2021 R&D 100 Award for GridDamper

  • Liu, Yilu (Recipient), Zhu, Lin (Recipient) & Farantatos, Evangelos (Recipient)

Prize: Honorary award

Description

The increasing integration of renewable energy has created more severe, complex and frequent electrical oscillations in the grid. If not sufficiently controlled, they can lead to major blackout events that cost billions of dollars. Effective suppression of various oscillations is essential to maintain the secure and reliable operation of power grids.

GridDamper is a deployment-ready technology to allow more renewable electricity in power grids. The technology automatically updates its parameters, sensors and actuators to guarantee power grid stability and reliability when renewable energy and electricity demand fluctuate.

GridDamper is currently being deployed at the Terna National Control Center in Italy.

Funding for this project was provided by the DOE’s Advanced Grid Modernization program, the Electric Power Research Institute and the National Science Foundation.

Principal investigators who developed the GridDamper technology include UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Yilu Liu, Lin Zhu of UT and Evangelos Farantatos of EPRI.

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