Smart Grid: Coordinating Efforts For the Road Ahead

Editor’s Note:This is a guest post byAranya Chakrabortty是NC状态电气计算机工程助理教授。

The concept of a“智能电网”for power utilities is drawing significant interest from researchers, practitioners and governments around the globe. The benefits of making the grid smart would be immense, including improved security, reliability, sustainability, and, perhaps most importantly, more efficient use of renewable energy and storage.

So far the smart grid research community in the United States has seen promising, yet isolated, research and development in power systems, power electronics, material science, communication engineering and economics. But in order to move forward,all these efforts need to be put together to address the overarching challenges facing smart-grid development. The two most natural and compelling tools that bind all these varied aspects of a smart grid together are control and optimization.

Marija Ilic, from Carnegie Mellon University, and I are serving as the co-editors of a new book titled“Control and Optimization Methods for Electric Smart Grids,”帮助协调这些研究挑战。本书包含18章，由电力，控制和通信系统的近50名领先的研究人员编写，并以整体方式捕获明天的网格需要成为一个极端复杂的系统，以解决我们今天所面临的问题。从字面上，随着每一天的一天，我们的国家电网与可再生能源形式的新技术相结合，智能车辆形式的新负载，智能电表等新传感器以及智能电表和量量值测量单位，以及较新的决策机制 -以复杂的电力市场动态为指导。本书旨在捕捉该指数变换的频谱，同时介绍该转型为前方智能电网研究人员造成这种转换的普遍性问题。

例如，智能电网的众所周知的盛大挑战是确定消费者和电力公用事业如何以安全的方式相互作用以优化能量消耗。这不是动力工程师可以自己做的事情。应用数学家和统计人员需要开发模型，以捕捉多个生产者和消费者之间的这些相互作用如何实时发生，以及它们是否可以导致混乱。通信工程师需要确保时间限制和这些交互的安全性。也需要经济学家 - 确定此过程中涉及的市场动态。

The multi-disciplinarity of smart grid research problems that need to be tackled is one of the key challenges for us. This book consolidates some of the most promising and transformative recent research done in this area so far in hopes of laying the foundation for future advances.