Power & Energy Society
Speaker: Steffen Ziegler, Lead Engineer at Eversource Energy
Location: Wentworth Institute of Technology Beatty 426 (Building: Beatty Hall) 550 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (Free Parking at West Parking Lot)
Refreshments start at 6:00pm; Talk begins at 6:30pm
Each year, millions of people and thousands of businesses are impacted by underground cable system failures. Underground cables are considered critical equipment within any power system and typically one of the most expensive components of the system to repair. When they fail, the customer impact is immense and has the potential to cause severe collateral damage or worse, public safety concerns. With the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, underground distribution cable system failures can be automatically predicted. With the developments in Artificial Intelligence technologies, Deep Learning methods have been used for automated feature extraction from Partial Discharge Waveforms and characterization. Deep Learning methods result in slightly better accuracies than the typical Machine Learning (shallow learning) methods, providing more efficient automated identification techniques. The presented results demonstrate a predictive maintenance approach for cable systems, which has been successfully implemented in production
Biography: Steffen Ziegler is a Lead Engineer in Advanced Forecasting and Modeling at Eversource Energy. He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Mr. Ziegler’s career began at IMCORP in 1999, where for over twenty years he worked in several positions including Director for Signal Analysis and Artificial Intelligence, and Manager for Research and Development. He is specialized in the field of digital signal processing applications and machine learning and deep learning applications for Underground Power Cable Systems.
Mr. Ziegler has published peer-reviewed papers for Jicable, Cired and IPST. He has presented at numerous conferences, including PES-ICC, EUEC, Grid Modernization Forum, and MathWorks Energy Speaker Series. He is a member of IEEE PES and VDE Germany and a working group member of Insulated Conductors Committee (ICC). Past memberships also include the Cigré B1.28 working group. Since 2015, Mr. Ziegler has been a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the ECECS department at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.
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