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<h1>Engineering IT-Enabled Electricity Services</h1>
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<h1>Marija Ilic </h1>
<h3>Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy,
Carnegie-Mellon University</h3>
<h3>Tuesday, February 8</h3>
<h3>4:15 PM</h3>
<h3><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=66"> Room 66-110 </a></h3></td>
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<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>We start by observing that there exist opportunities for massive integration of new technologies into the legacy electric power grids. We illustrate potential benefits from innovating systematically both hardware and software in several representative electric power grid architectures. These include 1) regulated bulk power systems; 2) restructured bulk power systems; 3) hybrid systems which are mix of large conventional technologies and the newer distributed resources; 4) highly distributed micro-grids in developed countries; and, 5) highly distributed micro-grids for developing countries. </p>
<p>The main concern in this talk is a possible IT framework for enabling deployment of new hardware technologies into the existing system at value. We explain how the proposed IT framework could evolve in synchrony with the existing utility control centers and their Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA). Much more intelligence gets embedded into the new hardware technologies themselves (wind power plants, solar panels, responsive demand, smart wires) for managing temporal complexities and uncertainties in a distributed way. Today's SCADA gets transformed into interactive multi-layered communications systems which exchange information about the choices made by the newly deployed hardware, on one side, and the embedded IT-enabled intelligence on one side, and the centralized SCADA applications, on the other. It is illustrated how by doing this even some very difficult spatial complexities (such as managing voltage support of the grid) can be managed by the SCADA provided that it is not overwhelmed by having to manage inter-temporal correlations in distributed resources. </p>
<p>We illustrate how such an IT approach could improve performance of different evolving power grid architectures. In particular, we show how carefully architected IT enables electricity service at value and according to choice. This is done without damaging continuity of services defined according to terms between the service providers and users. We illustrate dynamic deployment of wind and solar power, responsive demand, including PHEVs, according to the value they bring to those needing them. Most importantly, the overall operations and planning process becomes much more manageable and simpler when enabled by the right IT. </p>
<p><strong>About the speaker</strong></p>
<p>Marija D. Ilic received her Doctor of Science Degree in Systems Science at Washington University in St. Louis, MO in 1980. She is currently a Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, with a joint appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy Departments. She is the Director of the Electric Energy Systems Group (EESG). She is also the Honorary Chaired Professor for Control of Future Electricity Network Operations at Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands. She was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and tenured Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was then a Senior Research Scientist in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, from 1987 to 2002. She has 30 years experience in teaching and research in the area of electrical power system modeling and control. Her main interest is in the systems aspects of operations, planning, and economics of the electric power industry. She has co-authored several books in her field of interest. Ilic is an IEEE Fellow.</p>
<p><strong>The Seminar Series is made possible with the generous support of IHS-CERA</strong></p>
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