Réseaux de transport et de

distribution d’énergie électrique:

Power Electronics Interfaces for Distributed Generation

ALI MEHRIZI-SANI
Associate Professor

JANUARY 2023
ESIGELEC
ROUEN, FRANCE

POWER AND ENERGY CENTER

portions
Background

! Associate Professor, Virginia Tech 2019 to now

! Associate Professor, Washington State University 2018 to 2019
! Assistant Professor, Washington State University 2012 to 2018
" PhD Research Assistant, University of Toronto 2007 to 2011
" MSc Research Assistant, University of Manitoba 2005 to 2007
# BSc Student, Sharif University of Technology 2000 to 2005

$ Invited Professor, ESIGELEC 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

% Invited Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University 2019
" Research Engineer, CanmetENERGY 2019
" Visiting Scientist, Manitoba Hydro International 2018
& Visiting Professor, TU Graz 2014, 2016, 2018
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 DR. ALI MEHRIZI-SANI
Associate Professor
Director, Resilient Renewable Energy Grid Adaptation Laboratory (REGAL)
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech

• IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award

• IEEE Mac E. Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award
• IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award

ACADEMIC/INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

• 2019-Present: Associate Professor, Virginia Tech • $9,100,000 in total research funding
• 2012-2019: Assistant & Associate Professor, WSU • Over 150 refereed publications
• 2013-Now: Visiting Professor or Consultant • Major thrusts of research:
• ESIGELEC, France • Grid/microgrid integration of
• TU Graz, Austria inverter-based renewables
• Intellisense • Smart Wires, Inc. • Right Analytics • Map of Talks/Projects
especially in low-inertia
Natural Resources Canada • Manitoba Hydro systems, as grid-forming
International inverters;
• Past or Present Associate Editor for • High-performance controls, including machine learning for
• IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery black-boxed systems;
• IEEE Transactions on Power Systems • Applications of HVDC and FACTS for power routing and
• IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion resiliency;
• IEEE Power Engineering Letters • Cybersecure communication-based control and protection
• IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution methods using 5G and beyond.
• MDPI Energies • MDPI Electronics

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About Director, Resilient Renewable Energy Grid
Adaptation Laboratory (REGAL)
RESEARCH AREAS
AE, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
o Grid/microgrid integration of inverter-based AE, IEEE Power Engineering Letters
renewables especially in low-inertia systems; AE, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
o High-performance controls, including methods
to improve black-boxed controllers and Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
cybersecurity; Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
o Applications of HVDC and FACTS for power Editor, Wiley International Transactions on
routing and resiliency. Electrical Energy Systems (ITEES)
Chair, IEEE TF on Dynamic System
Equivalents
Secretary, CIGRE Working Group C4.34 on
Application of PMUs for Monitoring
Power System Dynamic Performance.
Member, ATIS Next G Alliance Green G WG.
Member, CIGRE WG D2.55 Application of 5G
Technology to Smart Grids

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Course Description Required Background
This course, in general, talks about • Electrical Power Systems: Three-phase
multisource power systems. circuits; transformers; phasors.
Specifically, we discuss • Power Electronics: Basic DC topologies;
inverters; PWM.
• Electric power generation • MATLAB/SIMULINK: You also need to be
technologies; familiar with MATLAB for the.
• Power flow formulation and · PSCAD
solution; and
• Advanced modulation techniques for
power electronics-based inverters
for drives and renewables.

mehrizi e vt.edu
Electric Power Generation Topics
Technologies • Overview of power system components
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conversion (not “generation”) of and Brayton cycles), hydro, and
energy mechanical, nuclear, renewable, renewables
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Solution System operators continually run power
Power flow studies are at the heart of flow studies to ensure the power system
power system studies; power flow remains stable and currents and voltages
determines, based on the given remain within prescribed ranges to avoid
generation and load scenarios and the system blackouts, outages, and unsafe
network topology, what the line operation conditions.
currents and the bus voltages will be.

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• Formulation of power flow and review
some solution techniques
& • Review of KVL and KCL equations
• Conversion of equation to power flow
(V-PQ) equations based on the typical
knowns (loads and generation) and
unknowns (voltages)
• Solution techniques
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Power Electronics Interfaces Topics
• Building an inverter from a basic DC-DC
Most modern generation forms involve converter
some sort of power electronics • Modulation methods: Advanced PWM
interfaces. and SVM

Power electronics discusses how one We will also discuss examples and
form of electrical power is converted simulation case studies.
to another; this could involve changes
in voltage magnitude, shape,
frequency, and power quality.

There are four types of converters:

(i) DC-DC converters,
(ii) DC-AC converters (inverters),
(iii) AC-DC converters (rectifiers), and
(iv) AC-AC converters. We will
emphasize inverters.
Renewable Portfolio Standard Policies

www.dsireusa.org / September 2020 100).

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ME: 100% x 2050
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WA: 15% x 2020*
NH: 25.2% x 2025
(100% x 2045)
ND: 10% x 2015 MN: 26.5% VT: 75% x 2032

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MT: 15% x 2015
x 2025 (IOUs) MA: 35% x 2030 + 1% each
OR: 50%x 2040* 31.5% x 2020 year thereafter (new resources)
(large utilities) (Xcel) WI:
10% 2015 NY:70% x 2030 6.7% x 2020 (existing resources)
5 SD: 10% x 2015 (100% x
MI: 15% x (100% x 2040) (80% x 2050)
2050) RI: 38.5% x 2035; 100% x
2021*†
NV: 50% x IA: 105 MW 2030 Goal
2030 IN: OH: 8.5%
CT: 40% x 2030; (100% x
(100% x 2050) IL: 25% 10% x x 2026
UT: 20% x 2040)
CO: 30% by 2020 x 2026 2025†
2025*† (IOUs) *†
VA: 100% x NJ: 50% x 2030; (100% x
CA: 60% KS: 20% x 2020 MO:15% x 2045/2050
(100% x 2050) DC 2050)
x 2030 2021 PA: 18% x 2021†
(100% x 2045) NC: 12.5% x 2021 (IOUs)
DE: 25% x 2026*
NM: 80%x 2040 OK: 15% x
AZ: 15% x MD: 50% x 2030
(IOUs) 2015 SC: 2% 2021
2025*
(100% by 2045 DC: 100% x 2032
(IOUs))

TX: 5,880 MW x 2015*

30 States + DC have a
Renewable Portfolio
FL Standard, 5 states have a
U.S. Territories Clean Energy Standard
HI: 100% x 2045
NMI: 20% x 2016 Guam: 25% x 2035 (8 states have renewable
PR: 100% x 2050 USVI: 30% x 2025
portfolio goals, 5 states have
clean energy goals)

*†
Renewable portfolio standard Clean energy standard Extra credit for solar or customer-sited renewables
Renewable portfolio goal Clean energy goal Includes non-renewable alternative resources
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PSCAD Simulations
• Please follow the instruction video guide at
https://www.pscad.com/software/pscad/free-edition

• You need a Windows machine (or Parallels and similar products

on a Mac to run PSCAD).

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Resilient Renewable Energy Grid
Adaptation Laboratory (REGAL)

ALI mehrizi-SANI
Associate Professor
POWER AND ENERGY CENTER

[email protected]
mehriziSANI.COM

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