PhD scholarship in Situational Awareness for Resilient Operation of Distribution Grids - DTU Wind

How can the distribution grid be made more resilient? You have the opportunity to investigate how island operation of the distribution grid can mitigate severe incidents in the power system. Your project will be one of three PhDs in collaboration with DTU Space and DTU Electro.

Your project will focus on how improved situational awareness can improve supply of prioritized loads by operating of parts of the distribution grid in island mode during interruptions.

Responsibilities and qualifications You will in the PhD project develop methods for enhancing the ability of microgrids and distribution systems to dynamically transition to and operate as islanded grids that are controlled robustly in a no-single-point-of-failure architecture.

The research will investigate how conventional grid measurements can be combined with non-traditional information sources, including information from distributed energy resources or physical surveillance data to maintain a continuously updated understanding of system state, resource availability, and network topology.

Operating strategies that can accommodate continuously changing resource situations and stability threats will be devised1 …