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Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor leads a team to enhance power management in Louisiana’s electric power grids

Louisiana has been always prone to natural disasters (floods and hurricanes) causing power outages, especially during the hurricane season. Developing intelligent control strategies to ensure the reliable, resilient, and stable operation of future power grids is of great importance to Louisiana as well as the country.

Dr. Ferzad Ferdowsi, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering has received a Louisiana Board of Regents Sponsored Funding (BORSF) – Industrial Ties Research Subprogram (ITRS) grant entitled Secure and Efficient Power Delivery and Management in Louisiana’s Electric Power Grids in the amount of $346,000 over a three year period.

Dr. Ferdowsi will work together with Dr. Shahab Mehraeen, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University and A&M College (LSU) and Dr. Hamzeh Davarikia, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at McNeese State University (MSU) and the state’s largest power utility company, Entergy Inc. to provide realistic solutions to current and future problems in energy delivery and management in contemporary power systems.

This project mainly focuses on awareness enhancement (preventive approaches), self-healing (corrective approaches with more emphasis on three control layers) and intelligent power/energy management (communication enchantment) through secure layers of communication. Our studies will include both simulations and hardware tests using the controller hardware in the loop that will decrease the possible damages to the actual power components within the grid while providing a realistic small-scale testing environment with a high time resolution in the order of micro-second.

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