Workshop on Global Dynamic Optimization of the Electric Power Grid in Atlanta, GA

在未来十年，美国的电力需求预计将增加约20%，而根据目前的计划，输电能力将仅增加4%。此外，有助于建立竞争性电力市场的输电系统开放政策也导致电网能源交易数量大幅增加。这一点，加上一些地区的发电短缺，需要优化利用现有的基础设施，并增加FACTS设备和智能控制器。电力系统是一个动态、非线性、时变、多变量的复杂过程。因此，任何优化策略都必须在真实的时间内执行，并适应不断变化的条件。优化技术、智能控制器、电力电子和数字硬件的最新发展提供了可能的解决方案。电力系统工程师意识到对电力系统的规划和控制进行某种形式的全局优化所面临的问题和挑战。另一方面，控制工程师已经开发了解决控制问题的算法。电力电子专家拥有如何设计和控制插入电力系统的大功率FACTS设备的知识。本提案旨在举办一次研讨会，将这些团体聚集在一起，重点讨论如何在当前能源危机的情况下实现电力网络最佳控制的基本技术解决方案，并避免未来的危机。来自学术界和工业界的30人将举行为期三天的会议。该方案将包括七个会议，每个会议将解决突出的问题。结果将是一份报告，其中总结讨论情况，确定挑战、优势和弱点，并提出克服弱点的前进方向。这将导致更多的跨学科研究。

Over the next ten years, demand for electric power in the USA is expected to increase by about 20% while under the current plans the electric transmission capacity will increase only by 4%. In addition, the policy of open access to transmission systems that helped create the competitive electricity markets, also led to a huge increase in the number of energy transactions over the grid. This, together with a shortage of generation in some areas, require optimal usage of existing infrastructure and the addition of FACTS devices and intelligent controllers. A power system is a dynamic nonlinear time-varying multivariable complex process. Any optimization strategies must therefore be carried out in real time and adapt to continuously changing conditions. Recent developments in optimization techniques, intelligent controllers, power electronics and digital hardware offer possible solutions.Power system engineers are aware of the problems and challenges of having some form of global optimization of the planning and control of the power system. Control engineers on the other hand have developed algorithms for solving control problems. Power electronics experts have knowledge of how to design and control high power FACTS devices when Inserted into power systems. This proposal is for holding a workshop to bring these groups together and to focus on discussions leading to fundamental technical solutions to the optimal control of the electric power network in view of the current energy crisis and to avoid the crisis in the future. Thirty persons from both academia and industry, will meet for three days. The program will consist of seven sessions, each of which will address salient issues. The outcome will be a report which summarizes the discussions, identifies challenges, strengths and weaknesses, and proposes a way forward to address the weaknesses. This should lead to more interdisciplinary research.