Foundations for Engineering Education for Distributed Energy Resources

The University of Kentucky is part of FEEDER, a consortium of universities, utility companies, and industry partners, collaborate on research, curriculum development, education and training activities aiming at widespread adoption of distributed renewable energy resources and deployment of smart grid technologies. As part of this relationship, we are pleased to offer online seminars to faculty and industry professionals.

• Consortium of 8 universities, including University of Kentucky (UK), 2 national laboratories, 8 utilities and 11 industrial companies
• Objectives are to accelerate the deployment of distributed power systems technologies through innovative research, cross-institutional highly-collaborative education of the current and future workforce, partnering with public and private entities in energy systems and smart grid, and leveraging well-designed and complementary research, development, test, analysis, and evaluation

FEEDER Courses developed and taught at UK include:

• Global Energy Issues – Drs. Larry Holloway, Bruce Walcott, and Dan M. Ionel
• Solar Power – Drs. Vijay Singh and Don Colliver
• Smart Grid: Automation and Control of Power Systems – Dr. Yuan Liao

Example of current national initiatives:

• Cyber-security of energy infrastructure
• In August 2016, the Department of Energy announced awards to 12 projects of $34 million to enhance the reliability and resilience of the nation’s energy critical infrastructure and to demonstrate cyber-security solutions.