II-New: Modern Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education of Future Smart and Renewable Energy Systems

由于可再生能源和智能电网技术的快速发展，当今的电网正在经历一场重大的变革。这种转变必然要求在不影响现有电网运行、稳定和可靠性的情况下，对许多迅速出现的问题进行重大的变革性研究。该项目支持购买现代实时半实物(HIL)仿真系统，以推进智能电网和可再生能源技术。该项目将以多学科的方式对智能电网组件进行建模，并在智能微电网框架内调查可再生能源、能量存储系统和“智能”负载的互操作性特征。该项目将带来先进的计算技术，对基于模拟的未来混合系统的长期和短期动态研究都是有效的。然后呢？混合信号？电网配置。与此同时，该项目将研究如何在分散的电网中整合能源和基于智能代理的计算和通信系统。该项目将加强未来智能电网的先进技术开发，减少与能源相关的排放，提高所有经济部门的能源效率，并加强美国在先进计算和能源领域的技术领先地位。该项目将吸引和留住更多的少数族裔和女性学生参加计算能源系统项目，并培养年轻的工程师和科学家，以适应21世纪能源和网络技术的快速发展。

Today's electric power grid is experiencing a significant transformation because of rapid developments in renewable energy and smart grid technologies. This transition inevitably demands significant transformative research on many rapidly arising issues while the operation, stability, and reliability of the existing power grid is not affected. This project supports the acquisition of a modern real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation system to advance smart grid and renewable energy technologies. The project will model smart grid components in a multi-disciplinary manner and investigate the interoperability characteristics of renewable energy sources, energy storage systems, and "smart" loads within a smart microgrid framework. The project will result in advanced computational technologies efficient for simulation-based study of both long- and short-term dynamics of future ?mixed system? and ?mixed signal? power grid configurations. At the same time, the project will examine how to integrate energy and intelligent-agent-based computing and communication systems within a decentralized electric power grid.The project will enhance the development of advanced technologies for the future smart power grid, reduce energy-related emissions, improve energy efficiency of all economic sectors, and strengthen the technological lead for the United States in the advanced computing and energy fields. The project will attract and retain more minority and female students to the computational energy system program and educate young engineers and scientists to meet the rapid developments in energy and cyber technology for the 21st century.