Speakers

Paulo Radatz works as Engineer/Scientist III at EPRI. He received his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering, emphasizing energy and automation, from the University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was awarded a prize for being the best bachelor's student at the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo (2015). He has assisted the electric utility industry's transition to tomorrow's distribution platform using a balanced, no-regrets approach to grid modernization with the following topics: Hosting capacity, mitigation options to increase hosting capacity, time-series hosting capacity, and DER modeling for QSTS simulation. Currently, he is the leading developer of the EPRI DRIVE tool and one of the OpenDSS developers.