POWERTECH2023 Program – powered by OpenConf

Wednesday, 28 June 2023
15:30 - 17:00

B - Atlantic

ABSTRACT Despite all the efforts made so far, reaching ambitious NetZero targets in electricity grids seems far-fetched due to stability-related challenges brought about by limitations, volatility and intermittency of renewables. The behaviour of invertor-based resources (IBRs) in response to system disturbances is fundamentally different than that of synchronous generating units. Recent examples and expected trends demonstrate that the operation of system integrity protection schemes (SIPS) will be adversely affected by the increasing integration of renewables into power systems. This is why it is essential to understand the nature of IBR’s impact and its consequences. The MIGRATE (Massive InteGRATion of power Electronic devices) project was a Horizon-2020 EU-funded research project, carried out by a consortium of 24 partners (eleven TSOs, twelve universities/ labs and one manufacturer) aimed at finding solutions to technological challenges brought about by renewables. Work package 4 of MIGRATE focused on “Protection schemes in transmission networks with high penetration of IBRs”. The main aim of the work package was to investigate the performance of existing SIPSs that are deemed more vulnerable to high penetrations of renewables. Based on responses from MIGRATE TSO partners, three SIPSs were identified as important and chosen for further scrutiny by the work package. These protection schemes were: • Under frequency load shedding (UFLS) • Under voltage load shedding (UVLS) • Power swing tripping (PST) In this special session, we will show that holding onto legacy SIPSs can greatly contribute to falling behind NetZero solutions. The panellists will present the main project results in terms of challenges, opportunities and future of SIPSs as well as a series of SIPSs solutions proposed in the Project. Conclusions drawn from our research will be presented to share our views on how best we can upgrade existing SIPSs in order to reduce the risk of catastrophic blackouts and push toward future low-carbon networks

CHAIR

Dr Sadegh Azizi, University of Leeds

SPEAKERS

Dr Sadegh Azizi, University of Leeds Vladimir Terzija, Shandong University Marjan Popov, Delft University of Technology Rubén Andrino Gallego, Red Eléctrica de España

SHORT BIO

	Sadegh Azizi received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Power Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2016. He is currently a Lecturer in Smart Energy Systems in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds. From June 2016 to January 2019, he was with The University of Manchester as a Postdoctoral Researcher leading their work on the protection Work Package of the EU H2020 MIGRATE project. Prior to this, he was with the Energy and System Study Center, Monenco Iran Consulting Engineers Co., and then with the Iran Grid Management Co., Tehran, Iran. Dr Azizi is an Associate Editor of the IJEPES and a task leader of Cigre WG B5.57 which is investigating new challenges of frequency protection in modern power systems. His research interests include wide-area monitoring, protection and control systems and applications of power electronics in power system
	Vladimir Terzija received his Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. From 2000 to 2006, he was a senior specialist for switchgear and distribution automation with ABB, Ratingen, Germany. He was the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Chair Professor in Power System Engineering with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester from 2006 to 2020. His current research interests include smart grid applications; wide-area monitoring, protection and control, multi-energy systems, switchgear and transient processes, ICT, data analytics and digital signal processing applications in power systems. Prof. Terzija is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, as well as a DAAD and Taishan Scholar.
	Marjan Popov obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Power Engineering from Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, in 2002. He is also a Chevening alumnus and in 1997, he was an Academic Visitor with the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, working in the Arc Research Group on modeling SF6 circuit breakers. His major fields of interest are future power systems, large-scale power system transients, intelligent protection for future power systems, and wide-area monitoring and protection. Prof. Popov is a member of Cigre and actively participated in WG C4.502 and WG A2/C4.39. In 2010 he received the prestigious Dutch Hidde Nijland Prize for extraordinary research achievements. He is an IEEE PES Prize Paper Award and IEEE Switchgear Committee Award recipient for 2011 and an Associate Editor of Elsevier’s International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems.
	Rubén Andrino Gallego received his Bachelor. degree in Electronic and Automatic from the University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 2005. He has worked in ABB and Siemens as control and protection engineer taking part in national and international projects. In 2015 joined REE in the System Security Department as senior protection engineer participating in ENTSO-E protection subgroup and Work Package 4 of the EU H2020 MIGRATE project.