EPNES: Planning Reconfiguratble Power System Control for Transmission Enhancement with Cost-Recovery Systems

该项目将开发(A)规划混合(离散和连续)电力系统控制器的设计理论和方法，以及(B)适用于利用能源市场的电力系统的经济系统，以回收和分配此类控制器的设计和安装成本。在控制设计方法中，将利用离散事件系统理论和整数规划优化方法。在本项目中将重点强调的经济学推力，将利用公共经济学理论来确定为提供适当电力系统控制而设计的市场所需的监管水平和方式。本文将研究额外管制对区位边际电价的影响，以确定管制的价值。这些方法将使用三个不同且日益复杂的试验台进行说明，其中最先进的是美国西部互联的6000总线型。将开发新的课件，将项目中涉及的经济、控制和电力系统问题联系起来，并将在爱荷华州立大学EE和经济系的研究生课程中使用。将努力吸引少数群体和女性本科生(由区域教育联盟资助)和研究生(资助为大学助学金)参加这一项目。这个项目的一个重要目标是向高中生展示我们学科的激动人心之处。我们打算让周边地区的高中教师参与RET努力，并提供对这一学科的接触。我们还邀请了一名产业顾问，他为这项提议带来了实际问题。两名博士生在电力工程、控制理论和经济学方面拥有广泛的背景，他们将增加国家的科学工作力量。

This project will develop (a) design theory and method for planning hybrid (discrete and continuous) power system controllers, and (b) economic systems, applicable to power systems utilizing energy markets, for recovering and allocating costs of the design and installation of such controllers. Discrete-event system theory, together with integer programming optimization methods, will be utilized in the control design approach. The economics thrust, to be heavily emphasized in this project, will draw on the theory of public economics to determine the level and manner of regulation necessary in a market designed to provide an appropriate amount of power system control. The impact of additional control on the locational marginal prices (LMPs) will be studied to determine the value of the control. These approaches will be illustrated using three different and increasingly complex testbeds, with the most evolved being the 6000 bus model of the western US interconnection. New courseware will be developed that links the economics, control, and power systems issues addressed in the project, and this courseware will be utilized in the graduate curricula of both the EE and Economics departments at Iowa State University. Effort will be made to attract to this project minorities and women undergraduates (funded under an REU) and graduate students (funded as GRAs). An important aim of this project is to expose the excitement of our disciplines to high school students. We intend to involve teachers from high schools in surrounding areas in a RET effort and provide exposure to the discipline. We also involve an industrial advisor who brings practical aspects to this proposal. Two PhD students who have a broad background in electric power engineering, control theory, and economics will add to the nation's scientific work force.