PSERC's CERTS Research
Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS), formed in 1998 to research, develop and commercialize new methods, tools and technologies to protect and enhance the reliability of the U.S. electric power system. CERTS is conducting research for the U.S. Department of Energy's Transmission Reliability Program and for the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research Program. PSERC faculty are working with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and several energy businesses.
Current CERTS projects include:
- Research Area: Automatic Switchable Network
- Adaptive Islanding Demonstration in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council
- New Security Tools for Real-Time Operations
- Research Area: Reliability and Markets, and Load as a Resource - Tools for Multidimensional Engineering and Market Environments
- Development and Testing of New Tools
- Essence of Structure Preserving (ESP) Network Reductions for Engineering and Economic Analysis of High Penetration of Renewables
- Commercialization of the SuperOPF Framework
- Research Area: Reliability and Markets, and Load as a Resource - Environmental Policies and Effects on Reliability and Market Operations
- The Impact of New Energy and Environmental Regulations on the Future Reliability and Costs of Electric Power
- Interactions of Multiple Market-based Energy and Environmental Policies in a Transmission-Constrained Competitive Electric Market
- Dynamic Energy and Environmental Dispatch of Power Systems
- Research Area: Reliability and Markets, and Load as a Resource - Stochastic Planning, Operations and Markets Analysis
- Evaluating the System and Financial Adequacy of Portfolios of Renewables, Storage and Controllable Demand
- Transmission Investment Assessment Under Uncertainty Using a Multi-Stage Stochastic Model Approach with Recourse
- Engineering and Economic Consequences of Risk-limiting Dispatch
- Understanding Effects of Data Quality on Market Function
- Research Area: Reliability Compliance and Monitoring Tools
- Automated Reliability Reports Research and Implementation - Phase 2
- Transmission Adequacy Performance Metrics Report