ESR1: Dimitrios Dimitropoulos

Click for Research Illustration: A controller-design-oriented analytical model for wind turbines under large and small disturbances.

Presentation “Small-Signal Stability Analysis and Study of the Control Interactions Between the Components of a Wind Farm” at Ørsted Wind Power, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2023

Presentation: “Small-Signal Stability Analysis of Grid-Connected Converter under Different Grid Strength Cases”, at the 2022 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Kiel, Germany, June 2022.

Poster Presentation “Stability Assessment of Grid-Side Converter Control in Wind Turbines under Different Grid Strength Cases” at AAU Energy Research Day, Aalborg, Denmark, April 2022.

Poster Presentation “Stability Analysis of Wind Turbines under Small and Large Disturbances” at WindEurope Electric City 2021, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2021

 

ESR2: Shiyi Liu

Click for Research Illustration: Dynamic Model Reduction of Offshore Wind Power Plants

Being speaker in the session Skills4Wind for the ESOF 2024 conference, 12 June 2024

Being speaker for pre-event of MSCA regarding “A PhD beyond campus: integrating the non-academic sector in doctoral programs”. 10-11 June 2024

Talk about WinGrid project with MathWorks (MATLAB) regarding GFM wind turbine, 2023

Presenting work for CEN/CENELEC group, 31 Oct. 2023

Outreach to Princethorpe College in the WinGrid Fourth Annual Review Meeting, 2 Oct 2023.

Presenting work in 22nd Wind and solar integration workshop 2023, 25-28 Sep. 2023

Presenting work for grid interaction team within DNV, 15 May 2023

Presenting work for GOLDWIND, 8 May 2023

Posting at Aalborg University (AAU) research day 2023, 25 April 2023.

Presentation:” Torsional Vibration Analysis of Grid-Forming PMSG Wind Turbine”, at the WinGrid Mini Symposia of the Wind Energy Science Conference 2023 (WESC 2023), Glasgow, May 2023.

Presentation:” Impact of Machine-Side Converter Dynamics on AC Impedance of Grid-Forming PMSG Wind Turbines”, at the APEC 2023, Orlando, March 2023.

Presentation:” Active Damping of Power Control for Grid-Forming Inverters in LC Resonant Grids”, at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, USA, Oct 2022.

 

ESR3: Sai Sowmya Nagam

Click for Research Illustration: Modelling and Control of Wind Farm Dynamic Interactions

Outreach to Princethorpe College in the WinGrid Fourth Annual Review Meeting, 2 Oct 2023.

Presentation: “Validity of timescale separation assumption for synchronization stability analysis”, at the WinGrid Mini Symposia of the Wind Energy Science Conference 2023 (WESC 2023), Glasgow, May 2023.

Presentation: “Energy-based Approach to Synchronization Mechanism of Wind Farm with Weak Grid” at the WinGrid Sponsored Panel at IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies ISGT – Middle East, Abu Dhabi, March 2023.

Presentation:” Passivity based Control of Grid Following Converters”, at the 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting (GM), Denver, Colorado, July 2022.

Presentation: ” Enhancing Synchronization Stability of a VSC-Grid System using IDA-PBC Controller”, at the 2022 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Kiel, Germany, June 2022.

Presentation: ‘To Gas or Not To Gas? The Quest for Sustainable Energy’ at the 2021 IEEE Conference on Advances in Communications, Devices and Systems (ACDS), Imperial College London, United Kingdom, September 2021.

 

ESR4: Adeyemi Afolayan Alabi

Click for Research Illustration: Wind Farm Modelling & Control: Model Order Reduction of Windfarms

Presentation: “Nonlinear Model Order Reduction of Wind Farms – Applying SINDy”, at ISGT Conference-Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 2023

Presentation: “Identification of Synchronous Generator Using Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) Methodology”, at the 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting (GM), Denver, Colorado, July 2022.

 

ESR5: Aeishwarya Umesh Baviskar

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Outreach to Princethorpe College in the WinGrid Fourth Annual Review Meeting, 2 Oct 2023.

Presentation: “Effects of Weather- dependent Uncertainty in Distribution Grids with Large Share of Wind Power Plants” at the WinGrid Sponsored Panel at IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies ISGT – Middle East, Abu Dhabi, March 2023.

Presentation: “Reactive Power Support from Converter Connected Renewables in Active Distribution Network,  at the 2022 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Kiel, Germany, June 2022.

Presentation: “Open-Source Active Distribution Grid Model with a large share of RES- features, and studies”, at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS) ,December 2021.

Presentation: “Minimize distribution network losses using wind power”, at CIRED 2021 – The 26th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution, September 2021.

Presentation: “Challenges of Future Distribution systems with a large share of Variable Renewable Energy Sources – Review” at the 19th Wind Integration Workshop (virtual), 11-12 November 2020.

 

ESR6: Zuan Zhang

Click for Research Illustration:Power oscillation damping control from large offshore wind farms

Presentation: “My learning and research experiences in China and the UK” at Princethorpe College, Rugby, UK, October 2023.

Presentation: “Grid Transmission Systems for Long-distance Offshore Wind Farms (DRU-HVDC and LFAC)”, at the workshop on Accelerating Smart Power and Renewable Energy in India (ASPIRE)-Roadmap for Offshore Wind (OSW) Power Evacuation and Grid Integration in India, March 2023.

Presentation: “Power Oscillation Damping Control via Offshore Wind Farm and HVDC” at the WinGrid Sponsored Panel at IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies ISGT – Middle East, Abu Dhabi, March 2023.

Presentation: “Modelling and Coordinated Control of Offshore Wind Farms and HVDC for Power System Oscillation Damping”, at the workshop on Offshore Wind (OSW) Model Evacuation Framework – Grid Integration & Business Models (Focus State – Tamil Nadu) , November 2022.

Invited talk:” ‘Modelling and Coordinated Control of Multi-Terminal HVDC and Offshore Wind Farms for Power Oscillation Damping” at the technical exchange meeting with National Grid and OPAL-RT, 2022.

.Outreach at Student Science Night, Kiel University, July 2022.

Presentation: “Control of HVDC-Connected PMSG-Based Wind Turbines for Power System Oscillation Damping”, at the 2022 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Kiel, Germany, June 2022.

Presentation: “Online monitoring and lifetime assessment of power cables”, industry meeting with National Grid UK, 21 Sep 2021.

 

ESR7: Yifei Li

Click for Research Illustration: Coordinated converter-control and grid-protection for HVDC-connected offshore wind farms

Presentation: “Impacts of Current Reference Generation on Phase Selection Element”, at IEEE 8th Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid 2023), Germany, October 2023.

Outreach to Princethorpe College in the WinGrid Fourth Annual Review Meeting, 2 Oct 2023.

Presentation: “Current Reference Generation of Inverter-Based Resources During Asymmetrical Faults”, at the 14th IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE 2023), Nashville, US, October 2023.

Presentation: “Impacts of Inverter-based Resources on Directional Element during Asymmetrical Faults”, at the 22nd Wind & Solar Integration Workshop, Copenhagen, September 2023.

 

ESR8: Rujie Zhu 

Click for Research Illustration :Optimal Energy Management of Wind, Solar and Storage in Hybrid Power Plants

Opinion article invited by Danish newspaper Ingeniøren: “Hybridparker fremskynder den grønne omstilling”, March 2024

Poster “Long-term Economic Analysis of Wind-battery Hybrid Power Plants Considering Balancing Market” in HPP Danish Forum Meeting, Nov 2023.

Presentation “Impact of Renewable Power and Market Price Forecasts on Operational Profits of Hybrid Power Plant” in Wind Integration Workshop, Oct 2023.

Outreach to Princethorpe College in the WinGrid Fourth Annual Review Meeting, 2 Oct 2023.

Presentation: “Improved Profitability of Hybrid Power Plants in Spot Market through Robust Energy Management System”, at the WinGrid Mini Symposia of the Wind Energy Science Conference 2023 (WESC 2023), Glasgow, May 2023.

Poster “Long-term Economic Analysis of Wind-battery Hybrid Power Plants Considering Balancing Market” in WindEurope Annual Event, April 2023.

A series of presentations “Data-Driven Robust Energy Management System for Hybrid Power Plants in Spot Markets” in DTU-TotalEnergies Collaboration Meeting, 2023.

Presentation: “Optimal Energy Management of Wind, Solar, and Storage in Hybrid Power Plants” at DTU Wind-TotalEnergies Collaboration Meeting (online), October 2022.

Presentation: “Energy Management of Hybrid Power Plants” at Hybrid Power System Workshop, May 2022.

Presentation: “Optimal Energy Management of Wind, Solar, and Storage in Hybrid Power Plants” at DTU Wind-Vestas Collaboration Meeting (online), January 2022.

Presentation: “Energy management of hybrid power plants -impact of battery degradation” at Wind Energy Science Conference (online), May 2021.

 

ESR9: Anuradha Mudalige

Click for Research Illustration: Control strategy for HVDC connected Wind Power Plants for providing fast Inertial response.

Presentation “Frequency Support from Variable Speed Wind Turbines: Secondary Frequency Drop Phenomenon and its Mitigation,” at IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, October 2023

Outreach to Princethorpe College in the WinGrid Fourth Annual Review Meeting, 2 Oct 2023.

Poster presentation on WinGrid project activities, at Science Day 2023, Kiel, Germany, September 29, 2023

Presentation: “Influence of the Reactive Power Control Loop on Network Frequency Perturbation Plot” at IEEE 14th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Shanghai, China, June 2023.

Presentation: “Research activities within WinGrid project”, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China, June 2023.

Public talk “Power Electronics for a Stability Guaranteed Sustainable Power System”, Science Day , Kiel, Germany, September 30, 2022

Outreach at Student Science Night, Kiel University, July 2022.

Invited talk : “HVdc Systems in Future German Power Grid; assets beyond transmission links ” at Future energies Science Match 2021, Kiel, Germany , December 2021.

Presentation :”Impact of Grid Forming Power Converters on the Provision of Grid Services through VSC-HVdc Systems” at the 6th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGRID), November 2021.

 

ESR10: Yanchang Liang

Click for Research Illustration: Assessment of Power System Inertial Support on Wind Turbine Mechanical Performance.

Presentation to GE team: “A High-Speed Parallel Combinatorial Algorithm for Multiparametric Programming Using GPU”, University of UoW, UK, 7 June 2024.

Presentation at PhD Research Showcase: “Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Electric Vehicle Fleet Scheduling”, University of Warwick, UK, 17 April 2024.

Outreach to Princethorpe College in the WinGrid Fourth Annual Review Meeting, 2 Oct 2023.

Presentation at PhD Research Showcase: “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based Wind Farm Frequency Control”, University of Warwick, UK, 24 April 2023.

Presentation: “Coordinated control of wind farm and fuel cell system for frequency response” at the WinGrid Sponsored Panel of IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies ISGT – Middle East, Abu Dhabi, March 2023.

Talked about WinGrid research with industry people at an industry conference: CIGRE UK conference on Data Science and Next Generation Communications in Electricity Networks, London, UK, 30 June 2023.

Presentation at PA Consulting lab: “Tiny Machine Learning and Its Application to Power Systems”, PA Global Innovation and Technology Centre, Melbourn, UK, 27 June 2023.

Presentation to the National Grid electricity transmission team: “AI Based Acoustic Fault Diagnosis Method for Power Transformers”, University of Warwick, UK, 23 January 2023.

Presentation to the Arup team: “Coordinated control of wind farm and fuel cell system for frequency response”, University of Warwick, UK, 17 August 2022.

Presentation: “Reinforcement Learning-Based Inertia and Droop Control for Wind Farm Frequency Regulation”, at the 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), online, July 2022.

Presentation to the OPAL-RT team: “Tiny Machine Learning and Its Application to Power Systems”, University of Warwick, UK, 26 July 2022.

Outreach at Student Science Night, Kiel University, July 2022.

Presentation to the National Grid ESO team: “A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for Wind Farm Frequency Control”, University of Warwick, UK, 22 June 2022.

Presentation: “Deep learning based health monitoring technology”, industry meeting with National Grid UK, 21 Sep 2021.

 

ESR11: Abhishek Tiwari 

Click for Research Illustration: Scheduling and coordination of the aggregated WPP inertial (fast frequency) response resource within a high variable renewables power system

Presentation: “Co-ordination of fast frequency response options in high renewable systems to enhance frequency stability”, at the WinGrid Mini Symposia of the Wind Energy Science Conference 2023 (WESC 2023), Glasgow, May 2023.

Invited talk: “System-level co-ordination of fast frequency response capabilities from a portfolio of technology providers”, at the Department of Wind and Energy Systems, Technical University of Denmark, Mar. 2023.

Presentation: “System-level co-ordination of fast frequency response capabilities from a portfolio of technology providers,” at the Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Renewable Power Generation – Meeting net zero carbon (RPG 2022), London, September 2022.

 

ESR12: Yubo Huang

Click for Research Illustration: Intelligent Control of Wind Farms Consisting of Hydrostatic Wind Turbines

Presentation: Reinforcement Learning Based Multi objective Control of Grid-Connected Wind Farms, Annual Post Graduate Symposium (PGS), Warwick University, UK, 2023.

Presentation to GE team: “GPU based wind farm simulator”, University of Warwick, UK, 7 June 2024.

Outreach to Princethorpe College in the WinGrid Fourth Annual Review Meeting, 2 Oct 2023.

Presentation: ‘Multi-objective Control of Wind Turbines Based on Reinforcement Learning’, at the WinGrid Mini Symposia of the Wind Energy Science Conference 2023 (WESC 2023), Glasgow, May 2023.

Presentation: ‘Intelligent Control Methods for the Load/Vibration Reduction of Floating Structures’, at the WinGrid Mini Symposia of the Wind Energy Science Conference 2023 (WESC 2023), Glasgow, May 2023.

Poster: Reinforcement Learning Based Hydraulic Wind Turbines, annual Post Graduate Symposium (PGS), Warwick University, UK, 2022.

Participated in the industry meeting hold by the Centre of the New Midland – Connection for Prosperity, Warwick, 2022, and wined the AECOM Future Talent Scholarship, 6 July 2022.

Outreach at Student Science Night, Kiel University, July 2022

Outreach activity at the University of Kiel: Renewable energy and its future. Germany, 3 June 2022,

Poster: Reinforcement Learning Based Hydraulic Wind Turbines, Annual Post Graduate Symposium (PGS), Warwick University, UK, 2022

 

ESR13: William Mendieta

Click for Research Illustration: Network grid assessment of hydrostatic transmission based wind farms

Presentation: “System-wide implications of large shares of hydrostatic transmission-based wind farms on frequency stability.” at the Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC), 2023.

Presentation: “Evaluation of type 5 synchronous wind power plants in power systems with high non-synchronous renewable shares,” at the Renewable Power Generation and Future Power Systems Conference 2023 (RPG 2023 UK), Glasgow, UK, November 2023.

Presentation: “Grid Integration Impacts of Hydrostatic Transmission-Based Wind Turbines”, at the 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech Belgrade, Serbia, June 2023.

Presentation: “System-wide implications of large shares of hydrostatic transmission-based wind farms on frequency stability”, at the WinGrid Mini Symposia of the Wind Energy Science Conference 2023 (WESC 2023), Glasgow, May 2023.

Presentation:” Impact of hydrostatic transmission-based wind farms on the frequency stability of future high renewables power systems”, at the 11th International Conference on Renewable Power Generation – Meeting net zero carbon (RPG 2022), London, UK, September 2022.

 

ESR14: Florian Reissner 

Click for Research Illustration: Modelling & control of switched power converters and power grids

Presentation: “Secure control for a microgrid of virtual synchronous machines with virtual friction”, at the 2024 European Control Conference (ECC), Stockholm, Sweden, 25 – 28 Jun 2024.

Presentation: “How can we reach 100% renewable electric energy?” at Princethorpe College, Warwick, UK, October 2023.

Tutorial: “Virtual synchronous machines – inverters for a stable and well-damped grid”, at the 8th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid 2023), Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2023.

Tutorial: “Virtual synchronous machines – inverters for a stable and well-damped grid”, at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, USA, Oct 2022.

Presentation:” Virtual Friction: Experimental Validation in a Microgrid of 3 Virtual Synchronous Machines”, at the 2022 IEEE 23rd Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Tel Aviv, Israel, June, 2022.

Presentation: “The region of attraction of a grid with virtual synchronous machines employing virtual friction”, at the 2022 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Kiel, Germany, June 2022.

Presentation on the activities of our laboratory in the framework of WinGrid, Renewable Energy day at Tel Aviv University 2022, Tel Aviv University, Israel, May 2022.

Presentation on results obtained in WingGrid, GSC 2022—The Annual Workshop of Graduate Students in Systems & Control Haifa, Technion Haifa, Israel, May 2022.

Presentation:  “A Stability Result for Network Reduced Power Systems Including Virtual Friction Control”, at 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Austin, Texas, December 2021.

Presentation on results obtained in WingGrid, GSC 2021—The Annual Workshop of Graduate Students in Systems & Control Haifa, Technion Haifa, Israel, May 2021.

Presentation: “A Stability Result for Network Reduced Power Systems Including Virtual Friction Control”, at 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Austin, Texas, Dec. 2021

 

ESR15: Ziqi Zhou

Click for Research Illustration: Sub-synchronous resonance damping based on wind farm system

Outreach to Princethorpe College in the WinGrid Fourth Annual Review Meeting, 2 Oct 2023.

Science Day exhibition: “Microgrid Setup for Grid Faults Emulation and Converters Stability Analysis”, at Kiel, Germany, September 2023.

Presentation “Stability Comparison of Grid-Forming Converters with Different Power Calculation Strategies”, at the 2023 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Shanghai, China, June 2023.

Presentation “Sub-Synchronous Damping by Battery Storage System in Grid Forming Control Mode”, at the School of Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, May 2023.

Presentation “Sub-Synchronous Damping by Battery Storage System in Grid Forming Control Mode”, at the 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Detroit, US, October 2022.

Public talk “Renewable Energy Based Power System Stability Improvement by Battery Storage System”, at Science Day 2022, Kiel, Germany, September, 2022.

Outreach at Student Science Night, Kiel University, July 2022.

Presentation: “Stability Enhancement for Single-Loop Voltage Controlled Voltage-Source Converters with LC-Filter”, at 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Toronto, Canada, October, 2021.