Research Focus Areas
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Distributed generation integration and their impacts on power systems
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Monitoring and control of bulk power system
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System reaction to new component characteristics
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New component specifications for improved system performance
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Develop an advanced modeling and simulation capability
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Provide the experimental capability needed to validate models
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Support the technology base through selected system driven basic research in materials, components, and command & control
Research Projects
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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.
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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.)
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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.