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PSERC
Power Systems Engineering
Research Center
National Science Foundation
Industry / University
Cooperative Research Center
PSERC
PSERC
Our core purpose:
Empowering minds to engineer
the future electric energy system
What is important to us:
Pursuing, discovering
and transferring knowledge
Producing highly qualified
and trained engineers
Collaborating in all we do
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PSERC
PSERC
What we’re working toward:
An efficient, secure, resilient, adaptable, and
economic electric power infrastructure
serving society
A new generation of educated technical
professionals in electric power
Knowledgeable decision-makers
on critical energy policy issues
Sustained, quality university programs
in electric power engineering
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Collaborating Universities PSERC
• Arizona State University - Gerald Heydt
• University of California at Berkeley - Shmuel Oren
• Carnegie Mellon University – Marija Ilic
• Colorado School of Mines - P.K. Sen
• Cornell University - Robert J. Thomas
• Georgia Institute of Technology - Sakis Meliopoulos
• Howard University - James Momoh
• University of Illinois at Urbana - Peter Sauer
• Iowa State University - Jim McCalley
• Texas A&M University - Mladen Kezunovic
• Washington State University - Anjan Bose
• University of Wisconsin-Madison - Chris DeMarco
• Wichita State University - Ward Jewell
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Industry Members
PSERC
ABB ITC Holdings Co.
American Electric Power MidAmerican Energy Co.
American Transmission Co. Midwest ISO
AREVA T&D National Grid USA
Arizona Public Service National Rural Elec. Coop. Asn.
British Columbia Trans. Co. New York ISO
Bonneville Power Admin. New York Power Authority
California ISO Pacific Gas and Electric
CenterPoint Energy PJM Interconnection
Duke Energy PowerWorld Corp.
Entergy Salt River Project
EPRI Siemens
Exelon Southern Company
GE Energy TVA
FirstEnergy Tri-State G&T
Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec U.S. DOE
(IREQ) Western Area Power Admin.
ISO New England
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Researchers PSERC
• 40 researchers in 3 research areas
• Multidisciplinary, specializing in:
• power systems, applied mathematics, non-
linear systems, power electronics, control
theory, computing, operations research
• economics, industrial organization and public
policy.
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Students PSERC
• Strong synergy between research and education
• Almost 85 graduate students working on PSERC
research projects
• Research improves quality of education experience
• Research required of faculty
• Quality power programs (grad and undergrad)
• Students receiving quality and diverse education
• Interaction with industry invaluable
• Employment search assistance
• Faculty available for consultation
• Resume and profile books on PSERC students
• Job opportunities web site folder
• Student listserv for directly contacting students
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Why Multi-University? PSERC
• Pooling of expertise needed
• No single school can afford the necessary
breadth of expertise.
• Research questions today require
multidisciplinary approaches
• Industry dispersed geographically
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Organizational Philosophy PSERC
• PSERC’s mission is research and education.
• Its research spans both member and industry-
wide needs.
• It is organized to facilitate collaboration and to
educate the next generation of power engineers,
not to just to fund research.
• Researchers need from $200K to $350K per year,
much of which supports graduate students.
• 40 researchers X $200K ea = $8M, much more than
is provided through PSERC.
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PSERC Research Successes PSERC
• Advanced power system visualization tools
(including commercialization of PowerWorld)
• Institutional concept of testing power market
designs and policies before they are
implemented
• Power system reliability
• Expertise for national grid reliability studies
• Joint formation of the Consortium for Electric
Reliability Technology Solutions
• Blackout of 2003 investigation and information
resources
• Development of microgrid control systems
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PSERC Education Successes PSERC
• Graduating over 400 undergraduates and 300
engineering graduates in power each year.
• Placing graduating engineering students with
PSERC members (over 75 in 2007).
• Expanding distance education programs for
credit and professional development.
• Working with IEEE Power and Energy Society
• to create an on-line career service for the US and
Canada (www.PES-Careers.org)
• to begin the Power and Energy Engineering
Workforce Collaborative
(www.ieee.org/go/collaborative)
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History PSERC
• Professor Robert J. Thomas, Founding Director
• NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research
Center (IUCRC) planning meeting - May 1996
• Established with four schools - Dec 1996
• Added one school in 1998
• Added six in 1999 and 2000
• Re-organized organization in 2000
• Added Executive Director in 2000
• Added two more schools in 2001
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Our Organization PSERC
Indus. Adv. Bd.
Jay Giri, AREVA T&D, Director Executive Com.
Chair, and Vijay Vittal
Floyd Galvan,
Entergy, Vice Chair Exec Director
Dennis Ray
Markets T&D Technologies Systems
Research Stem Research Stem Research Stem
Tim Mount, CU Gerald Heydt, ASU James McCalley, ISU
Mark Sanford, GE Robert Saint, NRECA Mahendra Patel, PJM
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Other Support PSERC
• Facilitator: Frank Wayno, Professor,
Cornell University
• Provides critical organizational process
guidance
• Listens to industry members and faculty
• Support Staff (ASU)
• Theresa Herr, Administrative Assistant
• Laura DiPaolo, Accountant
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Industry Advisory Board PSERC
Industry Advisory Board (IAB) provides a
critical linkage between industry members and
university members.
• Partners with university members to identify
research and education needs/directions
• Prioritizes projects and recommends project
funding levels
• Reviews research progress and results
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2007 Research Program PSERC
• PSERC funded projects ($2 Million plus
some $600K in university contributions)
• About 20 projects, 34 researchers and 60
graduate students
• Pooled and targeted projects
• Leveraged research ($1.3 Million)
• Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology
Solutions (CERTS) involving about 15
researchers and their graduate students
• PSERC projects often are seed projects for
further research.
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Markets Research Stem PSERC
Markets research concerns fundamental issues in
efficient power markets: market design, reliability,
auctions, asset valuation, market power
and decision-making tools.
Economic experiments provide insights on Lessons learned from market experiences
alternative market designs and policies. are being studied with rigorous analysis.
Systems Research Stem PSERC
Systems research focuses on efficient and reliable
operation of complex and dynamic power systems.
New visualization techniques studied Numerical assessment prioritizes power
using human-factor analysis can help system vulnerability to hidden failures of
system operators maintain reliability. individual relays.
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T&D Technologies Research Stem PSERC
T&D research improves transmission and
distribution systems with technology innovations.
Wireless Substation
Data
Concentrator
Monitoring
Devices
Internet/
Intranet
Mobile
Agent
Enterprise
Maintenance
System
Maintenance
Crew
Wireless power system monitoring Tool development is a key part of the
applications and mobile agent processing research on power quality using
can improve reliability and efficiency. physically-based modeling.
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Stem Committees PSERC
• Leadership and participation from industry and
universities
• Facilitate industry and university discussions
on new research needs and ideas
• Maintain the stem research plan
• Develop a research solicitation with suggested
priority areas and topics
• Facilitate collaboration in PSERC research
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2008 Research Planning Process PSERC
• Research needs and ideas discussions
• Led by Stems beginning in Dec. 2007
• Continues through conference calls and industry-
university meeting in May
• Aug. summer workshop used to complete solicitation
• Proposals due in September
• Industry and university reviews by early October
• Executive Committee and Director
recommendations to industry in November
• Industry’s final recommendations at Dec. meeting
• Final review by Executive Committee
• Decision by Director
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Additional Membership Funds PSERC
• Members can contribute beyond the standard
membership fee ($250K of such funding in
2007).
• Projects can be developed without going
through the solicitation process
• Approval is given by Director based on
consistency with PSERC’s research program.
• Additional membership fund projects are treated
like other PSERC projects (such as results are
shared with other PSERC members).
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Industry Involvement
PSERC
in Research
• Amount of involvement is up to the member.
• Serve on Stem Committees or project teams
• Discuss research with project teams at IAB
meetings
• Attend summer research planning workshop
• Review and distribute research papers, reports,
presentations, etc.
• Review project status and research results
• Participate in IAB decision-making
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Consortium for Electric
PSERC
Technology Solutions
• Created in 1999 to research, develop, and disseminate
electric reliability technology solutions
• Goal: to protect and enhance the reliability of the U.S. electric
power system under the emerging competitive electricity
market structure <http://www.certs.lbl.gov>
• Funding: DOE Office of Electric Delivery and Energy
Reliability Transmission Reliability program and California
Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research
program
• Performers: PSERC; 4 National Labs (LBNL, ORNL, PNNL,
SNL); and Electric Power Group among others
• PSERC provided researchers who participated in the DOE
National Transmission Grid Study (2001/2) and Power
Outage Study Team (1999/2000) 24
PSERC Tele-Seminars PSERC
• Monthly
• Participants: 150-200 people from industry
and government agencies, and
universities (faculty and students)
• Available via webcast and conference call
• PDH certification: Provided upon request.
Sent to about 30 engineers per seminar.
• Archived slides and audio-slide
productions available for downloading
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Other PSERC Activities PSERC
• Member visits
• Professional development
• Executive forums
• Communications
• Listserv (IAB-L@cornell.edu)
• Web site (http://www.PSERC.org)
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PSERC: A One-Stop Shop to
PSERC
Leading Power Programs
• Membership in PSERC provides access to
experienced researchers at schools in the
U.S. that have strong electric power
programs.
• Membership provides access to a large
pool of well-trained students.
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PSERC’s Value to Members PSERC
• Contact with students exploring job opportunities
• Supporting students working on PSERC projects
• Opportunities for collaboration with leading
researchers in power engineering and markets
• Leveraged research funding with low overhead on
industry membership fees
• Early access to results of innovative research and
research publications
• Business opportunities for commercialization of
intellectual property
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PSERC’s Value PSERC
• Networking with others in industry, universities
and government
• Information source for sound policy-making
• Education and professional development such as
through workshops, short courses, tele-seminars
(with PDH credit) and on-site seminars
• Helping sustain high quality power engineering
programs at U.S. universities
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PSERC is a Collaboratory PSERC
• PSERC meets its mission using collaboration within
communities of interest
• Between universities
• Between industry / university members
• Collaborating working groups include:
• Stem committees
• Project teams
• Partnership is key.
• Identifying issues and needs
• Creating, choosing and
implementing projects
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