PES Webinar: Opportunities & Challenges of Energy Storage Applications in Electric Distribution Systems
IEEE PES Region 2 and Columbus Chapter are hosting a technical webinar provided by PES Region 2 Representative, Dr. Xuan Wu, who is a Principal Engineer at AEP, an IEEE Senior Member, and a Professional Engineer registered in Ohio, and Prof. Antonio Conejo, who is a Professor at OSU, an IEEE Fellow, an INFORMS Fellow, and a PES Distinguished Lecturer. 1 PDH will be provided to qualified attendees.
Abstract:
By enabling the temporal displacement of energy production/consumption, storage brings flexibilities and potential benefits to power systems. At the distribution level, a storage system can provide increased reliability, savings due to the ability to defer infrastructure upgrades, and potential revenues through market participation – which leads to increased social welfare.
Despite the values of energy storage systems to a distribution system, there are a few challenges ahead of us. An effective regulatory and operational framework is needed to enable a fully-fledged integration in the power system of distributed (behind-the-meter) and utility-scale storage systems. To ensure the financial viability of distribution networks that integrate a large number of prosumers and to guarantee high supply security through an up-do-date distribution infrastructure, a rate structure is needed, which would include a security component (perhaps dominant) and an energy component (perhaps non-dominant). In addition, isolation device placements need to be studied in conjunction with energy storage unit placements to fulfill the benefit of reliability enhancement.
This webinar will give the audience an overview of how to optimally plan and operate energy storage systems in a distribution network to maximize the benefits while addressing the challenges.
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- Date: 26 Aug 2021
- Time: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
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- Co-sponsored by IEEE PES Region 2
- Starts 09 August 2021 12:00 PM
- Ends 26 August 2021 03:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Xuan Wu, PhD, PE
Biography:
Xuan Wu received the M.S. degree in EE from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, in 2018. Currently, he is a Principal Engineer at American Electric Power (AEP). His research/working interests include power system operation, planning, security & resilience, transmission engineering and equipment. He has authored/coauthored 30 jounal and conference papers on those areas. Xuan received 2 AEP Key Contributor Awards, an Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE PES Columbus Chapter, and 2 Best Paper Awards from IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He is currently an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery and an Editorial Board Member of International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems. Dr. Wu is the Representative of IEEE PES Region 2, Chairs of IEEE Std. 18 and IEEE Std. 525 Working Groups, an IEEE Senior Member, and a Registered Professional Engineer licensed in Ohio.
Prof. Antonio Conejo
Biography:
Dr. Conejo received the M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1990. He is currently a professor in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. His research interests include control, operations, planning, economics and regulation of electric energy systems, as well as statistics and optimization theory and its applications. Prof. Conejo is a fellow of IEEE and INFORMS.
Agenda
4:55 pm - 5:00 pm: Welcome & Introduction
5:00 pm - 5:55 pm: Lecture
5:55 pm - 6:00 pm: Q&A