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Sandia's Grid Modernization Program Newsletter | May 2017
Covering topics that include energy storage, renewable
energy integration, transmission planning and operations, defense energy,
cybersecurity and more, Sandia’s quarterly Grid Modernization
Program Newsletter features research highlights, upcoming events,
technical achievements, and new publications and patents. News stories are also
available on Sandia’s
Grid Modernization website. We hope you enjoy!
In this Issue:
GMLC Project Delivers Cost-effective Resiliency
Recommendations for New Orleans
Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratory have delivered
technical assistance to the City of New Orleans in partnership with Entergy
Corporation, 100 Resilient Cities, and the Sewerage and Water Board of New
Orleans to develop a set of risk-informed, cost-effective recommendations that
will improve community resilience to events such as hurricanes, tornados, and
floods. Many of the recommendations provided suggest areas of the city
where microgrids can support clustered critical
buildings when disruptions cause the larger electric grid to lose
power. Buildings considered for service include hospitals, dialysis
centers, emergency response facilities, grocery stores, pharmacies, gas
stations, and several others that are vital to the recovery and survival of New
Orleanians. The recommendations were developed by modeling and analysis of how
real and hypothetical hurricanes impact the city’s ability to serve its
population with infrastructure services. Then, the team identified the
most cost-effective locations where grid improvements would enable services to
remain available during future disruptions. This project is one of ten under the Security and Resilience Technical Area, led by
Sandia, of the Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium funded by the U.S.
Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative.
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Sandia Contributes to Dept. of
Defense Report on Energy Systems for Forward/Remote Operating Bases
The DoD Defense
Science Board (DSB) has published the “Task Force on Energy Systems for
Forward/Remote Operating Bases”, stating that energy usage on the battlefield is likely to increase
over the next few decades. The report provides recommendations on how to
improve energy delivery and management and identifies technologies that have
potential to provide reliable, abundant, and continuous energy. During the
report preparation, Sandia provided a briefing to the DSB on the lab’s ongoing
R&D efforts and defense energy projects and recommendations based on
experience. Learn more about Sandia’s Defense Energy capabilities.
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Sandia Receives
Enabling Extreme Real-Time Grid Integration of Solar Energy (ENERGISE) Project
Award
Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded a
three-year, $2.5 million project to help utility companies better visualize,
manage, and protect power systems as they include increasing numbers of
distributed energy resources such as wind and solar. This ENERGISE project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative—a national effort to drive down the cost of
solar electricity and support solar adoption. SunShot aims to make solar energy
a low cost electricity source for all Americans through research and
development efforts in collaboration with public and private partners.
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Energy Storage
Systems Safety Forum Presentations and Photos Available Online
Over 130
participants from industry, academia, national labs, the Department of Energy,
Singapore, South Korea, and Canada, came together February 22-24 in Santa Fe,
NM for Meeting the Challenge: 2017 ESS
Safety Forum. Participants discussed the current state of energy storage
system safety and mitigation strategies for improving cell to system level
safety and reliability. A summary report will be generated with these findings.
Photos of the event can be viewed here, and presentations approved for
public release are available
for download.
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Sandia
Delivers Energy Assurance and Advanced Microgrid Conceptual Design Course at
the Pentagon
As a follow on to
the Microgrids Webinar presented in October, Sandia led a 2-day
microgrids design workshop March 13-14 at the Pentagon in Washington DC. The
workshop was held in partnership with the US Army Corps of Engineers and the
Tactical Microgrids Standards Consortium. Forty people attended the training
course, and each student received their own 250-page bound course book with
background information, discussion papers, and course slides as well as a
50-page work book with example problems and worksheets. The course provided basic
training on energy assurance and advanced microgrid design that included both
technical presentation, class discussions, and working example microgrid
analysis and design problems using representative infrastructure and load data.
A second microgrid training course will be taught May 9-10 in Washington
DC, with 50 people attending. An additional 40 people are on the waiting
list for a third training course offering later this summer.
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Call for Papers is Extended for EESAT 2017
The 10th Biennial Electrical Energy Storage Applications and
Technologies (EESAT) Conference will be held October 11-13, 2017 at the Westin
Hotel—Gaslamp District, in San Diego, CA. The 2017 EESAT Conference
will provide a platform to revisit research and development, technologies,
applications, and projects that have helped to shape the science and industry
of energy storage and to make presentations about new directions for energy
storage and how it can address challenges of the smarter, more modern
electricity grid. Submit the abstract submission form to snl_energy_storage@sandia.gov by May 30.
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Registration is Open for the 2nd
Secure & Resilient Microgrid Design Summit
The 2nd Sandia & EPRI Secure & Resilient
Microgrid Design Summit will be co-located with APRISE 2017 and the Defense
Energy Technology Challenge July 19-20 at the beautiful Hale Koa Hotel on Fort
DeRussy Armed Forces Recreation Center, Waikiki, Honolulu, HI. This summit will
bring together stakeholders and practitioners from the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, national
laboratories, universities, civilian communities, utilities, regulators, and
industry to discuss planning, designing, justifying, and implementing energy
secure and resilient microgrid designs. Register online before
July 1.
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Webinar Recordings Available
In partnership with the Clean Energy States Alliance, Sandia recently
participated in three webinars that are available to view:
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3/8/17 Webinar: Developing an
Energy Storage Project: A Technical Perspective
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3/13/17 Webinar: Comparing the
Abilities of Energy Storage, PV, and Other Distributed Energy Resources to Provide
Grid Services
- 4/27/17 Webinar: The Value Proposition for Energy Storage at the Sterling Municipal Light Department
Website Updates
Gridmod.sandia.gov and its affiliated pages have recently been updated with a
modern design that includes upcoming events, Sandia’s grid modernization
history, downloadable resources, key personnel, and contact information, making
it easier to stay up-to-date with the latest information.
Upcoming Events
Join Sandia's grid experts at several external engagements in the coming months:
- May 2-4: Joint Services Power Expo, Virginia Beach VA
- May 7-10: BATTCon International Stationary Battery Conference, Orlando, FL
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May 10-11: 2017 Frontiers in Resilience Symposium, Arlington, VA
- June 15: IEEE PES/EESB Energy Storage Tutorial, Chattanooga, TN
- July 16-20: IEEE PES General Meeting, Chicago, IL
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June 19-22: Military Operations Research Symposium, West Point Military Academy
- July 19-20: Secure & Resilient Microgrid Design Summit
New Jersey Transit Microgrid
Project Wins a Technology Transfer Award
Sandia recently won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) 2017
State and Local Economic Development Recognition award for its work on the New Jersey Transit Microgrid
project. Sandia’s partnership with NJT focused on the Energy Surety Microgrid
developed at Sandia. The labs did a feasibility study under the MOU and, after
an initial design was completed, New Jersey was awarded $410 million from the
Department of Transportation to develop NJ TRANSITGRID, a first-of-its-kind
electric microgrid for transportation that can supply highly reliable power
during storms or other times when the centralized power grid is compromised.
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Sterling Municipal Light Department Energy Storage Project wins Grid
Edge Award
Sandia contributed to the analysis, request for proposal,
and deployment of a grid energy storage system for the Sterling Municipal Light
Department project that has been named as a 2017 Grid Edge Award winner
by Greentech Media. This 2 MW, 3.9MWh GSS® grid energy storage system is the
largest system of its kind installed in New England and the first utility scale
project in the State. Using solar energy, the system can provide up to 12 days
of clean backup power to critical facilities during an outage. The team will
receive the award at the Grid
Edge World Forum in June.
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Julian Vigil receives
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Julian
Vigil, a student intern in Sandia's Materials, Devices, and Energy Technologies
Department, was awarded a 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate
Research Fellowship. The award was based on Vigil’s demonstrated
potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and
engineering enterprise. Vigil, who has worked with Sandia since his junior
year of high school, researches electrochemical catalysis related to energy
conversion and storage. The work is done under the supervision of Sandia
researcher Timothy Lambert, with whom Vigil has co-authored seven peer-reviewed
publications, including three as first author. Prior acknowledgements include
the Barry Goldwater Scholarship
Award, The Churchill Scholarship, and a 2016 ACS Division of Inorganic
Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research.
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Jon Ihlefeld receives
American Ceramics Society’s Richard M. Fulrath Award
Jon Ihlefeld, a
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia, has been selected to
receive the 2017 Richard M. Fulrath Award from The American Ceramics Society.
Jon was selected by unanimous decision for his contributions to electronic ceramics
research and development. This award recognizes individuals under the age of 45
that have demonstrated excellence in research and development in the ceramics
sciences. Presented to 2 American researchers and 3 Japanese researchers
annually since 1978, this award promotes technical collaboration among the
diverse cultures surrounding the Pacific Rim. Dr. Ihlefeld is internationally
recognized for his work on dielectric integration, funded, in-part, by the DOE Office of Electricity’s Energy Storage
Program managed by Dr. Imre Gyuk; ferroelectrics, funded, in-part, by the
Laboratory Directed Research Development Office at Sandia; and fast ion
conductors, funded, in-part, by the Office of Nuclear Energy. The award will be
presented at the 119th annual meeting of The American Ceramics Society, in
Pittsburg PA, October 9th, 2017.
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Publications
Chen, RLY; Fan, N.; Pinar, A.; Watson, JP. Contingency-constrained
unit commitment with post-contingency corrective recourse,
Annals of Operations Research, Volume 249, Issue 1-2, Pages 381-407, Feb 2017.
Dvorkin, Y; Fernandez-Blanco, R.; Kirschen, D. S.; Pandzic, H.;
Watson, JP; Silva-Monroy, C.A.; Ensuring
Profitability of Energy Storage, IEEE Transactions On Power
Systems, Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 611-623, Jan 2017.
Xu, B.; Wang, Y.; Dvorkin, Y.; Fernandez-Blanco, R.;
Silva-Monroy, C. A.; Watson, JP; Kirschen, D.S.; Scalable Planning for Energy Storage in
Energy and Reserve Markets, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
Volume PP, Issue 99, March 2017.
Zutavern, F.; Mauch, D.; Delhotal, J.; King, M.; Neely, J.; Kizilyalli,I.;
Kaplar, R.; Ultra-Fast
Reverse Recovery Time Measurement for Wide-Bandgap Diodes, IEEE
Transactions on Power Electronics, Volume PP, Issue 99; March 2017.
Cooney, C.; Byrne, R.; Lyons, W.; O'Rourke, F.; Performance
characterisation of a commercial-scale wind turbine operating in an urban
environment, using real data, Energy For Sustainable Development,
Volume 36, Pages 44-54, Feb 2017.
Patents
Patent Application No. 13592, filed 1/4/17: Functionalization of
Diels-Alder Polyphenylene Polymers
Patent Application No. 13741, filed 1/4/17: Poly (Phenylene) -
Based Anion Exchange Polymers and Methods Thereof
Patent Application No. 13679, filed 2/7/17: Low-Inductance
Direct Current Power Bus
Patent Application No. 13288, filed 3/16/17: Cation-enhanced
chemical stability of ion-conducting zirconium-based ceramics
Patent Application No. 13864, filed 3/20/17: Systems and Methods
for Active Damping Control of Inter-area Oscillations in Large-Scale
Interconnected Power Systems
Patent Application
No. 13555, filed 3/20/17: Systems and Methods using Collaborative Controls to
Maintain Anti-Islanding Standards
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