International Workshop on Power System Operation and Planning will be held in Cape Town, South Africa Fall 2004 (ICPSOP 2004/2006)

这笔赠款用于支持举办第一次ICPSOP国际研讨会，专门讨论“21世纪撒哈拉以南非洲的可持续能源和技术发展”。这一为期多年的研讨会将分两个阶段进行，能源专家、研究人员、大学学者和学生以及政策制定者和市场参与者将齐聚一堂。ICPSOP 2004年讲习班是第一阶段，将由南非主办。讲习班将加强和促进寻找将改善生活质量的可持续能源选择。电力基础设施(电网、发电和分布式发电资源)及其所有公用事业公司的垂直组织现在正被一种分散的结构所取代，以诱导和促进能源生产、传输和分配的所有阶段的竞争。2006年讲习班是第二阶段，将在佛得角举行。研讨会将讨论美国和非洲研究人员在能源、环境和信息技术方面的联合研究合作努力。随后的研究成果也将在研讨会上介绍。在全球范围内，各国正处于重组电力部门或研究可再生能源、环境问题和信息技术对放松管制或监管的电力行业设计的影响的不同阶段。随着竞争环境的出现，必须在电力系统的规划运作中评估、开发、部署和利用可持续的技术。这些新挑战已经或正在以不同的方式在世界不同地区得到解决。在过去的几年里，撒哈拉以南非洲的国家在能源可持续性、经济和为高性能电力系统提供有利环境方面进行了几个选择。这项提议的目标是组织一个研讨会，通过为过去两年已经参与联合合作研究工作的美国和非洲的研究人员提供更好的重点来应对这些挑战。该建议的学术价值包括：促进可持续生活质量和文明的可再生能源；促进智能系统、混合智能系统以及启发式方法的使用，以提高电力系统的可靠性；确定电力电子技术用于改善电力传输系统的必要控制应用；博弈论或风险管理；以及为市场运作和动态进行对冲。利用最先进的技术提高发电、输电和分配资源的质量。

This grant supports the organization of the first ICPSOP international workshop devoted to discussing "Sustainable Energy and Technology Development in Sub-Sahara Africa in the 21st Century". This multi-year workshop will be in two phases and will bring together energy experts, researchers, and university scholars and students, as well as policy makers and market players. The ICPSOP 2004 workshop is the first phase and will be hosted by South Africa. The workshop will strengthen and enhance the search for sustainable energy options that will improve the quality of life. The power infrastructure (the grid network, generation and distributed generation resources) with its vertical organization of all utility companies is now being replaced by a decentralized structure to induce and promote competition at all stages of energy generation, transmission and distribution. The 2006 workshop is the second phase and will be held in Cape Verde. The workshop will address the joint research collaboration efforts in energy, environment and information technology made by US and African researchers. Subsequent research results will also be presented at the workshop. Globally, various countries are at different stages of restructuring the power sector or studying the impacts of renewable energy, environmental issues and information technology on designing for a deregulated or regulated electricity industry.With the emergence of the competitive environment, a sustainable technology must be assessed, developed, deployed and utilized in the planning operations of the power system. These new challenges have been addressed, or are being addressed currently, in varying ways in different parts of the world. In the last few years, the countries of Sub-Sahara Africa have engaged in several options for energy sustainability, economics and provision of enabling environments for high performance power systems.The objective of this proposal is to organize a workshop to address these challenges by offering an improved focus for US-African researchers already engaged in joint collaborative research efforts in the last 2 years. The intellectual merits of the proposal include:Promotion of renewable energy sources for sustainable quality of life and civilization, advancing the use of intelligent systems, hybrid intelligent systems, as well as heuristic methods, for enhancing the reliability of the power system.Identification of necessary control applications for power electronics technology for improving the electric transmission system.Gaming or risk management and hedging for market operations and dynamics. Improvement of the quality of generation, transmission and distribution resources using state-of-the-art technology.