CIGRE 2025

The future of energy is here—and it’s more complex, connected, and critical than ever.

This September, Hitachi Energy will join industry leaders at the CIGRE Symposium in Montréal to explore what’s next for utilities in Canada and beyond. From coast to coast, our mission is to make the energy system more sustainable, secure, resilient, and affordable – empowering societies to thrive.

At CIGRE, we’ll share how we’re helping customers navigate today’s challenges and prepare for tomorrow with:
 

• System modernization and grid resilience
• Digital technologies and advanced services
• Smarter operations and optimization strategies

Great partnerships are formed when we ask what's next.

Let’s connect.

This video celebrates the passion, expertise, and purpose that unite us in Canada — from coast to coast to coast — as we work toward a cleaner, more reliable, and connected energy future.

2:15pm - 2:30pm - Room 520E
Knowledge management using AI: a case study of substation lifecycle management for development of young and newly hired engineers
Shinki Noguchi, Akira Okada

3:00pm - 3:15pm - Room 519A
CIGRE Fourth Reliability Survey on GIS and CB
Hiroki Ito, Wayne Pepper, Frank Richter, Robert le Roux, Matthew Illes, Anongpun Man-Im, Mohammad Raza, Giancarlo Guenzi

3:45pm - 4:00pm - Room 518BC
Assessing the Extended MIIF Screening Method for Multi-infeed VSC-HVDC
Christopher Barclay Martin Engstrom, Par Samuelsson, Margareta Jansson

4:45pm - 5:00pm - Room 518BC
Development of a 550 kV 63 kA SF6-free high voltage metal-enclosed circuit breaker
Ennio Errico, Michael Lane, Matthew Cuppett, Hrishikesh Joshi, Fei Kong, Chen Yang, Yong Yang, Meng Lei Zheng, Valeria Teppati

4:45pm - 5:00pm - Room 518BC
Kii Channel HVDC Control and Protection System Replacement Project
Shingo Nakanotani, Ryosuke Itotani, Ryota Tomokane, Yoshihito Tsuji, Mai Shibata, Satoshi Takemura, Takahiro Nakagawa, Taihei Sato

10:30am - 10:45am - Room 521ABC
Harmonic Filter Applications in Green Hydrogen Plant
Zhenyuan Wang, Alexandre Naves, Yue Xu, Pablo Paz, Michael Lewis

1:30pm - 1:45pm - Room 518A
Large Time Series Models for Electricity Prices: Performance on Zero-Shot Forecasting
Nandinee Haq, Jhelum Chakravorty

1:45pm - 2:00pm - Room 520F
Climate Change Impact for Power Transformers
Edward Gerald teNyenhuis

3:00pm - 3:15pm - Room 519A
Risk evaluation framework for power grid resilience to extreme weather events
Jishnudeep Kar, Lena Peter, Ashwin Shirsat, Elise Fahy

4:15pm - 4:30pm - Room 520F
Advances in Data-Driven Models for Digital Twins of Power Transformers
Sruti Chakraborty, Mauricio Soto, Alexander Alber, Brian Sparling, Patrick Picher, Federica Bragone

4:30pm - 4:45pm - Room 518BC
New Concept for Classic/LCC Multi-Terminal HVDC
Abhay Kumar, Jan Wasborg

5:15pm - 5:30pm - Room 518BC
Optimal Power Flow Solver for Multi-Terminal HVDC Grids: Enhancing Stability and Contingency Management
Marco Giuntoli, Lena Peter, Firew-Z Dejene, Ying-Jiang Hafner, Neeraj Katiyar

11:45am - 12:00pm - Room 518BC
Enhancing Grid Stability: The Role and Design of Static Frequency Converters in the Kühtai 2 Variable Speed Pumped Storage Power Plant
Alexandre Christe, Tobias Thurnherr, Christoph Haederli, Steve Aubert, Wolfgang Kofler, Andreas Hammer

1:30pm - 1:45pm - Room 520B
Fault location for three-ended and mixed lines using synchronized measurements
Michael Kockott, OD Naidu, Neethu George, Sinisa Zubić

1:30pm - 1:45pm - Room 519B
Global sustainable energy system coupling electricity and hydrogen
Nicolas Chamollet, Duncan Mathews, Raul Montano, Ling Wei

2:15pm - 2:30pm - Room 521ABC
Stability Enhancement in Weak Grids with High Renewable Penetration: Synchronous Condenser vs. Con-verter-based Technologies
Rasool Heydari, Prabhat Ranjan Bana, Jean-Philipp Hasler, Anders Bostrom, Mikael Halonen

5:15pm - 5:30pm - Room 518BC
HVDC Digital Twin - Concepts and Roadmap
Arkadiusz Burek, John Birnie, Heater Spain, Annes Jeddy, Stelious Christou

5:30pm - 5:45pm - Room 520F
Impact of Accelerated Thermal Aging on Power Transformer Insulation: An FRA-Based Assessment
Avinash Srikanta Murthy, Genaro Andrew-Morlet, Zhanyue Wen, Saravanan Selvaraj

5:45pm - 6:00pm - Room 520F
Analysis of on-line vibroacoustic monitoring of On-Load Tap Changers in Power Transformers
Joachim Schiessling, Nilanga Abeywickrama, Michel Gauvin, Patrick Picher

5:45pm - 6:00pm - Room 520B
Integrating PTP for IEC 61850 Process Bus Applications with Multi-Vendor Ethernet Switches
Curtis Ruff, Adam Rudd, Galina Antonova, Eric Chuang

10:30am - 10:45am - Room 520F
Comparative Study of Temperature Rise Test Using Cooling Curve Analysis for Liquid-Filled Transformers
Ali Al-Abadi, Wei Wu

11:30am - 11:45am - Room 520F
Physics-based thermal model of Shunt Reactors
Alan Sbravati, Ernesto Ceron, Javier Gutierrez

11:45am - 12:00pm - Room 519B
Operational and organizational alarm management support by integrating machine learning, metrics, and user interface design
Antony Hilliard, David Marino, Georgios Mitrentsis, Jhelum Chakravorty, Susanne Schmitt

1:30pm - 1:45pm - Room 520B
Time-domain based protection for transmission lines: secure and reliable solution for complex networks
Michael Kockott, Sinisa Zubić, Marcin Krakowski, OD Naidu

2:15pm - 2:30pm - Room 520B
Setting load encroachment and power swing blocking functions to comply with PRC-026-05
Michael Kockott, Bharadwaj Vasudevan

5:00pm - 5:15pm - Room 522A
Towards Zero Trust Architectures for IEC 61850 MMS Communication
Hugo Genesse, Hossam ElHussini, John Castellanos