SS3: Control of Microgrids and Power Systems with High Penetration of Converter Interfaced Resources

Abstract:

While ever-decreasing costs of power electric devices make large-scale deployments of renewable generation very appealing, its impact on the reliability and resilience of the electric power system is highly problematic. Today’s grid operation heavily relies on bulk generation and synchronous machines that provide significant amounts of rotational inertia, maintain self-synchronization through the power network, and ensure stable and reliable operation of the power system through their frequency and voltage control. The loss of rotational machine inertia has received significant attention recently, while it is just one of a multitude of stability challenges that arise. How to operate the converter-dominated power system with high share of renewable needs further study. In this context, this panel will focus on the new theoretical insights, innovative modeling technique and control methods on the operation of microgrids and power systems dominated by power electronics. This session will explore several topics that are becoming increasingly prevalent, but not limited to the following:

  1. Simulation results and impact analysis of high penetration of renewables integration on power system reliability and operation.
  2. Design and application of new control techniques for power converter in renewable electric system.
  3. Innovative control and operation methods for high-renewable power systems.
  4. Strategic control of flexibility resources, including energy storage, demand response for enhancing the reliability of high-renewable power systems.

Organizers:

Xue Lyu, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Email: xue.lyu@wisc.edu, Tel: +1(608) 571-8368

Dr Xue Lyu received her B.Eng. degree from Qingdao University of Technology, China, in 2013; M. Eng. degree from Shanghai University of Electric Power, China, in 2016; and Ph.D. degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 2019. From 2019 to 2020, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Hong Kong. She is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include control and optimization for grid-integration of renewable energy systems.

Kerui Li, Postdoc research fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Email: krli@connect.hku.hk

Dr. Kerui Li received the B.Eng. degree from the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2013, the M.Eng. degree from the Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2016, and the Ph.D. from The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2021. He is currently a Postdoc research fellow with School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include topology, modeling, and control of power electronics converters and their applications to wireless power transfer systems.