PES Seminar: DER Smart Inverters & Distribution System Operations
IEEE Central Indiana Joint PES/PELS/IAS Chapter and Columbus PES Chapter welcome you to join this technical seminar/webinar provided by Dr. Xuan Wu and Adedoyin Inaolaji, both from AES Indiana. This will be a hybrid meeting and local attendees will be welcome to join in person at AES Indiana's Morris Street Office in Indianapolis (there will be free pizzas and beverage). 1 PDH will be provided to attendees who attend the entire seminar.
Abstract: We will review common DER (distributed energy resources) interconnection recommendations and challenges from a utility perspective, and envision future improvemnets of better leveraging smart inverters for distribution system operations. One of the R&D efforts focused on optimal droop control of smart inverters will be discussed in detail. Voltage optimization and control becomes imperative with increased use of DERs in distribution feeders. Smart inverters (SIs) can be used effectively for voltage control and optimization especially for fast varying voltage fluctuation caused by high photovoltaic penetration. However, SIs are required to operate based on droops as per the IEEE-1547. Moreover, instead of following rule-based methods or arbitrarily selected settings, the SI settings should be optimally configured in order to enhance the network performance. The objective of this presentation is to discuss techniques to obtain optimal droop settings of SIs for Volt-Var grid-support functions.
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- Date: 16 Feb 2023
- Time: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- 1230 W Morris St
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- United States 46221
- Building: AES Indiana Operation Center
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- Co-sponsored by IEEE PES Columbus Chapter
- Starts 21 January 2023 03:40 PM
- Ends 16 February 2023 01:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Speakers
Adedoyin Inaolaji
Biography:
Adedoyin Inaolaji received a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, in 2014, and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FL, USA in 2022, where she is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering. She is also interning at AES Indiana with the T&D Forecasting, Modeling and Analysis Department. Her research interests include distribution grid modeling, analysis, and optimization techniques.
Xuan Wu, PhD, PE
Biography:
Xuan received a Master of Science degree from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, in 2013 and a Ph.D. degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, in 2018, with both in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Currently, he is a Manager of transmission & distribution (T&D) modeling and analysis for AES Indiana (formerly known as Indianapolis Power & Light). In addition, he is now appointed as an Adjunct Faculty at IUPUI teaching power-related courses. Priorly, he worked at American Electric Power (AEP) as a Principal Engineer with over 8 years of T&D engineering & standards experiences. He has authored/co-authored over 30 journal and conference papers related to T&D planning, operations, and engineering. Xuan received 2 AEP Key Contributor Awards, an Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Columbus Chapter, and 2 Best Paper Awards from IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery and a Guest Editor of IEEE Power & Energy Magazine (March/April 2023 issue). Xuan is the Chair of the Central Indiana Joint PES/PELS/IAS Chapter, Chapter Representative of PES Region 4, past Representative of IEEE PES Region 2, past Chair of IEEE PES Columbus Chapter, Chair/Vice Chair of various IEEE Standard working groups, an IEEE Senior Member, a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) licensed in Ohio, and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).