Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium: Deepak Divan, "Distributed Grid Control"

Friday, September 30, 2016
3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
1110 Kim Engineering Building (Stanley Zupnik Hall)
Sandra Nicholes
301 405 4471
snichol@umd.edu

Deepak Divan

Professor, John E Pippin Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar

Director, GT Center for Distributed Energy

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA


Abstract: Distributed Grid Control – The Next Frontier for Power Electronics

The power infrastructure is poised for dramatic change. Drivers include growth in non-schedulable distributed generation, improved economic, operational and energy efficiency, and higher grid resiliency under cyber-attacks and natural disasters. The utilities have adopted smart grid initiatives and Internet of Things methods to augment the available centralized command & HV side control with sensors (AMI, V/I), back-office data management & demand/system optimization to squeeze more performance out of the grid. However, it is becoming clear from field data that utilities today do not have the tools to manage the future grid with the precision needed.

This presentation will show a new approach for distributed grid-edge control that allows the existing infrastructure to operate more efficiently in terms of energy, assets and economics, and enables new objectives such as high levels of PV hosting on distribution feeders, and the realization of grid-side demand management. Distributed control also offers a possible leap-frog opportunity for utilities in emerging markets to realize significantly higher performance at potentially lower cost. The presentation will present field data to validate the concepts being presented.

Bio: Dr. Deepak Divan is Professor, John E Pippin Chair, GRA Eminent Scholar and Director of the Center for Distributed Energy at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. His field of research is in the areas of power electronics, power systems, smart grids and distributed control of power systems. He works closely with utilities, industry and is actively involved in research, teaching, entrepreneurship and starting new ventures.

Dr. Divan also serves as Founder and Chief Scientist at Varentec, in Santa Clara, CA, and was President and CTO from 2011-14, leading the company as it developed its suite of innovative distributed real-time grid control technologies. Varentec is funded by leading green-tech Venture Capital firm Khosla Ventures and renowned investor Bill Gates.

Dr. Divan is an elected Member of the US National Academy of Engineers, a Fellow of the IEEE, past President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and is a recipient of the IEEE William E Newell Field Medal. He has 40 years of academic and industrial experience, 65 issued and pending patents, and over 400 refereed publications. He has founded or seeded several new ventures including Soft Switching Technologies, Innovolt, Varentec and Smart Wires, which together have raised >$150M in venture funding.  He received his B. Tech from IIT Kanpur, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Calgary, Canada.

 

Audience: Public  Clark School  Graduate  Faculty 

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