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

这项赠款正在研究灵活的电力系统分析和设计的新框架的替代方案。该框架将基于对电力工程师的需求，这些工程师必须关注涉及经济和环境权衡的复杂决策，以及新能源和可靠性需求增加所带来的复杂性。这个框架将建立从灵活的电力系统的正式方法。电力电子提供了物理实现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的发电和负载，导致一个大的，复杂的开关网络。这种网络尚未得到充分研究。因此，分析工具，包括降阶和并行方法，为大规模切换系统将被开发。将在灵活的电力系统的背景下进行经济分析。这些研究将帮助系统规划者在电力、环境和经济问题之间做出明智的决策。然而，做出这种困难的决定往往只是定性的。该项目将为这些复杂问题提供更科学的决策技术。学生将更好地教育，作为这个项目的结果，在大型系统分析和团队能源项目的新课程。

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.