MMAE Seminar - Microgrids for Enhancing Resilience, Reliability, & Economics in Smart Cities
Armour College of Engineering's Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering Department will welcome Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour, Bodine Chair Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Director of the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation, and Associate Director of WISER at IIT, on Wednesday, October 7th to present his lecture, Microgrids for Enhancing Resilience, Reliability, & Economics in Smart Cities.
Abstract
Natural disasters have further underscored the need for a resilient electricity infrastructure. The integration of microgrids in power distribution systems will offer a decentralized control of local resources for satisfying the network reliability, resilience, and the power quality required by local loads. Microgrids will also ensure absolute and universal availability of energy in the quantity and quality necessary to meet every consumer's requirements.
This presentation discusses an algorithm for the microgrid planning as an integral component of generation and transmission expansion planning in electric power systems. The objective in this study is to minimize the total system planning cost which comprises investment and operation costs of local microgrids, co-optimized planning of large generating units and transmission lines, and the expected cost of unserved energy. The cost of unserved energy reflects the cost of load shedding which is added to the objective function for reliability considerations. The microgrid-based co-optimization planning problem is decomposed into a planning problem and annual reliability subproblem. The optimal integer decision variables calculated in the planning problem will be examined against the system reliability limits in the subproblem and the planning decisions will be revised using proper feasibility cuts if the annual reliability limits are violated. Numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed microgrid-based co-optimization planning in power systems and explore the economic and reliability merits of microgrid planning as compared to grid-based generation and transmission upgrades.
Biography
Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour (IEEE Fellow) is the Bodine Chair Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Director of the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation, and Associate Director of WISER at IIT. He is also the Principal Investigator of over $60 million grants on smart grid research and development. His DOE Project on Perfect Power Systems has converted the entire IIT Campus to an islanded microgrid. He has recently initiated CSMART (Center for Smart Grid Applications, Research, and Technology) at IIT for promoting the smart grid cybersecurity research and implementation and enhancing the resilience of wireless networked communication and control systems in smart cities. He is the 2009 recipient of the honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He is currently a Research Professor at King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia), Sharif University of Technology (Iran), as well as several universities in China including Tsinghua University, Xian Jiaotong University, Nanjing University, North China Electric Power University, and Hunan University. He was the recipient of the IEEE Burke Hayes Award for his research on hydrokinetics, the Edison Electric Institute's Power Engineering Educator Award, the Innovation Award from the Association of Electrical Engineering Department Heads, and the IEEE/PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award in 2012. He has co-authored 6 books and 450 papers on electric power system operation and planning, and served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Dr. Shahidehpour was a member of the United Nations Commission on Microgrid Studies. His SPIKE initiative, which is established in conjunction with the Stuart School of Business at IIT, is facilitating the design and the implementation of affordable microgrids in impoverished nations.