The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is a dazzling natural phenomenon, but it can pose serious risks to our power infrastructure. Learn how researchers at Texas A&M are examining the potential impact of geomagnetic disturbances on the grid and exploring ways to protect critical power systems. Read the full story
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This free webinar is a special joint presentation between Texas A&M University and ElectroTempo, a new member of the Smart Grid Center. We will be giving an overview of our EV simulation and integration work, which requires cross-domain modeling and simulation from both of our teams. Our webinar will focus on our innovative scalable truck …
The Texas A&M Solar Car Racing Team recently competed at the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) and American Solar Challenge (ASC) hosted by the Innovators Educational Foundation. Building this race car by these undergraduate students was completely a volunteer and extracurricular effort. As such, the students did not receive any course credit for participating in …
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 …
On improving the resilience of the electric grid infrastructure, an interview with Thomas Overbye, Ph.D. (O’Donnell Foundation Chair III Professor at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, TAMU, and Director of TEES Smart Grid Center) appeared in Community Impact on July 10, 2024. The challenges with the current electric grid infrastructure were exemplified by Hurricane Beryl …
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 …
Description Geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs), caused by solar coronal mass ejections, have the potential to significantly impact the operation of the high voltage electric grid by causing geomagnetically induced currents (GICs). Over the last decade there has been significant research, industry interest, and regulatory concern about the impact of GMDs on the high voltage electric grid. …
Large Language Models (LLMs) as chatbots have drawn remarkable attention thanks to their versatile capability in natural language processing as well as in a wide range of tasks. While there has been great enthusiasm towards adopting such foundational model-based artificial intelligence tools in all sectors possible, the capabilities and limitations of such LLMs in improving …
High voltage electric grids are some of the world’s most complex machines, whose present high levels of reliability have been achieved through careful planning. The purpose of this three-day short course is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the processes used in doing this planning. The course philosophy is to provide a practical, hands-on approach …