PSERC Update
Vijay Vittal
PSERC Director
Ira A. Fulton Chair Professor
Arizona State University
IAB Meeting, May 11-13, 2011
Carnegie Mellon University
Collaborating Universities
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 - Tim Mount
Georgia Institute of Technology - Sakis Meliopoulos
Howard University - James Momoh
University of Illinois at Urbana - Peter Sauer
Iowa State University - Jim McCalley
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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2011 Industry Members
ABB
American Electric Power
American Transmission Co.
ALSTOM Grid
Arizona Public Service
BC Hydro
Bonneville Power Administration
California ISO
CenterPoint Energy
CISCO Systems
Duke Energy
Entergy
EPRI
Exelon
GE Energy
FirstEnergy
Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec
ISO New England
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
MidAmerican Energy Co
Midwest ISO
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
San Diego Gas & Electric
Southern California Edison
Southern Company
TVA
Tri-State G&T
U.S. DOE
Western Area Power Admin.
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New Members
• Welcome to Lawrence Livermore
National Labs who are new members in
2011
• We also welcome our invited guests
• Feel free to contact Dennis or me if you
would like to invite someone to our
next meeting
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Awards and Special Recognition
NAE Member:
Dr. John Undrill – GE
Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award –
2010:
Dr. Chanan Singh – TAMU
2011 Rutgers University Distinguished
Engineer Award:
Dr. Robert Balog – TAMU
2011 Wichita State University – Wallace
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award:
Trevor Hardy – Wichita State University
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CERTS Work Continuing
• PSERC has been participating in the Consortium for
Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS)
since 1999. Funded by DOE.
• Work on the CERTS effort is continuing
• On Thursday and Friday you will hear presentations
from ongoing CERTS work
• More details about the CERTS work can be found at
PSERC.org and CERTS.lbl.gov.
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2011 CERTS Research Projects
• 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
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2011 CERTS Research Projects
• 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 TransmissionConstrained Competitive Electric Market
• Dynamic Energy and Environmental Dispatch of
Power Systems
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2011 CERTS Research Projects
• 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 Risklimiting Dispatch
• Understanding Effects of Data Quality on Market
Function
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2011 CERTS Research Topics
• Automatic Switchable Network
• Adaptive Islanding Demonstration
• New Security Tools for Real-Time Operations
• Reliability Compliance and Monitoring Tools
• Automated Reliability Reports Research and
Implementation – Phase 2
• Transmission Adequacy Performance Metrics Report
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PSERC Activities Since Dec 2010
• DOE announced a special initiative with
PSERC dealing with renewable resource
integration and the grid of the future
• The proposal for this initiative was submitted
and reviewed by DOE
• The funding was put in place in Dec 2010
• The funding was distributed to the individual
researchers in Feb 2011
• All components of this initiative are in place
• You will hear more about this on Friday
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Future Grid Initiative Thrusts
• Electric energy challenges of the future
(4 sub-projects)
• Control and protection paradigms of the future (3)
• Renewable energy integration and the impact of
carbon regulation on the electric grid (4)
• Computational challenges and analysis under
increasingly dynamic and uncertain electric power
system conditions (4)
• Engineering resilient cyber-physical systems (3)
• Workforce development (6)
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Future Grid: Broad Analyses
• Operating Standards to Enable
Sustainable Energy Systems
• The Information Hierarchy for the Future
Grid
• Deliverables
• White papers (by January 2012)
• Workshops for discussions (targeting June
2012)
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PSERC Webinars Jan. - June 2011
• Demand Response: A Historical Perspective and Business Models
for Load Control Aggregation
• The 21st Century Substation
• Towards a Secure, Wireless-Based, Home Area Network for
Metering in Smart Grids
• AC Optimal Power Flow Studies in Reduced-Carbon Electric Power
System Operations
• The Impact of Carbon Cap and Trade Regulation on Congested
Electricity Market Equilibrium
• Optimal Generation Scheduling in a Carbon Dioxide Allowance
Market Environment
• Transformer Overloading and Assessment of Loss-of-Life for LiquidFilled Transformers
• Electric Energy and Power Consumption by Light-Duty Plug-In
Electric Vehicles
• National Energy and Transportation Infrastructure: Long-Term
Planning for Cost, Sustainability, and Resiliency (June)
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PSERC Webinars
• Participants: industry, grad seminars,
faculty, etc.
• Average webinar “connections”
• Sep-Dec. 2010: 75 (High = 120)
• Jan-May 2011: 87 (High = 135)
• Average phone bridge “connections”
• Sep-Dec. 2010: 7 (High = 20)
• Sep-Dec. 2011: 4 (High = 9)
• Number of people: from 150 to 500 (est)
• Averge PDH: 9
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PSERC 2011 Calendar
• Summer workshop – July 11-14
Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA
• IAB meeting – December, 7-9, Berkeley,
CA
• Future Grid Initiative Workshop, Dec. 7,
Berkeley
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Research Resources Summary – 2011
• PSERC funded projects ($1.4 Million)
• Seven project ending this year
• Eight projects ending next year
• Eight projects starting this year
• University contributions: ~$600K
• DOE - CERTS support: ~$1.4M
• Researchers on projects: 32
• Graduate students supported: ~ 40
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2011 Annual Research Planning Process
• Industry-University discussions (stem meetings,
summer workshop, etc.).
• Final solicitation distributed in August
• Proposals received in September
• Industry and academic evaluations in October
• Executive Committee and Director identify
proposals for presentation at Dec. IAB meeting
• Industry’s final recommendation at Dec. meeting
• Final recommendation by Executive Committee
and decision by Director in December
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On-Going Organizational Efforts
• PSERC white papers being updated
• IEEE PES Power and Energy magazine
papers based on the white papers
being prepared (one paper has
appeared in the most recent magazine)
• Several activities related to the Smart
Grid Interoperability Panel governing
board
• Continue to participate in leadership of
national workforce efforts
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ee-scholarship.org
Supporting Workforce Initiatives
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