AGI Seminar Salsbury March 26

Designing and Operating Power Electronic Dominated Energy Systems of the Future
As the energy system transforms to a diverse set of distributed energy resources, power electronics (PE) is becoming ubiquitous for the control of electric power. Power electronic dominated systems (PEDS) have inherently different operating characteristics than traditional systems. They have much faster dynamics, more flexibility, greater volatility and many more control points and decision variables. New approaches to designing and operating these systems are needed to underpin a successful energy system transformation from legacy designs and operating principles to the distributed and decarbonized system of the future. PNNL’s lab-level research initiative titled Energy System Codesign with Multiple Objectives and Power Electronics (E-COMP) is taking on this challenge. E-COMP is creating new theory, models, algorithms, and software to enable optimized design and operation of future PEDS. This talk will introduce the E-COMP project and explain how the principle of co-design can be used to optimize design and operational decisions in a joint way for multiple objectives. An example use case of offshore wind integration will also be presented to highlight the utility of the approaches being pursued.