Workshop on Power Electronics-enabled Operation of Power Systems, To Be In Chicago, IL, October 31 - November 1, 2019

世界各地的电力系统正在经历一场范式转变。数以百万计的分布式能源正在接入电力系统，这对电网的稳定性、可靠性、安全性和弹性提出了前所未有的挑战。最近的研究表明，无缝集成控制系统、电力电子和电力系统的专业知识，实现电力系统的电力电子使能运行，以解决这些问题是有希望的。这次研讨会将邀请来自资助机构、监管委员会、公用事业公司、智库、供应商和大学等的50名参与者，就电力系统的范式转变提供多学科的观点，并确定相关的挑战和需求，以及潜在的工具和方法。研讨会结束后将提出建议。

Power systems worldwide are going through a paradigm shift. Millions of distributed energy resources (DER) are being connected to power systems, which imposes unprecedented challenges to grid stability, reliability, security, and resiliency. Recent research has shown that it is promising to seamlessly integrate expertise in control systems, power electronics, and power systems to achieve power electronics-enabled operation of power systems to address these issues. This workshop will invite 50 participants from funding agencies, regulatory commissions, utilities, think-tanks, vendors, and universities etc. to offer multidisciplinary perspectives on the paradigm shift of power systems and identify the associated challenges and needs, and potential tools and methodologies. Recommendations will be made after the workshop. This will help speed up the paradigm shift of power systems, improve the stability, reliability, security, resiliency of future power systems, promote sustainability, create jobs, and stimulate economic growth.The fundamental challenge behind this paradigm shift is that future power systems will be power electronics-based, instead of electric machines-based, with a huge number of active, intermittent, non-synchronous, and heterogeneous players. The objective of this workshop is to bring experts from control systems, power electronics, and power systems together to identify fundamental challenges and needs in multidisciplinary research and education in control of power electronics-enabled power systems for enhanced grid stability, autonomy, scalability, operability, reliability, security, and resiliency; strengthen collaborative efforts to tackle the challenges identified; and raise the awareness of funding agencies and policy makers to support and nurture research and educational activities to advance fundamental knowledge, enabling technologies, and workforce in this area.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.