{"604497":{"#nid":"604497","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Vejdan Earns IEEE Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESadegh Vejdan received the Best Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference, held February 8-9 in College Station, Texas. Vejdan is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Vejdan\u0026rsquo;s award-winning paper is \u0026ldquo;The Expected Revenue of Energy Storage from Energy Arbitrage Service Based on the Statistics of Realistic Market Data.\u0026rdquo; His coauthor on the paper is his Ph.D. advisor, Santiago Grijalva, who holds the Georgia Power Distinguished Professorship in ECE.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVejdan is working on research to help electric utilities and energy providers assess the value of energy storage systems connected to electric power grids. Various energy storage technologies such as batteries are being integrated in the electricity grid for multiple applications ranging from absorbing changes in solar and wind production, to providing grid services such as frequency regulation and reserve. Sponsored by industry members at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s NEETRAC, Vejdan\u0026#39;s work is helping determine optimal strategies to operate energy storage to maximize its value.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Sadegh Vejdan received the Best Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference, held February 8-9 in College Station, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Sadegh Vejdan received the Best Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference, held February 8-9 in College Station, Texas."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2018-03-29 21:04:35","changed_gmt":"2018-03-29 21:08:00","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"604498":{"id":"604498","type":"image","title":"Sadegh Vejdan","body":null,"created":"1522357621","gmt_created":"2018-03-29 21:07:01","changed":"1522357621","gmt_changed":"2018-03-29 21:07:01","alt":"photograph of Sadegh Vejdan","file":{"fid":"230447","name":"Sadegh Vejdan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sadegh%20Vejdan.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sadegh%20Vejdan.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":131150,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sadegh%20Vejdan.jpg?itok=lI4h20lR"}}},"media_ids":["604498"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/neetrac.gatech.edu","title":"National Electric Energy Testing, Research, and Applications Center (NEETRAC)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/tpec.engr.tamu.edu","title":"2018 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"177587","name":"Sadegh Vejdan"},{"id":"171153","name":"Santiago Grijalva"},{"id":"177588","name":"2018 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference"},{"id":"44511","name":"energy storage"},{"id":"169981","name":"electric utilities"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"9697","name":"Electric Power Grid"},{"id":"167364","name":"solar power"},{"id":"2328","name":"wind power"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"405","name":"NEETRAC"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}