Pedro Barba

Senior Member of Technical Staff

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Senior Member of Technical Staff

pbarba@sandia.gov

(505) 284-3209

Biography

Pedro Barba is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia. His current research focuses on modeling traveling waves on transmission and distribution systems, and on optimization methods for energy storage systems. Before joining Sandia, he was a product design engineer at Delphi Automotive Systems, and then a power engineer at El Paso Electric. He served as Adjunct Professor at the College of Engineering and the College of Business Administration at The University of Texas at El Paso.

Research Interests

  • Electromagnetic transients in distribution systems
  • Optimization methods for grid energy storage systems

Education

  • PhD, Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University – 2006
  • MBA, Finance, The University of Texas at El Paso – 2011
  • Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University – 2002
  • Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering, Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) – 1995

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Publications

  • Reno, M.J., Jimenez-Aparicio, M., Wilches-Bernal, F., Hernandez-Alvidrez, J., Montoya, A., Barba, P., Flicker, J.D., Dow, A.R.R., Bidram, A., Paruthiyil, S.K., Montoya, R., Poudel, B., Reimer, B., Lavrova, O., Biswal, M., Miyagishima, F., Carr, C., Pati, S., Ranade, S.J., … Paul, S. (2022). Signal-Based Fast Tripping Protection Schemes for Electric Power Distribution System Resilience. https://doi.org/10.2172/1890046 Publication ID: 80280
  • Jimenez-Aparicio, M., Reno, M.J., Barba, P., Bidram, A., & Bidram, A. (2022). Multi-Resolution Analysis Algorithm for Fast Fault Classification and Location in Distribution Systems [Conference Paper]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2002195 Publication ID: 109744
  • Barba, P., Byrne, R.H., Nguyen, T., & Nguyen, T. (2022). Energy storage price targets to enable energy arbitrage in CAISO [Conference Poster]. IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting. https://doi.org/10.2172/2004070 Publication ID: 115536
  • Wilches-Bernal, F., Bidram, A., Reno, M.J., Hernandez-Alvidrez, J., Barba, P., Reimer, B., Carr, C., Lavrova, O., & Lavrova, O. (2021). A Survey of Traveling Wave Protection Schemes in Electric Power Systems. IEEE Access, 9, pp. 72949-72969. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3080234 Publication ID: 78665
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