2026

JUNE 9-12

USERS GROUP CONFERENCE
 

Tuesday
06/9

Wednesday
06/10

Thursday
06/11

Friday
06/12

8:30

 

 

 

 

 

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12:00

Opening of Conference & Introduction of Attendees - Meeting Instructions

Nur Umar - SR3 Engineering

Treasurer Report

Ryan Floyd - PacifiCorp and Bryce Presko - Burns & McDonnell

Approval of Minutes, etc.

Host Company Presentation

Dominion Energy

Localized Touch Voltages at Fault Injection Points in a Large 230/115 kV Utility Substation

Jeff Nunn - MCW/AGE Power Consultants

Step Voltage Mitigation using Skirt Grounding

Jerson Alex - MCW/AGE Power Consultants

Analysis and Design of Grounding Systems in High-Resistivity Soils for Large Electrical Installations

Camilo Marconetto - Estudios Electricos

AC Interference on Pipelines and Railroads from 765 kV Powerlines

Boshra Momen Nejad - Burns & McDonnell

EMI in Crossing Lines: CDEGS Against Conventional EMT Approaches

Stylianos Papadakis - Hellenic Cables

A Case Study in AC Corrosion Risk Modeling and Field Validation on a Newly Constructed Pipeline Paralleling a 345 kV Transmission Line

Nafiz Imtiaz - Commonrow Consulting

Electromagnetic Field Compliance Study for New Overhead Line Design

Kieran Millar - Arcadis

Damaging and Jamming Aerial Drones Using High-Directivity Antenna

Maxime Daigle - SES

Full-Wave Electromagnetic Modeling and Analysis of a Power Transformer Using HIFREQ

Parisa Dehkhoda - SES

Break 10:00 - 10:30

Grounding Project Lifecycle : Measure. Design. Verify. Mitigate.

Yash Patel - MCW/AGE Power Consultants

Modeling vs. Measuring Current Splits Distribution with Transmission and Distribution Substations

Brandon Dobrowski - safearth

Implications of Grounding & Bonding Practices between Utility Owned Substations and Large Load Customers

Tony Arnold - Burns & McDonnell

Topics on Soil Resistivity and Other Measurements

To be announced

Impressed Voltage Earthing Arrangement for Steel Pipe Contained Underground Cable

Will Penrice - Arcadis

An Alternative Approach to Substation Grounding Design without Traditional Return Paths

Thomas E. Propts and Genesis Corporan - Dominion Energy

Modeling Three-Phase Networks Under Normal and Fault Conditions Using Power Transformers to Represent Thevenin Equivalent Three-Phase Sources

Fariba Jafari and Adrian Ngoly - SES

Topics on Grounding Analysis

To be announced

Improvements to Right-of-Way Pro

Luis Valcárcel - SES

Introducing Non Conductive Enclosures and Plastic “Conductors” in CDEGS and AC Interference Effects on Cables and Pipelines Installed in Non Conductive Enclosures

Amir Akbari - SES

Progress in Developing SESConverter3D: An Interactive 3D CAD Conversion Tool for CDEGS

Alexandre Juneau Fecteau

SESLibrary: New Databases and Enhancements

To be announced - SES

Topics on Electromagnetic Interference and Corrosion

To be announced

Practical Considerations for Wideband Modeling of Two-Winding Power Transformers

Mohammad Shafieipour - SES

Wideband Modeling of Three-Winding Power Transformers

Mohammad Shafieipour - SES

Runtime Performance Enhancements for Plates and Finite Volumes in HIFREQ

Mohsen Nazari - SES

Workshop/Wishlist

 

Lunch 12:00 - 13:30

13:30

 

 

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16:30

Improvements in SES Software

Christian Voyer - SES

Automatic Removal of the Influence of Buried Metallic Structures from Resistivity Measurements

Fariba Jafari - SES

Nested Volumes in MultiGroundZ

Mojtaba Dehmollaian - SES

Analyzing a Large Network in HIFREQ using Devices

Alexandre Juneau Fecteau - SES

Enhancements to Thermal MALZ

Philippe Pouliot - SES

Introducing SESReportBuilder

Frédéric Grégoire - SES

Constitution Modifications

Officer Elections

Next Conference Host & Venue

Nur Umar - SR3 Engineering

Advances in the Risk Assessment Module of SESShield-2D: IEC 62305-2:2024 update, and the New NFPA 780 Detailed and Simplified Risk Assessment

Christian Voyer - SES

Improvements in SESTransient

Stéphane Franiatte - SES

Topics on Lightning Shielding

To be announced

Morning Sessions

EDT: 8:30 - 12:00

PDT: 5:30 - 9:00

Afternoon Sessions

EDT: 13:30 - 16:30

PDT: 10:30 - 13:30

Virtual Presenter

Break 15:00 - 15:30

Initial Results on the Two-Layers Inclined Soil Model in HIFREQ

Hadi Behnamian - SES

 

Workshop/Wishlist

 

 

Workshop/Wishlist

 

 

Workshop on Right-of-Way Pro

 

 

End of Sessions 16:30
 

Welcome Cocktail

17:00

Welcome Dinner

18:30