January 22, 2020 (Day 2; see Day 1)
2000 Levy Ave. Tallahassee, Fl 32310, USA
8:00am-3:00pm

Presentations only are free and open to the public and limited by room capacity of approximately 50-70 people. No sign up and registration is needed to attend presentations.

Join us for an exciting workshop to investigate the use of and effectiveness of renewable distributed energy generation and technologies in providing energy needs of critical disaster resilience facilities during a natural disaster or declared state of emergency. 

The workshop will exploit the complementary experience in education and research of Uppsala University and Florida State University to increase the existing collaboration on power systems, governance, and renewables to enhance the energy security and hurricane disaster resilience of the Florida power system. 

Florida has a dynamic economy with good resources for solar, offshore wind and marine current energy. Florida legislators and utilities have begun to work on an energy security and disaster resilience program. The bill and investments call for the establishment of a pilot program for the use of renewable-plus-storage-smart grid systems in preventing energy supply and delivery problems caused by natural disasters and other emergencies. 

This could lead to solar, wind and marine energy conversion providing emergency power during natural disasters and helping to restore power in their aftermath. The workshop aims to gain important insights to address the hurricane challenge by employing additional renewables and enhanced scenario-based distribution management systems. This will be complemented by collaboration to further research funding and development. 

Future Workshop:

June 1-2, 2020
Lägerhyddsvägen 1, 752 37, Uppsala, Sweden

Sponsors

• Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS)
• Center for Advanced Power Systems
• City of Tallahassee Utilities
• Computational Renewables LLC
• FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Florida State University, Department of Mathematics
• Florida State University, Askew School of Public Administration and Policy
• STINT-Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education
• Uppsala University, Department of Electrical Engineering

Contributors

• Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Eren Erman Ozguven, Ph.D.