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which is made up of the chairs of the
PES's 17 technical and four coordinating committees. He describes the organization along with some of the key
work, output, and impacts of PES technical and coordinating committees.

Book Review
In this issue, we provide a book review
of Power System Modeling, Computation, and Control by Joe H. Chow and
Juan J. Sanchez-Gasca. This 2020 edition, published by Wiley in conjunction
with IEEE Press, is aimed at making the
advanced topics of modeling, computation, and control more accessible to
graduate students, power engineers, and
control design professionals. The review
says that this book is a welcome addition
to the body of literature covering power
system modeling, computation, and
control and that it will prove valuable in
academic settings and for practitioners.

PES Meetings
I am pleased to report that the pivot of
the IEEE PES General Meeting (GM)

from an on-site event to a virtual one due
to COVID-19 was a success. I participated as an attendee by watching the live
simulcast activities and the on-demand
events and downloading and reviewing
the proceedings, which included the papers presented at the virtual conference.
At the end of the event, Frank Lambert,
2020 PES president, and Wayne Bishop,
PES VP of Meetings and Conferences,
sent an email to the PES membership,
which made the following points concerning the virtual 2020 GM:
✔ There were more than 2,200 registered attendees from 69 countries around the world. For comparison, at the 2019 in-person
conference, we had attendees
from 61 countries.
✔ The on-demand conference had
137 panel sessions, 644 accepted
conference papers, 170 accepted
transaction papers, 37 poster sessions, 16 paper forums, and four
best paper sessions.
✔ More than 300 individuals served
as session chairs to ensure that

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1,200-plus video presentations
could be included in the program.
✔ More than 1,000 people have
watched the plenary session,
which included a keynote talk
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and president of Hydro-Quebec
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✔ The events included 215 sessions
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There were many people involved in
this pivot to make the event the success
that it was. It is amazing to think that,
while many conferences are scheduled
years in advance and have organizing
committees in place, this event was
able to pivot from on site to virtual
within just 100 days. Congratulations
to all involved, including the PES
executive office, our contractors, the
Montreal Local Organizing Committee, the GM Steering Committee, the
session chairs, the presenters for all
session types, the authors and panelists, and our conference registrants
and attendees.

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