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Miguel Ortega-Vazquez
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Miguel Ortega-Vazquez Assistant Professor Smart grids, power system security, power system economics, integration of renewable energy M350 EEB Box 352500 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 |
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Phone: 206-543-9308 E-mail: |
The University of Manchester (formerly UMIST), PhD EE, 2006
Universidad Autonóma de Nuevo León, MSc EE 2001
Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, Ingeniero Eléctrico, (Electrical Engineer), 1999
Biosketch
Miguel A. Ortega-Vazquez (SM'14, M'06, S'97) received the Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Morelia, Mexico; the M.Sc. degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Nuevo Leon, Mexico; and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Manchester (formerly UMIST), Manchester, U.K., in 1999, 2001, and 2006, all with emphasis in power systems.
He was a Research Associate at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, until 2010, and as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Energy and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, until 2011. In 2012, he joined the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, as a Research Assistant Professor, and in 2013 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor. His research interests revolve around developing techniques and methodologies to facilitate an economically efficient, operationally secure and environmentally friendly operation and planning of power systems.
Research Interests
Power Systems are forever changing. The paradigm of a generation-demand has evolved to complexly integrated systems. On the one hand, the integration of stochastic weather-driven power sources has resulted in larger uncertainties in the demand that needs to be met by dispatchable generation. On the other hand, with the advent of smart grid technologies, the demand side is starting to feature higher degrees of control and flexibility. Along with this, the unrelenting demand growth and the preference of electricity as the main energy carrier are pushing power systems to be operated closer to their limits. In order to operate these evolved power systems in a cost effective, reliable and clean way (with the minimum environmental impact), new tools that capture the new features of the supply and demand sides, and that exploits the new degrees of control and communication made available in the smart grid framework, are required. The development of these efficient operating tools to aid system operators to draw the daily operating plans is my main research interest.
I have also worked on the provision of optimal levels of reserve. Power system operators try to keep a certain amount of generation capacity as spinning reserve to ensure that the power system is able to withstand the sudden outage of some generating units or an unforeseen increase in load without having to resort to load shedding. Whilst providing large amounts of reserve hedges the system against a larger spectrum of contingencies, this is unpractical, since the reserve comes at a cost, and this, ideally, should be kept at a minimum. System operators should therefore balance the costs of providing reserve, versus the risk of having to shed load (or even a total blackout) as a consequence of contingency. The provision of optimal amounts of reserve while accommodating wind power generation resources in the most efficient way was the direction of my research during my PhD and my postdoctoral appointment.
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Education
| 2006 | PhD, University of Manchester (formerly UMIST) | Emphasis in Power Systems |
| 2001 | Master's (MSc), Universidad Autonóma de Nuevo León, Mexico | Emphasis in Power Systems |
| 1999 | Electrical Engineer's degree, Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, Ingeniero Eléctrico, Mexico | Emphasis in Power Systems |
Professional Memberships
IEEE
IEEE PES
Publications
Book chapters and Manuals
Ortega-Vazquez, M. A. and Kintner-Meyer, M., (2015), Electric Vehicles and the Electric Grid, in Handbook of Clean Energy Systems, Vol. 4, John Wiley & Sons.
Ortega-Vazquez, M. A. and Kirschen, D. S., (2005), Solutions Manual, Fundamentals of Power System Economics, John Wiley and Sons.
Recent archival journal publications
- Dvorkin, Y., Ortega-Vazquez, M. A. and Kirschen, D. S., (2015), Wind Generation as a Reserve Provider, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol. PP, Issue 99, 2015, (accepted for publication).
- Sarker, M., Ortega-Vazquez, M. A. and Kirschen, D. S., (2015), Optimal Coordination and Scheduling of Demand Response via Monetary Incentives, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. PP, Issue 99, 2015, (early access).
- Sarker, M., Pandzic, H. and Ortega-Vazquez, M. A., (2014), Optimal Operation and Services Scheduling for an Electric Vehicle Battery Swapping Station, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. PP, Issue 99, 2014, (early access).
- Dvorkin, Y., Pandzic, H., Ortega-Vazquez, M. A. and Kirschen, D.S., (2014), A Hybrid Stochastic/Interval Approach to Transmission-Constrained Unit Commitment, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. PP, Issue 99, 2014, (early access).
- Dvorkin, Y., Kirschen, D. S. and Ortega-Vazquez, M. A., (2014), Assessing the Flexibility Requirements in Power Systems, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol. 8, Issue 11, pp. 1820-1830, Nov. 2014.
- Ortega-Vazquez, M. A., (2014), Optimal Scheduling of Electric Vehicle Charging and Vehicle-to-Grid Services at Household Level Including Battery Degradation and Price Uncertainty, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol. 8, Issue 6, pp. 1007-1016, Jun. 2014.
Recent fully refereed conference publications
- Gomez-Martinez, J., Ortega-Vazquez, M. A. and Ochoa, L.F., (2014), Scenario Selection of Wind Forecast Errors for Stochastic Unit Commitment: A UK case study, in proceedings of the IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2014, Istambul, Oct. 12-15, 2014.
- Sarker, M., Pandzic H. and Ortega-Vazquez, M. A., (2013), Electric Vehicle Battery Swapping Station: Business Case and Optimization Model, in proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2-6 Dec. 2013.
- Au, T-K. and Ortega-Vazquez, M. A., (2013), Assessment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles Charging on Distribution Networks, in proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2013 General Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 21-25 Jul. 2013.
- Bouffard, F. and Ortega-Vazquez, M. A., (2011), The Value of Operational Flexibility in Power Systems with Significant Wind Power Generation, in proceedings of the 2011 IEEE-PES, General Meeting, Detroit, MI, USA, 24-28 July 2011.
- Steen, D., Le, A. T., Ortega-Vazquez, M. A., Carlson, O., Bertling, L. and Neimane, V., (2011), Scheduling Charging of Electric Vehicles for Optimal Distribution Systems Planning and Operation, in proceedings of the CIRED 2011 Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany, 6-9 June 2011.
- Steen, D., Le, A. T., Ortega-Vazquez, M. A., Carlson, O., Bertling, L. and Neimane, V., (2011), Scheduling Charging of Electric Vehicles for Optimal Distribution Systems Planning and Operation, in proceedings of the CIRED 2011 Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany, 6-9 June 2011.
- Ortega-Vazquez, M.A. and Kirschen, D.S., (2010), Security Provision in Systems with Large Penetration of Wind Power Generation, in proceedings of the 2010 IEEE-PES General Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 25-29 Jul. 2010.
