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, Multidisciplinary: 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
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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
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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
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
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.
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Connecting with our Students
• Most research funding goes to graduate
students (many of whom get recruited.)
• Opportunities to connect with students at PSERC
universities
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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
Indus. Adv. Bd.
Mirrasoul Mousavi,
ABB, Chair
Doug McLaughlin,
Southern Co, Vice-Chair
Director
Executive Com.
Vijay Vittal
Deputy Dir.
Dennis Ray
Markets
Research Stem
T&D Technologies
Research Stem
Systems
Research Stem
Shmuel Oren, Berkly
Jim Price, CAISO
Ward Jewell, Wichita
George Rodriquez, SCE
Peter Sauer, U of Ill.
Jim Gronquist, BPA
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Past and Present PSERC Leadership
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
Systems research focuses on efficient and reliable
operation of complex and dynamic power systems
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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 ridethrough capability, and load following
capability in a power system.
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Ongoing Projects – Systems Stem
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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)
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.
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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
speed of generator at bus 1 (Hz)
• 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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Degradation in inertial response, 4-bus system,
due to loss of generation for high PV (T-44)
Centralized communications system (T-45)
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Markets Research Stem
Markets research focuses on planning, design and
operation of smart markets for a smart electric grid
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.
PSERC researchers are studying the interaction of carbon emission policies with power
system configuration and market design.
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)
environmental
concerns
changing generation
mix
transmission
reliability
planning
smart grid
congestion
technologies
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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
• Reliability Assessment and Modeling of Cyber-Enabled
Power Systems with Renewable Sources and Energy
Storage
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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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Future Grid Initiative Themes
Designing,
Planning,
and Investing in
the Power System
to Support
Sustainable Energy
Systems
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Future Grid Initiative Organization
Broad Analysis
The information hierarchy of the future grid
Grid enablers of sustainable energy systems
Thrust Area 5
Computational Challenges and
Analysis Under Increasingly
Dynamic and Uncertain Electric
Power System Conditions
Thrust Area 3
Renewable Energy Integration –
Technological and Market Design
Challenges
Thrust Area 1
Electric Energy Challenges
of the Future
Thrust Area 6
Engineering Resilient
Cyber-Physical Systems
Thrust Area 4
Workforce Development
Thrust Area 2
Control and Protection Paradigms
of the Future
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Transmission Overlay for Different Futures
Reference Case
High Solar
High Offshore-Wind
High Geothermal
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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
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• 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
Presentations and
Posters
Keynote Addresses
Networking
PSERC IAB meeting at the Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison, May 2013
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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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Collaboration is Key
• 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
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 recommendations 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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