Ray Byrne, Ph.D.

Ray Byrne, Ph.D.

Program Manager, Energy Storage

Contact Information

Ray Byrne, Ph.D. / (505) 844-8716

Biography

Ray Byrne is manager of the Energy Storage program at Sandia National Laboratories where he has been employed since 1989. Prior serving as manager, he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. He completed a B.S. in electrical engineering at the University of Virginia, an M.S. in electrical engineering at the University of Colorado, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of New Mexico. He also completed an M.S. in financial mathematics (financial engineering) at the University of Chicago. He currently serves as team lead of the Equitable Regulatory Environment thrust area of the Sandia energy storage program. Awards include Time Magazine invention of the year in robotics in 2001, as well as the Prize paper award at the 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting for a paper on maximizing revenue from energy storage in grid applications. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2017 for contributions to miniature robotics and grid integration of energy storage.

Research Interests

Energy storage valuation, grid stability and controls, optimal dispatch of energy storage

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering/Control Theory, University of New Mexico, 1995

M.S., Financial Mathematics/Financial Engineering, University of Chicago, 2009

M.S., Electrical Engineering/Control Theory and Electronics, University of Colorado, 1989

B.S., Electrical Engineering/Control Theory and Electronics, University of Virginia, 1987

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Key Publications

F. Wilches-Bernal, R. H. Byrne and J. Lian, “Damping of Inter-Area Oscillations via Modulation of Aggregated Loads,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 2024-2036, May 2020, doi: 10.1109/TP-WRS.2019.2948116.

D. M. Rosewater, D. A. Copp, T. A. Nguyen, R. H. Byrne and S. Santoso, “Battery Energy Storage Models for Optimal Control,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 178357-178391, 2019. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2957698.

T. A. Nguyen, D. A. Copp, R. H. Byrne and B. R. Chalamala, “Market Evaluation of Energy Storage Systems Incorporating Technology-Specific Nonlinear Models,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 3706-3715, Sept. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2019.2909764.

B. J. Pierre, F. Wilches-Bernal, D. A. Schoenwald, R. T. Elliott, D. J. Trudnowski, R. H. Byrne and J. C. Neely, “Design of the Pacific DC Intertie Wide Area Damping Controller,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 3594-3604, Sept. 2019, doi: 0.1109/TPWRS.2019.2903782.

J. F. Ellison, L. Rashkin, J. Serio, R. H. Byrne, “The benefits of grid-scale storage on Oahu,” Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 15, pp.336-344, 2018.

R. H. Byrne, T. A. Nugyen, D. A. Copp, B. R. Chalamala, I. Gyuk, “Energy Management and Optimization Methods for Grid Energy Storage Systems,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 13231-13260, 2018.

D. A. Copp, T. A. Nguyen and R. H. Byrne, “Optimal Sizing of Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage with Stochastic Load and PV Generation for Islanded Operation,” 2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Portland, OR, pp. 1-5, 2018.

T. A. Nguyen, R. H. Byrne, B. R. Chalamala and I. Gyuk, “Maximizing the revenue of energy storage in market areas considering nonlinear storage efficiencies,” in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE SPEEDAM Conference, Amalfi, Italy, June 20-22, 2018, pp. 1-6.

R. H. Byrne, T. A. Nguyen and R. J. Concepcion, “Opportunities for energy storage in CAISO,” in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, Portland, OR, August 5-9, 2018, pp. 1-5.

T. A. Nguyen and R. H. Byrne, “Optimal Time-of-Use Management with Power Factor Correction Using Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage Systems,” in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, Aug 2018, Portland, OR, August 5-9, 2018, pp. 1-5.

T. A. Nguyen, R. H. Byrne, “Maximizing the cost-savings for time-of-use and net-metering customers using behind-the-meter energy storage systems,” in Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Morgan Town, WV, Sept 2017, pp. 1-5.

R. H. Byrne, D. J. Trudnowski, J. C. Neely, D. A. Schoenwald, D. G. Wilson and L. J. Rashkin, “Small signal stability analysis and distributed control with communications uncertainty,” 2016 International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM), Anacapri, Italy, pp. 1284-1291, 2016.

R. H. Byrne, R. J. Concepcion, J. Neely, F. Wilches-Bernal, R. T. Elliott, O. Lavrova and J. E. Quiroz, “Small signal stability of the western North American power grid with high penetrations of renewable generation,” in proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp. 1784-1789, 2016.

C. Neely, J. Johnson, R. H. Byrne, and R. T. Elliott, “Structured optimization for parameter selection of frequency-watt grid support functions for wide area damping,” International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources and Smart Grids, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 69{94, 2015.

R. Elliott, R. Byrne, A. Ellis and L. Grant, “Impact of increased photovoltaic generation on inter-area oscillations in the Western North American power system,” 2014 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, National Harbor, MD, pp. 1-5, 2014.

R. H. Byrne, D. J. Trudnowski, J. C. Neely, R. T. Elliott, D. A. Schoenwald and M. K. Donnelly, “Optimal locations for energy storage damping systems in the western North American interconnect,” 2014 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, National Harbor, MD, pp. 1-5, 2014.

Key Patents

“Control System for Active Damping of Inter-Area Oscillations,” patent application in progress.

“Communication enabled fast-acting imbalance reserve,” U.S. Patent Number 10,574,056, issued 2/25/2020.

“Cooperative System and Method using Mobile Robots for Testing a Cooperative Search Controller,” U.S. Patent Number 6,408,226, issued 6/18/2002.

“Portable Control Device for Networked Mobile Robots,” U.S. Patent 6,438,456, issued 8/20/2002.

“Cooperating Mobile Robots,” U.S. Patent number 6,687,571, issued 2/3/04.