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Engineering IT-Enabled Electricity Services



Marija Ilic

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering and
Public Policy, Carnegie-Mellon University

Tuesday, February 8

4:15 PM

Room 66-110



 Abstract



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.



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.



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.



About the speaker



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.



The Seminar Series is made possible with the generous support of
IHS-CERA





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