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Title: Electric Power Infrastructure Reliability and Security (EPIRS) Reseach and Development Initiative

Abstract

Power systems have become increasingly complex and face unprecedented challenges posed by population growth, climate change, national security issues, foreign energy dependence and an aging power infrastructure. Increased demand combined with increased economic and environmental constraints is forcing state, regional and national power grids to expand supply without the large safety and stability margins in generation and transmission capacity that have been the rule in the past. Deregulation, distributed generation, natural and man-made catastrophes and other causes serve to further challenge and complicate management of the electric power grid. To meet the challenges of the 21st century while also maintaining system reliability, the electric power grid must effectively integrate new and advanced technologies both in the actual equipment for energy conversion, transfer and use, and in the command, control, and communication systems by which effective and efficient operation of the system is orchestrated - in essence, the 'smart grid'. This evolution calls for advances in development, integration, analysis, and deployment approaches that ultimately seek to take into account, every step of the way, the dynamic behavior of the system, capturing critical effects due to interdependencies and interaction. This approach is necessary to better mitigate the risk of blackouts and othermore » disruptions and to improve the flexibility and capacity of the grid. Building on prior Navy and Department of Energy investments in infrastructure and resources for electric power systems research, testing, modeling, and simulation at the Florida State University (FSU) Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), this project has continued an initiative aimed at assuring reliable and secure grid operation through a more complete understanding and characterization of some of the key technologies that will be important in a modern electric system, while also fulfilling an education and outreach mission to provide future energy workforce talent and support the electric system stakeholder community. Building upon and extending portions of that research effort, this project has been focused in the following areas: (1) Building high-fidelity integrated power and controls hardware-in-the-loop research and development testbed capabilities (Figure 1). (2) Distributed Energy Resources Integration - (a) Testing Requirements and Methods for Fault Current Limiters, (b) Contributions to the Development of IEEE 1547.7, (c) Analysis of a STATCOM Application for Wind Resource Integration, (d) Development of a Grid-Interactive Inverter with Energy Storage Elements, (e) Simulation-Assisted Advancement of Microgrid Understanding and Applications; (3) Availability of High-Fidelity Dynamic Simulation Tools for Grid Disturbance Investigations; (4) HTS Material Characterization - (a) AC Loss Studies on High Temperature Superconductors, (b) Local Identification of Current-Limiting Mechanisms in Coated Conductors; (5) Cryogenic Dielectric Research; and (6) Workshops, education, and outreach.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
The Florida State University
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1014165
DOE Contract Number:  
FC26-07NT43221
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; 45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; AGING; CLIMATIC CHANGE; COMMUNICATIONS; CRYOGENICS; CURRENT LIMITERS; DEREGULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; ENERGY STORAGE; FLEXIBILITY; INVERTERS; NATIONAL SECURITY; OUTAGES; POWER SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; SECURITY; SUPERCONDUCTORS

Citation Formats

Meeker, Rick, Baldwin, L, Dale, Steinar, Domijan, Alexander, Larbalestier, Davild, Li, Hui, McLaren, Peter, Pamidi, Sastry, Rodrigo, Horatio, and Steurer, Michael. Electric Power Infrastructure Reliability and Security (EPIRS) Reseach and Development Initiative. United States: N. p., 2010. Web. doi:10.2172/1014165.
Meeker, Rick, Baldwin, L, Dale, Steinar, Domijan, Alexander, Larbalestier, Davild, Li, Hui, McLaren, Peter, Pamidi, Sastry, Rodrigo, Horatio, & Steurer, Michael. Electric Power Infrastructure Reliability and Security (EPIRS) Reseach and Development Initiative. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1014165
Meeker, Rick, Baldwin, L, Dale, Steinar, Domijan, Alexander, Larbalestier, Davild, Li, Hui, McLaren, Peter, Pamidi, Sastry, Rodrigo, Horatio, and Steurer, Michael. 2010. "Electric Power Infrastructure Reliability and Security (EPIRS) Reseach and Development Initiative". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1014165. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1014165.
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title = {Electric Power Infrastructure Reliability and Security (EPIRS) Reseach and Development Initiative},
author = {Meeker, Rick and Baldwin, L and Dale, Steinar and Domijan, Alexander and Larbalestier, Davild and Li, Hui and McLaren, Peter and Pamidi, Sastry and Rodrigo, Horatio and Steurer, Michael},
abstractNote = {Power systems have become increasingly complex and face unprecedented challenges posed by population growth, climate change, national security issues, foreign energy dependence and an aging power infrastructure. Increased demand combined with increased economic and environmental constraints is forcing state, regional and national power grids to expand supply without the large safety and stability margins in generation and transmission capacity that have been the rule in the past. Deregulation, distributed generation, natural and man-made catastrophes and other causes serve to further challenge and complicate management of the electric power grid. To meet the challenges of the 21st century while also maintaining system reliability, the electric power grid must effectively integrate new and advanced technologies both in the actual equipment for energy conversion, transfer and use, and in the command, control, and communication systems by which effective and efficient operation of the system is orchestrated - in essence, the 'smart grid'. This evolution calls for advances in development, integration, analysis, and deployment approaches that ultimately seek to take into account, every step of the way, the dynamic behavior of the system, capturing critical effects due to interdependencies and interaction. This approach is necessary to better mitigate the risk of blackouts and other disruptions and to improve the flexibility and capacity of the grid. Building on prior Navy and Department of Energy investments in infrastructure and resources for electric power systems research, testing, modeling, and simulation at the Florida State University (FSU) Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), this project has continued an initiative aimed at assuring reliable and secure grid operation through a more complete understanding and characterization of some of the key technologies that will be important in a modern electric system, while also fulfilling an education and outreach mission to provide future energy workforce talent and support the electric system stakeholder community. Building upon and extending portions of that research effort, this project has been focused in the following areas: (1) Building high-fidelity integrated power and controls hardware-in-the-loop research and development testbed capabilities (Figure 1). (2) Distributed Energy Resources Integration - (a) Testing Requirements and Methods for Fault Current Limiters, (b) Contributions to the Development of IEEE 1547.7, (c) Analysis of a STATCOM Application for Wind Resource Integration, (d) Development of a Grid-Interactive Inverter with Energy Storage Elements, (e) Simulation-Assisted Advancement of Microgrid Understanding and Applications; (3) Availability of High-Fidelity Dynamic Simulation Tools for Grid Disturbance Investigations; (4) HTS Material Characterization - (a) AC Loss Studies on High Temperature Superconductors, (b) Local Identification of Current-Limiting Mechanisms in Coated Conductors; (5) Cryogenic Dielectric Research; and (6) Workshops, education, and outreach.},
doi = {10.2172/1014165},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
month = {Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010}
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