How PNNL provides unique perspectives and knowledge to UI-ASSIST
U.S.-India collAborative for smart diStribution System wIth Storage (UI-ASSIST) team members from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Washington State University (WSU), have partnered with The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) to create load forecasting models of the electric grid in India.
UI-ASSIST is a Smart Grid and Energy consortium under the Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Centre. The consortium consists of leading academic institutions, power sector utilities, research organizations and industry partners from India and the United States. Partnering with organizations with similar missions, like TERI, provides collaborative opportunities to evolve a future energy distribution grid that will ensure access to affordable and reliable carbon free energy in both countries.
UI-ASSIST partners PNNL and WSU integrated a PNNL developed load forecasting modeling methodology on TERI’s data sets. The data measured the electrical load on the India power grid every thirty minutes.
“Without any modification, our load forecasting model built and validated on U.S. load data outperformed five other load forecasting models.” Said UI-ASSIST Energy Storage Researcher Alasdair Crawford.
The Indian power grid is very different from the United States’ grid. India has different seasons and patterns impacting how the load changes in the course of a day. Crawford said, “The principles that our model is built on were strong enough to transfer to a radically different context and prove its broad applications.”
UI-ASSIST is a Smart Grid and Energy consortium under the Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Centre. The consortium consists of leading academic institutions, power sector utilities, research organizations and industry partners from India and the United States. Partners collaborate on various smart grid and energy storage research to ensure access to affordable and reliable energy in both countries. The five-year project, supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability and the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology, helped evolve a future distribution grid that will ensure access to affordable and reliable energy in both countries, and to continue efforts towards a carbon free electricity system.