Introduction to Electric Energy Systems Track

This track seeks to explore methods at the frontier of understanding the next generation electric energy system. It focuses on topics in smarter electric grids, engineering, economics and resiliency that are at the forefront of current research, development, and demonstration. The track contains four minitracks each having two sessions. The first minitrack is on electric power system monitoring and control. This minitrack focuses on topics related to the ability of complex systems such as power systems to survive disturbances with minimal impact on performance. One session in this minitrack focuses on infrastructure and architecture issues associated the electric power grid. This includes papers on large-scale deployments of electric grid monitoring, new control system designs, proposed changes to the electric grid protection system and renewable generation forecasting. The other session considers aspects of advanced real-time monitoring. Much of the session focuses on the application of phasor measurement units (PMUs), which can be used to provide realtime measurements of power system quantities with data samples of up to 30 times per second. Other papers look at dynamic system simulations and load control. The second minitrack has two sessions dealing with topics related engineering and economic interactions within the electric grid. The first session explores issues related to the modeling of interconnected networks with the electric grid. One such issue is the planning of the electric grid with various environmental constraints. Other issues considered include electric vehicles and the adequacy of the grid. The second session focuses on the design and operation of electric markets. This includes consideration of the impact of wind, electric vehicles and the consumers themselves. The third minitrack focuses on topics associated with the emerging electric infrastructures needed to accommodate a growing number of distributed and renewable electric resources. The minitrack has two sessions with the first looking into the integration of renewable resources into the existing electric grid. Papers in this session primarily consider various aspects associated with wind energy. The second session deals with the modeling and control of smaller resources such as PV and the loads. The last minitrack explores topics related to advanced concepts to enhance the resilience of future electric power infrastructure. Advanced technologies will require advanced methods for understanding how they can be incorporated into increasingly complex and dynamic infrastructure. The first session looks at electric power network modeling and design issues. Papers here include cascading failure analysis, estimating transmission network parameters and the impact of storage. The final session is on power grid computational issues. Papers discuss computational challenges in power grid operations, using transmission system switching for improved grid economics and wind forecasting for improved generation dispatch. 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences