Electricity Conference on Emerging Behavior in the Changing Electric Energy Industry

该奖项提供差旅支持，使研究生能够参加2011年3月8日至9日在卡内基梅隆大学举行的一次会议，会议的主题是“不断变化的电力行业的新兴行为”。随着新技术和非传统技术接入电网，以及该系统受到新的经济和环境目标的驱动，新的现象将会出现。其中一些可能会降低成本并提高可靠性，但也有一些会对电力系统的稳定性和可靠性构成挑战。例如，如果很大比例的住宅和商业客户拥有太阳能电池板，在阳光明媚的时候向电网供电，但当云层从太阳上方掠过时突然需要电力，电网的动态压力将增加，可能达到无法管理的水平。以成本最小化为基础的系统可能会导致不可接受的服务，而目前的规则是保持稳定性和可靠性。在对技术和管理做法进行这些改变之前，谨慎的做法是了解目前的系统面临的挑战、其相对较好的可靠性记录的原因，以及该系统将如何受到这些变化的挑战。会议的重点是电力系统变化的意外后果。主题包括难以预测的新兴技术和经济现象的原因、建模和动力学。会议重点讨论了影响智能电网、动态定价和分散发电的问题(包括对太阳能自发电普及率较高的地区进行网测)。目标是确定转变当今运营和规划行业做法的基本方法，并确定能够管理短期和长期不确定性并确保可持续电力服务的支持性政策。

This award provides travel support to enable graduate student participation in a conference held at Carnegie Mellon University on March 8-9, 2011, on the subject of "Emerging Behavior in the Changing Electric Energy Industry."As new and unconventional technologies become connected to the electric power grid, and the system is driven by qualitatively new economic and environmental objectives, new phenomena will emerge. Some of these may lower cost and improve reliability, but some will challenge the stability and reliability of the electricity system. For example, if a large proportion of residential and commercial customers have solar panels that feed electricity into the grid when the sun is shining, but abruptly require power when a cloud passes over the sun, the dynamic stresses on the grid will increase, perhaps to unmanageable levels. A system based on minimizing costs with current rules for preserving stability and reliability could lead to unacceptable service. Before making these changes in technology and management practices, it would be prudent to understand the challenges that the current system faces, the reasons for its relatively good record of reliability, and how the system will be challenged by the changes.The focus of the meeting is on unintended consequences of changes in the electricity system. Topics include causes, modeling, and dynamics of hard-to-predict emerging technical and economic phenomena. The meeting focuses on issues affecting the smart grid, dynamic pricing, and decentralized generation (including net metering for an area with a high penetration of solar self-generation). The objective is to identify fundamental approaches for transforming today's operating and planning industry practices, and to identify supporting policies that can manage short-and long-term uncertainty and ensure sustainable electricity services.