Development of Complex Systems Theories and Methods for Resilient and Sustainable Electric Power and

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Development of Complex Systems Theories and
Methods for Resilient and Sustainable Electric
Power and Communications Infrastructures

• L. Mili, PI, Virginia Tech
• S. Shukla, Co-PI, Virginia Tech
• M. R. von Spakovsky, Co-PI, Virginia Tech
• B. F. Hobbs, Co-PI, Johns Hopkins University
• A. Urken, Co-PI, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Senior Research Personnel

• Y. Liu, Virginia Tech
• C. S. Norman, Johns Hopkins University
• R. Pires, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil
• A. V. Zampieri, Pontifica Universidade Católica
  do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• F. A. B. Lemos, Pontifica Universidade Católica
  do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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Wholesale Market
Communications Network
Electric Power System
Retail Market - Microgrids
Robustness, resiliency, sustainability
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Project Description

• Extend the highly optimized tolerance approach to
  optimally placing resources across interdependent
  electric power and communications infrastructures
  to mitigate cascading failures .
• Develop a distributed agent system to control a
  host of microgrids that are operated by
  businesses interacting in vibrant retail markets
  providing incentives for energy savings and
  survivability.
• Develop the theoretical foundations of a
  two-level sustainability assessment framework
  (SAF) that makes use of indicators based on
  sustainability indicators and total cost
  functions.
• Infrastructures in Southern Brazil will serve as
  test beds for evaluating resiliency and
  sustainability methodology

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Transformative Objectives

• Paradigm shift in the operation and planning of
  interdependent critical infrastructures with
  enhanced efficiency, robustness and flexibility
  together with significant emissions reductions.
• Provide innovative theories and methods to risk
  management of industrial systems.
• Provide proof of concept for innovative
  error-resilient data fusion for decision making
  of spatially distributed autonomous agents.
• Demonstrate the applications of the developed
  two-level sustainability assessment framework.

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Project Management Plan

• As the lead PI, Dr. Mili will monitor and
  coordinate project tasks. He will supervise one
  graduate student in power and will facilitate the
  contacts with the power industry and Federal
  agencies.
• Dr. Shukla will supervise one GRA in
  communications. He will facilitate the contacts
  with experts of the communications industry.
• Dr. von Spakovsky will supervise one GRA in
  sustainability. He will facilitate the contacts
  with the experts on sustainability at the
  University of Zaragoza in Spain.

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Project Management Plan

• Dr. Urken will supervise one graduate student in
  the social and decision-making area.
• Dr. Hobbs will supervise one graduate student in
  microgrids finance and economics.
• Group meetings will be organized on a weekly
  basis via Skype conference calls.
• Annual workshops will be organized by one Co-PI
  and will be hosted in one of the three
  universities involved in the project.

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S. Shukla (Co-PI) Communications 1 GRA
A. Urken (Co-PI) Social Science 1 GRA
L. Mili (PI) Power Systems 1 GRA, 1 SRP
B. Hobbs (Co-PI) Economics 1 GRA, 1 SRP
M. von Spakovsky (Co-PI) Sustainability 1 GRA
R. Pires (SRP) S. Brazilian utilities 2 GRA, 2 SRP