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EE Talk: The Role of Distribution System Operators (DSOs) in Enabling Integration and Orchestrating Coordinated Operation of DERs
December 16 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM IST
Title: The Role of Distribution System Operators (DSOs) in Enabling Integration and Orchestrating Coordinated Operation of DERs
Time and Date: 4 PM to 5 PM, Monday 16 December 2024
Mode: Hybrid Mode
Venue: MMCR, 1st Floor, EE, IISc
Abstract: The electricity landscape is undergoing significant changes due to the proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs), and increasingly smart consumers (prosumers), proactively managing their local consumption and generation – through intelligent devices like smart thermostats, solar panels, and batteries energy storage systems. Recent advances in information & communication technologies, and smart metering, provide strategic opportunities for prosumers to reform their conventional energy practices towards more consumer-centric economies. From an operational perspective, managing power distribution networks is becoming more difficult with such active grid-edge systems providing limited to no visibility or control. Towards addressing these challenges, distribution network operators are broadening the scope of their roles and deepening their operational reach to become Distribution System Operators (DSOs) to accommodate a high penetration of DERs, coordinate the DER flexibility and ensure reliable and quality supply to end consumers. In this context, this seminar will discuss some DSO coordination strategies for enabling DERs to actively participate in local as well as system-wide management tasks along with some modelling and simulation capabilities towards analyzing the system-level impacts of implementing such coordination mechanisms.
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Description automatically generatedBio: Dr. Monish Mukherjee (M’ 21) received his B.E. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2016 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Washington State University, Pullman, WA, in 2021. He is currently a research scientist & engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA. He also holds an adjunct faculty appointment at Washington State University in Pullman. In PNNL, he leads the development of the Resilience Applications for Transactive Energy Systems. He also leads an effort for developing distribution resource planning and DER coordination mechanisms for the state of Vermont, USA along with some ongoing ADMS-related efforts in PNNL. His research interests include transactive energy systems, distribution system modelling and simulation, grid resiliency and condition monitoring of high voltage power equipment.
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