Thad Haines

Senior Member, Technical Staff

Biography

Thad Haines is a senior member of the technical staff with the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration department at Sandia National Laboratories where his work contributes to better understanding issues related to resilience, stability, and controllability of electrical power systems due to increased renewable energy adoption and electrification of transportation. He has studied possible grid integration challenges with EV charging, as well as mitigation approaches during normal day-to-day operation and extreme weather events. Additionally, he has contributed to researching alternatives for fossil-based generation in an island setting, helped identify critical infrastructure to benefit community resilience, developed and simulated plant-wide inverter-based resource controls, and added long-term dynamic power system simulation via variable time-step integration into an open-source software package. Thad holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Montana Technological University, Butte America.

Education

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Montana Technological University – 2020

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Montana Tech of the University of Montana – 2018

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Publications

Jimenez Aparicio, M., Wilches-Bernal, F., Darbali-Zamora, R., Haines, J., Schoenwald, D., Shafiul Alam, S., Gevorgian, V., Yan, W., & Yan, W. (2022). Simulink Modeling and Dynamic Study of Fixed-Speed, Variable-Speed, and Ternary Pumped Storage Hydropower. https://doi.org/10.2172/1887487 Publication ID: 80190
Haines, J., Garcia, B., Vining, W., Lave, M., & Lave, M. (2021). A Co-Simulation Approach to Modeling Electric Vehicle Impacts on Distribution Feeders During Resilience Events – Conference Poster [Conference Poster]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1895007 Publication ID: 76323
O’Neill-Carrillo, E., Lave, M., Haines, J., & Haines, J. (2021). Systemwide Considerations for Electrification of Transportation in Islands and Remote Locations. Vehicles, 3(3), pp. 498-511. https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles3030030 Publication ID: 75356
Jones, C., Vining, W., Haines, J., & Haines, J. (2021). City-Wide Distributed Roof-Top Photovoltaic System Adoption Forecast, Grid Impact Simulation, & Neighborhood Microgrid Contribution Assessment. https://doi.org/10.2172/1854753 Publication ID: 75969
Haines, J., Garcia, B., Vining, W., Lave, M., & Lave, M. (2021). A Co-Simulation Approach to Modeling Electric Vehicle Impacts on Distribution Feeders during Resilience Events [Conference Paper]. 2021 Resilience Week, RWS 2021 – Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/RWS52686.2021.9611803 Publication ID: 76157

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