Scope:
- Microgrid
- Grid integration of renewable energy
- Grid scale energy storage system
- Integration of distributed power resources
- Advanced information and communication technologies convergence in the power grid
Accomplishments:
- The first US-China Smart Grid Comparison Study for China EPRI.
- Establishing strategic partnership with a Chinese stated-owned enterprise on large-scale “Wind-Solar-Energy Storage” project
- Partnering with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s HPC Innovation Center for smart grid simulation.
Major Partners:
- US Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab
- UC Berkeley School of Engineering
- Pacific Gas and Electric
- Megawatts Storage Farms Inc.
- Duke Energy
- Austin Power
- ABB
- California Public Utilities Commission
- China State Grid Corporation
- China Southern Grid Corporation
- China National Smart Grid Research Center,
- China Electric Power Research Institute
- China State Grid EPRI
UCGEC Principal Developers:
- Stephen Lee
- Oliver Yu
- Ed Cazalet
- Liang Min
- Haibo Zeng
- Robert E. Larson
- Xiaofeng Zhang
- Chuck Wells