[Earnest-dist] ECE seminar next week

[Ronald Grant]

Please take note of the seminar taking place next week.





Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering



Enabling Power and Energy Systems for the Next Twenty Years


Dr. Thomas Baldwin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida State University

Thursday, June 16, at 2:00 p.m. in 132 Fluor Daniel Building

After thirty years of deregulation efforts in the electric power industry, the electric grid is facing a number of technical, business, and regulatory challenges. Over the next twenty years, the composition of this critical infrastructure to modern life will take a dramatic transformation as higher penetration levels of renewable energy resources make up the generation portfolio and smart grid technologies permeate all aspects of energy delivery and consumption. The new challenges being faced include the integration issues of connecting renewable generation to the grid where transmission assets are lacking, variable generation such as wind and solar that lacks meaningful dispatching capability, and cyber security threats, both insipid failures and malicious attacks, within the growing use of computer-based instrumentation and control technologies throughout the power delivery chain.
Current research and standards development activities are beginning to address these issues. These efforts cannot and should not be solved in isolation for one particular problem without accounting for the impacts to the other problems. The challenges are interconnected by the power system much like the power flows, and the solution process requires a multidisciplinary approach and system thinking.
This presentation presents research efforts in the area of hybrid energy systems for the integration of variable renewable generation with conventional dispatchable generation to produce multiple energy products. Excess power production during periods of low load demand and high renewable output often leads to energy spillage, but can be captured and redirected to produce products such as synfuels, production heat for bio-products, and desalinated water. These energy products assist in energy independence and security while balancing the power demand/generation. Energy storage is an expensive and necessary component for mitigating energy spillage, but with these multiple-input-multiple-output systems the amount of energy storage can be optimized to address the dynamics while minimizing the size and costs for megawatt-hours to gigawatt-hours of storage.


Dr. Baldwin is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Florida State University. Joining the university in 1999, he has taught the power systems and machine courses. He is a founding member of the Center for Advanced Power System, a member of the Office of Naval Research’s research consortium for the next generation of All-Electrical-based naval surface warships. Dr. Baldwin conducts research and supervised graduate students and research staff in the areas of power generation, transmission system planning and operations, distribution system, SCADA and EMS, energy management and storage for renewable generation, power quality, substation and grounding, power network protection, reliability, network analysis, distributed generation, active harmonic filtering, and superconducting technologies for power transmission. He consults for Alstom, ABB, BPA, Boeing, Department of Energy, Duke Energy, EPRI, General Motors, Idaho Power, Idaho Falls Power, Idaho National Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, NASA, Power Magnetics, Sandia National Laboratory, and Tallahassee City Power.


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Thanks!


Amanda Harris
Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
104C Riggs Hall
Clemson, SC 29634-0915
864.656.4507
aleslie at clemson.edu<mailto:aleslie at clemson.edu>

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