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Dr. Moses’ NSF CAREER research award was recognized at the 2023 OU Research and Creative Activity Awards Banquet. It was also publicized in several news outlets.

Solar storms behind Northern Lights could be a problem for future N.W.T. power grids | CBC News

How Aurora Borealis Affects Renewable Energy Incorporated Grids (azocleantech.com)

How could the Aurora Borealis affect energy grids when renewables are added to the mix? (yahoo.com)

How could the Aurora Borealis affect energy grids when renewables are added to the mix?

Dr. Moses was part of a group from all over the U.S. that was invited to participate in the U.S. Navy’s Distinguished Visitors program. Dr. Moses had the privilege of flying out on an Osprey and landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson for a two-day overnight stay at sea. The group also got to tour the USS Scranton (SSN-756) submarine. Thank you to the U.S. Navy for providing this unique opportunity to experience naval operations at sea.

February 2023 – Moses Lab received the NSF CAREER Award 2023.

Congratulations to Vinushika Panchalogaranjan and Srijana Shrestha for their recent journal publications tackling grid resiliency:

• V. Panchalogaranjan, P. S. Moses and N. Shumaker, “Case Study of a Severe Ice Storm Impacting Distribution Networks in Oklahoma,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability (Accepted for Publication), 2023.
• S. Shrestha, V. Panchalogaranjan and P. S. Moses, “The February 2021 U.S. Southwest power crisis,” Elsevier – Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 217, p. 109124, Apr. 2023.

Thomas Fugate, undergraduate student Class of 2022, is working hard on assembling a PV array system for experiments. Well done, Thomas.

Jonathan Devadason and Marounfa Djibo successfully defended their dissertations recently.

Jonathan’s thesis was titled “Stability Domains and Bifurcations in Series Compensated Power Systems with Weak Interconnections”

Marounfa’s thesis was titled “Protection and Disturbance Mitigation of Next Generation Shipboard Power Systems”

Wanghao Fei successfully defended his dissertation on May 3, 2021. His thesis was titled “Real Time Distribution Network Protection Considering the Impact of Renewable Energy”

Daniel Glover successfully defended his dissertation on April 30, 2021. His thesis was titled “A Study of Solar Photovoltaic Grid Integration in Radial Distribution Systems”

Spiers New Technology, an Oklahoma based company specializing in energy storage systems for electric vehicles and grid support, is contributing to a Department of Energy research project at the University of Oklahoma with the donation of a WattTower battery energy storage system. Each WattTower is rated at 56 kWh capacity, 400 Vdc and 57 kW peak power.

The company installed and commissioned two batteries that will be used as distributed energy resources for a unique testbed being built at OU.

The upgrades to the lab are progressing – Daniel Glover (MS student) and Dylan Watz (Undergraduate) helping to install SCADA infrastructure for the testbed

PhD students Wanghao Fei and Jonathan Devadason have each received OU Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation of Excellence Awards. The award recognizes PhD students who have achieved outstanding research results while encouraging them to complete their dissertations with excellence.

Wanghao’s dissertation is focused on new power system protection algorithms geared towards improved fault identification for distribution feeders with high penetration of volatile renewable energy sources. Wanghao also received the Farrar Endowment scholarship because of his outstanding research.

Jonathan’s dissertation is researching new wind farm stability disturbances and their mitigation in weak power grids. He also received the P.H. Robinson Fellowship and William H. Barkov Scholarship for his high quality research outcomes.

Congratulations to Daniel Glover who received an American Indian Science and Engineering Society, Intel Growing the Legacy Scholarship, for Graduate Students. Daniel received this award because of his exceptional performance during his past internship with Intel and high quality research he is currently carrying out for his Master’s degree at OU.

Congratulations to Wanghao Fei for completing his summer internship with Hitachi-ABB Power Grids. Based on his exemplary performance with Hitachi-ABB Power Grids, he has been offered an extension of his internship employment towards fall. Wanghao achieved the top evaluation scores out of all interns working in the team.

OU has been awarded a $4.5 Million grant plus $1.7 Million cost-share from industry partners to study solar photovoltaic system integration into distribution feeders. The work will focus on new power system protection techniques to contend with new transient disturbance features generated by faults propagating in grids with high penetration inverter-based energy resources. OU is leading a consortium to develop a world-class power system protection testbed to prototype new protective relaying and fault management scenarios.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/project-profile-university-oklahoma-assist

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Wanghao Fei for his published a paper titled “Fault Current Tracing and Identification via Machine Learning Considering Distributed Energy Resources in Distribution Networks ” Energies 2019, 12(22), 4333; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12224333

Outstanding work

Ph.D. students Wanghao Fei and Jonathan Devadason presented papers at the 2019 Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE) Conference in Oshawa, Canada, and, the 2019 IEEE Power and Energy Systems General Meeting Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, respectively.

Jonathan and Wanghao were awarded a best paper/presentation award for the paper titled “Bifurcation Analysis of Weak Electrical Grids Considering Different Load Representations,” in Proc. 2019 IEEE 7th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), Oshawa, ON, Canada, 2019, pp. 208-212.

Congratulations on the excellent team effort.

Professor Rahman visited the LEEPS facility at The University of Oklahoma on March 1 2019.

Professor Rahman is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech, USA where he is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner. He is the President of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES). He was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. In 2006 he served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the vice president for publications. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power & Energy Society and has lectured on renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid, electric power system operation and planning, etc. in over 30 countries. He served as the chair of the US National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. He has conducted several energy efficiency related projects for Duke Energy, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the US Department of Defense, the State of Virginia and the U.S. Department of Energy.

A new addition to the laboratory is the 100 kW ac-dc-ac Semikron Power Converter. This device will enable reconfigurable testbeds for testing electromagnetic transient phenomena and dynamics in weak grids with distributed energy resources. Thanks to our students for helping with its installation into the facility.

On 26 October 2018, the Energy Conversion class toured the Purcell OK substation, courtesy of the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority.

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The first phase of the laboratory on the 2nd floor is completed with commissioning in June 2018 and currently has several active research experiments.  The Gallogly College of Engineering has recently approved plans for further expansion of the laboratory into the ground floor of the high bay facility.  The new space will undergo renovations for new work benches, security fencing and various high-power machinery and power system testbeds.

Renovations will commence in the Fall of 2018 and is expected to be completed mid Spring of 2019.  The expanded lab will also be used for integrated teaching and research for power engineering curriculum development.

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