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

创新-职业中期发展伙伴关系（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。其中一个关键目标是收集基础知识，以帮助更好地评估美国电网在现实条件下的可靠性。另一个目标是开发新的控制算法，使分布式能源能够更好地应对电网的变化，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，供许多研究小组用来测试他们的研究想法。这项工作将有助于加强大学与工业界之间的关系，共同努力，互惠互利。所有项目材料、过程、设计和结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，该项目将为那些通常不参与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，从而对社会和教育产生积极影响。拟议的项目是开发多学科和综合方法，共同提高面对不确定性的低惯性电网的可靠性和稳定性，并探索商业化路线图。建议的研究将在以下方面具有智力优势：(1)建立理解基于并网逆变器的能源资源高渗透的低惯性电网实际挑战的基础知识库；(2)设计整体评估框架和可视化工具，以确定基于并网逆变器的各种能源资源之间的因果可靠性关系及其对系统可靠性的总体影响；(3)开发自适应、鲁棒、(4)利用现有的电力系统试验台，验证所提出的稳定感知并网控制器的实际性能，并实现密歇根东南部资源受限的研究和教育界之间的研究资源共享。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.