Power Systems Engineering Research Center: An Overview

A National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center

PSERC Overview

• NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center: lead university at Arizona State Univ.

• Collaborative, Industry-Supported, Multi-disciplinary: Power Systems, T&D Technologies, Power Markets and Policies

• 37 industry members,13 universities, 50+ faculty (many more “in the wings”), 60+ grad students

• Also Federally-Supported Research • Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology

Solutions • Future Grid for Enabling Sustainable Energy Systems

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PSERC

Our core purpose: Empowering minds to engineer

the future electric energy system

What is important to us: Pursuing, discovering

and transferring knowledge Producing highly qualified

and trained engineers Collaborating in all we do

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PSERC

What we’re working toward: An efficient, secure, resilient, adaptable, and

economic electric power infrastructure serving society

A new generation of educated technical professionals in electric power

Knowledgeable decision-makers on critical energy policy issues

Sustained, quality university programs in electric power engineering

History • Idea for PSERC began in Aug 1986 • NSF Engineering Research Center proposals –

1994 and1995 • NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research

(I/UCRC) planning meeting - May 1996 • Established with four schools - Dec 1996 • Added one school - Aug 1998 • Added six more in 1999 - 2000 • Re-organized management and added executive

director in 2000 • Added two more schools in 2001 • Completed transition to new lead school - Jan 2006 • Became a Phase III I/UCRC - March 2010

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Collaborating Universities and Site Directors • Arizona State University - Gerald Heydt

• University of California at Berkeley - Shmuel Oren

• Carnegie Mellon University - Marija Ilic

• Colorado School of Mines - P.K. Sen

• Cornell University - Lang Tong

• Georgia Institute of Technology - Sakis Meliopoulos

• Howard University - James Momoh

• University of Illinois at Urbana - Peter Sauer

• Iowa State University - Venkataramana Ajjarapu

• Texas A&M University - Mladen Kezunovic

• Washington State University - Anjan Bose

• University of Wisconsin-Madison - Chris DeMarco

• Wichita State University - Ward Jewell

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Current Industry Members Midcontinent ISO

Mitsubishi Elec. Research Lab NASA

National Renewable Energy Lab. National Rural Elec. Coop. Assn.

New York ISO New York Power Authority Pacific Gas and Electric

PJM Interconnection PowerWorld Corp.

RTE (France) Salt River Project

Southern California Edison Southern Company

Southwest Power Pool TVA

Tri-State G&T U.S. DOE

Western Area Power Admin.

ABB American Electric Power

American Transmission Co. ALSTOM Grid

Arizona Public Service BC Hydro

Bonneville Power Admin. California ISO

CenterPoint Energy Duke Energy

EPRI Exelon

GE FirstEnergy

Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec (IREQ)

ISO New England ITC Holdings

Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Connecting with our Students • Most research funding goes to graduate

students (many of whom get recruited.) • Opportunities to connect with students at PSERC

universities • Getting recommendations from our faculty • Receiving student resume packets • Emailing position openings to students • Having conversations with students at IAB meetings • Meeting students on project teams • Advertising your career opportunities web page on

PSERC website • Connecting with students nationwide: PES

Careers U.S. & Canada

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PSERC Students at IAB Meetings

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PSERC Students at 2013 IEEE PES GM

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Our Organization

Markets Research Stem

Shmuel Oren, Berkly Jim Price, CAISO

Executive Com. Director

Indus. Adv. Bd. Mirrasoul Mousavi,

ABB, Chair Doug McLaughlin,

Southern Co, Vice-Chair

T&D Technologies Research Stem

Ward Jewell, Wichita George Rodriquez, SCE

Systems Research Stem Peter Sauer, U of Ill. Jim Gronquist, BPA

Deputy Dir. Dennis Ray

Vijay Vittal

Past and Present PSERC Leadership

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Bob Thomas (Cornell Univ.), Founding Director; Doug McLaughlin (Southern Co.), IAB Vice Chair; Vijay Vittal (Arizona State Univ.), Director; Mirrasoul Mousavi, IAB Chair;

Jay Giri (ALSTOM Grid), Past IAB Chair

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Systems Research Stem

Angle contour results for 13,000 bus Midwest test system. PSERC research is showing how PMU values can be directly combined with existing power flow cases to enhance situational awareness.

Doubly-fed induction generator. PSERC researchers found that high penetration of wind-powered DFIG’s may affect transient stability, frequency response, regulation, voltage response, fault ride-through capability, and load following capability in a power system.

Systems research focuses on efficient and reliable operation of complex and dynamic power systems

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Ongoing Projects – Systems Stem

• Exploiting Emerging Data for Enhanced Load Modeling (S-49) • Real Time PMU-Based Stability Monitoring (S-50) • The Application of Robust Optimization in Power Systems (S-51) • Coordinated Aggregation of Distributed Demand-Side Resources

(S-52) • Seamless Bulk Electric Grid Management (S-53G) • Towards a Privacy-Aware Information-Sharing Framework for

Advanced Metering Infrastructures (S-54) • Toward Standards for Dynamics in Electric Energy Systems (S-55) • Stability, Protection and Control of Systems with High Penetration

of Converter-Interfaced Generation (S-56) • Adaptive and Intelligent PMUs for Smarter Applications (S-57)

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Recently Completed Systems Projects

• Data Mining to Characterize Signatures of Impending System Events or Performance from PMU Measurements (S-44)

• Testing and Validation of Phasor Measurement Based Devices and Algorithms (S-45)

15 In S-44, detailed simulation of islanding during Katrina revealed SCADA errors.

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T&D Technologies Research Stem

T&D research improves transmission and distribution systems with technology innovations

Conceptual view of the substation of the future T&D technology research seeks new ways to achieve efficient and reliable power delivery such as by using new monitoring and control technologies in substations, and new applications in energy management systems.

T&D technology research is exploring use of new technologies for protection and control such as setting-less protection.

Ongoing Projects – T&D Stem

• Making the Economic Case for Innovative HTLS Overhead Conductors (T-47)

• The Economic Case for Bulk Energy Storage in Transmission Systems with High Percentages of Renewable Resources (T-48)

• The Electricity and Transportation Infrastructure Convergence Using EVs (T-50G)

• Systematic Integration of Large Data Sets for Improved Decision-Making (T-51)

• Setting-Less Protection: Laboratory Demonstrations (T-52G)

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Recently Completed T&D Projects • Distribution System Analysis Tools for Studying

High Penetration of PV with Grid Support Features (T-44)

• The Next Generation EMS Design (T-45)

• Setting-less Protection (T-49G)

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Markets Research Stem

Markets research focuses on planning, design and operation of smart markets for a smart electric grid

PSERC researchers are studying the inter-action of carbon emission policies with power system configuration and market design.

Control of demand-side resources, energy storage, and reserves are being studied to find ways to help operators integrate renewable resources while preserving system security and reliability, and avoiding undesired load interruptions.

Ongoing Projects – Markets Stem • Constraint Relaxations: Analyzing the Impacts

on System Reliability, Dynamics, and Markets (M-29)

• A Framework for Transmission Planning Under Uncertainty (M-30)

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changing generation mix

environmental concerns

congestion

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smart grid technologies

Recently Completed Markets Projects

• The Development and Application of a Distribution Class LMP Index (M-25)

• Quantifying Benefits of Demand Response and Look-ahead Dispatch in Support of Variable Resources (M-26)

• Impact of Bad Data and Cyber Data Attack on Electricity Market Operation (M-27)

• Analytical Methods for the Study of Investment Strategies in Compliance with Environmental Policy Requirements (M-28)

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Proposals for New Projects in 2014 • New Operation Tools for Improving Flexibility and

Reliability of Systems with Variable Resources and Storage Devices

• Markets for Ancillary Services in the Presence of Stochastic Resources

• Load Model Complexity Analysis and Real-Time Load Tracking

• Sparse Sensing Methods for Model-Free Sensitivity Estimation and Topology Change Detection Using Synchro-Phasor Measurements

• Hybrid Time Domain Simulation: Application to Fault Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery

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2013 Research Solicitation Process • Discussions at IAB meetings (Dec. and May) • Summer workshop (July 9-11) finalized the research

solicitation • Proposals received Sep. 16 for new projects in 2014 • Industry and academic reviews by October 8 • Executive Committee and Director

recommendations to IAB by early November • Industry makes final recommendations after

proposal presentations at Dec. 4-6 meeting • Final review by Executive Committee and decision

by Director soon thereafter. Projects begin in June 2014 when funding is available.

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2013 Summer Workshop

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Additional Membership Funds

• Members can contribute beyond the standard membership fee.

• These projects can be developed without going through the solicitation process

• Approval is given by Director based on consistency with PSERC’s research program.

• Additional membership fund projects are treated like other PSERC projects (for example, results are shared with other PSERC members and semi-annual reporting is required).

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Leveraged Research

• Future Grid for Enabling Sustainable Energy Systems - DOE funded

• Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions - DOE funded

PSERC projects can become seed projects for new research funding.

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Designing, Planning,

and Investing in the Power System

to Support Sustainable Energy

Systems

Future Grid Initiative Themes

Future Grid Initiative Organization

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Thrust Area 1 Electric Energy Challenges

of the Future

Thrust Area 3 Renewable Energy Integration – Technological and Market Design

Challenges

Thrust Area 4

Workforce Development

Thrust Area 5 Computational Challenges and

Analysis Under Increasingly Dynamic and Uncertain Electric

Power System Conditions

Thrust Area 6

Engineering Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems

Thrust Area 2 Control and Protection Paradigms

of the Future

Broad Analysis

The information hierarchy of the future grid

Grid enablers of sustainable energy systems

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Reference Case High Offshore-Wind

High Solar High Geothermal

Transmission Overlay for Different Futures

2013 Research in Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS) • Area: Reliability and Markets, and Load as a

Resource • Tools for Future Grid Engineering and Market

Environments • Stochastic Planning, Operations and Markets

Analysis • Demand-Side Markets, Environmental Dispatch, and

Reliability • Area: Automated Reliability Reports and

Implementation • Post Disturbance Transmission Performance Metrics

and Model-less Approach Validation, Prototype and Field

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Where to find current PSERC research information at www.pserc.org

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Where to find PSERC member-only information

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Other PSERC Activities

• Networking at industry-university meetings and sharing ideas at the summer workshop

• Getting information conveniently thru webinars • > 400 PDH awarded in spring. Attendance: 300-500.

• Receiving PSERC communications • Industry Listservs (http://www.pserc.org/listserv.aspx)

• Industry, Public, HR, Student, Faculty

• Website (http://www.PSERC.org) • Get your log-in credentials for individuals at

(http://www.pserc.org/new_member.aspx)

• Having personal site visits by our researchers • Leveraging national workforce initiatives

• Landing page: www.pes-careers.org • Students: A free service to quickly connect with

employers offering jobs, coops, and internships today.

• Employers: A free and easy way to recruit the best and brightest electrical engineering students.

• Maintained by PSERC

Upcoming Meeting IAB meeting, Howard University, Washington DC,

Dec. 4-6

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PSERC IAB meeting at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2013

Presentations and Posters

Keynote Addresses Networking

PSERC – A One-Stop Shop for Accessing Multiple Universities

• Membership in PSERC provides access to experienced researchers at schools in the U.S. that have strong electric power engineering programs.

• Membership provides access to a large pool of well-trained students.

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• PSERC meets its mission using collaboration within communities of interest • Between universities • Between industry / university members

• Collaborating working groups include: • Stem committees • Project teams

• Partnership in: • Identifying issues and needs • Creating, choosing,

and implementing projects • Disseminating results

Collaboration is Key

Developments in leading-edge technologies are discussed at semi-annual PSERC meetings. Here meeting attendees are touring a power electronics manufacturing facility.

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Project Collaboration

• Collaboration is valued! • Industry participation in PSERC projects is

encouraged. • It’s never too late for an industry colleague to

be added to a project. • There is no additional financial cost. • Time commitment is typically low.

• Research teams are encouraged to have periodic conference calls with industry advisors to discuss their project work.

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PSERC’s Value

• Opportunities for collaboration with leading researchers in power engineering and markets (young engineers have been excited about these opportunities!)

• Leveraged research funding with low overhead on industry membership fees

• Networking with others in industry, universities and government

• Business opportunities for commercialization of intellectual property

• Early access to results of innovative research and research publications

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PSERC’s Value

• Information source for sound policy-making • High quality education for power engineering

students • Easy contact with students exploring job

opportunities • Easy contact with faculty willing to provide recom-

mendations on how to find the best students • Education and professional development such as

through webinars (with PDH credit for professional licensing) and on-site seminars

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