Dynamic Ancillary Services & Virtual Power Plant Control

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm EST

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Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), SEC 6.301 View map Free Event

150 Western Avenue, Allston, MA 02134

https://pai.seas.harvard.edu/Events.html
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Power & AI Initiative. This presentation focuses on innovative control strategies for dynamic virtual power plants (DVPPs) aimed at providing dynamic ancillary services efficiently. The first part highlights the importance of heterogeneity among distributed energy resources in reliably delivering services like fast frequency and voltage control across various power and energy levels. A "divide-and-conquer" approach, along with dynamic participation factors and local matching controllers, is proposed. The second part introduces a closed-loop strategy incorporating data-driven techniques to adapt ancillary services to local grid conditions. Structural encoding of dynamic ancillary services and a "perceive-and-optimize" strategy ensure stable and optimal performance while meeting grid-code and device-level requirements. Numerical case studies and hardware experiments validate the effectiveness of these approaches, promising improved grid stability and efficiency.

Event Details

Event Type

Colloquia / Seminar / Lecture

Series

Power and AI Initiative

Website

https://pai.seas.harvard.edu/Events.html

Cost

Free Event

Speaker 1

Florian Dörfler

Speaker Bio

Florian Dörfler is a Professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zürich. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2013, and a Diplom degree in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart in 2008. From 2013 to 2014 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles. He has been serving as the Associate Head of the ETH Zürich Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering from 2021 until 2022. His research interests are centered around automatic control, system theory, optimization, and learning. His particular foci are on network systems, data-driven settings, and applications to power systems. He is a recipient of the 2025 Rössler Prize, the highest scientific award at ETH Zürich across all disciplines, as well as the distinguished career awards by IFAC (Manfred Thoma Medal 2020) and EUCA (European Control Award 2020). He is currently serving on the council of the European Control Association and as a senior editor of Automatica.

 

Host

Le Xie

Contact

Stephen Lemieux

Phone

6034012492

Email

slemieux@seas.harvard.edu

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