Research < Future Grid Initiative < Thrust Areas
The Future Grid to Enable Sustainable Energy Systems
Research Thrust Areas and Tasks
- Electric Energy Challenges of the Future (Thrust Area 1 White Paper [PDF 918KB])
Lead: Gerald Heydt, Arizona State University
- Control and Protection Paradigms of the Future (Thrust Area 2)
Lead: Chris DeMarco, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Requirements for Hierarchical Coordinated Control and Protection of the Smart Grid [Workshop Poster, PDF 158KB | Send Comments]
Anjan Bose, Washington State University - Hierarchical Coordinated Control of Wind Energy Resources and Storage for Electromechanical Stability Enhancement of the Grid [Workshop Poster, PDF 456KB | Send Comments]
Chris DeMarco, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Collaborators: Bernard C. Lesieutre and Yehui Han, University of Wisconsin-Madison. - Hierarchical Coordinated Protection of the Smart Grid with High Penetration of Renewable Resources [Workshop Poster, PDF 772KB | Send Comments]
Mladen Kezunovic, Texas A&M University
- Renewable Energy Integration and the Impact of Carbon Regulation on the Electric Grid
(Thrust Area 3 White Paper [PDF 812KB])
Lead: Shmuel Oren, University of California at Berkeley
- Mitigating Renewables Intermittency Through Non-Disruptive Distributed Load Control [Workshop Poster, PDF 1.69MB | Send Comments]
Duncan Callaway, University of California at Berkeley - Probabilistic Simulation Methodology for Evaluating the Impacts of Renewable Intermittency on Operations and Planning [Workshop Poster, PDF 495KB | Send Comments]
George Gross, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Collaborator: Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. - Planning and Market Design for Using Dispatchable Loads to Meet Renewable Portfolio Standards and Emissions Reduction Targets [Workshop Poster, PDF 495KB | Send Comments]
Tim Mount, Cornell University. Collaborators: K. Max Zhang and Robert J. Thomas, Cornell University. - Coupling Renewable Energy Supply with Deferrable Demand [Workshop Poster, PDF 88KB | Send Comments]
Shmuel Oren, University of California at Berkeley
- Workforce Development (Thrust Area 4 White Paper [PDF 452KB])
Lead: Chanan Singh, Texas A&M University
- PSERC Academy: A Virtual Library of Thousands of Short Videos [Workshop Poster, PDF 261KB | Send Comments]
Raja Ayyanar, Arizona State University - A Course in Energy Economics [Workshop Poster, PDF 142KB | Send Comments]
James Bushnell, University of California, Berkeley - Synchrophasor Education for Students and Professionals [Workshop Poster, PDF 106KB | Send Comments]
Mladen Kezunovic, Texas A&M University. Collaborators: Sakis Meliopoulos, Georgia Institute of Technology; Vijay Vittal, Arizona State University; Mani Venkatasubramanian, Washington State University; Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M University - Energy Processing for Smart Grid Technology [Workshop Poster, PDF 117KB | Send Comments]
James Momoh, Howard University. Collaborator: Peter Bofah, Howard University. - Comprehensive Educational Tools for Reliability Modeling and Evaluation of the Emerging Smart Grid [Workshop Poster, PDF 296KB | Send Comments]
Chanan Singh, Texas A&M University. - Course Development - Critical Infrastructure Security: The Emerging Smart Grid [Workshop Poster, PDF 424KB | Send Comments]
Anurag Srivastava, Washington State University. Collaborators: Carl Hauser, David Bakken and M.S. Kim, Washington State University.
- Computational Challenges and Analysis Under Increasingly Dynamic and Uncertain Electric Power System Conditions (Thrust Area 5 White Paper [PDF 734KB])
Lead: Santiago Grijalva, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Engineering Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems (Thrust Area 6 White Paper [PDF 620KB])
Lead: Tom Overbye, University of Illiniois at Urbana/Champaign