At the invitation of Smart Grid Operation and Optimization Laboratory(SGOOL), Prof. Wei-Jen Lee from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and his Ph.D. candidate, Mr. Long Zhao,visited College of Electrical Engineering (CEE), Zhejiang University (ZJU). They delivered academic reports at Electrical Engineering Building, Yuquan Campus of ZJU on the morning of December 14th,2018. The report meeting was hosted by Prof. Can Wan. Prof. Huanhai Xin from CEE, ZJU, Prof. Zhenyuan Zhang from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and other teachers and students coming from the college attended the report meeting.
The topicof Prof. Lee’s report is “Seamless Integration of Renewable Energy”.First, he introduced the globaldevelopment of renewable energyand pointed out that wind power started from Europe,but wasrapidly developed in China.He believed thatthe future energy would be cleaner andsmarter. Prof. Lee took the Texas region as an example to discuss the impacts of renewable generation on power system operation, the advantages of offshore wind power generation, the pricing of wind power in the market environment, and the solution for high or low voltage ride throughof wind power in order.Subsequently, Prof. Lee introduced the new strategyof using battery swap stations of electric vehicles to smooth wind power fluctuations.In addition, Prof. Lee also highlighted the safety issues in power systemoperations by showing the accident video clips.At the end of the report,Prof. Lee also hadactive interactions with the teachers and students.
The second part is the report on “The Impact of Time-of-Use on Consumption Patterns of The Residential Customers”, presented by Mr. Long Zhao.Long Zhao demonstrated the impacts of time-of-use electricity price on the demand responseand introducedthe ongoingtime-of-use price experimentin Shanghai, China. Then he summarized the time-of-use pricing issues that deserves China government’sattentions.Finally, Long Zhao analyzed the development of the current electricity price packages in the power market of Texas based on the idea of consumer psychology in economics.
After the academic reports, the teachers and students hadheated discussions on relevant issues and took a group photo to mark the occasion.
Biography: Professor Lee, IEEE Fellow, is a professor of the Electrical Engineering Department and the director of the Energy Systems Research Center in the University of Texas at Arlington. He iscurrently the Vice President of the IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS). He has ever been a member of IEEE-IAS Fellow Members Committee (2014-2016),a member of IEEE-PES Fellow Members Committee (2016), a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) of IEEE IAS (2017-2018) and a member of IEEE Fellow Members Committee (2017-2020). He is alsoan editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IAS Magazine, and a member of MPEC and CSEE JPES Editorial Committee. He has been involved in the revision of IEEE Std. 141, 339, 551, 739, 1584, and dot 3000 series development.He is the project manager of IEEE/NFPA Collaboration on Arc Flash Phenomena Research Project.
Prof. Lee has been involved in research on utility deregulation, renewable energy, smart grid, microgrid, energy internet and virtual power plants (VPP), arc flash hazards and electrical safety, load and wind capacity forecasting, power quality, distribution automation and demand side management, power systems analysis, online real-time equipment diagnostic and prognostic system, and microcomputer based instrument for power systems monitoring, measurement, control, and protection. He has served as the primary investigator (PI) or Co-PI of over one hundred funded research projects with the total amount exceed US$16 million dollars. He has published more than one hundred and fifty journal papers and two hundred sixty conference proceedings.
Text:Weiting Qian and Mengjing Wu
Images: Weiting Qian
