Siemens gives an IEEE PES Webinar on Microgrid Strategic Planning
As we have discussed many times, Smart Power Grids is one of the four essential research themes at the LIINES. Our work generally advocates the concept of power grid enterprise control and a number of blogposts have been devoted to the topic. One novel aspect of this work is the use of microgrids which may coordinate their own renewable energy but also have the potential to island themselves from the rest of the grid. Microgrids — as the name suggests — are relatively small and so their reliable operation requires careful attention to its design & planning. In a sense, each generation, load, line and bus must be carefully considered.
To that effect, we thought we’d share Siemens’ take on the subject. Their recent IEEE PES Webinar on Microgrid Strategic Planning has recently been put up on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWXt9v1JTA0
Full text of our smart power grid reference papers may be found on the LIINES publication page: http://amfarid.scripts.mit.edu
LIINES Website: http://amfarid.scripts.mit.edu
Abu Dhabi Department of Transportation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries & Masdar Institute Joint Workshop
Following on the heals of their back-to-back conferences, Reem Al Junaibi and Prof. Amro M. Farid presented the results of their Abu Dhabi Electric Vehicle Technical Feasibility study in a joint workshop including participants from the Abu Dhabi Department of Transportation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. They were joined by Mohammad Al-Hadrami and Prof. Sgouris Sgouridis who also investigated the socio-economic barriers to electric vehicle adoption. The workshop was held on the Masdar Institute campus on December 17th 2013 and marked the official end to what has been a tremendously successful project demonstrating collaboration between public, private, and academic entities.
After the day-long workshop, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries hosted Masdar Institute and the Abu Dhabi Department of Transportation in a two-day workshop in Malaga, Spain on December 19-20 2013. Malaga, Spain proudly marks itself as one of Europe’s leading smart cities. The Zem2All project, with the largest deployment of Electric Vehicles, is a testament to this achievement.
Prof. Farid continues to advocate Intelligent Transportation-Energy Systems. In other words, the intelligent system consisting of monitoring, decision-making and dispatching functionality should have a transportation as well as energy management function. Efforts are currently underway at the LIINES to develop models and control solutions which may be directly integrated into Intelligent Transportation-Energy Systems. A full reference list of energy-transportation nexus research at the LIINES can be found on the LIINES publication page: http://amfarid.scripts.mit.edu
LIINES Website: http://amfarid.scripts.mit.edu
