Mayank Panwar

About

Mayank Panwar is a senior research engineer in the Integrated Devices and Systems group of Power Systems Engineering Center at NREL. His research spans modeling, co-simulation, evaluation and field deployment of power and energy technologies for cleaner and resilient electric grids. He leads the hydropower emulation project at NREL’s Flatirons Campus, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office and aims to build a scalable emulation capability for hydropower grid integration using a mix of real-time simulations, hardware in the loop and machine learning techniques. He is also the technical lead for several other projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy: the Power Converter for Electrolyzer Applications project (funded by the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office); the Resilient Alaskan Distribution System Improvements using Automation, Network Analysis, Control, and Energy Storage project in Cordova, Alaska; and multiple Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems hybrid energy projects, for which he is a technical contributor, including federated real-time simulations “SuperLab 2.0” project using Office of Science’s Energy Sciences Network On-demand Secure Circuits and Advance Reservation System.

Employment

• National Renewa Researcher-IV
  2022 - Present
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory Researcher-III
  2020 - 2022
• Idaho National Laboratory Research Scientist
  2017 - 2020
• Idaho National Laboratory Postdoctoral Research Associate
  2017 - 2017
• NTPC Limited (India) Engineer (O&M)
  2007 - 2011

Education

• Colorado State University Ph.D.
  2013 - 2017

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (29)

• Forecasting solar-thermal systems performance under transient operation using a data-driven machine learning approach based on the deep operator network architecture
  Energy Conversion and Management 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2021.115063
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• Integrated Multiport Back-to-Back Power Converter for Type-4 Wind Turbine Generator with Hybrid Energy Storage System
  arXiv 2022 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2209.05962
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• Power Converter Topologies for Electrolyzer Applications to Enable Electric Grid Services
  arXiv 2022 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2209.05967
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• 1.2.4.404 - Data-Driven Approach for Hydropower Plant Controller Prototyping Using Remote Hardware in the Loop (DR-HIL)
  2022
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• Design of Resilient Electric Distribution Systems for Remote Communities: Surgical Load Management Using Smart Meters: Preprint
  2021
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• Grid-Scale Ternary-Pumped Thermal Electricity Storage for Flexible Operation of Nuclear Power Generation under High Penetration of Renewable Energy Sources
  Energies 2021 DOI: 10.3390/en14133858
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• A Benchmark Case for the Grid Survivability Analysis
  IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting 2021 DOI: 10.1109/PESGM46819.2021.9638124
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• An Integrated High-performance Computing and Digital Real-time Simulation Testbed to Benchmark Closed-loop Load Shedding Algorithms in Power Systems
  2020 52nd North American Power Symposium, NAPS 2020 2021 DOI: 10.1109/NAPS50074.2021.9449781
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• Applying Utility's Advanced Grid Technologies to Improve Resiliency of a Critical Load
  2021 Resilience Week, RWS 2021 - Proceedings 2021 DOI: 10.1109/RWS52686.2021.9611785
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• Design of Resilient Electric Distribution Systems for Remote Communities: Surgical Load Management using Smart Meters
  2021 Resilience Week, RWS 2021 - Proceedings 2021 DOI: 10.1109/RWS52686.2021.9611791
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