In February 2021, Winter Storm Uri demonstrated to Texas and the rest of the nation both the criticality and the vulnerability of our electric grids. Unfortunately, there are multiple other events, potentially much more extreme than Uri, which could also affect our electricity supply. At the same time, the electric grids are rapidly changing with …
Awards, Scholarships
Powerline-caused wildfires can occur when powerline equipment fails, creating ignition mechanisms. These mechanisms include melting devices, burning particles dropping from arcing parts, and lines down due to component failure. Research has shown that many equipment failures slowly develop over days or weeks prior to catastrophic failure that can ignite a fire. The Office of Cybersecurity, …
We are amid a massive change in our energy infrastructure as we move towards 100% clean electric energy. It is an exciting time, yet there are also many challenges to achieving this vision, particularly associated with the resiliency of our electric grids and in ensuring that the changes benefit all Americans. Electricity is the lifeblood …
Sawsan Shukri, Ph. D. student supervised by Robert Balog, Ph.D., P.E. (Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, TAMU; Assistant Director for Grid Edge, TEES Smart Grid Center) won Best Poster Award at the 52nd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) in Seattle, Washington. This conference was held on June 9-14, 2024. The title of her poster presentation was …
Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty team of Drs. Kate Davis, Lin Shao and Pavel Tsvetkov, is excited to have the opportunity to be part of the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation team led by Georgia Tech’ Dr. Anna Erickson. “We are thrilled to carry-on cutting-edge science and engineering research …
To accelerate analysis of regional extreme weather threats and impacts on the electric grid, the Grid Deployment Office of Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $600,000 to fund the project titled “Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M Regional Grid Consortium“. With duration of one year, it will start on August 1, 2024. The principal investigator …
The paper titled “Use of D-STATCOM for Solid State LED Lamp Harmonic Power Mitigation” was recognized with Best Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on Smart Grid (icSmartGrid2022) held in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 27-29, 2022. The authors are the following: Robert S. Balog, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, TAMU, Director, Renewable Energy …
Chanan Singh, Ph.D., Irma Runyon Chair Professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering, Regents Professor and University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University was selected to receive the 2022 IEEE PES Lifetime Achievement Award for sustained contribution to the education, research, and industrial adoption of reliability theory and practice in large power systems. He is also …
Miroslav M. Begovic, Ph.D., Moore Professor and Department Head at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, was chosen to receive the 2022 IEEE PES Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award for leadership in education and development of tools and protection techniques for integration of renewable generation in electric power systems. This …
Arum Han, Ph.D. Le Xie, Ph.D. Collaborating Faculty of TEES Smart Grid Center: Dr. Arum Han (Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chancellor EDGES Fellow, Presidential Impact Fellow, Affiliated Faculty, Biomedical Engineering, and Engineering Dean’s Research Fellow, TAMU), has been recently appointed as holder of the Texas Instruments Professorship II. More details on his …