PES Seminar: Siemens Technology presents resilient and sustainable energy systems
Dear colleagues,
This is a kick-off event for IEEE Power & Energy Society Princeton/Central Jersey Section Chapter after many years of silence.
In this event, we have invited Dr. Xiaofan Wu and Dr. Ulrich Muenz from Siemens Technology to discuss about resilient and sustainable energy systems. Further details about the presentation and presenter bios can be found in the attachment.
We target inviting more speakers in the power/energy industry to talk about the unique challenges and opportunities in the future. Please stay tuned.
Best regards,
Yubo Wang
Chapter Chair, IEEE PES Princeton/Central Jersey Section
Staff Research Scientist, Siemens Technology
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- Date: 18 Mar 2022
- Time: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
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Speakers
Xiaofan Wu of Siemens Technology
Biography:
Xiaofan Wu is the Head of Autonomous System and Control at Siemens Technology in Princeton, NJ. He is also the Project Manager for the Siemens Princeton Island Grid Living Lab. He has more than 10 years of experience in modeling, control and optimization of energy systems and smart grids. He received the B.Eng. degree in detection guidance and control technology from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, in 2010, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He was a visiting scholar with the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, from March to June 2016. He received the 2021 Thomas Edison Award of the New Jersey R&D Council.
Ulrich Muenz of Siemens Technology
Biography:
Ulrich Muenz is Principal Key Expert for Control Systems for power grids at Siemens Technology in Princeton, NJ. He is also Principal Investigator of two US DOE funded projects: ReNew100 - Reliable Power System Operation with 100% Renewable Generation funded by DOE ARPA-E and AURORA: Autonomous and Resilient Operation of Energy Systems with Renewables funded by DOE SETO. Prior to this appointment, he was head of Autonomous Systems and Control at Siemens Technology in Princeton and Senior Key Expert for power system stability and control at Siemens Technology in Munich, Germany. Ulrich Muenz received his Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2010, and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from the Universities of Stuttgart, Germany, and Madrid, Spain, both in 2005. He received the 2021 Edison Award of the New Jersey R&D Council and is Siemens Inventor of the Year 2021.
Agenda
Siemens Technology’s North America R&D Hub in Princeton NJ is spearheading innovation in resiliency and sustainability for energy systems. The main challenges of today’s power system are to mitigate climate change and adapt to more frequent and intense natural disasters, as well as to control and optimize the increasing inverter-based renewable generation. In this seminar, we will share how Siemens Technology drives innovation in this field by developing a cleaner, more reliable and more resilient energy system.
First, we will provide an overview of Siemens Technology’s Advanced Microgrid Research and Demonstration Testbed - the Princeton Island Grid Living Lab. The living lab serves as a platform for research, development, and demonstration of new technologies for building management and microgrid operation. It also addresses the business need of lower CO2 footprint and energy cost and maintain a reliable and sustainable power delivery in case of an emergency. In addition, Princeton Island Grid provides a co-creation space for both Siemens internal and external partners to deploy innovative microgrid solutions.
Second, we will give an overview of recent advances to increase resilience in distribution systems after natural disasters. The main challenge of natural disasters is that many power system components are affected within a very short timeframe, which is referred to as N-k contingencies. This large number of component outages leads to multiple blackouts in distribution systems. We present two different technologies how to re-supply loads after such blackouts: distribution system reconfiguration and autonomous blackstart. Distribution system reconfiguration uses normally open switches between distribution feeders to re-supply loads from healthy feeders. The main challenge is how to select the best configuration under a large number of normally open switches. We show the effectiveness of our approach using historic outages from a utility in the Rocky Mountains. Autonomous blackstart uses Distributed Energy Resources to blackstart subsections of a distribution system bottom-up, i.e. without connection to the bulk system. We show first results using simulations and our hardware testbed. Both technologies are developed within the US DOE-funded project AUtonomous and Resilient Operation of energy system with RenewAbles (AURORA) led by Siemens Technology.