Research Focus Areas

  • Distributed generation integration and their impacts on power systems

  • Monitoring and control of bulk power system

  • System reaction to new component characteristics

  • New component specifications for improved system performance

  • Develop an advanced modeling and simulation capability

  • Provide the experimental capability needed to validate models

  • Support the technology base through selected system driven basic research in materials, components, and command & control

Research Projects

  • Application of Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIP) simulation for studying system interactions in the areas of FACTS, HVDC, electric drive, electric ship technology, renewable energy/distributed generation and other areas of power electronics application in power systems.

  • Modeling, simulation and experimental validation of power systems and their controllers using various real-time simulators such as RT-LAB simulator (from OPAL-RT Inc.) and RTDS (from RTDS Technology Inc.)

  • Develop innovative technologies of PV converters with WBG devices integration to achieve high performance operation, cost reduction and reliability improvement competitive with current PV converters.