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

这项拨款是为了研究灵活电力系统分析和设计的新框架的替代方案。该框架将基于电力工程师的需求，他们必须考虑复杂的决策，包括经济和环境的权衡，以及新能源的使用和可靠性要求的提高所带来的复杂性。该框架将根据柔性电力系统的形式化方法构建。电力电子技术提供了物理上实现灵活系统所必需的多功能性。这项研究将解决发电和负载的本地化电力电子控制技术的使用，从而产生一个大型，复杂的交换网络。这种网络还没有得到充分的研究。因此，分析工具，包括降阶和并行方法，将发展大规模的交换系统。在柔性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权衡决定。然而，做出如此困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。通过这个项目，学生将通过大型系统分析和团队能量项目的新课程得到更好的教育。

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.