Carnegie Mellon University
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Dr. Rahul Tongia
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Draft – Subject to Change
Goals and Hype for IT
–Public pronouncements: IT the “silver bullet”
–End theft
–Improve finances, etc.
–Reality: IT can’t erase fundamentals
–Tariff Irrationality and System
Design
–Physics of losses – quite high
–But, IT can
improve operations significantly
–Variable Transformers, VAR compensators, etc.