The growing integration level of wind and solar energy resources introduces new regulating and operating challenges in the electric grid. Ramp-rate limits of conventional power plants in the generation mix impose an operating constraint on renewab...
Wind energy represents a leading renewable resource for the production of clean and sustainable electricity for on- and off-grid networks. Nevertheless, tower and foundation costs, which typically represent about 30 percent of the total installati...
Forests are increasingly affected by a variety of environmental disturbances, including emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and wildfire, which have caused extensive tree mortality in forest biomass worldwide. Those two types of disturbances may i...
Safety issues of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are usually initiated from an internal short circuit (ISC) that can be triggered by external accidental abusive loadings. The generated heat and the increased temperature would lead to several complica...
This research establishes a novel combined plant and controller optimization (termed co-design) framework, aimed at complex systems, that speeds up the optimization process by adjusting controller parameters during an experiment while plant parame...
It is estimated that close to 90% of outages in the electric power grid originate in the distribution system. Although the use of advanced metering infrastructure has increased situational awareness in the distribution system, current approaches t...
Electrical engineering, Industrial engineering, Operations research
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Enhancing the resiliency of the electric grid is a major challenge facing the electric regulatory bodies. Beyond the traditional approaches of improving the resiliency such as vegetation management, damage assessment and communication technology, ...
