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The University of Hawaii Smart Sustainable Microgrid Project

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This talk discusses starts by discussing Hawaii’s energy landscape and the REIS program. The state of Hawai’i and the US Department of Energy (DOE) signed a memorandum of understanding in 2008 known as the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) requiring 70% of Hawaii’s energy come from clean sources by 2030. We then discuss activities at the University of Hawaii at Manoa including formation of the Renewable Energy and Island Sustainability (REIS) center that is a multidisciplinary research and education program focused on renewable energy, sustainability, and smart grids. We then discuss the University of Hawaii Manoa (UHM) Smart Sustainable Microgrid Project. This project is in coordination with the UHM Department of Electrical Engineering, UHM facilities, and Hawaiian Electric Company. We discuss some of the goals and research of this project which include; sensing and monitoring, modeling and analysis, optimization and control, social and economic and policy considerations. The project includes a new Smart Campus Energy Lab and the UHM microgrid which will serve as a laboratory testbed.

Bio: Anthony Kuh received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1979, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1987. Dr. Kuh previously worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and has been on the faculty in Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii since 1986. He is currently a Professor and Chair of the department. He is also currently serving as director of the interdisciplinary renewable energy and island sustainability (REIS) group. Dr. Kuh’s research is in the area of neural networks and machine learning, adaptive signal processing, sensor networks, communication networks, and renewable energy applications.

Dr. Kuh won a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and is an IEEE Fellow. He was also a recipient of the Boeing A. D. Welliver Fellowship and received a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar’s Award working at Imperial College in London. Dr. Kuh was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, served on the IEEE Neural Networks Administrative Committee, served on the IEEE Neural Networks for Signal Processing Committee, and was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. Kuh co-chaired the 1993 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA) and served as the technical co-chair for the 2007 IEEE ICASSP both held in Honolulu. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association and on the Board of Governors of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association.

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