Seminar | Power System Dynamics and Control – Structure, data and learning
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Welcome to Monash Energy Seminar Series. We look forward to seeing you participating in informative seminars that are held monthly for the presentation and discussion of various energy and climate change topics with light refreshments and networking to follow.
We aim to bring together Monash and external energy and climate experts to promote a cross-disciplinary understanding of challenges and opportunities rising during the global energy crisis. Building and growing the Monash Energy community is the priority of the Monash Energy Institute. By offering the Monash Energy Seminar Series, we are enabling the opportunity for all passionate and interested in energy, including academics,, students, practitioners, professionals and volunteers to congregate in one space.
We aim to create a collaborative environment that helps to share research, expertise, practice and innovative ideas for developing a clean and sustainable energy future. Monash Energy Seminars are open and free events, but do require registration.
Abstract
This talk by Professor David Hill will review power network dynamic analysis and control around the themes of exploiting network structure, data availability and recent learning approaches, to address the classical problems of computing stability limits for synchronisation, frequency and voltage stability. Prof Hill will also cover the opportunities for research on the new problems arising in the energy transitions will be addressed. In particular, the capability for system resilience beyond security and reliability remains a major goal to be achieved.
The field of decision and control has played a critical role in establishing the electrical power grid, which has been referred to in terms like “the largest”, “the most complex” machine made by humans. The National Academy of Engineering, USA, actually named ‘electrification’ as first in a list of the Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century. The stability analysis and control of the electrical grid have evolved over about 100 years via solving problems arising in its development into a wide-area granulated network operated by layers of control and market mechanisms. Classical control and many applications of more mathematical approaches, including linear and nonlinear system theory, various optimisation methods, Lyapunov theory, adaptive and robust control, have been utilised. Before the term ‘smart grid’ arrived in the early 2000’s this was indeed arguably a very impressive achievement.
Now in many parts of the world, the electrical system is undergoing two major transitions, which are briefly described as 1) decarbonisation, i.e. of the existing grid, and 2) distributed energy resources (DERs), i.e. mainly rooftop solar PV, along with greater electrification in households and transport. These transitions are already leading to different dynamics at all levels as large conventional generators (fossil fuel, nuclear) give way to high levels of converter-fed generation, adding grid energy storage and a new demand-side structure including EVs, batteries and DERs. These technologies and associated changes in policies, regulations and markets will render the aforementioned analysis and control methods and structures obsolete with many new problems. Given emissions targets by dates typically between 2025 and 2050, there is no luxury of 100 years to solve them one by one. In particular, the future control problem can now be viewed as basically an end-to-end distributed one using limited flexibility in generation, network and demand-side resources, all embedded in the changing weather system. This creates many new opportunities for research and development, which will use systems, decision and control and related computing sciences.
Speaker
Professor David Hill, Professor of Power and Energy Systems in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University
David J Hill is a Professor of Power and Energy Systems in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. During 2013-2020, he held the Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to this he held the Chair of Electrical Engineering at The University of Sydney. He has also held academic and substantial visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne, California (Berkeley), Newcastle (Australia), Lund (Sweden), Munich, City University of Hong Kong, Australian National University and The University of NSW Sydney.
His research activities have been in power and energy systems, control systems, networks, learning systems and stability analysis. His work is now mainly focussed on issues for future energy and power networks where he aims to bring systems and information sciences to accelerate the clean energy transition. He is also a consultant in the area of power and energy issues in Australia and internationally.
He is a Fellow of SIAM, IFAC, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He received the 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society Prabha S Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award and has been selected as the 2022 IEEE Control System Society Hendrik W Bode Lecture Prize winner.
Event host
Dr Behrooz Bahrani, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Director, Grid Innovation Hub (Faculty of Engineering)
Event Details
- Date:
- 9 November 2022 at 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
- Venue:
- G30, New Horizons, 20 Research Way, Clayton
- Campus:
- Clayton Campus
- Cost:
- Free
Description
Watch the video
Welcome to Monash Energy Seminar Series. We look forward to seeing you participating in informative seminars that are held monthly for the presentation and discussion of various energy and climate change topics with light refreshments and networking to follow.
We aim to bring together Monash and external energy and climate experts to promote a cross-disciplinary understanding of challenges and opportunities rising during the global energy crisis. Building and growing the Monash Energy community is the priority of the Monash Energy Institute. By offering the Monash Energy Seminar Series, we are enabling the opportunity for all passionate and interested in energy, including academics,, students, practitioners, professionals and volunteers to congregate in one space.
We aim to create a collaborative environment that helps to share research, expertise, practice and innovative ideas for developing a clean and sustainable energy future. Monash Energy Seminars are open and free events, but do require registration.
Abstract
This talk by Professor David Hill will review power network dynamic analysis and control around the themes of exploiting network structure, data availability and recent learning approaches, to address the classical problems of computing stability limits for synchronisation, frequency and voltage stability. Prof Hill will also cover the opportunities for research on the new problems arising in the energy transitions will be addressed. In particular, the capability for system resilience beyond security and reliability remains a major goal to be achieved.
The field of decision and control has played a critical role in establishing the electrical power grid, which has been referred to in terms like “the largest”, “the most complex” machine made by humans. The National Academy of Engineering, USA, actually named ‘electrification’ as first in a list of the Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century. The stability analysis and control of the electrical grid have evolved over about 100 years via solving problems arising in its development into a wide-area granulated network operated by layers of control and market mechanisms. Classical control and many applications of more mathematical approaches, including linear and nonlinear system theory, various optimisation methods, Lyapunov theory, adaptive and robust control, have been utilised. Before the term ‘smart grid’ arrived in the early 2000’s this was indeed arguably a very impressive achievement.
Now in many parts of the world, the electrical system is undergoing two major transitions, which are briefly described as 1) decarbonisation, i.e. of the existing grid, and 2) distributed energy resources (DERs), i.e. mainly rooftop solar PV, along with greater electrification in households and transport. These transitions are already leading to different dynamics at all levels as large conventional generators (fossil fuel, nuclear) give way to high levels of converter-fed generation, adding grid energy storage and a new demand-side structure including EVs, batteries and DERs. These technologies and associated changes in policies, regulations and markets will render the aforementioned analysis and control methods and structures obsolete with many new problems. Given emissions targets by dates typically between 2025 and 2050, there is no luxury of 100 years to solve them one by one. In particular, the future control problem can now be viewed as basically an end-to-end distributed one using limited flexibility in generation, network and demand-side resources, all embedded in the changing weather system. This creates many new opportunities for research and development, which will use systems, decision and control and related computing sciences.
Speaker
Professor David Hill, Professor of Power and Energy Systems in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University
David J Hill is a Professor of Power and Energy Systems in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. During 2013-2020, he held the Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to this he held the Chair of Electrical Engineering at The University of Sydney. He has also held academic and substantial visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne, California (Berkeley), Newcastle (Australia), Lund (Sweden), Munich, City University of Hong Kong, Australian National University and The University of NSW Sydney.
His research activities have been in power and energy systems, control systems, networks, learning systems and stability analysis. His work is now mainly focussed on issues for future energy and power networks where he aims to bring systems and information sciences to accelerate the clean energy transition. He is also a consultant in the area of power and energy issues in Australia and internationally.
He is a Fellow of SIAM, IFAC, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He received the 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society Prabha S Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award and has been selected as the 2022 IEEE Control System Society Hendrik W Bode Lecture Prize winner.
Event host
Dr Behrooz Bahrani, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Director, Grid Innovation Hub (Faculty of Engineering)
Event Contact
- Name
- energy-institute@monash.edu
- Phone
- Organisation