Dr. Julio Romero Agüero is Vice President, Strategy & Business Innovation at Quanta Technology. He has 25 years of experience, he provides leadership to Quanta Technology in the areas of technology and business strategy, innovation, grid modernization, distribution systems planning, reliability, resiliency, and integration of distributed energy resources and emerging technologies. He has developed solutions in these areas for electric utilities and regulatory boards in the USA, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently serves as Vice President, Membership & Image in the IEEE PES Governing Board. He has served as Chair of the IEEE Distribution Subcommittee, Chair of the IEEE Working Group on Distributed Resources Integration, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He is an Adjunct Professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Video Timestamps:

0:00 – Guest introduction

1:23 – Renewable sources

4:57 – Area of studies should electrical engineers focus on to study the impact of climate change

9:03 – Why is the change in global temperature a concern?

14:56 – Major scientific breakthroughs helping tackle issues related to climate change

17:13 – Are microgrids easily replicable to any area or does it differ in capacity and design complexities case-wise?

19:39 – Smart cities

23:05 – Engineering career path

26:21 – Guest contact information

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