PFI (MCA): Enhancing Grid Reliability and Stability with Distributed Energy Resources

这一创新伙伴关系-职业生涯中期推进(PFI-MCA)项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是使美国国家电网更加可靠和稳定。与此同时，该项目希望处理大量分布式能源，这些能源以不同于传统发电厂的方式连接到电网。关键目标之一是收集基础知识，以帮助更好地评估美国电网在现实世界条件下的可靠性。另一个目标是开发新的控制算法，使分布式能源能够对电网中的变化做出更好的反应，这有助于提高电网的整体稳定性。该项目还计划创建一个共享平台，许多研究小组可以使用该平台来测试他们的研究想法。这项工作将有助于加强大学和行业之间的关系，共同努力，实现互利共赢。所有项目材料、流程、设计和成果将通过公共访问网站、顶级会议和期刊出版物在公共领域传播。最后，该项目将对社会和教育产生积极影响，为通常不参与STEM的学生提供宝贵的研究机会，从而有助于使这些领域的工作人员多样化。拟议的项目是开发多学科和集成的方法，在面临不确定性的情况下共同提高低惯性电网的可靠性和稳定性，并探索商业化路线图。所提出的研究将在以下几个方面具有智力优势：(1)建立一个基本的知识库，以了解具有高并网逆变器能源渗透率的低惯性电网的实际挑战；(2)设计一个整体评估框架和可视化工具，以确定各种基于并网逆变器的能源之间的因果可靠性关系及其对系统可靠性的集体影响；(3)开发能够学习电网行为的自适应、健壮和稳定意识的并网控制器，以及(4)利用现有的电力系统试验台来验证拟议的稳定性感知电网形成控制器的真实世界性能，并使密歇根州东南部资源有限的研究和教育社区能够共享研究资源。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation – Mid-Career Advancement (PFI-MCA) project is to make the US national power grid more reliable and stable. At the same time, this project looks to handle a large number of distributed energy resources that connect to the grid in different ways than traditional power plants. One of the key goals is to gather fundamental knowledge that will help better assess the reliability of US power grid in real-world conditions. Another goal is to develop novel control algorithms to enable distributed energy resources to react better to changes in the grid, which can help improve overall grid stability. This project also plans to create a shared platform that many research groups can use for testing their research ideas. This work will help strengthen relationships between the university and industry by working together for mutual benefit. All project materials, processes, designs, and results will be disseminated in the public domain via public-access websites, top-ranking conference and journal publications. Lastly, this project will positively impact the society and education by offering valuable research opportunities for students who don't typically get involved in STEM, thus helping to diversify the people working in these fields.The proposed project is to develop multidisciplinary and integrated approaches to collectively improve low-inertia grid reliability and stability in the face of uncertainties and to explore a commercialization roadmap. The proposed research will have intellectual merits in the following areas: (1) Establish a fundamental knowledge base of understanding the practical challenges of low-inertia power grids with high penetration of grid-forming inverter-based energy resources, (2) Design a holistic assessment framework and visualization tool to qualify the causal reliability relation between diverse grid-forming inverter-based energy resources and their collective impact on system reliability, (3) Develop a self-adaptive, robust, and stability-aware grid-forming controller capable of learning power grid behaviors, and (4) Leverage the existing power system testbeds to validate the real-world performance of the proposed stability-aware grid-forming controllers and enable research resource sharing among the resources-constrained research and education community in Southeast Michigan.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.