Keynotes / Plenaries
Keynote Speech: Response-controllable PQ Control for Microgrids: Model-Based Analysis and Physics-Informed Learning
A microgrid may accommodate inverter-based renewable resources for PQ control in both grid-connected and islanded modes. Existing controllers, such as proportional-integral (PI) controllers, require sophisticated gain tuning and do not track the pre-defined trajectory accurately. To have a customized PQ response, we propose a time-varying-gain based PQ control method for microgrids based on a combination of model-based analysis and physics-informed machine learning. With the hybrid approach, inverters can be freely assigned exponential response time constants without manual gain tuning, which benefits microgrid performance under various disturbances.
Keynote Speaker: Fangxing (Fran) Li
Professor Fangxing “Fran” Li received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1994 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 2001. He worked at ABB Consulting in Raleigh, NC as a Senior Engineer and then a Principal Engineer from 2001 to 2005. He has been a faculty member at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) since 2005. Currently, he is the James McConnell Professor in electrical engineering at UTK and the Campus Director of CURENT, an NSF/DOE Engineering Research Center headquartered at UTK. His research interests include renewable energy integration, demand response, microgrid and AI for power.
Professor Li has received numerous research awards including R&D 100 Award in 2020, the IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper award in 2019, and five additional prize/best paper awards issued by several international journals. Presently, he is serving as the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) of IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (OAJPE) and the Past Chair of IEEE Power System Operation, Planning and Economics (PSOPE) committee. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
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Keynote Speech: Data Driven Solutions for Future Sustainable and Resilient Energy Systems
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As a result of high penetration of power electronics connected generation and load, as well as mixed ac-dc transmission and distribution networks, the nature of dynamics of modern electrical power systems has changed and their operation became a challenge, requesting new approaches for monitoring, protection and control. On the other hand, availability of modern smart technologies, e.g. sensor and ICT technology, opened new paradigms and data driven solutions for coping with new challenges. The presentation is aiming at addressing new data-driven approaches for monitoring, protection and control of future sustainable and resilient energy systems. Experience from 3 flagship and large-scale projects funded by Ofgem (UK) Network Innovation Competition, VISOR, EFCC and FITNESS projects, will be summarized and discussed. Approaches based on Data Science and hardware in the loop testing using Real-time Digital Simulator (RTDS), explored under the umbrella of the prestigious AMPaC Megagrant project funded by The Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation (https://ampac.skoltech.ru/), will be presented, too.
Keynote Speaker: Vladimir Terzija
Vladimir Terzija received the Dipl-Ing., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. He is a Full Professor at Skoltech, Moscow, Russian Federation. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the Shandong University, Jinan, China. In the past, he has been with the University of Belgrade (Serbia), ABB (Germany) and The University of Manchester (UK). His research interests include smart grid applications; WAMPAC; power system protection; transient processes; data analytics and digital signal processing applications in power systems. Prof. Terzija is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fellow of IEEE and the recipient of the National Friendship Award (China).
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Keynote Speech: Electric Vehicle Technologies – Challenges and Opportunities
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With ever-increasing concern on energy diversification, energy efficiency and environmental protection, electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming attractive for road transportation. Although EVs have become commercially available, there are many challenges and opportunities for EV development. This talk will give an overview of key research on various EV technologies, including the energy sources, electric propulsion, battery charging, vehicle-to-grid and vehicular energy network, with emphasis on their challenges and opportunities. In particular, the development trends and opportunities of two emerging EV technologies, namely the wireless charging and the wireless EV energy network, will be revealed.
Keynote Speaker: Prof KT Chau, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
K.T. Chau received his B.Sc.(Eng.) degree with First Class Honours, M.Phil. degree, and Ph.D. degree all in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from The University of Hong Kong. He joined the alma mater in 1995, and subsequently served as Director of the International Research Centre for Electric Vehicles, Associate Dean of Engineering and Head of Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering. Currently, he serves as Professor in the Department. He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IET, and Fellow of the HKIE. He is elected Fellow of the IEEE for Contributions to Energy Systems for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles. He has been honoured the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer and Distinguished Speaker. Now, he is serving as Editor of the Studies in Science and Technology, Co-Editor of the Journal of Asian Electric Vehicles, Section Editor-in-Chief of the Energies, and Editorial Board Member of some international journals. His main areas of research are Electric Vehicle Technologies, Electric Drives and Power Electronics, where he has published 9 books, 9 book chapters and over 300 refereed journal papers.
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Keynote Speech: Grid Modernisation for Smart and Carbon-Neutral Cities
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In 2015, countries around the world reached the Paris Agreement to start reducing emissions as soon as possible to deal with the increasingly dominant issue of climate change and achieve the carbon neutrality target. Many countries, including China and the USA, have proposed national strategies to strengthen their power grids to facilitate major government initiatives, such as increasing the penetration of renewable energy as well as the electrification of transportation and other business and industrial sectors. Besides, the initiative of smart cities is promoted to improve the quality of our life. A reliable and sustainable power grid is recognized as a key enabler for smart and carbon-neutral cities. Hundreds of billions of US dollars have been and are being spent on modernising existing power grids. In this speech, the latest developments, challenges and opportunities in grid modernization for smart and carbon-neutral cities will be presented, and some key technologies will then be discussed.
Keynote Speaker: Prof CY Chung
Prof. C.Y. Chung is the Head of Department and Chair Professor of Power Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU), Hong Kong, China. Before re-joining the department, Prof. Chung was the NSERC/SaskPower Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Technologies, and the SaskPower Chair in Power Systems Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He was a prominent leader for advancing academic activities and applied research in power systems engineering development in the province. He led a research team, supported by SaskPower and NSERC of Canada, to conduct cutting-edge and long-term smart grid research for SaskPower and address critical technical issues associated with smart grid technologies and their applications to real power systems.
Prof. Chung has been very active in professional societies. He was the Member-at-Large (Smart Grid) and Member-at-Large (Global Outreach) of IEEE PES Governing Board, the IEEE PES Region 10 North Chapter Representative, and a member of IEEE PES Fellow Evaluation Committee. He was the Past Chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Section, IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter of PES/IAS/PELS/IES and IET Hong Kong PES.
Prof. Chung is currently a Senior Editor of “IEEE Transactions on Power Systems”, a Consulting Editor of “IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy”, a Vice Editor-in-Chief of “Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy”, and a Subject Editor of “IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution”.
Prof. Chung is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, EIC, IET and HKIE, and an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. He is also the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Canada P. Ziogas Electric Power Award and 2021 Saskatoon Engineering Society (SES) Educator of the Year Award.
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Keynote Speech: Smart, Energy-efficient and Grid-interactive Buildings: Technology Development and Benefits
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Effective use of renewable energy resources together with effective energy storage and high energy efficiency could allow low-rise buildings in low density districts to achieve carbon neutrality. However, in high-density cities like Hong Kong, it is obviously impossible for high-rise buildings to achieve carbon neutrality themselves by adopting the same approach. How to achieve carbon-neutrality and what should be effective contributions of high-rise buildings in high-density cities need to be reconsidered. Energy flexibility and efficiency could be the practical and effective contributions of high-rise buildings to contribute to the overall carbon-neutrality by facilitating the high renewable penetrations in power grids. This presentation will discuss the potential approaches for achieving carbon-neutrality and the roles of buildings in high density cities. The research work on building flexibility enhancement and grid-interactive control technologies for unlocking building energy flexibility will be also presented.
Keynote Speaker: Prof Shengwei Wang
Ir Prof. Shengwei WANGDirector of Research Institute for Smart Energy
Chair Professor of Building Energy and Automation
Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Smart Building
Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Ir Professor Wang, earned his BEng and MSc degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and PhD degree from University of Liege in 1993. He is the fellows of IBPSA, CIBSE and HKIE, he joined PolyU in 1993 and was promoted to professor and chair professor in 2005 and 2008 respectively.
One of the most active scholars in the realm of smart building energy technologies, Professor Wang focusses his research on optimal control and system optimization of air-conditioning systems, diagnosis and commissioning, energy-flexible buildings, and smart building technologies. He has secured more than 50 research grants, including 18 grants from General Research Fund in Hong Kong, and overseas outstanding youth talent grant from NSFC. He has published four books and over 320 papers in highly regarded refereed journals, and was ranked as one of the highly-cited scholars in energy science and engineering discipline, and ranked No. 20 in Building and Construction field in 2021 in the Stanford report.
Professor Wang has extensive experience in successful energy optimisation projects both for new buildings and existing buildings including commercial and industrial buildings, such as International Commerce Centre, saving as much as 42% of energy and over 10 million kWh per year in an individual building.
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Keynote Speech: Construction of New Electricity Market for Entities of Aggregated Distributed Resources —Taking the Hunan power system as an example
Keynote Speaker: Prof Hongming Yang
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Nowadays, the power system is translating to a renewable-dominated system, which aims to reduce carbon emissions. As a typical renewable-dominated power system, the Hunan power system meets the risk of power shortages during summers and winters, nevertheless, with a limited renewable energy accommodation. Our research team engages in the electricity market for distributed resources, and devotes to establishing a reasonable new electricity market to increase the flexibility of the system.
Based on the plan-market cooperation, inter- and intra-provincial cooperation, and medium- and long-term and spot market cooperation, the transaction mode for the new electricity market is demonstrated. The special transaction models for wind power curtailment and in-depth peak regulation are presented. Then, the distributed energy storage devices are employed to show how the distributed resources act in the power market. Finally, our research team and our international cooperation works are presented.
Hongming Yang is a Ph.D., level-2 professor, doctoral supervisor, director of the International Science and Technology Cooperation base of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the International Cooperation Joint Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, and the Hunan Engineering Technology Research Center, the distinguished Professor and Young Scholars of “Changjiang Scholars Award Program”, advanced workers in Hunan Province, and Distinguished Professor of “Furong Scholars” in Hunan Province. She has been studying in the field of power system optimization modeling, calculation methods, and innovation of management mode in the power market environment for over 20 years. She has successively hosted 6 projects (including NSFC-UNEP Program, Key Program, General Program, and Young Program) for the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She published more than 100 research papers where 49 were indexed by SCI, and obtained 9 invention patents and 14 utility model patents in the field of power systems. Meanwhile, she has participated in the formulation of 3 international standards, promoted the publication of 6 electricity market reform documents, and received 7 approvals from national/provincial ministerial leaders. She has won the Second Class Prize of 2010 National S&T Advance Award, the Second Class Prize of 2013, 2018, and 2020 Hunan S&T Advance Award, 2019 Hunan Science and Technology Innovation Team Award and 2016 Energy Futures UNSW Innovation Award.
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Keynote Speech: Energy Storage Power Conversion and Future Fuel For Electric Vehicles
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The electric vehicle is one of the major development of this century. Carbon Neutrality 2050 triggered the rapid development of electric vehicle technology. Energy storage and fuel are the major concerns the future development. The present Li-ion Battery suffers from recycling and its carbon footprint issue. Hydrogen fuel could be a good choice, but there are numerous issues to be solved because of production, transportation, and safety. Other energy storage, such as metal-oxide fuel cells, is also a good alternative. Recently the ammonia power electric vehicle has been promoted because it is operated under low pressure and also its potential low cost.
Vehicle technology is based on power electronics. The power circuit, drives, motor, charger, and power distribution are all critical parts for power conversion. In this talk, the new technology of various energy storage, power conversion techniques and new fuel power processing will be discussed.
Keynote Speaker: Prof Eric Cheng, IEEE Fellow, Director, Power Electronics Research Center, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Prof Eric Cheng obtained his BSc and PhD degrees both from the University of Bath in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Before he joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1997, he was with Lucas Aerospace, United Kingdom as a Principal Engineer and led a number of power electronics projects.
He is the electrical designer for the Hong Kong 1st commercial electric vehicle in Hong Kong. He also led his team in designing the 1st charging network in Hong Kong. He received numerous awards related to electrical engineering, energy, and automotive. He has published over 500 papers and 7 books. He has over 200 interviews with the media on his research and development. He is now the professor and director of the Power Electronics Research Centre of the university. His research interests are all aspects of Power electronics, Power Quality, Renewable Energy, Motor Drives, Energy Storage, Energy Saving, Power Distribution, EMI, High-Speed Rail, Electric Vessel, Electric vehicles, and advanced Automotive components. He is the recipient of the international award in Seoul International Invention Fair 2015 Gold prize for his contribution in super-capacitor to electric vehicles, 2016 iCAN Gold Medal for his contribution to active suspension, and Gold Award of Hong Kong Innovation and Technology in 2017 and Geneva’s Invention Expo Silver Award for his contribution in the antilock braking system and top 20 Tera Award in 2021. Prof. Cheng is a chartered engineer and a fellow of IEEE, HKIE and IET.
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Keynote Speech: ‘Reliability’ and ‘Innovation’ Journeys of HK Electric
Keynote Speaker: Ir Francis CY Cheng, Operations Director, HK Electric
Ir Francis CY Cheng is the Operations Director of HK Electric and has worked for the company since 1979. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom. He is also a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. Ir Cheng worked in the then Apleichau Power Station and subsequently in Lamma Power Station of the company for more than 37 years. He is now responsible for the operational units of HK Electric covering generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, as well as system operations and information technology. Ir Cheng has long supported the development of Qualifications Framework (QF) for the local Electrical & Mechanical Engineering industries. He was also a council member of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) . Since 2018 and up to now, Ir Cheng is a member of the Committee on Self-financing Post-secondary Education (CSPE) of Education Bureau, HKSAR. Ir Cheng was awarded a Medal of Honour by the HKSAR Government in 2016 for recognition of his services in the community.
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Keynote Speech: Transformation into a Utility of the Future
Keynote Speaker: Mr. Paul Tomlinson
Mr. Tomlinson specialises in manufacturing, operations and engineering and has over 32 years of hands-on experience in leading large scales operations across industries including utilities, Advanced Wound Care products manufacturing and food processing. Before joining CLP, Mr. Tomlinson was the Chief Operating Officer for Sembcorp Utilities in the United Kingdom. Previously he was also the Chief Operating Officer of Eggborough Power Ltd (a 2000MW Coal Fired Power Plant) and Managing Director of Lynemouth Power Ltd (a 420MW Biomass Fired Power Plant). Mr. Tomlinson joined CLP Power as the Senior Director – Generation in 2020 and assumed his current position in April 2022. Mr. Tomlinson is also the Chairman of Hong Kong LNG Terminal Limited, a Director of CLP Power and, Hong Kong Pumped Storage Development Company, Limited as well as an Alternate Director of Castle Peak Power Company Limited.