Grid Modernization & the Integration of Distributed Resources

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Summary

Unusually cold temperatures have recently caused catastrophic damage and suffering across Texas and other US states. These events have shown us the importance of transforming and modernizing the power grid so it is more resilient in the future. With governments around the world now focused on making these necessary improvements, understanding energy systems—from power generation to user adoption—is essential to meet new and growing demands.

In this on-demand webinar, Stanford Associate Professor Ram Rajagopal outlines the technical challenges and opportunities of integrating distributed energy resources (DER) such as wind, solar, and EVs to ensure grid resilience and energy security. He also describes the next stages of energy research and commercial partnerships with educational institutions as we move toward a low-carbon future.


You Will Learn:
  • How an increasing number of end-users is transforming the energy market
  • How we can address issues of energy equity
  • How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted energy consumption
Presented By
Stanford Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Program
Bits & Watts Initiative, a corporate affiliate program within the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
Questions?
Contact us at [email protected] or 650-204-3984

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Speaker

Ram Rajagopal

Ram Rajagopal is Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Sustainable Systems Lab (S3L), focused on large-scale monitoring, data analytics and stochastic control for infrastructure networks, in particular, power networks. His current research interests in power systems are in the integration of renewables, smart distribution systems, and demand-side data analytics. Ram teaches the Stanford Online course, Transforming the Grid: AI, Renewables, Storage, EVs, and Prosumers.

He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and an M.A. in Statistics, both from the University of California Berkeley, Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Powell Foundation Fellowship, Berkeley Regents Fellowship and the Makhoul Conjecture Challenge award. He holds more than 30 patents and several best paper awards from his work and has advised or founded various companies in the fields of sensor networks, power systems, and data analytics.

Bits & Watts Initiative

The Bits & Watts Initiative is a corporate affiliate program within the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University bringing together multi-disciplinary research teams to develop innovations for the 21st century electric grid. It works to develop a new grid paradigm that is needed to incorporate large amounts of clean power and a growing number of distributed energy resources, while simultaneously enabling grid reliability, resilience, security and affordability.

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