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Welcome to the UPRM Coastal Resilience Center!
The UPRM Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. The objective of the CRC is to provide resilience education and help develop the workforce of first responders, professionals, students, and faculty, who work against hazards affecting the coastal infrastructure with a special focus on our Island.
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Microgrids require multiple tiers of control and protection to function as both a seamless part of the utility grid and as resilient independent networks capable of supplying local critical loads.
The RTDS Simulator allows engineers to model the behavior of macro- and microgrids over a large frequency range in real time. This allows real microgrid control and protection, as well as physical DERs and their converters, to be connected to the simulated network and tested to significantly reduce risk and improve performance prior to deployment.
Una empresa generadora de energía a base de gas natural, ubicada en Peñuelas, Puerto Rico. Producimos energía limpia, segura y confiable. Somos la planta térmica de generación menos contaminante en Puerto Rico.
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The College of Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (UPRM) is one of four UPRM Colleges in the Mayagüez Campus. With a historic enrollment of about 5,000 undergraduate and over 250 graduate students, the College is also the largest of its kind in Puerto Rico. It is one of the top producers of Hispanic engineers in the United States of America, according to the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Our Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, Software, Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, www.abet.org.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering, and Computer Engineering. The Electrical Engineering program has five concentration areas: namely, Control Systems, Communications/Digital Signal Processing, Electronics, RF and Remote Sensing, and Power Systems.
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The Center for Hemispherical Cooperation in Research and Education in Engineering and Applied Science (CoHemis) was founded in 1991 with the mission of promoting and facilitating the development of human resources through hemispheric collaboration of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (RUM) with other educational and research institutions. CoHemis is a dynamic agent of local and international communication and collaboration. Our objectives and priority areas focus on increasing hemispheric competitiveness through knowledge of globally priority issues. CoHemis’ responsibilities seek to fulfill the vision of internationalizing the RUM through the services we provide to our collaborators
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Sustainability Energy Center (SEC) in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) developed an AC Microgrid Testbed that will allow students and community to have a deeper understanding about the use of renewable energy sources.
The Microgrid lab can help communities better understand the system transformations characterized by new actor configurations
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Resilient Operation of Networked Community Microgrids with High Solar Penetration
This project is working on the development and evaluation of a microgrid controller that coordinates the operation of a network of microgrids with high solar penetration. The goal of the networked microgrid is to enhance resilient operation during long-term outages caused by natural disasters, including preventive and corrective functionalities in the optimization to meet operation criteria. The technology will be tested on community-based and community-operated microgrids in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, which was severely impacted by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Solar Energy Technologies Office Award Number DE-EE0002243-2144.
Resilient Operation of Networked Community Microgrids with High Solar Penetration
This proposal will bridge power systems and power electronics domains to develop research programs at UAF, SDSU, and UPRM in dynamic (tens of milliseconds to 30 seconds timeframe) and transient (milliseconds to hundreds of milliseconds timeframe) level modeling of converter-dominated power systems. These programs will focus on exploring the use of converter-coupled generator models of varying complexity and detail for dynamic and transient timeframe power system simulations, and they will include a strong component of experimental validation.
This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (EE-4S) under Award No. DE-EE0008570