EPNES: Designing an Efficient and Secure Power System Using an Interdisciplinary Research and Education Approach

几项政府政策阐明了提高电力网络安全和效率的国家需要，其中包括布什总统的能源政策，该政策呼吁建立一个国家能源电网，并取消限制输电投资和限制发电的监管条款。这需要一个新的动态架构，能够在系统受到不同扰动时保持脆弱性，同时保持稳定、安全和具有成本效益。霍华德大学能源系统和控制中心(CESAC)将发展一个多学科的视角，在放松管制的美国市场体系的背景下，实现一个综合的、可持续的、可扩展的和可生存的电力系统。一个多层次的网络，灌输系统技术，在各种市场结构和环境健全的背景下建立金融网络，将采用现代控制和优化技术。它还将在构建该架构时调用风险评估策略，从而在不牺牲环境和可靠性标准的情况下以最低成本高效地发电和输送电力。拟议的研究和教育活动将增加跨学科代表不足的群体作为劳动力和智力领导者的参与，以应对未来复杂的安全网络。系统模拟器将根据CESAC过去与之合作的公用事业公司提供的海军挑战问题和民用试验台系统，设计和开发一个系统模拟器来研究各种试验台。教育教学的结果，包括学习结果的评估，将通过光驱和远程教育信息系统技术传播。

The national need for improving the security of the electric power networks and efficiently has been articulated by several government policies including President Bush's energy policy that calls for the creation of a national energy grid, and the elimination of regulatory provisions that limit investment in transmission and curtail power generation.This requires a new dynamic architecture that can sustain vulnerabilities under different perturbations to the system while remaining stable, secure and cost-effective. The Center for Energy Systems and Controls at Howard University (CESaC) will develop a multidisciplinary perspective, to attain an integrated sustainable scalable and survivable power system in the context of a deregulated US market system. A multi-layered network inculcating system technology, financial network within the context of various market structures and environmental soundness will employ modem control and optimization techniques. It will also invoke risk assessment strategies in constructing, the architecture thereby generating and delivering power efficiently at minimum cost without sacrificing environmental and reliability standards.Proposed research and educational activities will increase the participation of under represented groups across disciplines as a workforce and intellectual leaders to address the complex secured networks of the future. A system simulator will be designed and developed to study various test beds based on the Navy challenge problem and civilian test bed system provided by utility companies that CESaC has worked with in the past.Results of the education pedagogy, including the assessment of the learning outcomes will be disseminated via cdrom, and distance learning information system technologies.