Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Event Calendar Category
Other LIDS Events
Speaker Name
Dr. Lin Zhu
Affiliation
Electric Power Research Institute
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https://mit.zoom.us/j/97330354773
Abstract
Recently, multiple severe oscillation events have occurred in the interconnected power grids in Continental Europe and North America. With the increasing integration of renewables and the retirement of conventional generators, more severe oscillation events could be experienced if not sufficiently controlled. This talk will introduce GridDamper, a field-deployment-ready technology to mitigate three major categories of oscillations (natural, forced, and sub-synchronous) and allow more renewable integration in power grids. GridDamper adaptively updates its parameters, sensors, and actuators to guarantee power grid stability and reliability. The performance of GridDamper has been validated in four realistic large-scale power grid models with actual events through simulations and controller hardware-in-the-loop testing. GridDamper is currently being deployed at Terna (Italian Transmission System Operator) for field demonstration. GridDamper earned the R&D 100 Awards for 2021.
Biography
Dr. Lin Zhu is currently a Technical Leader at Electric Power Research Institute. He was a Research Assistant Professor at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He received his B.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2005 and 2011, respectively, both in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include power system dynamic, renewable energy integration, smart distribution grid, and microgrid. Many of his research accomplishments have been translated into product prototypes ready for commercialization or actual products. He was the co-PI of two NSF awards and the lead PI of 20+ industry projects. Dr. Lin Zhu is a Senior Member of IEEE.