1. Panel Session: Best Practices in State Estimation Sponsored by: Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Committee
Panel Chair: Ali Abur
Northeastern University, Boston
IEEE PES General Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
July 20-24, 2008

2. Panel Objectives
Bring together global expertise on the utilization and maintenance of state estimators (SE)
Present best practices
Comparatively discuss advantages and shortcomings of different practices
Identify challenges to be addressed in the future

3. Presenters are asked to comment on the following issues:
Input data and information requirements
Bad data processing capability
Existing tools to present results to the operators
Measurement design
Single most important benefit of the SE
Most important challenges of running a SE

4. Presentations
SE for CA ISO Market and Security Applications – Relevance and Readiness
Dinesh Salem-Natarajan, Liang Zhao, Wei Shao, Matthew Varghese, Soumen Ghosh, Mani Subramanian, Gordon Lin, Hsiao-Dong Chiang and Hua Li
SE: The NGrid New England Experience
George P. Kalavantis and Francis Flynn Jr.

5. Presentations Experiences and Practices on SE in RTE
Y. Hassaine and P. Panciatici
Application and Implementation of SE at Idaho Power Company
Slaven Kincic and Milorad Papic
Operational Experience with SE at Hydro-Quebec
S. Lefebvre, J. Prévost, J.C. Rizzi, P. Ye, B. Lambert, and H. Horisberger