Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Power & Energy Systems power.uwaterloo

1. Power Engineering Research and Trainingat Waterloo Department of Electrical & Computer EngineeringPower & Energy Systemswww.power.uwaterloo.ca

2. Power & Energy Systems • One of the largest Power Groups in Canada and North America • Broad expertise covering practically all areas in power engineering research • Established international reputation of faculty members and program • Unique research facilities • Outstanding students (multiple awards and scholarships) • Various large grants/contracts with OCE, NSERC and industry • Multiple international collaborations (e.g. US, Europe, Middle-East) and industrial partners (e.g. Hydro One, ABB, Energent)

3. Members • Kankar Bhattacharya (Professor) • Ph.D. (IIT Delhi, India) • MEng Program Director • Expertise: • Power system operations, economics and planning • Electricity Markets • Operations, management • Ancillary services and congestion management • Pricing of real and reactive power • CDM/DR • DG • Smart Grid • PHEVs & EVs

4. Members • Claudio Canizares (Professor) • Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison), P.Eng., Fellow IEEE • Associate Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) • Hydro One Endowed Chair • Expertise: • Nonlinear systems theory (bifurcations, chaos) • Power systems stability and security • FACTS and HVDC systems • Electricity market operations • Multi-energy systems modeling and optimization, particularly hydrogen systems and storage • Demand side management • Renewables (wind/solar) system integration • Microgrid analysis, modeling, simulation and control • Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) • Smart Grid • PHEVs & EVs

5. Members • Ehab El-Saadany (Associate Professor) • Ph.D. (Waterloo), P.Eng. • Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) • Expertise: • Power Quality • Distribution system operation and control • Distributed Generation • Grid interfacing • Micro-grid operation • Mechatronics • MEMS generator design • Smart Grid

6. Members • Ramadan El-Shatshat (Lecturer) • Ph.D. (Waterloo), P.Eng. • Expertise: • Power quality improvement in deregulated environment • Power quality problems • monitoring and mitigation • Power electronic circuits and system design

7. Members • Shesha Jayaram (Professor) • Ph.D. (Waterloo), P.Eng., Fellow IEEE • Expertise: • Insulation failure analysis, insulating materials • High voltage engineering applications • High voltage testing techniques • Pulse power applications • Biotechnology and nanotechnology applications of HV • EVs

8. Members • Mehrdad Kazerani (Associate Professor) • Ph.D. (McGill), P.Eng. • Expertise: • Power Electronics • Distributed Generation (wind, solar, micro-turbine, fuel cell) • Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) • Static Frequency Changers (Matrix Converter, Cycloconverter) • Power Conditioning and Management in Vehicular Systems • Power Quality, Active Power Filter • Smart Grid • PHEVs & EVs

9. Members • Magdy Salama (Professor) • Ph.D. (Waterloo), P.Eng., Fellow IEEE • University Research Chair • Expertise: • Distribution Systems Analysis • Asset Management • Power Quality • Wind and Solar Energy • Artificial Intelligent System • Smart Grid

10. Research Areas • Distribution System Engineering • Distribution system planning • Distribution system automation (important part of smart grids) • Load management and forecasting • Distribution system operation • Distribution system reliability • Substation grounding design • Distributed generation • Smart Grid • PHEVs and EVs

11. Research Areas • Power Quality (PQ) • Disturbance monitoring • Feature extraction • Detection, localization and classification of PQ disturbance • Passive and hybrid filters design • Disturbance mitigation • Distributed generation • Grid interfacing • Smart Grid

12. Research Areas • Power Electronics • Modeling, control, and implementation of converters • Current-sourced converter-based FACTS devices • Photo-voltaic grid-connected inverters • Fuel-cell inverter (residential & transportation) • Microturbine-based distributed power generation • Static frequency changers (cycloconverters and matrix converters) • Power quality, active power filter • Smart Grid • PHEVs and EVs

13. Research Areas • High-voltage Engineering • Insulating materials under HV stress • Polymeric insulation for outdoor applications. • Nano-insulating materials. • Inverter fed motor insulation designs. • Development of diagnostic tools for insulation failure analysis • Electrostatics applications to industrial processes, and development of power supplies • High-voltage testing techniques • EVs

14. Research Areas • Power Systems • Stability and security analysis and improvements of power systems in a deregulated environment • Optimal and secure energy management, and load and electricity price forecasting in competitive electricity markets • Power system planning in a competitive environment • Simulation and analysis of energy systems with multiple energy carriers • Modeling, simulation, analysis and control of microgrids • Demand side management • Simulation, modeling and analysis of FACTS controllers and HVDC in power systems • Network/distributed and web-based programming applications in power systems • Smart Grid • PHEVs and EVs

15. Research Areas • Electricity Markets • Operational issues in a competitive electricity market environment (e.g. reactive power markets) • Market design and auction mechanisms • Ancillary service management • Pricing models • Development of dispatch tools for demand-side power management (CDM/DR) including DG and price uncertainties • Probabilistic and stochastic OPF problems • Load and price forecasting • Smart Grid • PHEVs and EVs

16. Resources • Power Quality Lab: Micro-controller circuit for driving PQ improvement equipment Digital Scope with storage/printing capabilities

17. Resources • High Voltage Engineering Lab FEM used in Electric Field Computation 800 kV 60 kJ Impulse Generator Use of thermal images in diagnosis

18. Resources • Power Electronics Lab: Experimental Setup of a Current-Sourced Converter-Based STATCOM

19. Resources • Electricity Markets Simulation and Optimization Laboratory (EMSOL): • Multi-processor servers • Wide variety of commercial and research software packages for power systems analysis and optimization, e.g.: • PSCAD/EMTDC • GAMS • AMPL • DSA PowerTools • PowerWorld • SCA • PSIM • ETAP • UWPFLOW (Waterloo) • PSAT (Waterloo)

20. Power Engineering Programs • Levels (OCGS approved Nov.’05) : • Certificate of Competence: Awarded after successful completion of a course • Postgraduate Diploma: Awarded after successful completion of 6 courses • M.Eng.: Awarded after successful completion of 9 courses • Hydro One has provided funds to get the program started and guarantee continuity • 70+ students registered, and approximately 25 MEng grads as of June’09 • On-line delivery

21. Power Engineering Programs

22. Hydro One UG Support • Eight/year $ 2,000 scholarships for students taking 4th year power engineering elective courses: • ECE 462 Electrical Distribution Systems (new) • ECE 463 Design and Applications of Power Electronic Converters • ECE 464 High Voltage Engineering and Power System Protection (new) • ECE 467 Power System Analysis, Operations and Markets • Two/year $ 8,000 (Hydro One) + $1,500 (UofW) co-op positions for undergraduate students to work in our power engineering research labs.

23. Graduate Program • MEng program certificate on Sustainable Energy, which is one of the most popular ones with the students. • 50+ graduate students (mostly PhD), Post-docs, and research visitors. • Regularly offered grad courses: • ECE 662 Power Systems (R. El-Shatshat) • ECE 663 Energy Processing (M. Kazerani) • ECE 664 Power System Computer Applications (C. Cañizares) • ECE 665 High Voltage Engineering Applications (S. Jayaram) • ECE 667 Sustainable Distributed Generation (E. El-Saadany) • ECE 669 Dielectric Materials (S. Jayaram) • ECE 760 Power System Management & Electricity Markets (K. Bhattacharya) • ECE 765 Distribution Systems Engineering (M. Salama)

24. Hydro One Research and Grad Support • $ 1,500,000 endowment for Research Chair • $ 500,000 endowment for grad student scholarships • $ 500,000 administered by WISE for research projects in smart grids, transmission and distribution systems, and policies and planning