Workshop: Urgent Opportunities for Transmission System Enhancement: Western US and Brazilian Grids to be held September 27-28, 2001 in Palo Alto, California.

本次研讨会将汇集来自美国和巴西的政府决策者、电力行业和技术专家，讨论两国当前能源危机的解决方案。研讨会组织将由NSF和EPRI指导。PI还将与巴西同事密切合作，以确定成功讨论的最佳团队。研讨会旨在确定近期和长期的基本研究需求和基本解决方案。这是NSF/EPRI三个系列研讨会中的第一个，其最终目标是促进研究，导致全球网格控制的水平，智能和效率的巨大飞跃，无论是集中式还是分布式。第一次研讨会将解决的一个关键问题是设备的快速发展，这些设备可以提高广域电网的可控性水平。美国有很大的机会学习巴西在这类设备上的成功经验。未来几年，美国在电力基础设施方面将面临严峻的国家挑战。这些问题在布什总统的《国家能源政策：重大挑战一：缺乏传输能力；大挑战二：竞争市场环境下的经营重大挑战三：电力基础设施的脆弱性。这些巨大的挑战需要基础研究来找到解决国家问题的根本办法。一些必须通过基础研究来回答的问题是：从工程的角度来看，扩大传输能力的最佳策略是什么？o在市场环境下，如何防御、保护和运营压力电网？o采取什么策略来确保广域电网在面对各种中断来源时坚不可摧？o需要哪些新技术来应对这些重大挑战？

0130410LiuThis workshop will bring together decision makers from government and the power industry and technology experts from US and Brazil to discuss the solutions to the current energy crises in both countries. The workshop organization will be guided by NSF and EPRI. The PI will also work closely with the Brazilian colleagues to identify the best team for a successful discussion. The workshop is intended to identify the basic research needs and fundamental solutions for the future both near-term and long term. This is the first of a series of three NSF/EPRI workshops, whose ultimate goal is to promote research leading to a quantum leap in the level, intelligence and efficiency of global grid control, whether centralized or distributed. A critical issue that this first workshop will address is rapid development of the devices that allow an increased levelof controllability in a wide area grid. There is substantial opportunity for the U.S. to learn from the successful experience of Brazil with such devices.The US is facing severe national challenges on the electricity infrastructure in the years to come. These issues were discussed in President Bush's National Energy Policy: Grand Challenge 1: Lack of Transmission Capability; Grand Challenge 2: Operation in a Competitive Market Environment; Grand Challenge 3: Power Infrastructure Vulnerability.These grand challenges require basic research to develop fundamental solutions to the national problems. Some questions that must be answered through basic research are:o What is the optimal strategy to expand the transmission capabilities from an engineering point of view?o What is the strategy to defend, protect and operate the stressed power grids in the market environment?o What is the strategy to ensure that wide area power grids are invulnerable facing the various sources of disruption?o What new technologies are needed to meet the grand challenges?