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.