{"id":1213,"date":"2024-10-23T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2024-11-05T08:17:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T13:17:58","slug":"nsf-mit-wvu-ws-ibr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/2024\/10\/23\/nsf-mit-wvu-ws-ibr\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF workshop on IBRs at MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>October 2024<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MITwsOct24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1219\" src=\"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MITwsOct24-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MITwsOct24-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MITwsOct24-1024x518.png 1024w, https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MITwsOct24-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MITwsOct24.png 1501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many thanks to <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/directory.statler.wvu.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/anurag-srivastava\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof. Anurag Srivastava<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, West Virginia University, and <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/meche.mit.edu\/people\/faculty\/aanna%40mit.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof. Anuradha Annaswamy<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, MIT, for inviting me to their NSF-supported <a href=\"https:\/\/resilientpowergrid.ai\/boston-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workshop on “<em><strong>Enabling Cyber-Resilient Distribution Systems with Edge Inverter-Based Resources (IBR)<\/strong><\/em>” at MIT, Boston, on Saturday Oct. 19th<\/a>.\u00a0 I reviewed my work on <a href=\"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/2022\/01\/24\/electrical-grid-digital-twin\/\">digital twins<\/a> of distribution transformers and overhead conductors and made the case for why digital twins of IBRs are becoming imminently necessary, if we wish to maintain a high level of reliability, stability and security in electrical grids with high shares of Renewable Energy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The overall consensus of the group was that, although there are many methods, platforms and hardware to optimally and effectively control and use IBRs, there are still many open questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are uncertain about the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">interactions among IBRs<\/span>,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">standards and guidelines are not always followed<\/span> by IBR owners,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We need <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">robust IBR model validation<\/span>,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">topology of distribution systems might be an additional unknown factor<\/span> that affects greatly the IBR effects to the grid,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The industry is already faced with challenges<\/span> in integrating and controlling large numbers of IBRs under critical conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The workshop allowed me to reconnect with many great friends and colleagues. I was overjoyed to also meet with one of my students from my PhD time back in Greece, <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elli-ntakou-79771552\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Elli Ntakou<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Dr. Ntakou is now working at Eversource and presented their work on resilience under climate risks. It was fun to have us take a photo along with my PhD student <a href=\"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/degidal\/group\/\">Ioannis Vourkas<\/a>, as a form of my academic circle from the 2010s to the 2020s, and from Greece to the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2024 Many thanks to Prof. Anurag Srivastava, West Virginia University, and Prof. Anuradha Annaswamy, MIT, for inviting me to their NSF-supported workshop on “Enabling Cyber-Resilient Distribution Systems with Edge Inverter-Based Resources (IBR)” at MIT, Boston, on Saturday Oct. 19th.\u00a0 I reviewed my work on digital twins of distribution transformers and overhead conductors and made … <a href=\"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/2024\/10\/23\/nsf-mit-wvu-ws-ibr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NSF workshop on IBRs at MIT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit-wvu-workshop-on-ibrs","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panay1ot1s.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}