Improving the Penetration of Renewable Energy : Transmission to Distribution
KEC 1001 Fri, 04/08/2016 - 9:00am Kyri Baker Distributed Optimization Engineer, Power Systems Engineering Center, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Abstract: The integration of renewable energy sources into the electric power grid is complicated by a multitude of issues. Firstly, many renewable sources are intermittent and hard to predict. Secondly, the current grid infrastructure is not capable of handling large quantities of excess generation. And lastly, the United States power grid is owned by multiple entities which are not always willing to share information. In this talk, I develop methods to solve these three problems with renewable integration, starting from a fully distributed optimization approach at the transmission level and concluding with a stochastic optimization approach at the distribution level that includes uncertain renewable forecasts. By utilizing energy storage, distributed model predictive control, and distributionally-robust chance constraints, optimal power flow across control areas can be performed in a computationally efficient, robust, distributed manner. Bio: URL: http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/colloquium/improving-penetration-renewable-energy-transmission-distribution _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
