Solar Decathlon House

Would you like to help build the UIUC Solar Decathlon House? We will have many opportunities for students to help with the construction of the Solar House throughout this upcoming semester, including construction classes and volunteer days. Come to the UIUC Solar Decathlon Construction Info Meeting on Wednesday January 17th to learn more about how you can contribute. Place: Room 120 Architecture Hall Time: 6:00 pm Date: January 17th, 2007 See you there!

Information Session

The IEEE Student Chapter will be hosting an information session for undergraduates interested in the Power and Energy program. Many graduate students with different academic and industrial experience will be there to answer questions about power projects, classes, and other opportunities in the field. Please fill out the form, accessed via the link below, so we can prepare your nametag and estimate how much pizza to order. We hope to see you there. The event will take place Monday, January 29th, 2007, at 6 pm in 365 Everitt Lab (Tykociner Conference Room). We hope to see you there.

Chapter Elections for 2006-2007

The election results for the Fall 2006 - Spring 2007 semesters are: Grant Pitel - (Chairperson); Brian Raczkowski - (Vice-Chair); Abhishek Banerjee- (Treasurer); and Yingying Kuai- (Secretary).

DESIGN OF A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE VEHICLE-TO-GRID (V2G) IMPLEMENTATION

Monday, April 28, 2008, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Room 50, Everitt Lab ------------ Abstract: The major increases in oil prices and the rising environmental concerns are key drivers in the growing popularity of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Car manufacturers understand this trend quite well and are developing new models, e.g., the Chevrolet Volt to be released next year. For the 90% of Americans who use their car to go to work every day, the average daily commute distance is 28 miles and the average daily time that cars remain parked is 22 hours. A salient feature that these vehicles have in common is the batteries, which provide good storage capacity that can be effectively integrated into the grid. We focus on the design of a conceptual framework needs to integrate the electric vehicles into the grid – the so-called V2G concept. The basic premise we use is to treat the battery vehicles as distributed energy resources that can act both as supply and demand resources. We assess the deployment of an aggregation of battery vehicles for the provision of frequency regulation – requiring very fast response times – and peak shaving. We also investigate the impacts of the aggregated battery vehicle-charging load on the low load generation schedules and on regulation requirements. The assessment of these impacts takes into consideration the explicit representation of uncertainty and the importance of the state of charge as a key variable in the use of the batteries for the supply and demand roles. For the framework completeness, we also explore the role of the energy services provider in the V2G integration.

Presented by Christophe Guille