Dynamic Stability Challenges in the European Electric Power Grid
- Rafael Segundo and Petr Korba, Electrical Engineering, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
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The pressure to achieve carbon-free grids in the near future is driving the rapid integration of renewable energy sources into the grid.
Overview
Abstract
The pressure to achieve carbon-free grids in the near future is driving the rapid integration of renewable energy sources into the grid. While environmental issues such as climate change tell us that this is the way to go, the technical issues involved in making significant changes to the grid show that we may still to solve different technical challenges. This has recently manifested with two major events in the European system, where, although the system did not collapse, it was compromised, and its fragility was exposed. The situation in other systems around the world is not any different to Europe. These large systems are becoming more difficult to operate in real time, and energy transitions are not even near being fully implemented. In this talk, we introduce the main characteristics of the European power system, and we present some results of different projects where we have and are participating contributing towards a successful implementation of energy transition.
Brief Biography
Rafael Segundo obtained the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Imperial College London, in the UK in 2012. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KTH in Sweden in 2013 and since 2014 he is a Research Associate at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. Dr. Segundo is a Senior Member of the IEEE, founder of the international workshop DynPOWER and chair of the IEEE Working Group on Big Data & Analytics for Transmission Systems.
Petr Korba received his PhD degree from the University of Duisburg, Germany, in 1999. He worked for more than 10 years as a principal scientist at ABB Corporate Research Ltd. Since 2008 he has been lecturing at ETH Zurich and he became a professor of electric power systems at the Zurich university of applied sciences in 2012. He is currently the head of electric power systems and the deputy head of the institute of energy systems and fluid engineering. He serves as editor and member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. In December 2022, he received the IEEE Swiss Power & Energy Society Outstanding Engineer Award.
