EXCOM, Buffet and Hawaii Section COM19/SP01 Chapter Technical Talk
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Location / Time Maple Gardens Restaurant / 1 July 2013, 5:30 pm
Location / Time Maple Gardens Restaurant / 1 July 2013, 5:30 pm
Title: The University of Hawai’i Smart Sustainable Microgrid Project
Abstract: This talk starts by discussing
Hawai’i’s energy landscape and the Renewable Energy and Island Sustainability (REIS)
program. The state of Hawai’i and the US Department of Energy (DOE) signed a
memorandum of understanding in 2008 known as the Hawai’i Clean Energy
Initiative (HCEI) requiring 70% of Hawaii’s energy come from clean sources by
2030.
At the beginning of 2009 we formed a multidisciplinary
research and education program at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, (REIS) to
focus on renewable energy, sustainability, and smart grids. The REIS group won
an internal UHM sustainability competition in 2009 and in 2010 won a DOE work
force training grant in the Strategic Training and Education in Power
Systems. We discuss goals of our group
including building the REIS program,
research and education activities, and interfacing with other UHM sustainability
efforts, outside academic
institutions, industry, and government.
We then discuss the University of Hawai’i Manoa (UHM)
Smart Sustainable Microgrid Project.
This project is in coordination with the UHM Department of Electrical
Engineering, UHM facilities, and Hawaiian Electric Company. We discuss some of the goals and research of
this project which include; sensing and monitoring, modeling and analysis,
optimization and control, and social and economic and policy
considerations. This talk focuses on
applying signal processing methods to the sensing and monitoring project and
also the modeling and analysis project. We also discuss a new Smart Campus
Energy Lab and the UHM microgrid which
will serve as a laboratory testbed.
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