EPNES: Planning Reconfiguratble Power System Control for Transmission Enhancement with Cost-Recovery Systems

本研究课题的目的是开发（a）设计离散型和连续型混合型电力系统控制器的设计理论和方法，（B）开发适用于利用能源市场的电力系统的经济型控制器的设计和安装成本的回收和分配系统。离散事件系统理论，连同整数规划优化方法，将用于控制设计方法。本项目重点强调的经济学主旨将借鉴公共经济学理论，以确定在旨在提供适量电力系统控制的市场中所需的监管水平和方式。将研究额外控制对位置边际价格（LMP）的影响，以确定控制的价值。这些方法将使用三个不同的和日益复杂的测试平台，与最先进的是美国西部互联的6000总线模型来说明。将开发新的课件，将经济学，控制和电力系统的问题在项目中解决，这个课件将被用于在爱荷华州州立大学的EE和经济学系的研究生课程。将努力吸引少数民族和女大学生（由REU资助）和研究生（由GRA资助）参加该项目。这个项目的一个重要目的是向高中生展示我们学科的兴奋之处。 我们打算让周边地区的高中教师参与可再生能源技术的工作，并提供接触该学科的机会。我们还聘请了一位工业顾问，为该提案带来实际方面的内容。 两名在电力工程、控制理论和经济学方面具有广泛背景的博士生将加入国家的科学工作队伍。

This project will develop (a) design theory and method for planning hybrid (discrete and continuous) power system controllers, and (b) economic systems, applicable to power systems utilizing energy markets, for recovering and allocating costs of the design and installation of such controllers. Discrete-event system theory, together with integer programming optimization methods, will be utilized in the control design approach. The economics thrust, to be heavily emphasized in this project, will draw on the theory of public economics to determine the level and manner of regulation necessary in a market designed to provide an appropriate amount of power system control. The impact of additional control on the locational marginal prices (LMPs) will be studied to determine the value of the control. These approaches will be illustrated using three different and increasingly complex testbeds, with the most evolved being the 6000 bus model of the western US interconnection. New courseware will be developed that links the economics, control, and power systems issues addressed in the project, and this courseware will be utilized in the graduate curricula of both the EE and Economics departments at Iowa State University. Effort will be made to attract to this project minorities and women undergraduates (funded under an REU) and graduate students (funded as GRAs). An important aim of this project is to expose the excitement of our disciplines to high school students. We intend to involve teachers from high schools in surrounding areas in a RET effort and provide exposure to the discipline. We also involve an industrial advisor who brings practical aspects to this proposal. Two PhD students who have a broad background in electric power engineering, control theory, and economics will add to the nation's scientific work force.