Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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About Prof. Tom Overbye
• Professional
– Received BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. all from University
of Wisconsin at Madison (83, 88, 91)
– Worked for eight years as engineer for an electric utility
(Madison Gas & Electric)
– Have been at UI since 1991, doing teaching and doing
research in the area of electric power systems; fifth time
teaching ECE 333
– Developed commercial power system analysis package,
known now as PowerWorld Simulator.
– DOE investigator for 8/14/2003 blackout
– Elected to National Academy of Engineering in 2013
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About Prof. Tom Overbye
• Nonprofessional
– Married to Jo
– Have three children
Tim age 20
Hannah age 17
Amanda age 15
– Live in country by Homer on
the Salt Fork River
– We’ve homeschooled our kids
all the way through, with Tim
now starting his fourth semester
at UIUC in mechanical eng.
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My Kids
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About Shamina Yellowstone visit
during roadtrip to WA
B.S.E.E. ‘12
Professional:
• Undergrad: Washington State University
• Grad: UIUC (started Fall 2012)
– Working on power systems research with
Prof. Overbye
M.S.E.E. ‘14
Non-professional:
• Loves cooking and all things food Fiancé
• Hobbies include reading, running, Food
and…researching (had to go with the ‘r’
theme!)
• Drove from IL to WA last summer and back
• Engaged and getting married this summer!
IL Half
Marathon! Currently reading
Green Electric Energy Systems
• Focus of course is on electric energy sources that
are sustainable (won’t diminish over time)
excluding large-scale hydro
– Course is primarily about the electric aspects of the
sources
– These resources may be large-scale or may be distributed
– Courses does not cover nuclear
– Course does not cover biological resources (at least not
in-depth)
– Course is technical, but given the focus we’ll certainly
be covering the ethical, policy and current events as well.
• To feel green?
• To use less energy?
• To have a higher standard of living?
• To decrease our carbon dioxide
emissions now? In the future?
• To have more renewable energy?
• To have less expensive energy?
• To have jobs?
• To have it “Not in My Backyard (NIMBY)”
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Engineers Have Long Been “Green”
Source: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/cmsinn/talks/3_kung.pdf 8
ECE 333 Syllabus
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North America Interconnections
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Electric Systems in Energy Context
• Class focuses on renewable electric systems, but we
first need to put them in the context of the total
energy delivery system
• Electricity is used primarily as a means for energy
transportation
• Use other sources of energy to create it, and it is usually
converted into another form of energy when used
• Concerns about need to reduce CO2 emissions and
fossil fuel depletion are becoming main drivers for
change in world energy infrastructure
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Looking at the 2013 Energy Pie:
Where the USA Got Its Energy
About 82% Fossil Fuels About 40% of our energy is
consumed in the form of
Biomass, 4.7 Wind, 1.6
electricity, a percentage
Hydro, 2.6
Nuclear, 8.5
that is gradually increasing.
The vast majority on the non-
Petroleum, 36
fossil fuel energy is electric!
Natural Gas,
27.4
In 2013 we got about 1.6% of
our energy from wind and 0.3%
Coal, 18.5
from solar (PV and solar thermal),
0.2% from geothermal
Energy
in
Quads
2013 Data
(Quad)
Total: 9.3
Hydro: 2.6
Wood: 2.1
Bio: 2.0
Wind: 1.6
Waste: 0.5
Solar: 0.3
Geo: 0.2
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USA Energy-Related CO2 Emissions
are Down to mid 1990’s levels
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Global Warming: What is Known is
CO2 in Air is Rising
Value
was about
280 ppm
in 1800,
399 in 2014
Rate of
increase
is about
2 ppm
per year
Source: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ 24
As is Worldwide Temperature
(at Least Over Last 150 Years
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-blended-mntp/201409-201411.gif 26
Annual Temperatures for Illinois
Source : http://www.isws.illinois.edu/atmos/statecli/Climate-change/iltren-temp.png 27
But more controversy associated
with longer temperature trends
Estimated surface temperature in Sargasso Sea
(located in North Atlantic) Europe
was clearly
warmer
in 1000AD;
worldwide
temperatures
are more
debated
Source: Robsinson, Robsinson, Soon, “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”, 2007
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Going Back a Few More Years
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png
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And a Few More – Mostly Very Cold!
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_Age_Temperature.png
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Millions and Tens of Millions
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And Where Might Temps Go?
Note that
the models
show rate of
increase values
of between
0.2 to 0.5 C
per decade.
The rate from
1975 to 2005
was about
0.2 C per
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/future.html#Temperature
decade.
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Energy Economics
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