"NO PAINS, NO GAINS"

                                                                                                - from my father

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Research Interests

Ph. D. Research Topic : "Assessemnt Techniques for Determining the Reliabile Maximum Wind Power Penetration Level"

The major fields of interests are in all areas related to Electricity Power System and Renewable Energy. Current interested research issues are as follows.

•          Estimation of Maximum Wind Power Penetration Limit

•         Analysis of Variable Generations and Smart Grid

•         Analysis and Implementation of Cascading Outages

•        Analysis of Security Constrained Optimal Power Flow (SCOPF) and System Visualization

•        Electricity Power Market Modeling and Fundamental Analysis

Academic Degrees

08/2006 – Present:      University of Texas at Austin                                    Austin, TX

• Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Research Advisor (Supervisor): Prof. Ross Baldick
• Area: Renewable Energy (Wind Power) & Power System Analysis

03/1997 – 08/1999:     Korea University                                                Seoul, Korea

• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
• Thesis: “Optimal reactive power planning in Electric Power System”    

03/1993 – 02/1997:     Korea University                                                Seoul, Korea

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Ph. D. Courses @ UT at Austin

Employment Histories

05/2009 – 08/2009     Intern (Summer Internship), Energy Management System Development Group,

                                 Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Taylor TX   

                                 Research Project: "Development of Wind Reliability Enhancement (WRE) Tool"

09/2008 – 05/2009     Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), Uni. of Texas at Austin, TX

                                Research Project: "Tools for Assessment of Transmission-Constrained Market Power in Electricity Market"

05/2008 – 08/2008     Graduate Research Intern (Summer Internship), Resource Planning and Analysis Group,

                                 Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), Austin TX   

                                 Research Project: "Analysis on recent ERCOT price spikes"

09/2007 – 05/2008     Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), Uni. of Texas at Austin, TX

                                Research Project: "Reducing the Vulnerability of Electric Power Grids to Terrorist Attacks"

05/2007 – 08/2007     Graduate Research Intern (Summer Internship), Resource Planning and Analysis Group,

                                 Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), Austin TX

                                 Research Project: "2007 UPLAN NPM Modeling for ERCOT nodal market"

01/2007 – 05/2007    Graduate Assistant (Grader), Uni. of Texas at Austin, TX

09/1999 – 07/2006    Researcher, Electricity Market Technology Research Group, Fusion Technology Research Laboratory,

                                Korea Electro-technology Research Institute (KERI), Euiwang-city, Korea

09/1998 – 08/1999   Teaching Assistance (TA), Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Participations of professional courses to be an expert of analysis tools for power system & market

< Powerworld Simulator >

[1] “PowerWorld Simulator and SCOPF, ATC, PVQV, SimAuto Training”, Powerworld Company, Champaign, Illinois, November 2005

< PSS/E for powrer system>

[2] “Security Constrained Economic Dispatch”, Education course for power engineer, Shaw Power Technologies Inc (PTI), Schenectady, NY, USA, May 2004

[3] “PSS/OPF-Optimal Power Flow”, Education course for power engineer, Shaw Power Technologies Inc, Schenectady(PTI), NY, USA, May 2004

< STEMS: Electricity Market Simulator of EPRI>

[4] “Electricity Market Simulation & Price Forecasting”, Electric Power Program Series Course, Decision System International (DSI) Inc, Miami, Florida, USA, May 2004

< High-level language: MS visual C# >

[5] “Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework (Microsoft Visual C# .NET)”, Microsoft Official Training Course, Microsoft training center, Seoul, Korea, August 2003

< PLEXOS (Electircity market simulator) >

[6] “Electricity Market simulation and advanced application for PLEXOS”, Electricity market simulation training course, Drayton-Analytics Inc., North Adelaid, South Australia, October 2002

Professional Engineering Project Experiences @ UT at Austin and KERI

< @ University of Texas at Austin >

[1] "Tools for Assessment of Transmission-Constrained Market Power in Electricity Market", NSF research project, 2008-2009

        - My Contribution: Optimal Power Flow Solutions and Visualization of Calculated Market Power Index

[2] "Reducing the Vulnerability of Electric Power Grids to Terrorist Attacks", DOE research project, 2007-2008

        - My Contribution: Development of cascadingoutage analyzer

[3] "Nodal modeling cosulting service", Consulting project, 2007

        - My Contribution: Analysis ans documentation of nodal market model

< @ KERI  before August 2006 >

[3] "Development of the Korean Energy Management System (K-EMS)", ETEP research project, 2006

        - My Contribution: Development of Security Enhancement (SEN) module and Optimal Power Flow

[4] "Development of an intelligent power information Unit base on the Multi-Agent system", ETEP research project, 2005-2006

        - My Contribution: Visualization algorithm for viewing the system status using voltage and current

[5] "Development of the on-line security evaluation software (KERI-DSA)", KERI research project,2004-2006

        - My Contribution: Calculation algorithm of voltage assessment index of VSAT

[6] "Development of emergency strategies and processfor preventing blackout", ETEP research project, 2004-2005

        - My Contribution: Investigation of blackout examples and establishment of strategies of preventing blackout with Korean government

[7] "A study on the market simulation and SCED (Security Constrained Economic Dispatch) in the electricity market", KERI research project, 2001-2004

        - My Contribution: Analysis of SCED on Korean Market Operating System (MOS) and development of Korean electricity market simulator, PEXSIM

[8] "A study on the evaluation of capability and pricing of Frequency Control Ancillary Service (FCAS)", ETEP research project, 2004

        - My Contribution: Evaluation of FCAS prices and quantities in CBP market

[9] "Development of AGC and contingency an alysissoftware for JeJu Island control center", KPX research project, 2003-2004

        - My Contribution: Development of dispatch algorithm in electricity market environments

[10] "A study on the estimation of the Market Clearing Price in the TwoWay Bidding Pool and the profit analysis for generation resources", ETEP research project, 2003

        - My Contribution: Estimation of future price in TWBP market and analysis of the profits of generation company

[11] "A study on the market power analysis in Two WayBidding Pool", ETEP research project, 2003

        - My Contribution: Analysis of supply curves forthe hydro & nuclear energy in order to preventing their market power

[12] "Translation of TWBP rules (2001)-Development the market code and market procedures for Two Way Bidding Pool (TWBP) Open", KPX research project, 2002

        - My Contribution: Evaluation of Korean market codes and translation them with Korean language

[13] "Development and Installation of Power System Simulator", KEPCO research project, 1999-2001

        - My Contribution: Development of EMTDC generation control components such as exciters, governors, and PSS model

[14] "Development of Power System Stabilizer for Generator Control System", KEPCO research project, 1999-2002

        - My Contribution: Development of power system stabilizer (PSS) focusing on PSS algorithm and the installation of developed PSS to MUJU pump storage power plant

Journal Publications

1. J. HUR, D.J. Kang, H.S. Jung, Y.H. Moon, “Development of Market Modeling and Price Simulator (MMPS) under the .NET framework “, Transactions of KIEE (Korean Institute of electrical Engineers), Vol. 1, pp. 57~67, 2005

2. J. HUR, D.J. Kang, Y.H. Moon, “Development of a Power Exchange Simulator (PEXSIM) for the Korean Electricity Market“, Transactions of KIEE (Korean Institute of electrical Engineers), Vol. 1. pp. 88~96, 2005

3. J. HUR, D.J. Kim, Y.H. Moon, J.H. Shin, T.K. Kim, “The Application of Real Time Digital Simulator for Analyzing the Performance of Power System Stabilizer (PSS)”, Transactions of KIEE (Korean Institute of electrical Engineers), Vol. 1. pp. 1227~1231, 2003

International Conference Publications

1. A. M. Foley, B. P. O Gallachoir, J. HUR, R. Baldick, and E. J. McKeogh, "A Strategic Assessment of Electricity System Models", 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection (SEEP) Procedings, Dublin, Ireland, August 2009

2. J. HUR, R. Baldick, M. Joung, M. Zhong, and S. S. Miller, “An Advanced Cascading Outage Analyzer for Preventing the Large Scale Blackout“, 2009 IEEE Power and Energy(PES) General Meeting, Calgary, Canada, July, 2009

3. J. HUR, “Development of a price simulator for short-term electricity market“, Graduate And Industry Networking (GAIN) 2007 Conference Proceedings, Poster Session, University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 2007

4. J. HUR, D.J. Kang, Y.H. Moon, “Development of a Power Exchange Simulator (PEXSIM) for the Korean Electricity Market“, The international Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) Proceedings, Vol. II,  pp. 430~435, 2004

5. J. HUR, D.J. Kang, K.S. Kook, T.H. Kim, J.H. Lee, Y.H. Moon, “The Framework Design Of an Electricity Market Simulator”, IFAC Symposium on Power Plants & Power Systems Control , Vol. I, pp. 1227~1231, 2003

6. J. HUR, D.J. Kim, J.Y. Yoon, Y.H. Moon, J. Lee, Y.B. Yoon, “The development of exciter models for implementation into EMTDC”, The international Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) Proceedings, Vol. I, pp. 272~278, 2002

Conference Publications

1. J. HUR, Y.H. Moon, T.K Oh, “A study on the pricing of Frequency Control Ancillary Service (FCAS)”, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Autumn annual conference 2005, Vol. 1, pp. 72~74, 2005

2. J. HUR, Y.H. Moon, T.K. Oh, “A visual techniques for preventing blackout in power system”, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Autumn annual conference 2005, Vol. 1, pp. 43~45, 2005

3. J. HUR, S.H. Lee, T.H. Kim, Y.H. Moon, “Framework Design of Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) using QSS Analysis method”, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Summer annual conference 2005, Vol. 1, pp. 12~14 , 2005

4. J. HUR, D.J. Kang,  H.S. Jung,  Y.H. Moon, “Development of Electricity Market Price Simulator (EMPS) for short term electricity market “, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Autumn annual conference 2004, Vol. 1, pp. 97~100 , 2004

5. J. HUR, D.J. Kang, H.S. Jung, J.H. Lee, Y.H. Moon, “Development of Korean Market Simulator (PEXSIM) (III) “, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Autumn summer conference 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 655~657 , 2003

6. J. HUR, D.J. Kang, J.H. Lee, Y.H. Moon, “Electricity Market Simulation considering Energy Constraints”, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Summer annual conference 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 575~577 , 2003

7. J. HUR, D.J. Kang, J.H. Lee, Y.H. Moon, “Techniques of Generator Modeling for an Electricity Market Simulation “, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Spring annual conference 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 219~212 , 2003

8. J. HUR, D.J. Kang, K.S. Kook, T.H. Kim, J.H. Lee, Y.H. Moon, “Development of Korean Market Simulator (II)“, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Autumn annual conference 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 108~110 , 2002

9. J. HUR, D.J. Kim, Y.H. Moon, J.H. Shin, T.K. Kim, “The trial installation test of PSS to Power Plant using Real Time Digital Simulator”, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Summer annual conference 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 59~62 , 2002

10. J. HUR, D.J. Kim, J.Y. Yoon, Y.H. Moon, “The development of Exciter models for implementation into EMTDC”, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Spring annual conference 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 15~ 19, 2002

11. J. HUR, D.J. Kim, J.Y. Yoon, Y.H. Moon, J. Lee, Y.B. Yoon, “The development of TGOV5 model representing a steam turbine and boiler for implementation into EMTDC “, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Autumn annual conference 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 282~285, 2001

12. J. HUR, D.J. Kim, J.Y. Yoon, Y.H. Moon, J. Lee, Y.B. Yoon, “The development of Governor models for implementation into EMTDC and the verification of Governor models using GSTEP”, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Summer annual conference 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 71~74 , 2001

13. J. HUR, D.J. Kim, JY Yoon, Y.H. Moon, J. Lee, Y.B. Yoon, “The development of IEEET3 Exciter system for implementation into EMTDC “, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Spring annual conference 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 123~125 , 2001

14. J. HUR, D.J. Kim, Y.H. Moon, J.H. Shin, T.K. Kim, “Real Time Digital Simulator for analyzing the performance of Power System Stabilizer (PSS)”, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Spring annual conference 2000, Vol. 1, pp. 117~12 , 2000

15. J. HUR, D.J. Kim, T.K. Kim, J.H. Shin, “The Effect of input signals for improving Power System Stabilizer (PSS) efficiency”, Proceedings of the KIEE PES Autumn annual conference 1999, Vol. 1, pp. 144~146 , 1999

Patents

[1] D. J. Kim, H.K. Choi, Y.H. Moon, J. HUR “Calculation method for Power system Damping using optimization skills", 12.21.2004, Number: 10-2002-01-121-006407/0464119

[2] D.J. Kim, H.K. Choi, Y.H. Moon, J. HUR “FFT Monitoring method for power system fluctuations”, Korea Patent, 3.9.2005, Number: 10-2002-0077666/0477504

[3] J. HUR, D. J. Kang, H.K. Choi, Y.H. Moon, “3-Dimensional Dynamic Visualization method for Power System Data”, Korea Patent, 12.27.2004, Number: 10-2002-0023587/0465021

[4] J. HUR, Y.H. Moon, T.K. Oh, “Perfect 3-D Visualization for Power System Monitoring using Holography”, Korea Patent, 10.13. 2005

Software Patents

[1] J. HUR, D. J. Kang, Y.H. Moon, ”Market Modeling & Price Simulator”, Korea Software Patent, 12.12.2003, Number: 2003-01-24-6368

[2] J. HUR, D. J. Kang, Y.H. Moon, ”Electricity Market Teaching & Training (EM2T) Simulator”, Korea Software Patent, 12.2.2004, Number: 2004-01-121-006407

[3] J. HUR, D. J. Kang, Y.H. Moon, ”Locational Marginal Price Market Simulator”, Korea Software Patent, 12.2.2004, Number: 2004-01-121-006408

[4] J. HUR, D. J. Kang, Y.H. Moon, ”Generator’s Gaming Simulator (G-SIM)”, Korea Software Patent, 7.12.2005, Number: 2005-01-121-003852

[5] J. HUR, D. J. Kang, Y.H. Moon, ”Power Exchange Simulator (PEXSIM)”, Korea Software Patent, 7.12.2005, Number: 2005-01-121-003853

[6] J. HUR, Y.H. Moon, T.K. Oh, “Power Market Data Transfer Program”, Korea Software Patent, 12.28.2005

Computer Skills

• High-level languages:
• Fortran,
• Visual Basic .NET, and
• Visual C#,

• Algorithm & modeling development environments:
• Matlab,
• General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS), and
• LP solvers (CPLEX & MOSEK)

• Power System Analysis tools:
• Power System Simulator for Engineer (PSS/E),
• Electro Magnetic Transient DC (EMTDC),
• Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS),
• Dynamic Security Assessment (DSA), and
• Powerworld simulator

• Electricity market simulator:
• PLEXOS and
• UPLAN-NPM

Professional Activities

• IEEE Student Member: 2008-2009

• IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Student member: 2008-2009

• KIEE (Korean Institute of Electrical Engineering) Member: 1999-2006

My Presentations

• "Integrating Wind Power into Electic Power System", UT at Austin (Lab), 12.03.2008  [PDF]

• "Issues and Impacts of Wind Energy on Power System Operations", UT at Austin (Lab), 11.05.2008 [PDF]

• "Implementation & Analysis of Variable Speed Wind Turbine Model", UT at Austin (Class), 4.28.2008 [PDF]

• "Renewable Energy Technology focused on the Photovoltaic System", UT at Austin (Lab), 4.16.2008 [PDF]

• "Modeling & Analysis of Maximum Power Tracking of DC-DC converter for Photovoltaic System", UT at Austin (Class), 12.17.2007 [PDF]

• "Specification of new market model for implementing future nodal market", UT at Austin (Lab), 5.2.2007 [PDF]

• "Introduction of Power Exchange Simulator (PEXSIM) based on the optimization techniques", UT at Austin (Lab), 10.19.2006 [PDF]

My Useful Links

• University of Texas at Austin

• Electrical & Computer Engineering department (UT at Austin)

• IEEE Power & Energy Society

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

• Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

Last Updated: September 2009