SCALE Lab (Sustainable Climate-resilient Analytics for Large-scale Energy Systems)

Contact. Anamika Dubey. anamika.dubey@wsu.edu.

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Director: Anamika Dubey

Associate Professor, ESIC. Washington State Univ.

EME 23, 355 NE Spokane St

Pullman, WA 99164

With rapid decarbonization goals and ambitious urban electrification targets, the electric power grid is undergoing unprecedented changes. SCALE Lab is at the forefront of addressing the new requirements for improved efficiency, operational flexibility, and resilience in response to the grid’s changing nature and extreme weather events. Our mission is to solve the ever-growing problem of providing a resilient, adaptable, and economically viable power supply with distributed generation resources. We focus on scalable methods that integrate model and data information to provide better decision support for increasingly complex power grids.

The proliferation of distributed energy resources and flexible loads is pushing the control and operational requirements of the grid to the edge, thus significantly increasing the scale and complexity of grid operations. These grid-edge resources also hold the potential to support grid resilience in the aftermath of extreme weather events, which are impacting grid more often and with higher severity. Effective use of grid-edge resources to support decarbonization goals and resilience necessitates advances in modeling, analysis, and optimization of the electric power networks. SCLAE lab specializes in the analytics required for the effective integration and coordination of controllable grid-edge resources such as photovoltaics (PVs), electric vehicles (EVs), and grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs). Our methodological contributions are situated at the intersection of mathematical optimization techniques, physics-informed machine-learning, and cyber-physical electric power distribution systems. For a comprehensive information on the ongoing and past projects, kindly refer to Projects section.

Anamika Dubey (Lab Director) - I am Huie-Rogers Endowed Chair Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in the School of EECS at Washington State University (WSU), Pullman. I also hold a joint appointment as a Research Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). At WSU, I am affiliated with Energy Systems Innovation Center (ESIC). I received my MSE and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Energy and climate change are indeed unquestionably urgent and significant challenges that demand our immediate attention. Within this broad scope, power systems research and development serve as the pivotal component in enabling the transition towards a clean and green energy future. As a power systems engineer and researcher, my goal is to help advance our society towards a future that is brighter, cleaner, and more sustainable.

news

May 1, 2024 Daniel Glover and Sajjad Uddin Mahmud have been awarded 2024 Clean Edge Scholarship and 2024 William Kamkwamba Scholarship respectively from Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation for their research work and contributions towards renewable energy.
Apr 8, 2024 Congratulations Abodh Poudyal for successfully defending your Ph.D. I wish you all the best as you embark on the next chapter of your career.
Mar 4, 2024 Congratulations * Abodh Poudyal * for starting a full-time position as a Power Systems Research Engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Nov 11, 2023 Congratulations * Surendra Bajagain * for starting a full-time position as a Power Systems Research Engineer at Dominion Energy.
Oct 27, 2023 Congratulations Surendra Bajagain for successfully defending your Ph.D. I wish you all the best for your future career.

selected publications

  1. Elsevier
    Resilience assessment and planning in power distribution systems: Past and future considerations
    Shuva Paul, Abodh Poudyal, Shiva Poudel, and 2 more authors
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024
  2. IEEE
    Distributed optimization using reduced network equivalents for radial power distribution systems
    Rabayet Sadnan, and Anamika Dubey
    IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2021
  3. IEEE
    Network-level optimization for unbalanced power distribution system: Approximation and relaxation
    Rahul Ranjan Jha, and Anamika Dubey
    IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2021
  4. IEEE
    Distribution grid optimal power flow (d-opf): Modeling, analysis, and benchmarking
    Rahul R Jha, Adedoyin Inaolaji, Biswajit Dipan Biswas, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2022
  5. IEEE
    Risk-based active distribution system planning for resilience against extreme weather events
    Abodh Poudyal, Shiva Poudel, and Anamika Dubey
    IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2022
  6. Monograph
    Distribution System Optimization to Manage Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) for Grid Services
    Anamika Dubey, Sumit Paudyal, and  others
    Foundations and Trends in Electric Energy Systems, 2023
  7. Springer
    Preparing the Power Grid for Extreme Weather Events: Resilience Modeling and Optimization
    Anamika Dubey
    In Women in Power: Research and Development Advances in Electric Power Systems, 2023