Workshop: Control of Power in Electric Networks

The Transmission Research Program and the Electric Power Research Institute jointly sponsored a Workshop on July 9, 2007, at EPRI Headquarters in Palo Alto to investigate and brainstorm new strategies and technologies for the control of power in the electric transmission system. Increasing demands on the electric transmission system in recent years have highlighted the limitations of the control options that are currently available to system operators. The objectives of this Workshop were to identify high-value applications for control of power, and begin to develop promising avenues of research and development activities for achieving the required controls.

Presentations by technology experts provided an overview of the issues and potential applications of electric power control, as a basis for the technology brainstorming sessions, in which Workshop participants began to map out potential research and development strategies to advance the state of the art in network power control.

Workshop Proceedings (doc, 84KB)
 
Workshop Presentations:

• Objectives of Workshop – Lloyd Cibulka, TRP (pdf, 684KB)
• Conceptual Overview of Controlling Network Impedances on the Grid and the Implications for System Reliability and Efficiency – Steve Lee, EPRI (pdf, 1.1MB)
• Review of Current Approaches and Applications of Control Technologies – Abdel-Aty Edris, EPRI (pdf, 3.6MB)
• Comparison of Existing Control Approaches Including Effectiveness and Economics – Vijay Vittal, Arizona State U. (pdf, 40KB)
• Distributed Series Reactance for Grid Power Flow Control – Frank Lambert, NEETRAC (ppt, 5.4MB)
• Power System Stability Controls – Dmitry Kosterev, BPA (pdf, 132KB)

For more information, please contact:

Lloyd Cibulka
TRP Research Coordinator
California Institute for Energy and Environment
University of California, Office of the President
1333 Broadway, Suite 240
Oakland, CA 94612-1918
Phone: (510) 290-3875
Fax: (510) 287-3328
E-Mail: Lloyd.Cibulka@ucop.edu