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Building A Resilient and Secure Power Grid

–A UCF Microgrid Demo

Wei Sun, Assistant Professor of ECE

Zhihua Qu, Professor & Chair of ECE

ACE Conference

December 4th, 2017

ECEMotivations

Cascading Failures 2003 U.S. Northeast Blackout

Aging InfrastructureSuper Bowl XLVII blackout

Natural DisastersFlorida Power Outage during

Hurricane Irma

Cyber IntrusionsCyberattack on Ukraine Power Grid

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Goal: A self-healing and Secure Smart Grid!

Goals and Objectives

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Damage /Circuit Mile

Min

imum

Bud

get ($

K)

Min Critical Load Served

Rural

1) Model extreme weather threats

Resilience of electric grids under extreme weather conditions

Recovery from Disaster

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An Automatic and Adaptive

Restoration Decision

Support (RDS) Tool

Harnessing Renewable,

Storage and Microgrid for

Restoration

Distributed Distribution

Automation and Self-

healing (FLISR)

Monitoring and Protection Real-time Hardware-in-

the-loop (HIL) Simulation

Restoration Decision Support System (RDSS)

Cyber-Physical System

Security

ECEIntegrated T&D Restoration with DERs

Restoration Decision

Support System (RDSS)

Distributed Distribution

Service Restoration

Integrated T&D Restoration with DG Scheduling

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CPS Control over network 1) Nonlinear Dynamic Coding

2) Cloud Publishing 3) Synthetic Anchors

Secure and Resilient Control CPS Designs

ECETestbed and Validation – MGMS

Siemens Microgrid Management System (MGMS) Software

UCF Campus Microgrid System

• CHP unit, PV panels

• Battery storage system, EVs

• Substations, switches, sensors, etc.

MGMS One-line Diagram

• Real-world data and Forecasting

• Optimization and Scheduling

• Economic or Green

ECETestbed and Validation – MGMS

Siemens Microgrid Management System (MGMS) Software

ECETestbed and Validation – SDFA

Siemens Distribution Feeder Automation (SDFA)

• Model system components (e.g., circuit breaker, re-closer,

feeder, set NOP)

• Different fault triggering scenarios

• Simulation of fault isolation & clearing, and open transition

restoration schemes

• Upload from Feeder Automation Sequence Editor (FASE) to

SDFA

ECETestbed and Validation – OPAL-RT

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) Testing

• Accurately executes real time simulator

• Power system protection and restoration

adapting to sudden changes in system

conditions based on Q-Learning and MAS

• Test the wind-connected distribution

system protection and restoration strategy

on IEEE 9-bus system

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12

Self-Evolving Micro-Grid

A full set of laboratory

experiments are available

for several smart grid

courses, covering smart

meters, inverters, data

concentrator,

communication, control,

protection, and other

topics.

Testbed and Validation – TI Testbed

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Zhihua Qu

Cooperative control of networked

systems

Distributed optimization

Marwan Simaan

Optimization of dynamic systems

Game theory

Aleksandar Dimitrovski

Power system protection

High performance computing

Wei Sun

Power system restoration

Self-healing smart grid

Qun Zhou

Energy forecasting and power economics

Data analytics in power system

Azadeh Vosough

Communication

Wireless networks

Robert Reedy

Electric utility operations & design

Grid integration of PV systems

Issa Batarseh

Power electronics

Solar energy conversion

Junjian Qi

Cascading failure

Cybersecurity

Qifeng Li

Convex optimization

Nonlinear systems

Winston Schoenfeld

Wide band gap materials

Nanophotonics device

Kristopher Davis

Photovoltaics

Optical and electronic materials

Power Program @ UCF – Faculty

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• Advanced controls of networked systems

• Cyber-physical security

• Data analytics and electricity market

• Microgrids

• Integration of renewable resources

• Optimization of complex systems

• PV modules and systems

• Public policy of resilient energy systems

• Resilient infrastructure systems

• Transportation and smart city

Power Program @ UCF – Research

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EEL 3290 Global Energy Issues (Introduction to Renewable Energy)

EEL 4205 Electric Machinery

EEL 4216 Fundamentals of Electric Power Systems

EEL 4294 Introduction to Smart Grids

MSE/EEL4xxx Introduction to PV

EEL 5245 Power Electronics I

EEL 5255 Advanced Power Systems Analysis

EEL 5268 Communications and Networking for Smart Grid

EEL 5291 Distributed Control and Optimization for Smart Grid

EEL 5xxx Power System Economics

EEL 6208 Advanced Machines

EEL 6246 Power Electronics II

EEL 6269 Advanced Topics in Power Engineering

EEL 6272 Smart Power Grids Protection

EEL 6674 Data Analytics in Power System

EEL 6xxx Power System Resilience

EEL 6938 Power System Reliability

EEL 6xxx Power System Detection and Estimation

Power Program @ UCF – Curriculum

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Siemens Digital Grid Lab – HEC 302

Power Program @ UCF – Lab/Facilities

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• Architecture

Opal-RT connected with multiple hardware for real-

time digital simulation and HIL testing

• Key Specifications

Opal-RT (CPU 3.46 GHz, 12 core, red hat linux intel C

compiler & optimized real-time kernel, 32 static digital

I/O channels, 16 analog I/O channels, HIL controller

Interface eMEGAsim and ePHASORsim licenses,

IRIG/ GPS Synchronization board, Diver IEC61850

and C37.118)

PMU (National Instruments Advanced PMU

Development System)

PDC integration (SEL 3373), protection relays (SEL

411-L), Ethernet switches, etc.

Amplifier (Omicron CMs 356 current amplifier)

• Applications

Real-time digital simulation and control prototyping for

power grids, power electronics, model validation,

optimization, frequency and power control, real-time

simulation of microgrid systems, protection relays

testing, etc.

Power Program @ UCF – Lab/Facilities

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Interdisciplinary

Research Building I:

RISES Cluster spaces

Power Program @ UCF – Lab/Facilities

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FEEDER (Foundations for Engineering Education for Distributed Energy Resources)

A DoE-funded center led by UCF• 12 universities

• 17 utility

• 10 industrial companies

• 2 national labs

• High penetration of solar and other renewables (Southeast, TX, CA, and Hawaii)

Power Program @ UCF – FEEDER Center

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Project Overview

Scalable/Secure Cooperative Algorithms and Framework for

Extremely-high Penetration Solar Integration (SolarExPert)- DoE The Enabling Extreme Real-Time Grid Integration of Solar Energy (ENERGISE) Program

DOE ENERGISE Project

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Core Components and Specs

Distribution Load Flow

Distributed Active Power Control

Distributed Reactive Power Control

Distributed Stochastic OPF

Distributed System State Estimation

Distributed Service Restoration

PV/Load Forecasting and Stochastic Analysis

Physical System

Distributed Control and

Optimization

μPMU MeasurementsΔt0≈ 10-100 ms

Δt1 ≈ hours or day

Δt2 ≈ 1-5 minutes

Δt3 ≈ 0.1-1 seconds

Year 110,000-node system

Year 2100,000-node system

Year 31,000,000-node system

Advanced Models and Parallel Computing

Software Simulation, HIL Testing, and Real-World Network Validation

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DOE ENERGISE Project

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Thanks!

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