Electric Energy Systems

The Electric Energy Systems track aims to investigate essential questions and pioneering approaches in next-generation electric power and energy systems globally. It emphasizes the technical, economic, and policy challenges central to ongoing research, development, and demonstration efforts. This track features four mini-tracks, organized into eight consecutive sessions, facilitating discussions and idea exchanges among attendees throughout the entire event.

The topic of the first mini-track is Monitoring, Control, and Protection in electric power systems for real-time operations and short-term operations planning. This includes innovations that focus on recent developments in the area of large-scale dynamics and control, as well as distributed decision concepts for generation, storage, and loads. Papers in this mini-track are organized into two sessions covering a range of topics in synchronization, oscillations, and stability in future transmission and distribution systems.

The Policy, Markets, and Computation mini track emphasizes the interplay between engineering and economics in the electric grid. It covers the identification of metrics necessary for assessing risk and flexibility, alongside the characterization of market products and public policies that encourage resource diversification to enhance system flexibility. The initial session of this mini-track delves into market design and implementation questions, while the subsequent session addresses themes of flexibility, coordination, and control.

The Distributed, Renewable, and Mobile Resources minitrack explores advancements in modeling, simulation, and hardware, alongside economic and systems analysis. It also delves into the decision-making behaviors of individuals and organizations, including governments, regarding the integration of distributed, renewable, and mobile resources into electric power systems. The initial session emphasizes flexibility and demand response, while the subsequent one examines the effects of increasing distributed resources on resilience and reliability.

The Resilient Networks minitrack focuses on enhancing the reliability, security, and resilience of future electric power infrastructure. Advanced technologies will require sophisticated methods to understand how they can be incorporated into increasingly complex and dynamic infrastructure. Papers in this minitrack consider the measurement, computation, and management of system risk for enhancing resilience under increasing uncertainty.

Thomas J. Overbye
Texas A&M University
overbye@tamu.edu

C. Lindsay Anderson
Cornell University
cla28@cornell.edu