Kankar Bhattacharya, PhD, PEng, FIEEE

Kankar Bhattacharya, PhD, PEng, FIEEE
Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University Research Chair, Professor
Location: EIT 4172, EIT 3036
Phone: 519-888-4567 x37064, 519-888-4016
Status: Active

Biography

Kankar Bhattacharya is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Research Interests

  • Power system operations, economics and planning.
  • Electricity markets, ancillary services and demand response.
  • Energy storage systems- integration in power systems and electricity markets.
  • Smart loads, smart grids and microgrids.

Education

  • 1993, Doctorate, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
  • 1988, Master's, Electrical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India
  • 1986, Bachelor's, Electrical Engineering, G.B. Pant Univeristy of Agriculture and Technology, India

Awards

  • 2021: CIGRE Pioneer 2020 e-session Achievement Award.
  • 2018: CIGRE Technical Council Award for contributions to Study Committee C5: Electricity Markets and Regulation.
  • 2017: Fellow IEEE, for contributions to electricity markets and reactive power ancillary services.
  • 2015: Best Paper Award, T. Alharbi and K. Bhattacharya, Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids, IEEE Electric Power & Energy Conference (EPEC 2015), London, Ontario, October, 2015.
  • 2014: Best Paper Award from Elsevier Science: Optimal Planning and Design of a Renewable Energy Based Supply System for Microgrids, Journal of Renewable Energy, Vol.45, 2012 (Omar Hafez and K. Bhattacharya).
  • 2001: ABB Sweden Gunnar Engstrom Foundation Award, for Research in Power System Economics.
  • 2001: Best Paper Award, IEEE Power Engineering Society's T&D Conference 2001, Atlanta, USA, "Automatic Balance Services for Frequency Regulation" (with J. Zhong).
  • 1996: Runner Up Award for "Application of Operations Research to Development", from International Federation of Operations Research Societies, for the paper, "Transmission Planning for the Indian Power Grid: A Mixed Integer Programming Approach" (with J.Parikh and R.K.Chaturvedi).

Teaching*

  • ECE 467 - Power Systems Analysis, Operations, and Markets
    • Taught in 2022, 2024
  • ECE 6602PD - Power System Management & Electricity Markets
    • Taught in 2019, 2021, 2023
  • ECE 6607PD - Operation and Control of Restructured Power Systems
    • Taught in 2020, 2022
  • ECE 666 - Power Systems Operation
    • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • ECE 760 - Special Topics in Power Systems and High Voltage Engineering
    • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Selected/Recent Publications

  • M. F. Z. de Souza, C. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, A. Lorca, “Affine Policies and Principal Components Analysis for Self-Scheduling in Compressed Air Energy Storage Facilities”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, accepted.
  • N. Padmanabhan, K. Bhattacharya and M. Ahmed, “Procurement of Energy, Primary and Secondary Regulation Reserves in Battery Energy Storage Systems Integrated Real-Time Electricity Markets”, IEEE Systems Journal, accepted.
  • F. Calero, C. A. Canizares, K. Bhattacharya, C. Anierobi, I. Calero, M. F. de Souza, M. Farrokhabadi, N. S. Guzman, W. Mendieta, D. Peralta, B. Solanki, N. Padmanabhan and W. Violante, “A Review of Modeling and Applications of Energy Storage Systems in Power Grids”, Proceedings of the IEEE, accepted.
  • N. S. Guzman, C. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, D. Sohm, “Frequency Regulation Model of Bulk Power Systems with Energy Storage”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.37, Issue 2, March 2022, pp.913-926.
  • D. Peralta, C. Cañizares and K. Bhattacharya, “Ground Source Heat Pump Modeling, Operation, and Participation in Electricity Markets”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.13, Issue 2, March 2022, pp. 1126-1138.
  • I. Calero, C. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, R. Baldick, “Duck-curve Mitigation in Power Grids with High Penetration of PV Generation”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol.13, Issue 1, January 2022, pp.314-329.
  • N. S. Guzman, M. Arriaga, C. Cañizares, J. W. Simpson-Porco, D. Sohm and K. Bhattacharya, “Regulation Signal Design and Fast Frequency Control with Energy Storage Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.37, Issue 1, Jan 2022, pp.224-236.
  • M. F. Z. de Souza, C. Cañizares and K. Bhattacharya, “Self-Scheduling Models of a CAES Facility under Uncertainties”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, No. 4, July 2021, pp. 3607-3617.
  • W. Alharbi and K. Bhattacharya, “Incentive Design for Flexibility Provisions from Residential Energy Hubs in Smart Grid”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.12, Issue 3, May 2021, pp. 2113-2124.
  • F. Calero, C. Cañizares and K. Bhattacharya, “Aggregated BESS Dynamic Models for Active Distribution Network Studies”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.12, Issue 3, May 2021, pp. 2077-2088.
  • O. Alrumayh, S. M. Wong and K. Bhattacharya, “Inclusion of Battery SoH Estimation in Smart Distribution Planning with Energy Storage Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.36, No.3, May 2021, pp. 2323-2333.
  • F. Calero, C. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, “Dynamic Modeling of Battery Energy Storage and Applications in Transmission Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.12, Issue 1, January 2021, pp.589-598.
  • C. C. Anierobi, K. Bhattacharya and C. Cañizares, “Behind-the-Meter Compressed Air Energy Storage Feasibility and Applications”, Electric Power Systems Research, vol.180, Dec 2020, 106630.
  • H. Alharbi and K. Bhattacharya, “Participation of Pumped Hydro Storage in Energy and Performance-Based Regulation Markets”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, no.6, vol.35, Nov.2020, pp. 4307-4323.
  • I. Calero, C. Cañizares and K. Bhattacharya, “Implementation of Transient Stability Model of Compressed Air Energy Storage Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, no.6, vol.35, Nov.2020, pp. 4734-4744.
  • N. Padmanabhan, M. Ahmed and K. Bhattacharya, “Battery Energy Storage Systems in Energy and Reserve Markets”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.35, no.1, January 2020, pp.215-226.
  • O. Alrumayh and K. Bhattacharya, “Flexibility of Residential Loads for Demand Response Provisions in Smart Grid”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.10, no.6, Nov.2019, pp.6284-6297.
  • I. Calero, C. Cañizares and K. Bhattacharya, “Compressed Air Energy Storage System Modeling for Power System Studies”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.34, no.5, Sept 2019, pp.3359-3371.
  • B. Solanki, C. Cañizares and K. Bhattacharya, Practical Energy Management Systems for Isolated Microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.10, no.5, Sept 2019, pp.4762-4775.
  • T. Alharbi, K. Bhattacharya, M. Kazerani, “Planning and Operation of Isolated Microgrids Based on Re-purposed Electric Vehicle Batteries”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol.15, no.7, July 2019, pp.4319- 4331.
  • W. Alharbi and K. Bhattacharya, Flexibility Provisions from a Fast Charging Facility Equipped with DERs for Wind Integrated Grids, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 10, no.3, July 2019, pp. 1006–1014.
  • O. Alarfaj and K. Bhattacharya, “Material Flow Based Power Demand Modeling of an Oil Refinery Process for Optimal Energy Management”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 3, May 2019, pp.2312-2321.
  • A. Bin Humayd and K. Bhattacharya, Design of Optimal Incentives for Smart Charging Considering Utility-Customer Interactions and Distribution Systems Impact, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.10, no.2, March 2019, pp.1521-1531.
  • J. M. Gonzalez Lopez, E. Pouresmaeil, C. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, A. Mosaddegh, B. V. Solanki, Smart Residential Load Simulator for Energy Management in Smart Grids, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.66, no.2, Feb 2019, pp. 1443-1452.
  • B. Solanki, P. Sauter, C. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, S. Hohmann, Electric Thermal Storage System Impact on Northern Communities' Microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol.10, No.1, January 2019, pp.852-863.

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