Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center

This seminar will go over some of our contributions in the field of renewable energy sources (RES) integration: (a) the value of long-duration storage and its interaction with zero emissions grids, (b) the role of offshore wind and wave energy in zero emissions grids, and (c) cost and infrastructure impacts of climate change in zero emissions grids . I will also discuss ongoing work on environmental justice and climate resiliency, and power systems dynamics with data-driven solutions.

Professor Hidalgo-Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego. She is an NSF GRFP fellow, Siebel Scholar in Energy, Rising Star in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and has been awarded Best paper at the Power Systems Computation Conference 2020, the UC Berkeley Graduate Opportunity Program Award, and the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. At UC San Diego, she directs the Renewable Energy and Advanced Mathematics (REAM) lab which focuses on high penetration of renewable energy using optimization, control theory and machine learning. She is currently working with the California Energy Commission, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Environmental Defense Fund and GridLab. In addition to capacity expansion modeling for the U.S. and other regions, she works on power dynamics with low and variable inertia, and controller design using machine learning and safety guarantees. She is generally interested in power dynamics, electricity market redesign to aid the integration of renewable energy, environmental justice, microgrids for wildfire risk mitigation, distributed control, and learning for dynamical systems with safety guarantees. Dr. Hidalgo-Gonzalez is part of the IEEE Power & Energy Society Task Force titled “Data-Driven Controls for Distributed Systems.” She holds two M.S. and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.