Around 2014-2015, a few years after the creation of the CURENT research center, the center - director Dr. Kevin Tomsovic initiated the idea of developing a software-based, closed-loop testbed for CURENT. - Since he was the overall director of CURENT with a super busy schedule, Dr. Tomsovic asked Dr. Fran Li to lead the - development work of what is now called CURENT Large-scale Testbed (LTB) or CLTB.
-In the first a couple of years of CLTB development, the team developed models of the North American power grid - including WECC and reduced EI operation and planning models with various renewable energy penetration scenarios. A - nationwide HVDC overlay, inspired by the MISO HVDC overlay topology, was also created. Meanwhile, external simulation - engines were employed with in-house scripts to form a closed-loop simulation study on CLTB’s own North American models. - Also, initial versions of CLTB visualizer and data transfer package called DiME were developed and integrated into - the CLTB platform.
-Around 2017, the CLTB team decided to develop our own dynamic simulation engine called ANDES to achieve flexibility - of the CLTB platform. Dr. Hantao Cui has been the lead developer of ANDES since then. He first developed the initial - version in Python and then advanced ANDES with a symbolic programming library. Now, ANDES serves as a cornerstone - package in CLTB and can be used as a standalone dynamic simulation tool as well. Dr. Hantao Cui has been maintaining - the ANDES package. Jinning Wang joined the effort as a helper since 2021.
-Around the same timeframe from 2018 to 2023, newer versions of DiME and visualizer (now called AGVis) were developed. - Several key contributors include Nick West, Nicholas Parsly, and Jinning Wang.
-Currently, in spring 2023, the CLTB team is working on the development of a new package called AMS which is an - economic dispatch and market simulation package. It is expected to be integrated with ANDES to perform co-simulation - of economic dispatch and dynamic simulation to form a true “digital twin” across multi-timescale. The next version - of CLBT will include ANDES, AMS, DiME and AGVis which is expected to be released in fall 2023.
-Are you looking for a partner to advance your research in power systems simulation and analysis? - CURENT LTB is a team of experts committed to advancing the state of the art in power systems technology, - and we welcome collaborations with academic institutions, research organizations, and industry partners.
- Our research collaborations cover a wide range of topics: -To learn more about our research collaborations and how we can work together, contact Dr. Fran Li at - fli6@utk.edu. We look forward to hearing from you!
-2023 NAPS Best Graduate Paper Award
+Jinning Wang presented CURENT LTB packages, AGVis, and DiME, on the 55th Annual North American Power Symposium (NAPS) in Asheville, North Carolina. The paper titled "DiME and AGVis: A Distributed Messaging Environment and Geographical Visualizer for Large-Scale Power System Simulation" was awarded the Best Paper Graduate Award at the conference.
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+ 2020 R&D 100
+The CURENT Large Scale Testbed (LTB) for cyber-physical power grid simulation led by the CURENT research center (headquartered at The University of Tennessee) has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 R&D 100 Awards, which are known as the most prestigious innovation awards program for the past 56 years, honoring 100 great R&D revolutionary ideas and products each year in science and technology.
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