Tutorials
- TT01 | The grid forming converters connected to the transmission system
TT01 | The grid forming converters connected to the transmission system
DAY 5 JUL 02 SALA GOYA | 08:30 - 12:00
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ABSTRACT
Today, a major share of the electronic converters is controlled under the presumption that they are connected to a strong AC voltage with a given magnitude and frequency in such a way that the converter can exchange an active and reactive power thanks to a current control. This control strategy of the converter is known as the grid-following control. The limitation of this solution has been well documented in the literature and the grid forming control is proposing a new way to connect the power electronic converters to solve these issues. The proposed tutorial is covering a wide overview about this type of control starting from the origin of the grid forming control in order to define a strong classification for the various types of control. The different solutions for the current limitation are also addressed and the way to resynchronize, with no external information, to the grid after various types of fault is explained. All the concepts will be illustrated by some simulations which are publicly available on github.
- 08:30-10:00.
➤ Introduction – 15 mins
➤ Description of the main types of control – 30 mins
➤ Implementation of the grid-forming converter on a VSC and an MMC – 30 mins
➤ Current limitation in a converter driven by a grid-forming control– 15 mins - 10:30 – 12:00.
➤ Presentation of the benchmark – 10 mins
➤ Different types of grid-forming application – 20 mins
➤ Some thinking about the headroom and required energy for a grid-forming application – 10 mins
➤ The integration of grid forming capabilities into connection network codes – 40 mins
➤ Conclusion and perspectives – 10 mins
SPEAKERS- Xavier Guillaud – Ecole Centrale de Lille
- Frederic Colas – Arts et Metiers
- Mario Ndreko – Tennet TSO
SHORT BIO
Xavier Guillaud - professor in Centrale Lille . He received his Ph.D from University of Lille in 1992 and joined the Laboratory of Electrical Engineering and Power Electronic (L2EP) in 1993. He has been professor in Ecole Centrale of Lille since 2002. First, he worked on modeling and control of power electronic systems. Then, he studied the integration of distributed generation and especially renewable energy in the power system. Nowadays, he is focused on the integration of high voltage power electronic converters in the transmission system. He is involved on several projects about power electronic on the grid within European projects and a large number of projects with French electrical utilities. 
Frederic Colas : Research engineer – Arts et Metiers. He received a PhD in control system in 2007 from Ecole Centrale de Lille (France). Frédéric Colas is a member of the Laboratory of Electrical Engineering (L2EP) in Lille and is a Research Engineer at Arts et Métiers. His field of interest includes the integration of dispersed generation systems in electrical grids, advanced control techniques for power system, integration of power electronic converters in power systems and hardware-in-the-loop simulation. 
Mario Ndreko - Tennet. He received his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands in 2017 on the topic of grid connection code compliance and control optimisation for offshore wind power plants with HVDC transmission. Since 2017 he is with TenneT TSO GmbH in Germany. He is involved in activities within TenneT and ENTSO-E for the development of methodologies enabling the secure operation of the power system with up to 100% inverter-based generation. In addition, he is Lead of the ENTSO-E technical guidance team of the steering group connection network codes (StG CNC). - 08:30-10:00.
- TT02 | Flexibility and security in Power Systems facing Energy Transition
TT02 | Flexibility and security in Power Systems facing Energy Transition
DAY 5 JUL 02 SALA VELÁZQUEZ | 08:30 - 12:00
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ABSTRACT
European energy targets derived from the Green Deal promote a low-carbon, secure, reliable, resilient, accessible, cost-efficient, and market-based pan-European integrated energy system supplying all of society and paving the way for a fully carbon-neutral circular economy by the year 2050. This scenario fosters the increase of electrification of demand and the focus on the consumer/prosumer, as well as a high increase of penetration of renewable energy sources, involving plants connected to High Voltage networks and distributed energy resources integrated in Medium and Low Voltage networks.
Such new energy paradigm represents a challenge for Power Systems, which need to integrate all new actors while keeping security of supply. At the same time, the technologies aligned with the new paradigm (power electronics, ICTs, advanced algorithms, among others) provide great tools for Power System Operation, thus enabling features such as increased flexibility, stability or reliability.
This tutorial presents technology developments, based on real projects, aimed at covering the challenges abovementioned, following a bottom-up approach: consumer and prosumer integration, distribution and transmission networks evolution, power electronics and Power System operation.
- 08:30-09:00. ➤ Introduction: Electrification of society and Power Systems challenges.
Samuel Borroy Vicente - CIRCE Foundation - 09:00-10:00. ➤ DSO Needs and flexibility services.
Gregorio Fernández Aznar – CIRCE Foundation - 10:30-11:15. ➤ Power Electronics for grid support.
Jesús Muñoz-Cruzado Alba – CIRCE Foundation - 11:15-12:00. ➤ Power System Protection with high penetration of Power Electronics.
María Teresa Villén – CIRCE Foundation
SHORT BIO
Gregorio Fernández Aznar. Industrial Engineer with specialised in Electrical Systems from the University of Zaragoza (2010) and Master's Degree in Renewable Energies from the CIRCE Foundation (2011). Working at CIRCE Foundation since 2010, he has developed his work as a researcher and project manager, both national and international ones, in projects in the fields of storage and renewable energies integration and Smart Grids such as PARITY, SYNERGY, EV_OPTIMANAGER, FLEXICIENCY, WAVE, FLEXCOOP , MIRED-CON and in projects related to electric vehicles such as INCIT-EV, SIRVE or CRAVE. Since 2012, he has taught classes on the integration of RES and electric vehicles in several master's degrees and courses managed by CIRCE Foundation, EUREC or Zaragoza University. His research fields are integration, optimization and forecasting within the framework of smart grids, electric vehicles, renewable energies and storage systems and he is currently working on his PhD, related to grid integration of electric vehicle charging points. 
María Teresa Villén. She received the M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, in 2003. She works at the Research Center for Energy Resources and Consumption – CIRCE (since 2007) and she is responsible of Technology Service Manager (“Homologation and Validation of Power System Protection Relays”) since 2019. Since 2007, she has participated in renewable energy and smart grids projects supported by Spanish and European institution. She participates in R&D projects related to protections relays in transmission and distribution systems and WAMPAC systems applied to transmission grid. Furthermore, she has also experience in protection relay testing in laboratory and substation for different DSOs manufacturers. She has co-authored several research papers in refereed journals. She is also lecturer in the European Master of Renewable Energy of EUREC. 
Phd. Jesús Muñoz-Cruzado Alba. M.Sc in Telecommunications in 2007. M.Sc. in Electronics in 2011. PhD from the Seville University in 2016. He has more than 8 years of industrial experience developing power converters in the company GPTech. Since 2017, he’s part of the power electronics group of CIRCE Foundation. He has performed research about power electronics, control techniques and communications topics. His knowledge expertise covers a wide power electronics area in a variety of projects executed: HV power electronics applications, smart grids integration, renewable energies and ESS, electric vehicles, etc. He has been technical coordinator of developments with strong requirements, and currently he is undertaking the design of high-voltage full-SiC SSTs in 2 projects in 2 programs GRID2030 (FST project) and H2020 (TIGON project). 
Samuel Borroy. He is MSc Industrial Engineer from the University of Zaragoza, he obtained the Diploma of Advanced Studies and he is in the process of completing his PhD. His training is complemented and updated specifically with technical and management programs.
He is the Director of the Electrical Systems Area of CIRCE, whose technological offer responds to the needs and challenges of the electrical sector in the fields of generation, transmission, distribution and use of electrical energy, under the paradigm of its evolution towards sustainable and smart systems.
His professional career has been linked to the electrical sector since its beginning. After an initial period in CIRCE, involved in R+D+i developments related to transmission and distribution networks protection, he joined the Network Security and Analysis department of Red Eléctrica de España (REE) to contribute to the objective of guaranteeing the security of the Power System. He returned to CIRCE as Head of Power System Protection & Smart Grids group at Electric Power Systems Area. Since 2015 he is Area Director at CIRCE. - 08:30-09:00. ➤ Introduction: Electrification of society and Power Systems challenges.
- TT03 | Integrated Planning of Water-Energy Systems for Achieving Decarbonization, Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development Goals
TT03 | Integrated Planning of Water-Energy Systems for Achieving Decarbonization, Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development Goals
DAY 5 JUL 02 SALA PICASSO | 08:30 - 12:00
Add to calendar2021-07-02 08:30 2021-07-02 12:00 Europe/Madrid TT03 | Integrated Planning of Water-Energy Systems for Achieving Decarbonization, Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development Goals TT03 | Integrated Planning of Water-Energy Systems for Achieving Decarbonization, Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development GoalsPOWERTECH 2021
ABSTRACT
It is increasingly recognised around the globe that planning multi-resource systems, such as water and energy systems, in an integrated fashion, rather than as independent systems, can lead to a more cost-effective and reliable use of resources towards decarbonization, climate resilience and sustainable development goals.
This tutorial presents recently developed state-of-the-art integrated water-energy planning and operation tools. These open-source Python-based tools explicitly address the coupling challenges of the two systems with the aim of achieving the best possible spatial and sectoral distribution of benefits in multi-resource systems.
Real world case studies in Africa and Asia from the €9m FutureDAMS project led by The University of Manchester, United Kingdom, will be used to demonstrate the models. Attendees will gain practical experience using the simulators for energy, water, and water-energy systems.- 08:30-10:00.
➤ Introduction: Why integrated water-energy systems planning and operation? - 15 mins
Mathaios Panteli (University of Cyprus) and E. A. Martinez Cesena and Julien J. Harou (The University of Manchester)
➤ Python-based Energy Planning and Operation Simulator? - 20 mins
Jose Nicolas Melchor Gutierrez - The University of Manchester
➤ Python-based Simulation of Water Systems - 20 mins
Jose M. Gonzalez - The University of Manchester
➤ Integrated Operation of Water-Energy Systems - 25 mins
Mikiyas Etichia - The University of Manchester
➤ Summary / Q&A - 10 mins
Mathaios Panteli (University of Cyprus) and E. A. Martinez Cesena and Julien J. Harou (The University of Manchester) - 10:30-12:00.
➤ Introduction: Applications of the Tools - 5 mins
E. A. Martinez Cesena – The University of Manchester
➤ Demonstration of efficient and flexible power system simulation in Python - 15 mins
Wentao Zhu - The University of Manchester
➤ Case Study Demonstration of Energy Simulator - 20 mins
Ruben Bravo Vargas - The University of Manchester
➤ Case Study Demonstration of Water Simulator - 20 mins
Jose M. Gonzalez - The University of Manchester
➤ Case Study Demonstration of Water-Energy Simulator - 20 mins
Mikiyas Etichia - The University of Manchester
➤ Summary and Concluding Remarks - 10 mins
Mathaios Panteli (University of Cyprus) and E. A. Martinez Cesena and Julien J. Harou (The University of Manchester)
SHORT BIO
Dr Mathaios Panteli is an Assistant Professor in Resilient, Low-Carbon Energy Systems at the University of Cyprus, with more than 10 years of experience in contributing to and leading several national and international research projects in the area of resilient and sustainable energy systems and interdependent critical infrastructures (with a total budget >€10m). Dr Panteli is the Chair of the CIGRE WG4.47 “Power System Resilience”, an invited member in the IEEE Water-Power Systems Task Force and other working groups in IEEE and CIRED. Dr Panteli is an IEEE Senior Member, an IET Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK, and the recipient of the internationally prestigious 2018 Newton Prize. 
Dr Eduardo Alejandro Martinez Cesena is an academic fellow in multi-energy systems at The University of Manchester. His research interests include business case assessment, decision making under uncertainty, and integrated electricity/heat/gas system modelling. He has co-authored over 40 research papers in high ranking journals and international conferences, and has participated in over a dozen UK and international research projects; currently holding ~£1M in active European and industry-led projects. He is also a member of CIGRE C6/C1.33, Multi-Energy Systems, and the secretary of CIGRE C6/C2.34, Flexibility provision from distributed energy resources. 
Professor Julien Harou is Chair in Water Engineering at The University of Manchester since 2013. His group contributes globally leading research in water resources planning and management, water-energy-food systems, and environmental management software. He is research director of the $10M RCUK-funded FutureDAMS project, lead of NERC's Water Stewardship Portal project and a coinvestigator of NERC's UMFULA project. Current and recent collaborators include internationally renowned organizations, such as World Bank and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and various consultancies. His group co-built the analytical engines regional infrastructure investment planning projects in England, and is a contributor to TNC’s Hydropower by Design approach and WWF's Connected and Flowing initiative. 
Dr Jose Nicolas Melchor Gutierrez is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at The University of Manchester, UK. He holds a PhD in Electrical Power Systems from The Sao Paulo State University, Brazil and a Master’s degree in the same area from Technological University of Pereira, Colombia. With experience in simulation and optimization of power systems, with emphasis in long term planning. His areas of interest include highly efficient optimization for large scale power systems and optimization of water-energy-economy-food nexus. 
Dr Wentao Zhu is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester. He received the B.Eng. degree and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., in 2015 and 2019, respectively, both in electrical and electronic engineering. He is currently working on the technically and economically feasible, as well as climate-resilient solutions to the sustainable development of interconnected critical infrastructures. 
Dr Ruben Bravo Vargas is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Manchester. He is part of the energy research group on the FutureDAMS project, focusing on the design of resilient and sustainable hydropower and power network infrastructures to provide water and energy security. Ruben has a PhD in Energy Systems from the University of Edinburgh and a master's degree from The University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the modelling, analysis, and optimization of energy systems, with a particular interest in clean energy conversion and storage technologies. 
Jose M. Gonzalez is a PhD researcher in the field of water resources management, with an M.Sc., in Environment and Water Resources Management. With experience in water resources system analysis, mainly multi-purpose reservoirs assessing temporal conflicts between water demands for irrigation and hydropower under a systemic approach. Additionally, he has participated in different projects related to the incorporation of variable renewable energies in power systems highly dependent on hydropower generation. 
Mikiyas Etichia is a PhD researcher in the field of water and energy resource management, with an M.Sc., in Engineering Hydrology. Most of his experience in water resource modelling, water resource decision support systems and information management system. He has participated in the developing integrated water resource management plan of Abay river basin. - 08:30-10:00.
- TT04 | VSC HVDC technology and application to enable the energy transition
TT04 | VSC HVDC technology and application to enable the energy transition
DAY 5 JUL 02 SALA EL GRECO | 08.30 - 12:00
Add to calendar2021-07-02 08:30 2021-07-02 12:00 Europe/Madrid TT04 |VSC HVDC technology and application to enable the energy transition TT04 |VSC HVDC technology and application to enable the energy transitionPOWERTECH 2021
ABSTRACT
High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology has seen a revival in the last decades, and is an increasingly chosen for the transmission of electric power. The revival has been driven by new technological developments with respect to power electronics (IGBT) realizing Voltage Source Converter (VSC) HVDC. The revival was equally driven by the changing system needs after liberalization, the massive deployment of renewable energy sources and new long distance bulk power requirements.
The tutorial will present the VSC HVDC technology, its principle operations and three new applications:
- Flexible HVDC transmission
- Large scale offshore deployment with HVDC links
- DC grid for the backbone of future power systems
The tutorial is not intended for researchers that aim to gain knowledge on the (detailed) modeling and simulation of HVDC systems.- 08:30 – 9:15. ➤ The revival of HVDC. What is HVDC? Why has HVDC become so important for the energy
Dirk Van Hertem – KU Leuven - 09:15-10:00. ➤ VSC HVDC transmisión system: switches (IGBT, MMC), converters, cables and lines
Jef Beerten – KU Leuven - 10:30 – 11:00. ➤ Basic controls of VSC HVDC link
Eduardo Prieto-Araujo – CITCEA-UPC - 11:00-12:00. HVDC applications:
- ➤ Flexible HVDC transmission – 15 mins
Eduardo Prieto-Araujo – CITCEA-UPC - ➤ Large scale offshore deployment with HVDC links – 30 mins
Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt – CITCEA-UPC - ➤ DC grid for the backbone of future power systems – 15 mins
Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt – CITCEA-UPC
- ➤ Flexible HVDC transmission – 15 mins
SHORT BIO
Dirk Van Hertem received his M.Eng, M.Sc. and PhD degree from KU Leuven, Belgium, where he currently is an associate professor in the ELECTA group. His special fields of interest are decision support for grid operators and the development of offshore (HVDC) grids and the supergrid concept. Dr. Van Hertem coordinated the DC grid protection activities within the EU project PROMOTioN. The research activities of Prof. Van Hertem are part of the EnergyVille research center, where he leads the Electrical Networks activities. Dirk Van Hertem has published over 200 papers in international journals and conferences, and also published the book "HVDC Grids: For Offshore and Supergrid of the Future". Dr. Van Hertem is an active member of IEEE and Cigré. He is currently steering committee chair of IEEE PES ISGT Europe. 
Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt received the degree in industrial engineering from the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the UPC in 2007. In 1999, he joined Engitrol S.L. where he worked as Project Engineer in the automation and control industry. Since 2004, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department, UPC where he is a Professor and participates in the CITCEA-UPC Research Group. Since 2020, he is an ICREA Academia researcher. His research interests include the fields linked with electrical machines, power electronics, HVDC technology and renewable energy integration in power systems. 
Jef Beerten received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Currently, he is an assistant professor with KU Leuven and EnergyVille. His research interests include future power system dynamics, modeling, and control. In 2011, he was a visiting researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, for three months. From April 2014 until March 2015, he was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Dr. Beerten was the first winner of the ABB Research Award in Honor of Hubertus von Gruenberg in 2016 and received the KBVE/SRBE Robert Sinave Award and the Prix Paul Caseau from the Institut de France - EDF Foundation for his Ph.D. thesis on modeling and control of DC grids. Dr. Beerten is an active member of both the IEEE and CIGRE 
Eduardo Prieto-Araujo (Member, IEEE) received the degree in industrial engineering from the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2011, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from UPC, in 2016. Since 2010, he has been with CITCEA-UPC Research Group. He is currently a Lecturer with the Electrical Engineering Department, UPC. He is also participating in CIGRE Working groups B4.70 and B4.81, B4.84, B4.85 and B4.87, all related with HVDC converters. He is also a Lecturer of the Serra Húnter programme. His main interests are renewable generation systems, control of power converters for HVDC applications, and interaction analysis between converters and power electronics dominated power systems. - TT05 | An open platform for scenario analysis & visualization to assess low-carbon energy system transition pathways
TT05 | An open platform for scenario analysis & visualization
to assess low-carbon energy system transition pathwaysDAY 5 JUL 02 SALA SOROLLA | 08:30 - 12:00
Add to calendar2021-07-02 08:30 2021-07-02 12:00 Europe/Madrid TT05 | An open platform for scenario analysis & visualization to assess low-carbon energy system transition pathways TT05 | An open platform for scenario analysis & visualization to assess low-carbon energy system transition pathways POWERTECH 2021
ABSTRACT
Open-source models have become an integral part of energy systems analysis. Alas, knowledge about best practices in collaborative development of scientific software and standards for open & FAIR data is often limited. This tutorial introduces the participants to several key concepts like open-source licenses, version control and code review, automated testing, and standards for making data FAIR. We will use the open platform of models and data sources developed in the openENTRANCE as a starting point to discuss the advantages and caveats of open-source tools for scientific analysis of European (and other) CO2 emission reduction targets.
- 8:30 – 9:15
➤ A short guide to best-practice of collaborative development of open-source scientific software
Daniel Huppmann – International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) - 9:15 – 10:00.
➤ The basics of open & FAIR data and commonly used data templates and standards
Daniel Huppmann – International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) - 10:30 – 11:15.
➤ The openENTRANCE platform of open models & data
Pedro Crespo del Granado – Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) - 11:15 – 12:00.
➤ The pyam package – an open-source Python toolbox for analysis and visualization of integrated-assessment and energy-systems scenarios
Daniel Huppmann – International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
SHORT BIO
Daniel Huppmann is the "Team Leader Modeling Platform Development" at the IIASA Energy Climate & Environment Program. In this role, he coordinates a team of researchers and software developers to working for tools on scenario analysis, model intercomparison and dissemination of quantitative results related to energy transition pathways and options for climate change mitigation.The research group also develops several open-source tools to facilitate the processing, analysis and visualization of integrated-assessment and energy system scenarios across sectoral, temporal and spatial domains. These tools are used, for example, in several in Horizon 2020 projects openENTRANCE, ENGAGE and NAVIGATE.Besides his work on scientific software for model comparison and scenario analysis, Dr. Huppmann was an author of the 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR15). His responsibility for the SR15 was the compilation of a scenario ensemble of quantitative scenarios (Chapter 2) and the assessment of the interaction across different Sustainable Development Goals (SDG, Chapter 5). 
Pedro Crespo del Granado is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management (IØT) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He works on the modelling of energy systems via operations research analytical methods, most recently in the Horizon 2020 project openENTRANCE. - 8:30 – 9:15
