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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

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