Strategy for Developing a Nationally-Recognized Center for Agile and Interconnected Microgrids

(AIM)

Bill Predebon Professor and Department Chair

Gordon Parker John & Cathi Drake Professor

Rush Robinett Richard and Elizabeth Henes Professor Director of Research

11 February 2013 Update August 30, 2013

MEEM EAB MeetingFall 2013

Attachment G

National Center for AIM

National Center Introduction Group of researchers developing knowledge toward a common, well defined goal providing value to the U.S. through knowledge creation and technology spinoff.

•External Research Funding •University Support (facilities & people) •Industry / Federal Lab Feedback

•Educated Students •Curriculum Innovation •Archival Publications •User Facility Services •Technology Transfer •National Visibility for Michigan Tech

National Center for Agile and

Interconnected Microgrids

Michigan Tech will be a key national resource for creating knowledge and training engineers to achieve the Nation’s energy objectives through microgrid modeling, control and optimization.

Create a national center funded by multiple agencies with federal, academic, and commercial partners - TARDEC, ARL, NSWC, NSF, OSD, Oshkosh Truck, Caterpillar, GE, etc.

• Existing Facilities - HEV/Microgrid Mobile Lab, Controllable Microgrid Testbench, the Keweenaw Research Center - Military Vehicles, Building-scale Microgrid (net-positive)

• New capabilities with investment from Michigan Tech - Scalable Microgrid Test Facility (1s, 10s, 100s, 1000s), the Prepositioned Power Testbed

MTU’s View Vision

Approach

Uniqueness

AIM is an interdisciplinary team working with state-of-the-art facilities to create knowledge and mentor students focused on solving future, long-term technical challenges of implementing commercial and military microgrids using an energy surety framework.

•Stability, Optimization and Control •Agent-based Informatics •Cybersecurity •Economics

•Intelligent Power Electronics •Energy Storage Systems •Education •Human Factors

FIX ME

AC/DC Microgrid Power Electronics & Control Testbed

Mobile Sustainable Transportation Lab

Organization

Centers and Institutes

Electrical and Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering

School of Business and Economics Service Systems Engineering

Mathematics Computer Science

Centers and Institutes

Advanced Power Systems Research Center Michigan Tech Transportation Institute

Multiscale Systems Institute Power and Energy Research Center

KRC

Academic Units

National Center for Agile and Interconnected Microgrids

Optimization Control Power Electronics Cyber Physical Systems

Mobile Hybrid Electrical Vehicle & Microgrid Laboratory Agent Control Microgrid Testbed

Human Factors Modeling & Simulation Embedded Control Experimentation Economics

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AIM

This effort has the full backing of Michigan Tech’s administration from President Mroz and his executive team down to department chairs and faculty.

Government Relations - Providing visibility with Senate and House leaders and obtaining help with collaborations and direction (e.g. TARDEC).

Resources - $1M Henes Chair of Mechanical Engineering, New $500k Henes Chair, John & Cathi Drake Professorship,$400k in direct dollars for new capability development.

Center Creation - The Michigan Tech Center for Agile and Interconnected Microgrids (AIM) was approved in Nov 2012 giving a structure to the existing research momentum.

Alumni - Commercial sector IP development and technology transfer, TARDEC Director (Paul Rogers), OSD (Mike Aimone), large automotive and military vehicle presence.

Tactic - Leverage university investments and resources to obtain federal, academic and commercial collaboration. Team - 13 Faculty and 2 Research staff across campus - Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Science, Mathematics, Human Factors, Education.

Institutional Support & Teaming

A New Microgrid Strategy Typical Microgrid Strategy

AIM Microgrid Strategy

Isolated microgrid-related R&D in both ECE and MEEM

Transition Point

2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008

AIM Center Plan Timeline

ECE / MEEM collaborative proposals focusing on microgrid research with capability development and an 18 month plan to determine center feasibility

Henes Chair in Energy Systems Kickoff

Center pre-proposal & partner development. University alignment.

Center proposal process

Center Starts

(1) Interdisciplinary faculty and staff team formed. (2) Michigan Tech Center created. (3) Capability development and demonstrations. (4) Henes Chair filled. (5) New chaired faculty position funded (6) hired research faculty, e.g. Steven Goldsmith, Mark Vaughn

2017 2018

AIM Center Plan Timeline (Cont.)(Update) 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008

NSF - Competitive Distributed Control Methodologies for Small-Scale Power Systems

USACE ERDC/CERL - Modeling, Simulation and Control of Army Installation Microgrids to Enhance Stability, Security and Reliability

DOE - Advanced Electric Drive Vehicle Education Program (Mobile Lab)

TARDEC - Military Hybrid Vehicle Optimization & Control

Sandia - Microgrid Modeling and Optimization for high penetration renewables integration (Bench Scale Microgrid)

Caterpillar Inc. - Modeling, Simulation and Decentralized Control of Ac Microgrids for Stability and Scalability

Sandia - Agent Based Control With Application to Microgrids with High Penetration Renewables

• MTU Autonomous Prepositioned Power Conversion and Distribution (Plan/Executing; NATO Draft Proposal) • MTU / NSF 1s, 10s, 100s, 1000s of Interconnected Microgrids (Plan/Executing; FY14 DOE Target) • MTU/ Commercial Ship Microgrid with Equipment Regeneration Control (First meeting/Partner Proposal) • MTU / NSF Building Microgrid Storage Systems Modeling & Control (3 DOE Buildings Proposals Rejected) • TARDEC Vehicle-to-Vehicle & Vehicle / Microgrid Harmonization / cyber security (August Start) • ARL Distributed Agent-Based Management of Agile Microgrids (Started July 2013) • NSF Interdisciplinary Energy-Based Engineering Curriculum (Editing Proposal – UNM/MTU Fall ‘14 Class) • OSD Mobile Energy Command Center - Response to Comments from Sharon Burke (Starting w/ SNL) • DOE OE Networked Microgrid Project (Started Sept. 2013)

2013 & Beyond

Targets of Opportunity

Microgrid Opportunities

Fixed Installations

FOB Cities / Bases Building Level

Mobile and Interconnected Microgrids

HEMTT - 75kW MRAP with Numerous GFE Loads Ships connected by

shore power - 48MW

• Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) outreach • IP commercialization • Curriculum development • Military-to-civilian technology training • PEV vehicle charging and peak shaving • V2G for provisional grids - disaster relief • Building storage

Civilian Focus Lead curriculum development and commercial research that educates engineers with skills to solve energy-related, interdisciplinary problems and design next-generation systems. Commercialize IP developed at Michigan Tech to field microgrid and cyber security applications.

STEM Outreach Training Commercialization Curriculum

Automatically & optimally configure available energy generation and storage assets into a power grid, including interconnected microgrids, even when loads and sources are individually significant and stochastic.

Military Focus

Modularity/Robustness: Expansion by interconnection & recoverability by energy management (e.g. shedding, scheduling)

Hi-Tempo Flexibility: Plug & Play ability to utilize available, ad-hoc assets - vehicles, renewables, distributed generation - within a cyber secure framework.

Efficiency/Cost Savings: Ubiquitous communication for improved controls, prediction-based optimization. Classifying and modifying buildings for net-zero and net-positive energy capability.

FOB Cities/Bases HEMTT-75kW Container Ships Buildings

Basic Strategy – Multiple Parallel Targets while Leveraging University Investments based on Market Intelligence

NSF

DoD

2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013

Education Proposal Michele Miller

Microgrid Proposal Wayne Weaver

Cyber Physical Proposal (????)

IGERT Proposal (?????)

NSF-ERC Proposal AIM Team

TARDEC/Sen. Levin Proposal Gordon P./Bill P. (???)

ARL Proposal Wayne Weaver

ARL Center Proposal Wayne Weaver

TARDEC Center Proposal (?????)

TARDEC HEV Proposal Gordon Parker

MURI Proposal AIM Team

Editing proposal for call

Laura Brown is lead. Funds to get into the game

Developing as part of Start-up and SNL

Continuing political issues

August 2013 Start Waiting on first funding

Started July 2013 Connect to Burke (Aimone) and Marines

More interested in DARPA Project, but will connect with Navy MURI

Mahdi – Exergy Control Proposal/Buildings

Basic Strategy – Multiple Parallel Targets while Leveraging University Investments based on Market Intelligence

DoD

2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013

USACE CERL Proposal (????)

NATO Disaster Proposal Wayne/Nina

Navy E.S. Proposal Gordon/Rush

Navy Crane Proposal Gordon Parker

OSD ESTCP Proposal (????)

Writing joint proposal with UT-A

Leban/ONR MURI tied to McCoy, Marines, & ARL

First meeting/Core proposal partner

Basic Strategy – Multiple Parallel Targets while Leveraging University Investments based on Market Intelligence (Cont.)

DOE

2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013

OE Microgrid Proposal Rush Robinett (Dan Ton)

Buildings Proposal Madhi Shahbakhti

EERE Grid Proposal (????) (Jose Zayas)

MG R&D Proposal Rush Robinett

OE Center Proposal AIM Team

DOE Mobile Lab Proposal (?????)

Funded $250K FY14 Proposal; Invite to Chile Conference; Member of DOE OE Microgrid R&D Team

Lead of Networked Microgrids (Based on Start-up/SNL project)

Looking at EPSCOR and Core program => Working Detailed Strategy

Met the end of May in DC (Bill) -> Lindenberg

3 proposals to DOE Call (MTU/UNM/ASU) - Rejected

Regrouping: 1) Writing 1 proposal to NSF Call (MTU/UNM/ASU); 2) New Class UNM/MTU; 3) Working on New DOE pitch/proposal

OE Storage Proposal Rush Robinett (Dan Ton)

Connect Lucia to Imre via Dan Ton

Basic Strategy – Multiple Parallel Targets while Leveraging University Investments based on Market Intelligence (Cont.)

2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013

IBM Proposal (????.)

Industry Caterpillar Proposal (?????)

GE Proposal (Madhi Shahbakhti)

UTC Proposal (?????)

HydroTasmania Proposal (?????)

Followed-up without success/Need help

Partner on DOE Buildings proposal – Follow-up

Interested in partnering

Ford Proposal (?????)

Basic Strategy – Multiple Parallel Targets while Leveraging University Investments based on Market Intelligence (Cont.)

Labs

2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013

SNL Microgrid Proposal Rush Robinett (Steve G.)

ANL Microgrid Proposal (?????)

PNNL Microgrid Proposal (?????)

ORNL Microgrid Proposal (?????)

LANL Microgrid Proposal (?????)

LBNL Proposal (?????)

Added $50K(Summer)+$25K(AC-ECE)+$55K(Mark Vaughn); Partnership on Navy ES; Member DOE OE Microgrid R&D Mtg; TARDEC partner ; Solar program (Roadmap for Glover/Hanley)

Build relationship via DOE OE Microgrid Project; Hook-up with U of T??

Funded for DOE OE Microgrid via ANL; Expand relationship??

Build relationship via DOE OE Microgrid Project; Hook-up with WSU.

Build relationship via DOE OE Microgrid Project; Hook-up with UC ??

Build relationship via DOE OE Microgrid Project; Hook-up with NMSU & NMT ??

Basic Strategy – Multiple Parallel Targets while Leveraging University Investments based on Market Intelligence (Cont.)

Labs

2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013

SRNL Microgrid Proposal (?????)

NETL Bio-Coal Proposal (?????)

Mtg. with Director 6/19/13 with Ezra; Setting up mtg. on Microgrids (Sept)

NREL Wind Proposal Bill P.

First meeting with Thresher being set-up??

•University of New Mexico – EPSCOR, Research Professor, Facilities, Faculty (Partnered on 3 DOE Building proposals and DOE Solar proposal - Rejected; EPSCOR planning; starting satellite partnering; teaching joint UNM/MTU class for Fall ’13; Partner on NSF-ERC DREEM Proposal) •TAMU – Past partners with valuable expertise (Agreed on our partnership with Prof. Johnny Hurtado/Aero and Dr. Diane Hurtado/Assit. to VP for Federal Relations; Get Prof. Junkins on MURI????) •UT-Austin (Wayne) – Complementary skills; Disaster relief (joint proposal to NATO on disaster relief) •ASU – Joint development opportunities; invited to play (3 joint DOE Buildings proposals, joint DOE Solar proposals, invited presentation at AESS conference on sustainability) •CSM - Specific expertise with support •Lehigh Univ. – IEEE Technical Committee

Partners

•Univ. of Vermont – Complementary skills (email from VELCO VP; Next??) •Univ. of Minnesota – IEEE Technical Committee; Cyber Security Partner (connected with Steven Goldsmith and SNL project; MURI??) •UIUC (Wayne), UC-Berkley (Madhi) – Specific expertise with support (still trying to decide) •Czech Republic – Partnership in Buildings Controls; Visiting PhD student (visiting PhD student is did very will; helping our partnership; working on joint papers) •Univ. of Padova – Partnership in Buildings and Microgrid Controls •Univ. of Auckland – Partnership in Smart Grid

Partners (Cont.)

Faculty Engaged AIM Center Team Building

•Gordon Parker (ME-EM) – Co-director of AIM; TARDEC lead; Navy lead; co-advise students; co-author papers •Wayne Weaver (ECE) – $250K Start-up for 1’s to 10’s to 100’s to 1000’s of microgrids; ARL lead; NATO Disaster Relief Co-lead; co-advise students; co-author papers •Nina Mahmoudian (ME-EM) – $100K Start-up for NATO Disaster Relief and Co-lead •Madhi Shahbakhti (ME-EM) – Net-Positive Building lead; Exergy Control; Czech Republic PhD Student (Matej Pcolka); Meysam Razmara PhD Student •Dean Worek – Net-Positive Building at DOE EERE; DOE OE •Michele Miller (ME-EM) – AIM Education lead; NSF proposal •Ezra Bar-Ziv (ME-EM) – NETL Bio-coal •Ibrahim Miskioglu (ME-EM) – Collective microgrids tensor analysis (energy shaping) •University of New Mexico – EPSCOR project; Teaching new controls class

Chee-Wooi Ten Power Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Gordon Parker Nonlinear Controls

Lucia Gaucia Energy Storage Systems

Wayne Weaver Power Electronics

Rush D. Robinett III Nonlinear Control System Design

Mahdi Shahbakhti Dynamic Systems Modeling and Control

Nina Mahmoudian Nonlinear Control and Dynamics

Laura Brown Algorithms for learning the structure of Bayesian networks

Steve Goldsmith Informatics and Cybersecurity

Mark Vaughn Energy Storage Systems

Trever Hassell Power Electronics

AIM Center Microgrid Reseachers

Faculty Engaged (Cont.)

AIM Center Team Building • Laura Brown – Assistant Professor, Computer Science; NSF Cyber Physical • Steven Goldsmith – Research Professor, ME-EM & ECE; SNL SSM GCLDRD • Mark Vaughn – Reseach Professor, ME-EM; SNL SSM GCLDRD • Trever Hassell – Research Staff, ECE; SNL SSM GCLDRD • Chee-Wooi Ten – Assistant Professor, ECE; DOE OE Microgrid R&D • Lucia Gaucia – Assistant Professor, ECE & ME-EM • Jason Blough (ME-EM) – DARPA, JIEDDO proposals with KRC • Jay Meldrum – Director of KRC • Fernando Ponta (ME-EM) – Wind Turbine Controls (DOE, NSF ?) • Allan Struthers – Professor, Mathematics

Faculty Engaged (Cont.) Director of Research

•VP Dale Tahtinen – Green Energy education and training for Vets (visit delayed??) •Mo Rastgaar – R&D funding for controls (Ford??) (performing Market Intel; connecting with Mark Vaughn/SNL; developed Fact Sheet) •Ossama Abdelkhalik – Aerospace funding (UNM??) (met with Chris Hall/UNM; AF proposal and John Junkins/TAMU; Space junk/new book)

Next Engagements as DR •Kazuya Tajiri •Seung-Hyun Kim

On-going Strategy as DR •Developed a strategy for the Department •Developing “sales materials” for the Department (Fact Sheets and Market Intel being done by Marlene Lappeus; Mo and Gordon)

Questions:

1) Will Rush show up at MTU?

2) Will Rush’s friends still play with him at MTU?

3) How does the AIM Team see me?

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Technical Challenges

•Design / Analysis tools - storage vs communication, centralized vs distributed control, grid-friendly device design

•Intelligent power electronics to enable “plug and play” connectivity and for upgradability over long system lifetimes -- 30-50 years.

•Energy Storage Systems – “Actuators” for controls systems •Near real-time optimal control for large numbers of grid connected devices

•Incorporating human-machine interface design into both the grid and the devices connecting to it

•Intrinsic, designed-in cyber security to ensure high degree of communication does not compromise security

•Interdisciplinary engineering education for future design and development

Highly coupled systems requiring interdiscplinary thinking to make them safe, practical and robust - skills == electrical, mechanical and human factors

Sandia Labs GCLDRD - Enabling Secure, Scalable Microgrids with High Penetration Renewables. Microgrid modeling, optimization and control.

DOE - Hybrid Electric Vehicle & Microgrid Mobile Laboratory. HEV vehicle education, STEM outreach, microgrid demonstration.

ARL: Distributed Agent-Based Management of Agile Microgrids. Mixed time scale, control architecture for agile microgrid operation.

TARDEC: (1) Military Hybrid Vehicle Optimization & Control, (2) Vehicle-to-Vehicle Resource Sharing, (3) Vehicle Supported Microgrid Optimization & Control. Vehicle-grid control harmonization.

Keweenaw Research Center Building Microgrid: Using KRC’s experience with geothermal and PV building energy to create a building-scale microgrid powered, in part, by engine dynos.

CAT: Develop models and distributed controls of inverters in SAGE microgrid test-bed

NSF: Game-theoretic controls for distributed systems in small scale power systems and microgrids.

CERL: Model and control of sub-area of Ft. Sill OK as a microgrid with distributed control that optimizes fuel, reliability and stability.

TARDEC

Project Summaries

ARL

GCLDRD