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του διεθνούς Ινστιτούτου Ηλεκτρολόγων και Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών (ΙΕΕΕ)
σας προσκαλεί στη διάλεξη του:
Dr. Rajit Gadh
Professor & Director, UCLA - WINMEC & Smart
Grid Energy Research Center
με θέμα:
“Smart Grid and the Integration of
Distributed Energy Resources (DER) - Solar
Photovoltaics, Electric Vehicles, Battery
Energy Storage Systems and Demand
Response-Enabled Appliances”
H εκδήλωση θα πραγματοποιηθεί στην Αίθουσα Σεμιναρίων του
Εργαστηρίου ΣΗΕ ΕΜΠ, Αιθ. 2.2.29 Παλαιό Κτίριο Ηλεκτρολόγων
Πολυτεχνειούπολη Ζωγράφου
την Πέμπτη 12 Μαΐου 2016, στις 11:00.
Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στα Αγγλικά
Πληροφορίες:
Καθηγητής Τάσος Μπακιρτζής, Πρόεδρος Ελληνικού Παραρτήματος Ισχύος ΙΕΕΕ
τηλ. 2310-996383, 2310-996316
Καθηγητής Ευάγγελος Διαλυνάς, Αντιπρόεδρος Ελληνικού Παραρτήματος Ισχύος ΙΕΕΕ
τηλ. 210-7723589, 210-7723692
* Επισυνάπτεται περίληψη της διάλεξης και σύντομο βιογραφικό σημείωμα
Smart Grid and the Integration of Distributed
Energy Resources (DER) - Solar
Photovoltaics, Electric Vehicles, Battery
Energy Storage Systems and Demand
Response-Enabled Appliances
Rajit Gadh
Professor & Director, UCLA - WINMEC & Smart
Grid Energy Research Center
The North American electric grid today is witnessing the fastest pace
of change since its creation about one hundred years ago. States
such as California have seen a substantial rise in the amount of
energy generated from solar photovoltaics (PV) on rooftops. These
renewable energy resources, being intermittent, can potentially
destabilize the grid when scaled up to the level of the entire
grid. Electric vehicles (EVs) are being added at a significant rate in
California thereby increasing the load on the grid at various times of
the day. While they may be considered as a load, their batteries may
be exploited as battery energy storage system (BESS) devices
thereby becoming an asset to neutralize the instability caused by
intermittency from renewables. The continuous decline in the cost of
solar PV and lithium ion batteries for EVs is expected to further
propel their growth. On the technology front in the meantime, IOT or
Internet of Things has resulted in the advent of micro-scale
computers such as the Raspberry PI that can precisely monitor and
control individual appliances thereby enabling dynamic controls
within a home or building or factory which we refer to as a
Nanogrid. Aggregating 100s of Nanogrids results in load scales that
the utilities would be able to meaningfully control.
Balancing the demand and supply of energy during the day are
becoming increasingly challenging due to the above factors. Rapid
supply and demand fluctuations (second-to-second), or even
changes in needs by customers during the day (hour-to-hour) via
new categories of loads such as EVs imply changes in power prices
at different time scales, adding yet another challenge to grid
operators’ roles. The integration of advanced technologies to
address the above opportunities and challenges would achieve a
modern grid that allows for higher penetration of renewables, electric
vehicles, energy efficiency, reduced outages, at the same can be
managed via pricing and controls. This would require advances in
“Distributed Energy Resources” which is an area of research we are
exploring in UCLA, which integrates localized control such as
microgrid-based control with grid-based control.
The talk by Dr. Gadh will look at the above issues and present three
relevant activities that UCLA’s Smart Grid Energy Research Center
(SMERC) is currently involved with.
SMERC has partnered with Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power in the $120M DOE-funded Smart Grid Demonstration Project
or SGRDP. For the SGRDP goals, UCLA has installed a test-bed
consisting of over 100 electric vehicle charging stations in the UCLA
campus, over 30 smart refrigerators within a campus dormitory, a
100KW BESS integrated to a building grid, Solar PV monitoring and
integration with BESS, a Vehicle-to-grid or V2G system, LED lighting
and controls and various other appliances such as electric driers.
These are networked, monitored and controlled through cloud-based
software in real-time. Several publications, patents and technologies
have resulted from this project.
SMERC is also working on a California Energy Commission funded
research project in the Southern California Edison territory in the City
of Santa Monica to create a Nano-grid as part of a building
structure. A smart control system is being integrated with diverse
hardware including BESS, EV, V2G, Smart Charging, Solar PV with
multiple objectives and demonstrations.
Finally, SMERC is currently establishing an industry and utility
consortium called ESmart (Energy for a Smart Grid) and Dr. Gadh
will present its vision, objectives, technology, demonstrations,
innovation and commercialization plans.
Dr. Rajit Gadh is Professor of the Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA, Founder and Director the
Smart
Grid
Energy
Research
Center
or
SMERC
(http://smartgrid.ucla.edu) and Founder and Director of the UCLA
WINMEC Consortium (http://winmec.ucla.edu). Dr. Gadh has a
Doctorate degree from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a Masters
from Cornell University and a Bachelors degree from IIT Kanpur all in
engineering. He has taught as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley,
has been an Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and was a visiting researcher at Stanford
University.
Dr. Gadh's current research interests include modeling and control of
Smart Grids, wireless monitoring and control of distribution and
consumer-premise power grids, Electric Vehicle aggregation,
modeling and control, optimized EV charging under grid and local
constraints, Grid-tovehicle, Vehicle-to-grid and Grid-to-home
architectures, automation and home area network for Demand
Response, Micro-grid modeling and control, and, wireless-sensor
and RFID middleware architectures. Dr. Gadh is author of over 150
articles in journals and conference proceedings and 4 patents. His
team has developed the WINSmartEV™ and WINSmartGrid™
research platforms at UCLA.
Dr. Gadh's research has recently been funded by the following
sources: (i) LADWP (in turn funded by DOE) in which UCLA is one of
three academic cooperating partners along with USC, and,
JPL/Caltech in which DOE funding is roughly $60M) (ii) Korean
Institute for Energy Research (KIER), (iii) EPRI NESCOR Grant
(funded by DOE), (iv) California Energy Commission, and (v) the
UCLA Smart Grid Industry Partners Program or SMERC-IPP
consisting of over a dozen industry members.
He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He
has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER
award, NSF Research Initiation Award, and, NSF-Lucent Industry
Ecology Fellow Award, Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R.
Teetor Educational award, IEEE WTS second best student paper
award, ASME Kodak Best Technical Paper award, AT&T Industrial
ecology fellow award, Engineering Education Foundation Research
Initiation Award, the William Mong Fellowship from University of
Hong Kong, and other accolades in his career. He has lectured and
given keynote/distinguished addresses worldwide in countries such
as Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy,
Spain, Holland, Hong Kong, Japan, S. Korea, Singapore, Taiwan,
and, Thailand. Dr. Gadh serves as advisor to a handful of
technology-based startups.