Ning Lu

Biography

From 2003 to 2012, Dr. Ning Lu was a senior research engineer with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She was a substation design engineer with the Shenyang Electric Power Survey and Design Institute from 1993 to 1998. She has conducted and managed research projects in modeling and analysis of power system load behaviors, wide area energy storage management systems, renewable integration, climate impact on power grids, and smart grid modeling and diagnosis. Dr. Lu is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She has authored or co-authored more than 60 publications, including journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports.

Research interests:

• Load modeling and control

• Wide-area energy storage

• Renewable integration

• Predictive defense model of the smart grid

• Climate change impacts on power grids

Education

• Ph.D. 2002
  Electric Power Engineering
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
• Master's 1999
  Electric Power Engineering
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
• Bachelor's 1993
  Electrical Engineering
  Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Recent Publications

• A Secure and Adaptive Hierarchical Multi-Timescale Framework for Resilient Load Restoration Using a Community Microgrid (2023)
• A TCN-based Hybrid Forecasting Framework for Hours-ahead Utility-scale PV Forecasting (2023)
• An ICA-Based HVAC Load Disaggregation Method Using Smart Meter Data (2023)

• DSM pricing method based on A3C and LSTM under cloud-edge environment

  (2022)
• A Unified Power-Setpoint Tracking Algorithm for Utility-Scale PV Systems With Power Reserves and Fast Frequency Response Capabilities (2022)
• Design of a Battery Energy Management System for Capacity Charge Reduction (2022)
• ProfileSR-GAN: A GAN Based Super-Resolution Method for Generating High-Resolution Load Profiles (2022)
• A Data-driven Pivot-point-based Time-series Feeder Load Disaggregation Method (2021)
• A Load Switching Group based Feeder-level Microgrid Energy Management Algorithm for Service Restoration in Power Distribution System (2021)
• A Zonal Volt/VAR Control Mechanism for High PV Penetration Distribution Systems (2021)