Advanced Optimization and Control Methods for Adaptive Microgrids

这是一个电气/电子工程领域的研究项目。该项目将探讨如何使越来越依赖当地可再生能源发电的有弹性的能源社区或地方微电网能够减少对集中式(国家或地区)电网的依赖。在印度和不丹等官方发展援助国家，这样的设置非常频繁，但发展中国家(如英国)的DNO越来越有兴趣提高当地的能源弹性，特别是考虑到广泛的嵌入式可再生能源、存储和新负载，如电动汽车充电。这需要新的控制技术，能够确保具有大量嵌入式发电的分散电网的稳定电力供应，对用户激励和需求进行建模，以及支持对等电力交换的新平台。与这个问题相关的建模技术包括多智能体系统、分布式人工智能和机器学习，以及使用户能够控制自己的能源需求的技术(如区块链)。候选人在之前的爱思唯尔《能源》论文中提出的夹点分析也是这种方法的一个很好的例子。该博士生将在智能系统部门(https://smartsystems.hw.ac.uk/).)工作该博士项目的工作将有益于并补充该小组运营的两个大型EPSRC研究项目的研究：CESI(英国国家能源系统集成中心)[EP/P001173/1]、CEDRI(印度社区能源需求减少)[EP/R008655/1]和SCORRES(印度农村可再生能源和储存的智能控制)[EP/P031145/1]。候选人在不丹和印度电网挑战中的经验将为这些研究项目带来相当大的额外价值。

"This is a research project in electrical/electronic engineering. This project will explore the issue of enabling resilient energy communities or local microgrids, which increasingly rely on local renewable generation, with reduced dependency of a centralised (national or regional) power grid. Such settings are very frequent in ODA nations, such as India and Bhutan, but DNOs in developing countries (such as the UK) are increasingly interested in increasing local energy resiliency, especially given widespread embedded renewables, storage and new loads, such as EV charging.This requires new control techniques, which enable assuring a stable power supply in decentralised grids with significant embedded generation, modeling user incentives and demand, as well as new platforms that enable peer-peer electricity exchanges. Relevant modeling techniques for this problem include multi-agent systems, distributed AI and machine learning, as well as technologies that empower users to take control of their own energy demand (such as blockchains). The pinch point analysis proposed by the candidate in a previous Elsevier "Energy" paper is also a good example of such a method. The PhD student will be based within the Smart Systems Group (https://smartsystems.hw.ac.uk/). Work in this PhD project will benefit and complement research in two large EPSRC research projects the group runs: CESI (the UK National Centre for Energy Systems Integration) [EP/P001173/1], CEDRI (Community Energy Demand Reduction in India) [EP/R008655/1] and SCORRES (Smart Control of Rural Renewable Energy & Storage in India) [EP/P031145/1]. The experience of the candidate in the challenges of the power grid in Bhutan and India will bring considerable additional value to these research projects."