Renewable Energy Integration: The Grand Challenges and Opportunities Towards A Sustainable Energy Future
讲座名称：
Renewable Energy Integration: The Grand Challenges and Opportunities Towards A Sustainable Energy Future
讲座时间：
2012-11-21
讲座人：
George Gross
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讲座专家：Prof. George Gross from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
讲座题目：Renewable Energy Integration: The Grand Challenges and Opportunities Towards A Sustainable Energy Future
讲座时间：11月21日（周三） 上午8:30-10:00
讲座地点：主楼C306
Abstract：The marked technology advances in renewable generation have been key drivers of the progress in the implementation of renewable resources over the past two decades, leading to major reductions in their costs and improved performance records. As theconcerns for a cleaner environment and energy independence grow, there is a far more deliberate push to broaden geographical reach of the grid integration of renewable resources by taking advantage of the smart grid functionalities. However, the highly variable nature of such resources and their intermittency characteristics create many new challenges in all aspects of power system planning, operations, control and analysis as well as market operations and design. These challenges range from the need to develop simulation tools to quantify the reliability, economic and environmental benefit impacts of these resources to the development of effective forecasting and scheduling tools for their operations. The wider implementation of the variable resources raises the need for the implementation of storage technology on a much broader basis than exists today. Also, the empowerment that the smart grid imparts to customers to actively participate in meeting the supply-demand balance requires the effective integration into the grid of these so-called demand response resources and their effective coordination with the renewable and storage resources. A key barrier to overcome is the limited transfer capability of the grid and the imperative to expand the transmission network to bring to market the vast amounts of renewable energy that can be harnessed. In this presentation, we focus on some of the most daunting challenges and associated opportunities to make possible the effective integration of renewable energy resources on a sufficiently widebasis so as to provide a sustainable path toward meeting future energy needs. We examine the rapid changes in the renewable development and discuss the recent regulatory developments aimed at facilitating their progress. We provide various illustrative examples fromwind forecasting, to the issues in cyber security, control schemes, analysis of the reliability, economic and environmental benefit impacts and in systems with integrated renewable, storage and demand response resources,and data analytics issues with the huge amounts of data collected, stored and processed in the smart grid. In addition, we stress the contribution of power system engineers to the formulation of effective policies to facilitate such integration efforts. Progress on addressing these challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities that arise can ensure that the deepened penetration of renewable resources required for a sustainable future becomes reality.
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