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Mostly focused on distribution engineering analysis: distributed generation interconnection, energy storage dispatch, demand response planning. Hoping to do mor

• 4thaccount 8y ago
  Interesting. I'm working a bit with energy storage modeling on the transmission side and am familiar with the other topics you mentioned although everything is 10x harder with distribution as the load flows are unbalanced as I understand it. Transmission systems are gargantuan, but at least you can assume steady-state in most cases. Are you with a utility, University, national lab, or contractor?
  • maliker 8y ago
    Cool! It’s a very fun time for energy storage work. I’m part of a utility group but I mostly work with DOE and the national labs. The unbalanced phasing in distribution can make solving powerflow harder, but the big problem we face is data quality and volume in the circuit models—one substation and its feeders typically have over 10k circuit components. The detail is needed since the model is used for outages, work orders, and engineering planning. On the plus side, at least the data security issues are way less severe than transmission models.
    • 4thaccount 8y ago
      Neat! This is indeed a great field. I wish I got to do a lot more national lab related work myself.