About the webinar
Integrating High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) systems into modern power grids holds significant potential for improving efficiency and resilience. However, there is a need to assess HVDC-based grid architectures more in-depth as a concerns normal operation and extreme events.
Robust solutions are crucial to maximizing the performance and benefits of HVDC systems in a comprehensive view.
In this webinar, HVDC-WISE researchers will introduce a common methodology for R&R-oriented HVDC-based reinforcement comprising key indicators, pratical assumptions, operational scenarios. Then, a Reliability & Resilience (R&R) tool to assess techno-economic indices of transmission projects in support of decision-making in AC/DC grid transmission planning will be presented. The tool includes multi-terminal HVDC grids represented with a detailed multi-conductor model within a nodal OPF application. A cascading tool will finally be presented. This tool evaluates the impact of initiating events and determines if failures spread across the system, implementing, if necessary, a mitigation strategy to prevent further spread.
This work builds upon the efforts undertaken in WP5 (Simulation Tools for Reliability and Resiliency-Oriented Planning and Operation of Hybrid AC/DC Power Systems) and WP6 (Reliability and Resiliency-Oriented Network Expansion Planning Methodology: Application to Use Cases). It is further expanded in the following deliverables, which will soon be available:
- D5.3: Tool for Reliability and Resiliency-Oriented Expansion Planning
- D5.4: Tool for Cascading Event Quantification and Operational Mitigation Strategies
- D6.1: Methodology for Addressing HVDC Design Options and Enhancing System Resilience
Mathaios Panteli received the M.Eng. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical power engineering from The University of Manchester, U.K., in 2013. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, and an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London. His main research interests include techno-economic reliability, resilience and flexibility assessment of future low-carbon energy systems, grid integration of renewable energy sources and integrated modelling and analysis of co-dependent critical infrastructures. Dr Panteli is an IET Chartered Engineer (CEng), the Chair of the CIGRE Working Group C4.47 “Power System Resilience” and the CIGRE Cyprus National Committee, and an active member of multiple IEEE working groups.
Sina Hashemi received his PhD from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2022, specializing in power system stability and control. Currently, he works with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus as a Post-Doctoral Researcher. His research interests are centred on assessing, mitigating, and restoring power systems to enhance resilience and stability, particularly against cascading blackouts. His expertise includes cascading failure modelling and analysis, cyberattack-induced cascading failure mitigation, and cost-benefit analysis of hybrid AC/DC power grids.
Diego Cirio received the M.Sc. degree (1999) and Ph.D. degree (2003) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy. He leads the “Grid Development and Security” Research Group at “Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico – RSE S.p.A.” (Milano, Italy). He has been active in EU and national research projects on power system resilience, security, planning, adequacy, risk, HVDC, flexibility, ancillary services, also supporting the Italian Authority for energy, the Ministry for Environment and Energy Security, and the TSO. He contributed to CIGRE WGs of SC C2/C4, IEEE WG on Cascading failure, and IEA WGs on transmission systems (ENARD, ISGAN). He has been an IEEE Senior Member since 2013.
Lukas Sigrist received his M.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2007 and his Ph.D. degree from Universidad Pontificia Comillas in 2010. He is a researcher at Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) of Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, and the deputy director of Economic Affairs. His areas of interest are modelling, analysis, simulation, and identification of electric power systems. He has been involved in a large number of research projects related to power-system stability, control, protection and operation, particularly in the area of island power systems. Lukas is the treasurer of the Spanish IEEE PES chapter.
Andrea Pitto (IEEE SM ‘16) got his M.Sc. degree (2005) and Ph.D. (2009) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Genoa (Italy), where he worked as a research assistant in 2009-2010. He joined Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico – RSE S.p.A. in 2011. Active member of IEEE Working Groups (cascading failures, common mode dependent outages) and of CIGRE Working Groups (C4.47 power system resilience). His interests concern probabilistic risk-based approaches to power system resilience assessment and control.
Nicolas Barla received his M.Sc degree in Energy engineering from Ecole Centrale Lyon in 2019. He works at SuperGrid Institute on software development to model and optimize electric grids at different scales, from a single power plant to the whole European grid. His main areas of interest are offshore wind farms connection optimization and techno-economic assessment of prospective energy transition scenarios.
