LSU ECE Seminar Announcement and Schedule

         On Tuesday, 4 February 2020, 10:00 - 11:00,                   
         in Room 3285 Patrick F. Taylor Hall:                          
                                                                       
                   Energy Assurance with Renewable Generation          
                                                                       
                                 Joydeep Mitra                         
                           Michigan State University                   
                                                                       
         Abstract--Since the beginning of this century we have         
         witnessed an acceleration in the adoption of renewable energy 
         resources and technologies. Various forces – social,        
         political, economic, regulatory and technological – have    
         conspired to create a climate that fosters the development and
         proliferation of numerous technologies that enable the        
         conversion, control and integration of renewable energy       
         resources. Although the mix of renewable resources is diverse,
         ranging from wind and solar to tidal and biomass, the bulk of 
         today's investments are going into wind and solar, both of    
         which are considered variable resources because they are      
         available not upon demand, but upon the whims of nature. This 
         creates several challenges and opportunities in exploiting    
         their benefits, both when operating them in isolation and when
         operating them in coordination with other resources. Numerous 
         solutions have been proposed for mitigating the challenges,   
         ranging from storage and transmission expansion to demand     
         response and “smart grid” control technologies. This talk 
         will discuss the most significant factors affecting energy    
         assurance in the presence of renewable generation. It will    
         investigate the use of energy storage to mitigate some of the 
         challenges. It will discuss reliability metrics and targets,  
         and a method for quantifying the notion of “firming” up an
         intermittent resource. Effects of resource availability and   
         network constraints will be considered. The talk will discuss 
         another characteristic of renewable resources – low inertia 
         – and how it impacts system reliability, and of ongoing     
         research toward developing solutions for mitigating these     
         impacts. The presentation will conclude with a discussion on  
         future directions for research on energy assurance.           
                                                                       
         Bio--Joydeep Mitra (PhD, FIEEE) is Associate Professor of     
         Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University, East     
         Lansing, Director of the Energy Reliability & Security (ERiSe)
         Laboratory, and Senior Faculty Associate at the Institute of  
         Public Utilities. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical           
         Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, and a 
         B.Tech.(Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute
         of Technology, Kharagpur. Prof. Mitra has conducted research  
         in power system modeling, analysis, stability, control,       
         planning and simulation, and is known for his contributions to
         power system reliability analysis and reliability-based       
         planning. He has over 200 publications and patents in the     
         power systems area; he is co-author of the book, “Electric  
         Power Grid Reliability Evaluation: Models and Methods,” and 
         of IEEE Standard 762, a standard on reliability reporting. He 
         is recipient of the 2019 IEEE-PES Roy Billinton Power System  
         Reliability Award. Prof. Mitra's research has been funded by  
         the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of  
         Energy, U.S. National Laboratories, and several electric      
         utilities. Prof. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE    
         Distinguished Lecturer. He serves as an Associate Editor for  
         the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Power Engineering  
         Letters, and for the IEEE Transactions on Industry            
         Applications. In the past he has served as Chair of the IEEE- 
         PES Analytic Methods for Power Systems Committee, Chair of    
         several IEEE-PES Subcommittees, and as an Editor for the IEEE 
         Transactions on Smart Grid. Prof. Mitra engages actively in   
         several IEEE activities such as organizing conference tracks  
         and contributing to the development of IEEE standards.        
                                                                       
         Tuesday, 4 February 2020, 10:00 - 11:00                       
         Room 3285 Patrick F. Taylor Hall                              
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