The presentation is the partial result of a 5-yr, DOE funded, international project (UI-ASSIST) which was collaborative with the Government of India and included Washington State, MIT, Texas A&M University and University of Hawaii, as well as several IITs (Delhi, Kanpur, Bhubaneshwar, Roorkee) in India, as well as several corporate participants. The focus of the work is on development of simulation testbed for operational analysis of autonomous and grid-connected microgrids under normal and asymmetrical fault conditions. Opportunities for developing protective relaying solutions for IBR-rich networks are investigated under minimal communication infrastructure. The results include modeling grid-forming inverter model operation under asymmetrical external faults and proposing novel techniques for protection of microgrid links under such conditions. The testbed developed for these purposes could also be used for operational analysis of autonomous, as well as grid-connected microgrids.
Date and Time: December 4, 2024, at 3:00 P.M. CST
Presentation slides are linked here.
Speaker
Miroslav M. Begovic, Ph.D. (LFIEEE, MCIGRÉ) is the Moore Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University, former ECE Department Head (2015-2023) and Associate Director of the Smart Grid Center at TAMU. Prior to that, he was Professor and Chair of the Electric Energy Research Group in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, and affiliated member of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems and University Center of Excellence in Photovoltaic Research (UCEP). Dr. Begovic delivered over 110 keynote and invited presentations worldwide, served in technical and administrative functions over the years of his membership at IEEE. Professor Begovic served as President of the IEEE Power and Energy Society, and member and Chair of its Governing Board over a period of 10 years. He was Chair of the IEEE PES Emerging Technologies Coordinating Committee, IEEE PES Treasurer, as well as IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer from 2011. He is the recipient of 2019 IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award and 2022 Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award, and member of Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Kappa Phi.