Technologies and Innovation Subcommittee
Technologies and Innovation Subcommittee
Chair: Dr. Alfredo Vaccaro, University of Sannio, vaccaro@unisannio.it
Vice-Chair: Dr. Song Zhang, Amazon, songaws@amazon.com
Secretary: Dr. Feng Qiu, Argonne National Laboratory
Past Chairs:
- Dr. Yonghong Chen, MISO, ychen@misoenergy.org
- Dr. Xiaochuan Luo, ISO-NE, xluo@iso-ne.com
- Dr. Kwok W. Cheung, GE Digital, kcheung@ieee.org
- Dr. Federico Milano, UCD, federico.milano@ucd.ie
Scope:
The Technologies and Innovation Subcommittee addresses new technologies, innovation and support needed to ensure proper power system planning, operation and electricity market operation. The need for innovations arises because of the changing business environment and technology offerings.
Along this innovation front, this Subcommittee focuses on the following areas: (1) the need to address flexibility (e.g., to accommodate the intermittency of renewable resources, to provide centralized and distributed intelligence control capabilities) in power system planning and operations, whether at the transmission or the distribution system levels; and (2) the need to integrate new technologies, such as PMU, FACTS, HVDC, Dynamic Line Rating, EV, virtual power plants, microgrids and energy storage in power system planning and operations; and (3) modeling and security aspects of news technologies related to power system planning and operations.
Along the support front, this Subcommittee focuses on the following areas: (1) Forecasting of load, renewable resources, and market prices for power system planning and operations, as well as market operation; (2) Control Center Software development to support new applications such as those needed for WAMPACS and IDRMS; and (3) Asset management and asset condition monitoring to ensure high availability of grid asset in the most economical manner. (4) Coordinated transmission and distribution system planning and operations.
This Subcommittee will actively collaborate together with other groups and subcommittees of the PSOPE Committee as well as of other Committees, e.g., AMPS, to promote new solutions and technologies.
Working Groups and Task Forces:
- WG on Natural Disaster Mitigation Methods and Operation Technology (Jay Liu, PJM Interconnection LLC, jay.liu@pjm.com)
- TF on Best Practice Survey
- TF on Advances in Natural Disaster Mitigation Methods
- WG on Machine Learning for Power Systems (Fran Li, University of Tennessee – Knoxville fli6@utk.edu)
- TF on Reinforcement Learning for Power System Dynamic Controls (Yichen Zhang, UT Arlington)
- TF on Machine-learning based Power System Synthetic Data Generation, Validation, and Sharing (Yiyan Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- WG on Cloud for Grid Modernization and Digital Transformation (Song Zhang, Amazon
songaws@amazon.com) - TF on Hydrogen Integration (Jianhui Wang, Southern Methodist University
jianhui@smu.edu) - TF on Empowering the Future of Power Systems Operation and Control with Quantum
Computing, Yan Li, Penn State University, yql5925@psu.edu - TF on Benchmarks for Validation of Emerging Power System Algorithms (Carleton Coffrin, LANL
carleton@coffrin.com) - TF on Enabling technologies for Dynamic Thermal Rating of Power Components, Alfredo Vaccaro, Universita Degli Studi Del Sannio, vaccaro@unisannio.it
- TF on Faster Than Real-Time Computing (Guangyi Liu, Envision Digital, liu.guangyi@envision-digital.com, and Hsiao-Dong Chiang)
- TF on Solving Large Scale Optimization Problem in Electricity Market and Power System Applications (Yonghong Chen, NREL Yonghong.chen@nrel.gov, and Feng Pan)
- TF on Internet of Things for Power Systems (Di Shi, New Mexico State University, dshi@nmsu.edu)
- TF on Digital Twin of Large Scale Power Systems (Hossein Hooshyar, New York Power Authority
hossein.hooshyar@nypa.gov)