Steven Widergren

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
Steve.Widergren@pnnl.gov

Biography

Steve Widergren contributes to new solutions for reliable operation of electric power systems. Common throughout his career is the application of information technology to power engineering problems including, simulation, control, and system integration. Mr. Widergren is a principal engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and is the 2010/2011 Plenary Chair for the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, a group established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to advance interoperability of smart grid devices and systems through the coordination of standards and best practices. He was recently Administrator for the GridWise Architecture Council – a group formed to enable interoperability of automated systems related to the electric system.

Before joining PNNL, Mr. Widergren was a corporate engineer at ESCA, now AREVA T&D, an electricity control center supplier. He previously worked at American Electric Power and interned at Pacific Gas and Electric. In these positions, he engineered and managed energy management systems products for electric power operations and supported power system computer applications. Application areas include information modeling, SCADA systems, and power system reliability assessment tools.

Education and Credentials

B.S. and M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Selected Publications

2011

Widergren SE, K Subbarao, DP Chassin, JC Fuller, and RG Pratt. 2011. "Residential Real-time Price Response Simulation." In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, July 24-28, 2011, Detroit, Michigan. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ. doi:10.1109/PES.2011.6038964
Widergren SE, ML Paget, TJ Secrest, PJ Balducci, AC Orrell, and CN Bloyd. 2011. Using Smart Grids to Enhance Use of Energy-Efficiency and Renewable-Energy Technologies. PNNL-20389, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.

2010

Widergren SE, A Levinson, J Mater, and R Drummond. 2010. "Smart Grid Interoperability Maturity Model." In IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, July 25-29, 2010, Minneapolis, MN. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, NJ. doi:10.1109/PES.2010.5589785
Widergren SE. 2010. "Smart Grid: Transforming the Electric System." Southern Power System Technology 4(1):,
Lightner EM, and SE Widergren. 2010. "An Orderly Transition to a Transformed Electricity System ." IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 1(1):3-10. doi:10.1109/TSG.2010.2045013
Ton D, C Irwin, and SE Widergren. 2010. "Interoperability and the Federal Role." In IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, July 25-29, 2010, Minneapolis, MN. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ. doi:10.1109/PES.2010.5588153
Widergren SE, and H Kirkham. 2010. "Smart Grid - Transforming Power System Operations." In IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, July 25-29, 2010, Minneapolis, MN. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, NJ. doi:10.1109/PES.2010.5589444

2009

Widergren SE. 2009. "Demand or Request: Will Load Behave?" In IEEE Power & Energy General Meeting Proceedings (PES '09). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ. doi:10.1109/PES.2009.5275506

2008

Ambrosio R, J Bucciero, D Cohen, R Drummond, E Gunther, S Hamilton, D Hardin, L Kiesling, M McCoy, R Robertson, R Schomberg, A Silverstein, JJ McGowan, and SE Widergren. 2008. Grid-Interop 2007 Forum Proceedings, November 7-9, 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gridwise Architecture Council, Richland, WA.
Burke RB, MI Henderson, and SE Widergren. 2008. "A Look Ahead at Demand Response in New England." In 2008 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting - Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century. IEEE , Piscataway, NJ. doi:10.1109/PES.2008.4596959

2007

Widergren SE, D Hardin, R Ambrosio, R Drummond, E Gunther, G Gilchrist, and D Cohen. 2007. "Interoperability Context-Setting Framework." In GWAC Interoperability Workshop, April 11-12, 2007. Dallas, Texas. GridWise Architecture Council, Richland, WA.
Widergren SE, Z Huang, and JE Dagle. 2007. "Electric System-wide Measurements: North American Directions." In Proceedings of the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2007, p. 120. IEEE , Piscataway, NJ. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2007.198
Ambrosio R, and SE Widergren. 2007. "A Framework for Addressing Interoperability Issues." In IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2007. IEEE , Piscataway, NJ. doi:10.1109/PES.2007.385817

2006

Widergren SE, J Sun, and L Tesfatsion. 2006. "Market Design Test Environments." In Proceedings of 2006 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting. IEEE , Piscataway, NJ. doi:10.1109/PES.2006.1708927
Hamilton S, E Gunther, R Drummond, and SE Widergren. 2006. "Interoperability - a Key Element for the Grid and DER of the Future ." In PES TD 2005/2006, pp. 927-931. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, NM.
Neumann S, J Britton, AN Devos, and SE Widergren. 2006. "Use of the CIM Ontology." In Conference Proceedings of DistribuTech 2006, February 7-9, 2006 - Tampa, Florida, p. 16 pages. PennWell Publishing, Tulsa, OK.

2005

Lu N, DP Chassin, and SE Widergren. 2005. "Modeling Uncertainties in Aggregated Thermostatically Controlled Loads Using a State Queueing Model." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 20(2):725-733.
Jazayeri P, A Schellenberg, WD Rosehart, J Doudna, SE Widergren, D Lawrence, J Mickey, and S Jones. 2005. "A Survey of Load Control Programs for Price and System Stability." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 20(3):1504-1509. doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2005.852147
Roop JM, EM Fathelrahman, and SE Widergren. 2005. "Price Response Can Make the Grid Robust: An Agent-based Discussion ." In IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, San Francisco, June 12 - 16, 2005, pp. 1100-1104. IEEE Power Engineering Society, New York.

2004

Lu N, DP Chassin, and SE Widergren. 2004. "Simulating Price Responsive Distributed Resources." In 2004 Power Systems Conference & Exposition, October 10-13, 2004, New York City, New York, p. 6 pp. IEEE Power Engineering Society, Piscataway, NJ.
Widergren SE, JM Roop, RT Guttromson, and Z Huang. 2004. "Simulating the Dynamic Coupling of Market and Physical System Operations." In IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2004, vol. 1, pp. 748-753. IEEE Power Engineering Society, Piscataway, NJ.

2003

Chassin DP, RT Guttromson, and SE Widergren. 2003. "Residential Energy Resource Models for Distribution Feeder Simulation." In Proceedings of IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, July 2003, Toronto, Canada, vol. 1, pp. 108-113. I E E E, New York, NY.
Widergren SE, RT Guttromson, and MC Baechler. 2003. EnergyWeb Screening Criteria Report. PNNL-14149, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.