Mohammad Shahidehpour
Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 2:00 pm
110 Cummington St, Room 245
Bodine Chair Professor and Chairman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
“Restructured Electric Power Systems – What is the Impact of the Microgrids?”
The optimal operation of electric power systems is influenced by the unbundling of generation and transmission systems, enhanced monitoring of the transmission system by phasor measurement units, integration of renewable energy, real‐time pricing and demand response,and applications of smart grid for managing the distributed control of power systems. This presentation will highlight some of the key issues with the operational reliability of restructured power systems and discuss the role of recent innovations and, in particular, the significance of smart grid design and applications to the power system operation and control. A smart grid represents a vision for digital upgrades of electric power transmission and distribution. The key to the smart grid utilization is the Internet protocol for shuttling a myriad of information back and forth between the electric utility sector and its customers. The distributed nature of restructured power systems and the new applications of monitoring and control techniques introduce a different set of indices for measuring the reliability of electric power systems. The presentation expands on the effect of renewable generation on the security of restructured power systems. The presentation will also discuss the development of a microgrid which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and implemented at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The global IEEE activities for promoting the smart grid technologies will also be discussed.
Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour is Bodine Chair Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology. He serves on the Governing Board of the IEEE Power and Energy Society as the VP of Publications and is the Editor‐in‐Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He is the co‐chair of the 2011 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference. Dr. Shahidehpour was the recipient of 2009 Honorary Doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 2008 IEEE/PES Best Transactions Paper Award, and 2007 IEEE Burke Hayes Award for his research on hydrokinetics. As an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, he has lectured across the globe on electricity restructuring issues. He is an Honorary Professor at North China Electric Power University in Beijing and Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. Dr. Shahidehpour is the author of several books and papers on electric power systems including a book published in 2003 on communication and control in electric power systems. He is an IEEE Fellow.
