About the Author

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​Dr. Pengwei Du is with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Before that, he was a senior research engineer with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Dr. Du has extensive experience in simulation, modelling, protection, and control of power systems, renewable energy integration, and grid operations. He has been Chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society's (PES) Bulk Power System Planning Subcommittee. He has been a subject editor for IET Generation Transmission & Distribution and an editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation. Dr. Du is the recipient of the IEEE PES Power System Dynamic Performance Committee Best Paper Prize in 2016 and the IEEE PES Prize Paper Award in 2020. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Ph.D. in electric power engineering. He is a Fellow of the IET.