Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advisor: Baosen Zhang
During my CEI Graduate Fellowship, my research will focus on improving how we control and analyze electrical power systems that use inverters with renewable energy sources like solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries. Inverters help convert the power from these resources into a form that works with our electrical power grid. However, inverters have limits on how much electrical current and power they can output, and if not controlled properly, they can cause reliability risks for the grid. My work will develop new control strategies to ensure inverters can support the grid effectively without exceeding the current limits of the inverter when there are faults in the system. These strategies will allow more clean energy to be generated within the grid without risking blackouts.