SMART Grid
New Mexico EPSCOR SMART Grid Center
The NM SMART Grid Center—pursued next-generation electric power production and delivery by creating a SMART electric grid (one that is Sustainable, Modular, Adaptive, Resilient, and Transactive).
The New Mexico SMART Grid Center's mission was to investigate the fundamental challenges to transitioning the existing electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure into a SMART grid and develop supporting knowledge, national talent, and an informed public. The New Mexico SMART Grid Center will develop research capacity and education programs to support a modern electric grid built on the principles of distribution feeder microgrids (DFMs), and empower a diverse, next-generation workforce through industry partnerships, education, and public outreach.
Research Areas
Research goal: Create a comprehensive design framework for electricity system distribution feeders to evolve into sustainable and resilient microgrids.
Disciplines involved: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Economics
Team leads: Olga Lavrova (NMSU), Ali Bidram (UNM)
Institutions: University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Microgrid Systems Laboratory
Research goal: Design a holistic, scalable Distribution Feeder Microgrid (DFM) networking architecture based on the principles of information-centric networking, which will complement the DFM architecture from the Architecture Research Goal.
Disciplines involved: Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Team leads: Jay Misra (NMSU), Jun Zheng (NM Tech), Michael Devetsikiotis (UNM)
Institutions: University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Sandia National Laboratories
Research goal: Integrate machine learning, data mining, knowledge-based, and other artificial intelligence techniques to utilize heterogeneous Distribution Feeder Microgrid and smart grid data to make computer-aided and automatic decisions.
Disciplines involved: Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering
Team leads: Huiping Cao (NMSU), Enrico Pontelli (NMSU), Abdullah Mueen (UNM), Manel Martínez-Ramón (UNM)
Institutions: University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, Sandia National Laboratories
Research goal: Integrate architecture, networking, and decision-support components of the Distribution Feeder Microgrid to test and validate their impacts on electricity system resilience and sustainability.
Our Testbeds:
- Mesa del Sol
- Southwest Technology Development Institute
- Santa Fe Community College
Disciplines involved: Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Economics
Team leads: Ali Bidram (UNM), Enrico Pontelli (NMSU), Jun Zheng (NM Tech)
Institutions: University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Microgrid Systems Laboratory
Goal: Provide sufficient computing and storage/preservation capacity to support NM SMART Grid Center research.
Investments at New Mexico State University (NMSU) include: a High Performance Computing (HPC) system with 4 P100-G12 GPU nodes for computing, 2 high memory nodes (3 TB RAM) for data analysis, 110 TBs for fast storage, and 500 TBs for slower storage. NM SMART Center participants have priority access to HPC cyberinfrastructure resources.
Investments at UNM include 80 TBs/VM for mirroring and storing frequently-used data, and long-term data management support through LibSafe, Digital Preservation Network, and Digital Commons.
Team Leads:
Diana Dugas (NMSU), Patrick Bridges (UNM), Karl Benedict (UNM), Jon Wheeler (UNM)