Title: Unlimited Benefit from Grid Edge Synchronized Measurement Data
Date: December 10, 2020
Bio: Yilu Liu received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1986 and
1989. She received the B.S. degree from Xian Jiaotong University, China.
Dr. Liu is currently the UT-ORNL Governor's Chair at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. She is also the deputy director of the DOE/NSF engineering research center CURENT
(curent.utk.edu). She led the effort to create the North American power grid Frequency Monitoring Network
FNET/GridEye (fnetpublic.utk.edu, powerit.utk.edu). Dr. Liu is an expert in large grid dynamic modeling,
simulations, and monitoring.
Abstract: The talk will provide an update on the effort of power grid wide-area monitoring and observations
that were made possible from the grid edge synchronized data. The critical roles of wide-area phasor
measurement in situation awareness, operation, and control will be discussed. The concept of
electromechanical wave propagation in power grid will be demonstrated using measurement data collected
from the actual grids. Applications of time synchronized data in event location, oscillation location detection,
model validation, and others will be discussed.