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The electric grid is undergoing significant transformation from the introduction of digital technologies, policies encouraging more renewables and increasing customer engagement in both managing and producing energy. Large public and private investments are being made to advance this agenda. Deployments are delivering results, yet the electrical infrastructure can be susceptible to widespread outages from dynamic activity introduced by significant renewable penetration along with natural and manmade cyber-attacks. This presentation discusses a vision for the grid of the future, while especially highlighting the opportunities for energy storage and the challenges that remain. |
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George Gross is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research and teaching activities are in the areas of power system analysis, economics and operations, renewable, demand response and energy storage resource integration, utility regulatory policy and industry restructuring.
His work on smart grid issues has focused on both the technical and the regulatory aspects. The principal areas of involvement include the design of AMI architectures to ensure cyber security, the deployment of AMR for demand response, the integration of demand-side response, renewable and energy storage resources into the grid, flexibility assessment and quantification, and the economics of smart grid implementation. He has co-organized one of the first workshops on the public policy issues in Cyber-Security and Privacy for Smart Grid Technology. His various papers in the smart grid area are highly cited. |
