Farewell

11 março 2022, 17:43 • Pedro Manuel Santos de Carvalho

The engineering challenge of evolving power systems traditional centralized operation into a smart grid is huge. From the cyberphysical standpoint, the challenge consists in transforming the largest machine ever made -- the power system -- into the largest robot ever conceived.

We hope that this course has helped you understand the engineering fundamentals needed to embrace this challenge. Starting from the ICT that unlocks wide-area monitoring capabilities, through the basics of estimation and supervisory control that ensure stable ​​and secure interactions with autonomous components, to the resource modeling techniques needed to characterize responsive loads and other relevant state-dependent node behaviors -- the focus was put on understanding conceptual difficulties and looking for general solutions, rather than dealing with the many contextual details of practical power systems applications.

Now that you learned from thinking about the fundamental challenges of smart grids, you may contribute for advancing industrial solutions and tackle realistic problems with added confidence, and one certainty: that despite the reality being incredibly diverse, fundamentals remain fundamentally unchanged.