BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Stockholm BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T104614Z UID:3C2231DE-6758-4A49-944C-7918039134AB DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260327T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260327T170000 DESCRIPTION:Pls join us for the Annual Meeting of the joint Swedish Chapter of Power & Energy Society and Power Electronics Society on March 27\, 202 6!\nApart from news from the Chapter and reports from the board\, we will listen to an interesting technical seminar\, and award the prize for the b est MSc thesis\, Outstanding Engineer Award and Outstanding Volunteer Awar d.\n\nAgenda:\n\n- Activity Report 2025\n- Keynote Speech by new IEEE Fell ow\, Abhay Kumar\, Senior Principal Project Lead Engineer at Global HVDC E ngineering\, Hitachi Energy\n- Awards announcement:\n– Best M.Sc. thesis 2025\n– Outstanding Engineer Award 2025\n– Outstanding Volunteer Awar d 2025\n\nKeynote Speech: “Status and Trends of HVDC in India”\n\nAbst ract:\n\nGovernment of India has set an ambitious target of 500 GW of Non fossil electric generation capacity by 2030 and adhering Net Zero emission by 2070. For achieving the ambitious target\, there has been constant add ition of Renewable Energy in the Indian grid over the past several years. Most of the Renewable Energy (RE) Sources such as solar and wind are locat ion dependent in their production and thus need long distance transmission to serve the load. The major inverter bases resource (IBR) generation is envisaged in Rajasthan in North\, Gujrat in West and Karnataka in South wh ile major load centres are located in Punjab and Delhi in North\, Maharash tra in West and Telengana in South part of the country primarily requiring transfer of bulk power for long distances. As per the 2024 National Elect ricity Plan (NEP)\, the installed HVDC transmission system as on date is 3 4500 MW having up to +/- 800 kV Bipole and several back-to-back system in operation and addition of another 32250 MW of HVDC Bipole system comprises of LCC and VSC based HVDC system is envisaged in the Transmission system Planning with the total installed HVDC Transmission capacity of 66750 MW b y 2032. The NEP envisages the transmission of bulk power from Renewable En ergy Parks through long distance high capacity HVDC Transmission system fo r power evacuation\, mostly with overhead (OH) line.\n\nBio of Keynote spe aker:\n\nAbhay Kumar (Jain) is Senior Principal Project Lead Engineer at G lobal HVDC Engineering with Hitachi Energy in Ludvika\, Sweden. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)\, Roor kee in India and started his professional career in 1982. Recently he has been playing a key role in executing several 800 kV UHVDC Projects. He is Swedish member of CIGRE SC B4 and has been active in several IEEE\, IEC an d CIGRE working groups. He is recipient IEEE PES Uno Lamm HVDC Award (2019 )\, IEC 1906 Award (2020) and CIGRE Honorary Member Award (2022). He is Fe llow of IEEE.\n\nRoom: 3412\, Teknikringen 33\, floor 4\, room Sten Velan der \, Stockholm\, Stockholms lan\, Sweden\, 11543\, Virtual: https://eve nts.vtools.ieee.org/m/538334 LOCATION:Room: 3412\, Teknikringen 33\, floor 4\, room Sten Velander \, S tockholm\, Stockholms lan\, Sweden\, 11543\, Virtual: https://events.vtool s.ieee.org/m/538334 ORGANIZER:qianwenx@kth.se SEQUENCE:27 SUMMARY:Annual meeting\, IEEE Sweden PES/PELS Chapter URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/538334 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Pls join us for the Annual Meeting of the joint Swedish Chapter of Power &amp\; Energy Society and Power Electronics Society on March 27\, 2026!&nbsp\;<br>Apart from news from the Chapter an d reports from the board\, we will listen to an interesting technical semi nar\,&nbsp\; and award the prize for the best MSc thesis\, Outstanding Eng ineer Award and Outstanding Volunteer Award.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><u>Age nda</u></strong><strong>:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Activity Report 2025</li >\n<li>Keynote Speech by new IEEE Fellow\, Abhay Kumar\, Senior Principal Project Lead Engineer at Global HVDC Engineering\, Hitachi Energy</li>\n<l i>Awards announcement:&nbsp\;<br>&ndash\; Best M.Sc. thesis 2025<br>&ndash \; Outstanding Engineer Award 2025<br>&ndash\; Outstanding Volunteer Award 2025</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Keynote Speech:&nbsp\; &ldquo\;Statu s and Trends of HVDC in India&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>Abstract:</p>\n<p>Government of India has set an ambitious target of 500 GW of Non fossil electric gen eration capacity by 2030 and adhering Net Zero emission by 2070. For achie ving the ambitious target\, there has been constant addition of Renewable Energy in the Indian grid over the past several years. Most of the Renewab le Energy (RE) Sources such as solar and wind are location dependent in th eir production and thus need long distance transmission to serve the load. The major inverter bases resource (IBR) generation is envisaged in Rajast han in North\, Gujrat in West and Karnataka in South while major load cent res are located in Punjab and Delhi in North\, Maharashtra in West and Tel engana in South part of the country primarily requiring transfer of bulk p ower for long distances. As per the 2024 National Electricity Plan (NEP)\, the installed HVDC transmission system as on date is 34500 MW having up t o +/- 800 kV Bipole and several back-to-back system in operation and addit ion of another 32250 MW of HVDC Bipole system comprises of LCC and VSC bas ed HVDC system is envisaged in the Transmission system Planning with the t otal installed HVDC Transmission capacity of 66750 MW by 2032. The NEP env isages the transmission of bulk power from Renewable Energy Parks through long distance high capacity HVDC Transmission system for power evacuation\ , mostly with overhead (OH) line.</p>\n<p>Bio of Keynote speaker:</p>\n<p> Abhay Kumar (Jain) is Senior Principal Project Lead Engineer at Global HVD C Engineering with Hitachi Energy in Ludvika\, Sweden. He studied Electric al Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)\, Roorkee in In dia and started his professional career in 1982. Recently he has been play ing a key role in executing several 800 kV UHVDC Projects. He is Swedish m ember of CIGRE SC B4 and has been active in several IEEE\, IEC and CIGRE w orking groups. He is recipient IEEE PES Uno Lamm HVDC Award (2019)\, IEC 1 906 Award (2020) and CIGRE Honorary Member Award (2022). He is Fellow of I EEE.&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR