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With the recent emphasis on environmental issues and concerns for global warming, many states have adopted aggressive Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) requiring electricity suppliers to obtain a minimum percentage of their power from renewable energy resources by a given date. Among various states, California leads with an RPS of 20% by 2010, and 33% by 2020. Most renewable resources, by their...
From the early days of Edison and Westinghouse, the educational institutions have played catch up with the developments in the electric energy industry. In those early years, the terms Electrical Engineering and Power Systems Engineering were used synonymously. Over the past two decades, the number of colleges and universities offering graduate degree programs in Electric Power Systems has dwindled,...
Cyber threats for critical infrastructures is an area of growing concern. Data integrity attacks (e.g., manipulating sensor or control signals) on the power system through the SCADA network could have severe effects as it misleads operators into making wrong decisions. However, for an integrity attack to be successful, the malicious data should be within an acceptable range. Hence, only an attacker...
This paper presents a Common Information Model (CIM) based modeling process for PJM Market Management Systems (MMS). CIM network model is imported into MMS via a static model importer, which also serves as the model manager for the commercial model. In addition, standard CIM is extended for enterprise master data modeling processes. CIM compliant messages are used for data transfers between different...
Microgrids can be viewed as a group of Distributed Generation (DG) units with the capability of operating connected or isolated from the main grid. Most of the work conducted in the area of microgrids focused on developing new control schemes that can maintain the voltage and frequency within standard limits during grid connected and islanded mode of operation. An issue of equal importance is the...
This paper describes the design of 1MVA 4.16kV Medium-Voltage motor drive using Hexagram inverter, and is compared to Cascaded H-bridge inverter motor drive system. System design and component selection is elaborated for motor drive system using both topologies. Power loss and reliability is also estimated for comparison purpose. Fault tolerant control is a feature for both motor drive system and...
Summary form only given. Power system planning and operation is designed to ensure sufficient reserve margins and the ability to adequately withstand sudden events or contingencies such as outages of transmission lines, transformers and generators. Approaches to address the planning aspects have been discussed under the topic of Resource Adequacy and continue to evolve. Approaches to address operational...
As the issues on market deregulation and renewable energy utilization are gaining significance, distributed generators are planned and installed in distribution systems to supply consumers directly. The distribution system is, therefore facing new challenges on its dynamic behavior with the addition of new dynamic devices. This paper investigates the small signal stability of renewable energy based...
Summary form only given. This paper presents a systematic approach for calculating electrical per-unit-length parameters of signal cables by the Finite Element Method. The associated software (UFIELD) has been specifically adapted to umbilical cables used in offshore control applications. Efficient and robust case specification is achieved through a library of predefined, parametrized models for the...
A key requirement of electric system operation is the ability of system operators to manage all types of variability and uncertainty. Integrating large-scale wind power into electric system operation increases variability and uncertainty that can impact supply and demand balance performance requirements. Many Independent System Operators (ISOs) are in the process of addressing these challenges. The...
Today, a large number of wind generator interconnection requests have been queued and are being processed. The generator interconnection group study is a way to reduce the generator interconnection cycle time and increase interconnection certainty. However, it is very challenging to identify the “best” transmission upgrades for a large group of generator interconnections. It is also very important...
In support of work to assess and ensure the reliability and resiliency of Florida's power generation, transmission, and distribution system as load and generation evolve in future years, groundwork is presented for the development of an open, dynamic model of the Florida grid and geographically distributed projections for growth in load and generation within the state. Using load forecasts provided...
This paper presents a new method of using co-ordinated control and short term wind speed prediction to smooth the output of an array of wind turbines. The proposed controller uses knowledge of the kinetic energy storage potential in the rotor disc to allow production of piecewise static power outputs from variable wind inputs. Previous studies have shown that there are large peaks in wind power variability...
This paper addresses the control design for a three-stage solid stage transformer (SST). When two or more independently controlled converter stages are cascaded, which is the case for the three-stage SST, the interaction among the stages can lead to instability. Normally, the input and output impedances of the cascaded stages need to be examined according to the impedance criterion to ensure stability...
With the implementation of state renewables portfolio standards (RPS) and serious consideration in Congress of a national RPS, a number of control areas are anticipating scenarios with greater than 20% of renewable electricity, principally wind, as part of the supply mix. At the federal level, H.R. 969 was introduced in the 110th Congress to require that 20% of the nation's electric power be generated...
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) will lead an extensive and collaborative effort for establishing a World-Class Smart Grid Education and Workforce Training Center. The Center will develop and deploy smart grid technology courses and certificate programs via instructor-led and distance-learning methodologies. The Center will use the IIT's strong and already established smart grid and power engineering...
This paper discusses a novel approach for analysis of large scale real time grid operation performance. The PJM Interconnection energy market is one of the largest centralized markets in the world. Recently PJM deployed a newly developed application called “Perfect Dispatch” designed to provide a baseline measure of grid operational performance using retroactive real time market simulation and analysis...
Current methods in which maximum sizes of new wind farms are determined do not take into consideration their impact on future wind penetration levels. In this paper, two methods are proposed to determine maximum sizes of multiple new wind farms for maximizing wind penetration levels. In both methods, each new wind farm size is determined using an iterative process where each wind farm's size is incremented...
In urban areas, where land is costly, building integrated wind energy conversion systems can be embedded into the existing infrastructure to meet an increasing load demand. Recently small scale wind turbines (less than 10kw) are installed in great numbers on the roof-top of residential houses, commercial and high rising buildings. This paper presents an overview of the current technologies being implemented...
In this paper, an enhanced congestion control scheme for market related applications is presented. Based on the concept of Marginal Value Expansion, violated transmission constraints can be handled more effectively in the optimization process. Compared to the traditional congestion control method, available resources in system can be utilized more sufficiently. The effectiveness of the new scheme...
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