Apply here: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03776
UC San Diego, in collaboration with UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, and several partners including the National Renewable Energy Lab and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, received a $2M grant through the very competitive UC Office of the President Climate Action Awards “Designing California’s clean and climate resilient electricity grid for vulnerable communities.” This project involves four interconnected thrusts, all informed by an advisory board comprised of members from community-based organizations and electric utilities in California. The postdoctoral scholar is proposed to contribute to the third and fourth thrusts by focusing on ways in which DERs and electrified loads can work together in the face of climate extremes to ensure climate resilience, by quantifying the benefits of demand response, non-wires alternatives, and DERs at different levels of adoption and, lastly by examining how economic incentives can deliver benefits to customers, the transmission network and electric utilities, and enable revenue generation/bill savings from engaging in wholesale market services enabled by FERC 2222. The postdoctoral scholar/s will be supervised by UCSD Professors Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez and Jan Kleissl.
Job duties may include but will not be limited to:
1) Studying the value of coordinating distributed energy resources (DERs) with the transmission network with a focus on resilience to extreme weather events for a broad set of communities in California (disadvantaged ones being the focus).
2) Optimizing the operations for distribution networks under a broad set of scenarios.
3) Using supercomputers and optimization expertise to pose and solve large optimal power flow simulations.
