- Associate Professor
Biography
Dr. Wei Du is the solar subsector manager and a staff research engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He also serves as the interim co-direct of the PNNL-Washington State University Advanced Grid Institute. His main areas of research are the control design, modeling, and simulation of power systems with high penetration of power electronics. He currently serves as the Principal Investigator of multiple DOE projects that investigate the impacts of inverter-based resources on the stability of power systems. He is the co-lead of the Modeling and Simulation Area of the Universal Interoperability for Grid-Forming Inverters (UNIFI) Consortium. He is the lead developer of the first generation of the US WECC standard library grid-forming inverter model, REGFM_A1. The REGFM_A1 model has been integrated into major commercial transient stability simulation tools including Siemens PTI-PSS®E, GE-PSLF, PowerWorld Simulator, and TSAT for engineers and researchers to use. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Research Interests
- Inverter-based resources control design and modeling
- Electromagnetic transient and positive-sequence modeling of power-electronics-dominated power systems
- Microgrids and resilient distribution systems
- Hardware-in-the-loop simulation and real time digital simulation
- Modeling and analysis of AC/HVDC hybrid large power system
- HVDC & FACTS controller design