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Dr. Moses was part of an Oklahoma delegation consisting of state government officials, academia and industry meeting with Canadian Ontario government officials to discuss nuclear energy infrastructure. Thank you to Jad Badwal (Ontario Agent General), Daniel Guzman (Trade Officer Ontario at the Consulate General of Canada), Chris Schinnerer (Deputy Secretary of Energy and Environment State of Oklahoma) and Jeff Starling (Secretary of Energy and Environment State of Oklahoma) for organizing this trip.

The visit started with meeting the Ontario Government’s Minister of Energy and Mines, Stephen Lecce. Following this, insightful presentations from Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), Westinghouse Electric Company, Organization of Canadian Nuclear Industries (OCNI), and BWXT—spotlighting cutting-edge innovations in nuclear energy, with a strong emphasis on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and life-saving medical isotopes.

Thanks to presenters Lisa Frizzell, Brian Fehrenbach, Agata Leszkiewicz and Jacqueline Cherevaty. The visit to Ontario Power Generation (OPG) offered a firsthand look at the new SMR site showcasing OPG’s dominance in shaping the future roadmap of nuclear energy. Our visit to GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy showcased cutting-edge work in clean energy technologies, and the virtual reality tour offered a dynamic, immersive look into their advanced nuclear solutions.

Finally, McMaster University gave a tour of their pioneering role in nuclear innovation, especially in the field of medical isotopes. Home to Canada’s most powerful research reactor and the country’s only major neutron source, the McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) has been a cornerstone of discovery since 1959.

Junior Mauiango is currently pursuing his undergraduate degree and has been a member of the Power Quality & Resilience Laboratory since Fall 2024. He was awarded an Engineering Research Fellowship for Summer 2025 to further his research on electric vehicles in smart grids. Congratulations to Junior on this well-deserved achievement!

Led by OU’s Institute for Public Policy Research & Analysis (IPPRA), on Tuesday, May 13th, the NSF EPSCoR-funded Socially Sustainable Solutions for Water, Carbon, and Infrastructure Resilience in Oklahoma (S3OK) project hosted its 5th and final Academy meeting in Oklahoma City.

Doctoral researcher Vinushika Panchalogaranjan presents her innovative research on wireless charging lanes for electric vehicles.

Dr. Paul Moses presenting latest perspectives on 21st century power grids.

Dr. Moses presented the paper “An Experimental Wind Farm Emulator with a Dual Variable-Speed Drive Configuration” on behalf of Noah Gruman (Oklahoma Gas & Electric Corp) and Dr. Clemens (Flensburg University of Applied Science, Germany). The paper was presented at the Intermountain Engineering Technology and Computing Conference (i-ETC) May 8-10 2025 hosted by Utah Valley University (UVU).

Dr. Moses had the pleasure of reuniting with renowned expert and former doctoral advisor, Professor Mohammad Masoum, Department Chair/Head of ECE at UVU. Professor Masoum kindly showcased UVU’s beautiful campus and the under-construction engineering building set amongst the incredible mountainside landscape of Utah.

Excellent presentations on the latest Artificial Intelligence research

Dr. Moses had the unique opportunity to tour the site of the state-of-the-art Engineering Building at UVU under construction.

Dr. Paul Moses and Dr. Mohammad Masoum

UVU’s “Roots of Knowledge” stain-glass panorama representing many cultures and human history.

Thank you to Oklahoma Electric Cooperative for hosting Dr. Moses’ students from OU on a wonderful tour of their solar garden facility in Norman.

Particularly, thank you to Nick Shumaker (OEC – Manager of System Engineering) for educating us all on the practicalities of integrating renewables and improving resilience of the power system.

Dr. Paul Moses received the Gerald Tuma Presidential Professorship on April 10th 2025.

Doctoral student Srijana Shrestha attended the CERAWeek Conference hosted by S&P Global in Houston, Texas U.S. on the 10th to 14th of March 2025. She was selected along with three OU graduate students to represent the next generation of innovators in energy engineering.

Experience: “CERAWeek Conference is the biggest conference in the energy sector where business executives, industries, researchers and policy makers meet and share ideas about the future of energy. This year, I had the privilege of participating and connecting with professionals from around the world. It was an incredible experience to witness how AI is already making a significant impact in the energy industry, and I also enjoyed sharing insights from my own research during the poster session.”

Abstract:  With the increasing integration of intermittent energy sources on the electric grid, the demand for power system flexibility services has grown significantly to maintain a real-time balance between power supply and demand. This research explores the impact of flexibility services provided by motorized thermal energy storage on the lifespan of electric motors integrated into heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems that form a motorized storage system. However, the speed modulation or duty cycling required by flexibility services raises concerns about the lifespan-reducing accelerated aging of electric motors, potentially affecting equipment reliability and cost-effectiveness. This study examines the effects of aging under dynamic and distorted operating conditions caused by speed modulation to inform an aging-aware control strategy that balances the effects of aging and the financial gain from flexibility services.

A big thank you to Noah Gruman, who works at Oklahoma Gas and Electric Corp. (OG&E) as a Protection Coordination Engineer. He kindly volunteered to speak in Dr. Moses’ Power Systems Protection graduate class about his experiences in the power engineering industry.

Noah is a former OU Alum who worked in this group’s research lab and helped develop hardware for testing new forms of protection system relaying.

Students taking the class are also benefiting from protection relaying laboratory hardware that Noah helped build which is now being used for teaching and research.

Dr. Moses had the great privilege of presenting a paper on behalf of his PhD student, Srijana Shrestha, titled “Application of a Squirrel Cage Induction Machine as a Dynamometer for Motor Heat-run Tests.”

The paper was presented in Cusco, Peru on 13 Sept. 2024.

Dr. Moses attended the 7th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Green Energy (CEEGE 2024), in Los Angeles, USA.

The paper presented was titled “Steady-State Fault Analysis of Distribution System with PV Plants and EV Charging Stations”

Dr. Paul Moses speaks about the record-breaking solar storm and its potential impact on the U.S. electrical infrastructure.

Well done to Vinushika Panchalogaranjan and the team for presenting their research on sustainable and resilient infrastructure.