4 papers
A Phased Development Framework Enabling Islanded Operation of Sustainable AI Data Centers With Onsite Grid-Following and Grid-Forming Energy Architectures
Soham Ghosh, Nabil Mohammed, Mohammad Ashraf Hossain Sadi
As hyperscale and colocation AI data centers continue to expand, the electric grid is increasingly required to support large, concentrated loads, with individual facilities ranging…
Pushing the Frontiers for Floating Solar Photovoltaics -- The Case for South America
Soham Ghosh, Anik Goswami, Krishna Kumba +1
Floating solar photovoltaic (FSPV) systems provide a land-efficient pathway to expand clean electricity access in energy-poor regions. South America has among the highest global FS…
HyMGP: A Customized MILP-Based Tool for Techno-Economic Planning of Islanded Microgrids
Andres Intriago, Rongxing Hu, Nabil Mohammed +9
This paper presents a customized microgrid planning algorithm and tool, HyMGP, for remote sites in arid regions, which is formulated as a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) pr…
Impact Assessment of Heterogeneous Grid Support Functions in Smart Inverter Deployments
S. Gokul Krishnan, Mohd. Asim Aftab, Nabil Mohammed +2
The decarbonization of the energy sector has led to a significant high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs), particularly photovoltaic (PV) systems, in low-voltage (L…