EPNES: Integrating Electrical, Economic, and Environmental Factors into Flexible Power System Engineering

这笔赠款正在研究灵活电力系统分析和设计的新框架的替代方案。该框架将以电力工程师的需求为基础，这些工程师必须关注涉及经济和环境权衡的复杂决策，以及采用新能源和提高可靠性要求带来的额外复杂情况。这一框架将建立在灵活电力系统的形式化方法基础上。电力电子提供了在物理上实施灵活系统所需的多功能性。这项研究将解决使用本地化的电力电子控制技术来发电和负载，从而导致大型、复杂的开关网络。这种网络还没有得到充分的研究。因此，将发展用于大规模切换系统的分析工具，包括降阶方法和并行方法。在柔性电力系统的背景下，将进行经济分析。这些研究将帮助系统规划者就电气、环境和经济问题之间的权衡做出明智的决定。然而，做出如此艰难的决定往往只是定性的。该项目将为这些复杂的问题提供更科学的决策技术。通过在大型系统分析和团队能量项目中的新课程作业，学生将因此项目而得到更好的教育。

This grant is investigating alternatives for a new framework for flexible power system analysis and design. The framework will be based on the need for power engineers that must be concerned with complex decision-making involving economic and environmental trade-offs in addition to added complications introduced by incorporation of new energy sources and increased reliability demands. This framework will be built from formal methods for flexible power systems. Power electronics provide the versatility necessary to physically implement flexible systems. This research will address use of localized power electronics control techniques for generation and load, resulting in a large, complicated switching network. Such networks have not been adequately studied. Therefore, analytical tools, including reduced-order and parallel methods, for large-scale switched systems will be developed. An economic analysis will be given in context of flexible power systems. These studies will help system planners make informed decisions about the trade-offs between electrical, environmental, and economic issues. However, making such difficult decisions is often done only qualitatively. This project will result in more scientific decision-making techniques for these complicated issues. Students will be better educated as a result of this project by new coursework in large system analysis and team energy projects.