ECE Research Seminar (Virtual Event*) – October 28, Friday, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
October 7, 2022
Impacts of Geomagnetic Disturbances on the Electric Infrastructure
Yong Fu | fu@ece.msstate.edu
October 28, Friday, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Abstract: The vulnerability of the North American bulk power system to the effects of geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) caused by solar flares has been recognized by a variety of sources including the National Academy of Science (NAS), NASA, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the U.S Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). When they occur, GMD events can have potential severe, widespread effects on reliable grid operation, including blackouts and damage to critical or vulnerable equipment. According to NERC Standard TPL-007-1 approved by FERC on September 22, 2016, which requires all relevant responsible entities to address the vulnerability of electric transmission systems to Geomagnetic Disturbances (GMDs) by conducting potential impact assessments of benchmark GMD events on their power systems, taking actions to mitigate adverse impacts that could cause instability, uncontrolled separation, or cascading failures of the bulk-power system, and collecting geomagnetically-induced current (GIC) and magnetometer data. This talk will discuss new system-level vulnerability and risk assessment methodologies under GMDs, which can optimally take a comprehensive operational strategy to mitigate impacts of GMDs on power systems as well as achieve secure and economic operation and planning of power systems under GMDs.
Dr. Yong Fu is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University, with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Endowed Professorship in Power Systems Engineering. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1997 and 2002, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, in 2006, all in Electrical Engineering. From 2006-2009, he was a senior research associate at the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Institute of Technology. He has over 18 years of research experience in the areas of power system operation, control, protection, and economics, renewable energy integration, and microgrid. He has published over 100 refereed articles in Transactions, Journals and Proceedings. He serves as the PI or co-PI for multiple research and development projects funded by utilities and government institutions. He was a recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2012. He was among the Top 10 DOE ARPA-E GO Competition Winners in 2020. He serves as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, the IEEE Power Engineering Letters, the IEEE Access, the CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, and the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. He was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid: Special Issue on “Optimization Methods and Algorithms Applied to Smart Grid”.
* For further information contact: Dr. Jenny Du | du@ece.msstate.edu | 5-2035
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The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University consists of 27 faculty members (including 6 endowed professors), 7 professional staff, and over 700 undergraduate and graduate students with approximately 100 being at the Ph.D. level. With research expenditure of the department in excess of $11.94 million, the department houses the largest High Voltage Laboratory among North American universities.