Abstract: The smart grid is a global effort to modernize electric energy infrastructures with advanced information, communication, computing, control, and power technologies to achieve a high level of reliability, security, integration of renewables, and energy efficiency. This presentation is concerned with integration challenges of renewable energy source (RESs) on both transmission and distribution systems.
To meet the increasing energy demand while reducing the environment impact such as global climate change, a large number of RESs (including offshore/onshore wind turbines and solar photovoltaics) have been dramatically integrated into power systems on both the transmission and the distribution level. Power electronic devices are widely applied to serve as integration interfaces to match the characteristics of renewable energy sources with power system requirements (e.g., voltage, frequency, active and reactive power, and harmonics). The increasing complexity is bringing system operators new challenges on aspects of security and protection of power systems. With the rapid development of information and communication technologies, numerous smart measurement devices [such as phasor measurement units (PMUs), micro-PMUs and smart meters] have been installed in power systems. They provide new opportunities to overcome the integration challenges of RESs, to achieve a smarter, more secure, and more efficient power grid. This presentation will introduce our research across both transmission and distribution systems on the security and protection of future power systems with renewable energy integration.
Bio: Lina He is currently an assistant professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from University College Dublin and master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include renewable energy integration, applications of power electronics in power systems, HVDC control and operation, PMUs, wide-area protection and cybersecurity, and power system modeling and analysis.
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