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Starting with a keynote panel featuring U.S. Department of Energy Program Managers Chris Irwin, Alejandro
Moreno, and Erika Gupta, each of the
eight sessions featured a simultaneous
broadcast to all attendees of a prerecorded panel presentation with a video
of all speakers. Immediately following
the recorded presentation was a live
web meeting discussion session. In the
web meeting, the same panelists had a
moderated talk with attendees participating by audio, video, and text messaging. Participation was high, with
each web meeting session drawing up
to 75 participants, a large number of
whom both turned on their cameras
and contributed to lively side-channel
conversations using the online chat
tool. Seven 90-min sessions followed
the keynote: " Drivers
of Change, " " Business
Models and Value Realization, " " Regulation
and Policy, " " System
Design and Architecture, " " Resilience, "
" System Implementation Strategies and
Examples, " and " Visions for Participation. " They featured
presentations and facilitated discussion.
TESC2020 also featured virtual " posters. "
Authors appeared in
recorded 5-min videos
of slide presentations. The videos were
supplemented with PDFs. Tools that supported text-based question-and-answer
discussions were available throughout
the event, and during the 2-h window,
each author hosted a live web meeting
to address questions. Attendees could
pop in and out of these sessions from

Attendees were able to interact using online text-based comments.

the thumbnails of each paper on the
interactive meeting website. While the
experience was not the same as talking with one another the way one wanders around at an in-person venue, the
meeting successfully
kept attendees engaged
during the scheduled
meeting times. The
quality of the papers
was high, but feedback
on the " poster session "
for m at wa s m i xe d.
Many attendees voiced
their enjoyment of the
small group breakouts
that were hosted to get
to know the authors.
As virtual conferences
are not going away, the
organizers will seek to
make more opportunities available for a
mix of formal and spontaneous small
group breakout rooms in the future.
All 2020 conference keynote addresses, panel presentations, tutorials,
recorded sessions, and papers are available through the IEEE PES Resource
Center. The next IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference is

Organizers
worried that this
vibrancy would
suffer in a
virtual meeting
environment
and worked to
preserve the inperson energy.

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scheduled for May 2022, and organizers might even consider keeping the
virtual conference format, given the
success of the engagement and quality
of the discussion at TESC2020.
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Correction
In the September/October 2020 issue
of IEEE Power & Energy Magazine,
page 89 of [1] misstated the power
capacity of the plant at 200,000 hp.
It should read 20,000 hp.

Reference
[1] D. Tiku, " Moh ra Hydro Plant:
Light of the valley " [History], IEEE
Power Energy Mag., vol. 18, no. 5, pp.
88-99, 2020. doi: 10.1109/MPE.2020.
2999792.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPE.2021.3058709
Date of current version: 19 April 2021

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