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The electrical power system has been widely recognized as the most important engineering achievement
of the 20th century. High power quality and availability are maintained in the bulk power
system mainly by enforcing hierarchical operational practices, central decision making, and topological
redundancy. However, this status quo is being challenged by changing generation, consumption
and operational landscapes. Particularly, increased renewable generation, supply scarcity, the impetus
to improve resiliency to extenuating weather impacts, and expanding electricity access call for the
development of transformative architectural and operational paradigms. Recognizing these developments,
this course will present enabling modeling, analysis, and control methods that will be integral to
architect next-generation renewable-based power systems. These methods will be developed adopting
a bottom-up approach by leveraging recent theoretical advances in circuit theory, nonlinear systems,
complex networks, and stochastic processes.

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