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I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality d... more I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality disruptions and their impact on our society. Indeed our national security and digital economy place increased demand for reliable and disturbance-free electricity. The massive power outages in the
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In this 21 st century, electric power engineering goes green and smart. Triggered by several rece... more In this 21 st century, electric power engineering goes green and smart. Triggered by several recent catastrophes such as the major blackout in the Northeastern USA in 2003 and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 together with the Energy Act of 2007, the term smart grid has become almost ubiquitous across the world not only as a political concept but also as an entirely new technology that requires tremendous amount of inter-disciplinary research. As a part of this enterprise, for example, power engineers are investigating efficient and intelligent ways of energy distribution and load management, computer scientists are researching cyber-security issues for reliable communication of information across the grid, the signals community is looking into advancing instrumentation facilities for detailed grid monitoring, wind engineers are studying renewable energy integration while business administrators are reframing power system market policies to adapt to these new changes in the ...
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IEEE Control Systems, 2009
Ibecame the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) vice-president, Member Activities (VPMA) in Januar... more Ibecame the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) vice-president, Member Activities (VPMA) in January 2009. In a tradition initiated by Elena Valcher, past VPMA, we continue to recognize the contributions of CSS members of 25 years. Thus far we have recognized 998 members who have been CSS members for 25 years or more. This year, it is our pleasure to add 88 new members. Congratulations to all of these quarter century honorees for their longterm involvement and continuing support of CSS! I believe that continuation is a great power for participation in activities in CSS. The ongoing activities of these members have played an important role within CSS in a variety of aspects, such as conferences, workshops, technical committees, and editorships. The CSS covers diverse research areas, and most fields of engineering and science require advanced control theory and sophisticated methodologies for control system design. In the 1960s, process control was a major interest. In the 1970s, our focus moved to applications in electrical engineering fields such as power network control. In the 1980s, advanced robust and nonlinear control theory was applied to mechanical systems, including robotics, aerospace engineering, and hard disk drive systems. Influenced by the rapid progress of communication and internet technologies, our interests in the 1990s moved to control systems through networks and large-scale systems connected by appropriate communications. In this century, our collaborations have once again expanded, with quantum control and bio control sharing a focus. This quick historical review on control applications suggests that we need to recruit more people from other research areas in science and technology. I am sure that effective collaboration between control members and people in other fields will help achieve initiatives for future technology. Promoting this goal is one of my responsibilities as the vice president for Member Activities. We need both the power of continuation from current members and innovation by newcomers for the continuing progress of CSS.
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ABSTRACT This document highlights the role of control systems in the evolution of the Smart Grid.... more ABSTRACT This document highlights the role of control systems in the evolution of the Smart Grid. It includes an overview of research investigations that are needed for renewable integration, reliability, self-healing, energy efficiency, and resilience to physical and cyber attacks. These investigations are encapsulated in several loci of control including: new methodologies for transmission, distribution, and renewable energy, and storage; new roles in emerging topics such as electricity markets, demand-response, microgrids, and virtual power plants; and new solutions for efficiency, heating and cooling, and security. Together, they usher in new horizons for control, such as architecting a system of distributed systems, building interfaces to social sciences such as economics, sociology, and psychology, and providing a blueprint for critical infrastructure systems. While the emerging role of control and its implication on grid architectures have been articulated in various papers, a comprehensive discourse on the evolution of Smart Grid and the opportunities and challenges that it presents for control, ranging from generators to consumers, from planning to real-time operation, from current practice to scenarios in 2050 in the grid and all of its subsystems, has not been undertaken hitherto and is the purpose of this document. For Corporate or Institutional Access, request a custom quote for your organization at www.ieee.org/smartgridresearch
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IEEE Computer Applications in Power, 2001
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This article emphasizes the need to update Ukraine’s end-to-end electric power grid to provide se... more This article emphasizes the need to update Ukraine’s end-to-end electric power grid to provide secure, resilient, and reliable electricity for the future. More than any other publicized attack, the Ukrainian attack demonstrated the sophistication of today’s hackers and the malware they now wield. Despite the risks, policymakers nationwide are pushing for clean and reliable electricity. Grid managers count on either in-house meteorologists or third-party vendors to determine the most accurate weather forecast. A self-healing smart grid needs to be supported by secure sensing and communication networks, it needs built-in computational technologies, and it has to be controllable in real time. In order to protect the electrical system from both cyber and physical attacks, each of its components could in theory be replaced or retrofitted. The expert suggests that the sensing and communication technology on far-flung grid elements would give command-and-control centers better situational ...
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MRS Bulletin, 2008
In the coming decades, electricity's share of total global energy is expected to continue to ... more In the coming decades, electricity's share of total global energy is expected to continue to grow, I and more intelligent processes will be introduced into the electric power delivery (transmission and distribution) networks. It is envisioned that the electric power grid will move from an electromechanically controlled system to an electronically controlled network in the next two decades. A key challenge is how to redesign, retrofit, and upgrade the existing electromechanically controlled system into a smart self-healing grid that is driven by a well-designed market approach. Revolutionary developments in both information technology and materials science and engineering promise significant improvements in the security, reliability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of electric power delivery systems. Focus areas in materials and devices include sensors, smart materials and structures, microfabrication, nanotechnology, advanced materials, and smart devices.
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I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality d... more I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality disruptions and their impact on our society. Indeed our national security and digital economy place increased demand for reliable and disturbance-free electricity. The massive power outages in the
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the quality of life. Many readers of this Magazine who were born before the 1950s or in developin... more the quality of life. Many readers of this Magazine who were born before the 1950s or in developing countries can attest to the critical importance of electricity as a truly enabling force that fuels progress and transforms societies. In the coming decades, electricity's share of total energy is expected to continue growing as more efficient and intelligent processes are introduced into this network. For example, controllers based on power electronics, combined with wide-area sensing and management systems, have the potential to improve the situational awareness, precision, reliability, and robustness of this continental-scale system. It is envisioned that the electric power grid will move from an electromechanically controlled system into an electronically controlled network in the next two decades [1]. This infrastructure, however, faced with deregulation and coupled with interdependencies with other critical infrastructures and increased demand for high-qualit
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I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality d... more I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality disruptions and their impact on our society. Indeed our national security and digital economy place increased demand for reliable and disturbance-free electricity. The massive power outages in the
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In this 21 st century, electric power engineering goes green and smart. Triggered by several rece... more In this 21 st century, electric power engineering goes green and smart. Triggered by several recent catastrophes such as the major blackout in the Northeastern USA in 2003 and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 together with the Energy Act of 2007, the term smart grid has become almost ubiquitous across the world not only as a political concept but also as an entirely new technology that requires tremendous amount of inter-disciplinary research. As a part of this enterprise, for example, power engineers are investigating efficient and intelligent ways of energy distribution and load management, computer scientists are researching cyber-security issues for reliable communication of information across the grid, the signals community is looking into advancing instrumentation facilities for detailed grid monitoring, wind engineers are studying renewable energy integration while business administrators are reframing power system market policies to adapt to these new changes in the ...
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IEEE Control Systems, 2009
Ibecame the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) vice-president, Member Activities (VPMA) in Januar... more Ibecame the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) vice-president, Member Activities (VPMA) in January 2009. In a tradition initiated by Elena Valcher, past VPMA, we continue to recognize the contributions of CSS members of 25 years. Thus far we have recognized 998 members who have been CSS members for 25 years or more. This year, it is our pleasure to add 88 new members. Congratulations to all of these quarter century honorees for their longterm involvement and continuing support of CSS! I believe that continuation is a great power for participation in activities in CSS. The ongoing activities of these members have played an important role within CSS in a variety of aspects, such as conferences, workshops, technical committees, and editorships. The CSS covers diverse research areas, and most fields of engineering and science require advanced control theory and sophisticated methodologies for control system design. In the 1960s, process control was a major interest. In the 1970s, our focus moved to applications in electrical engineering fields such as power network control. In the 1980s, advanced robust and nonlinear control theory was applied to mechanical systems, including robotics, aerospace engineering, and hard disk drive systems. Influenced by the rapid progress of communication and internet technologies, our interests in the 1990s moved to control systems through networks and large-scale systems connected by appropriate communications. In this century, our collaborations have once again expanded, with quantum control and bio control sharing a focus. This quick historical review on control applications suggests that we need to recruit more people from other research areas in science and technology. I am sure that effective collaboration between control members and people in other fields will help achieve initiatives for future technology. Promoting this goal is one of my responsibilities as the vice president for Member Activities. We need both the power of continuation from current members and innovation by newcomers for the continuing progress of CSS.
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ABSTRACT This document highlights the role of control systems in the evolution of the Smart Grid.... more ABSTRACT This document highlights the role of control systems in the evolution of the Smart Grid. It includes an overview of research investigations that are needed for renewable integration, reliability, self-healing, energy efficiency, and resilience to physical and cyber attacks. These investigations are encapsulated in several loci of control including: new methodologies for transmission, distribution, and renewable energy, and storage; new roles in emerging topics such as electricity markets, demand-response, microgrids, and virtual power plants; and new solutions for efficiency, heating and cooling, and security. Together, they usher in new horizons for control, such as architecting a system of distributed systems, building interfaces to social sciences such as economics, sociology, and psychology, and providing a blueprint for critical infrastructure systems. While the emerging role of control and its implication on grid architectures have been articulated in various papers, a comprehensive discourse on the evolution of Smart Grid and the opportunities and challenges that it presents for control, ranging from generators to consumers, from planning to real-time operation, from current practice to scenarios in 2050 in the grid and all of its subsystems, has not been undertaken hitherto and is the purpose of this document. For Corporate or Institutional Access, request a custom quote for your organization at www.ieee.org/smartgridresearch
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This article emphasizes the need to update Ukraine’s end-to-end electric power grid to provide se... more This article emphasizes the need to update Ukraine’s end-to-end electric power grid to provide secure, resilient, and reliable electricity for the future. More than any other publicized attack, the Ukrainian attack demonstrated the sophistication of today’s hackers and the malware they now wield. Despite the risks, policymakers nationwide are pushing for clean and reliable electricity. Grid managers count on either in-house meteorologists or third-party vendors to determine the most accurate weather forecast. A self-healing smart grid needs to be supported by secure sensing and communication networks, it needs built-in computational technologies, and it has to be controllable in real time. In order to protect the electrical system from both cyber and physical attacks, each of its components could in theory be replaced or retrofitted. The expert suggests that the sensing and communication technology on far-flung grid elements would give command-and-control centers better situational ...
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MRS Bulletin, 2008
In the coming decades, electricity's share of total global energy is expected to continue to ... more In the coming decades, electricity's share of total global energy is expected to continue to grow, I and more intelligent processes will be introduced into the electric power delivery (transmission and distribution) networks. It is envisioned that the electric power grid will move from an electromechanically controlled system to an electronically controlled network in the next two decades. A key challenge is how to redesign, retrofit, and upgrade the existing electromechanically controlled system into a smart self-healing grid that is driven by a well-designed market approach. Revolutionary developments in both information technology and materials science and engineering promise significant improvements in the security, reliability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of electric power delivery systems. Focus areas in materials and devices include sensors, smart materials and structures, microfabrication, nanotechnology, advanced materials, and smart devices.
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I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality d... more I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality disruptions and their impact on our society. Indeed our national security and digital economy place increased demand for reliable and disturbance-free electricity. The massive power outages in the
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the quality of life. Many readers of this Magazine who were born before the 1950s or in developin... more the quality of life. Many readers of this Magazine who were born before the 1950s or in developing countries can attest to the critical importance of electricity as a truly enabling force that fuels progress and transforms societies. In the coming decades, electricity's share of total energy is expected to continue growing as more efficient and intelligent processes are introduced into this network. For example, controllers based on power electronics, combined with wide-area sensing and management systems, have the potential to improve the situational awareness, precision, reliability, and robustness of this continental-scale system. It is envisioned that the electric power grid will move from an electromechanically controlled system into an electronically controlled network in the next two decades [1]. This infrastructure, however, faced with deregulation and coupled with interdependencies with other critical infrastructures and increased demand for high-qualit
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