurelwood Road, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95054

Abstract Tropical butterflies are a bright display of photonic engineering in nature. Their iridescence originates from the interference and diffraction of light within tree-like nanostructures on their scales, inspiring technological innovations in solar cells, displays, fabrics, and other areas. We are inspired by the design principles of these photonic nanostructures to boost performance of gas sensors because existing gas sensors often degrade their performance in complex environments. Thus, new sensing concepts are required to improve sensor selectivity and stability. In this lecture, we analyze capabilities of natural photonic nanostructures as sensors for detection of different gases and the origins of these capabilities. Our acquired knowledge from studies of these natural nanostructures allows us to develop our design rules to fabricate sensing nanostructures for needed gas selectivity for numerous gas monitoring scenarios at room and high temperatures for industrial, environmental, homeland protection, medical, and other applications. Our design rules for selective gas sensors bring a multivariable perspective for sensing, where selectivity is achieved within a single nanostructured sensing unit, rather than from an array of separate sensors. By utilizing individual nanostructured sensors rather than sensor arrays we also improved sensor stability by eliminating independent aging factors in separate sensors in their arrays. Our existing and new machine learning tools further advanced our sensor designs and performance in multi-gas detection. These new multi-gas sensing capabilities provide an affordable technical solution for monitoring of emissions of greenhouse and other gases in urban and industrial environments. Such technical solution is mathematically not feasible using conventional single-output sensor designs. The societal impact of these results is in opening opportunities for more proactive developments of several types of multivariable gas sensors in diverse emerging monitoring applications, ranging from urban pollution and industrial safety to medical diagnostics and homeland protection. Speaker(s): Dr. Radislav A. Potyrailo , Agenda: 6:30 – 7:00 PM Registration & Networking 7:00 – 7:45 PM Invited Talk 7:45 – 8:00 PM Questions & Answers Room: Conference Center (ECC1), Bldg: Building E, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Texas Instruments, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95051, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/435029