MeetingAdvanced Distribution Operations Spring 2025 In-Person General Meeting
Apr 23-24, 2025 • 1010 Sherbrooke West Suite 1510, Montreal, QC
The Advanced Distribution Operations (ADO) General Meeting is happening in Montreal, Quebec on April 23-24, 2025. This two-day meeting includes two technical tours (see more details below!). Please sign-up via this form for the technical tours. 1) Eaton America’s Innovation Center - This will include a tour of the facility with experts providing technical information on the R&D server room and the lab. The tour will also have presentations on operations technologies developed on site including CYME, Substation Automation, DERMS as well as DER and microgrid controls. More details to come.2) Hydro-Quebec Research Institute (IREQ) - The IREQ tour will include the following:AmphitheaterOverview of Hydro-Québec and IREQ, followed by the challenges faced in terms of energy in the province.Presentation of the solar farms in Québec and the Distribution Test LineSimulation LaboratoryOverview of the calculation centre available to IREQ’s teams (CASIR High Performance Computing Center)Presentation of HYPERSIM, a real time simulation software developed by Hydro-QuébecExperimentation LaboratoryOverview of the robots developed and used by Hydro-Québec for land, underwater and line uses.Center of Excellence in Transport Electrification and Energy Storage (CEETEES)Presentation on the research on the solid-state battery technology of Hydro-Québec and the energy storage system developed by EVLO, a Hydro-Québec subsidiaryHigh Voltage LaboratoryTour inside the biggest laboratory of its kind in the world, where Hydro-Québec approves the functioning of power transformers. Physical tour of the distribution test line