Methods for Spatiotemporal Power Profile from Marine Hydro-kinetic Energy and Wind Energy for a Proposed U.S.-Caribbean-South America Super Grid under Hurricanes.

Global warming and climate change keep causing a catastrophic impact on the natural, social, economic, and political environment in many parts of the world. The urgency for the transition to a low-carbon economy through CO2 emissions reduction calls for innovative methods to harvest renewable energy sources to displace unsustainable fossil fuel power in North America. This work presents proposed methods for marine hydrokinetic and solar renewable power generation. On another front, since addressing the causes of global warming and climate change is not timely enough, this author proposes technologies to minimize their effects, which manifest through extreme weather events. Since renewables harvesting generates variable power profiles during extreme weather events, this work investigates high voltage interconnectors to smooth the total power variability of wind power farms far distant between themselves under hurricane events. Another effect of climate change is the increasing frequency of failures on overhead transmission lines due to extreme weather events. The author thus proposes a wide-area controller with phasor measurement and battery actuator to minimize the post-fault transients.