Seminar on "Renewable Energy – Opportunities, Key Challenges and Potential Solutions – 2019"
Seminar on "Renewable Energy – Opportunities, Key Challenges and Potential Solutions – 2019" with 3 guest lectures.
Guest lecture 1 "Renewable Energy in India: Grid Integration and Management"
Guest lecture 2 "Integrating solar photovoltaic (PV) in LV/MV distribution networks: challenges and potential solution using battery energy storage system (BESS)"
Guest Lecture 3 "Grid Integration of Wind Energy and Battery Energy Storage System"
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- Date: 19 Mar 2019
- Time: 10:00 AM UTC to 12:00 PM UTC
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- DGM-CP office complex
- No: 04 Asgiriya Road
- Kandy, Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka
- Building: CEB Auditorium
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- Co-sponsored by IEEE PES Sri Lanka Chapter , IESL Kandurata Chapter
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of. Naran M. Pindoriya of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India.
Renewable Energy in India: Grid Integration and Management
The share of renewable energy (RE) sources, primarily wind and solar generation, in Indian power grid has been growing significantly. The Government of India has established an installed capacity target of 175 GW of RE by 2022 that includes 60 GW of wind and 100 GW of solar, up from present capacities of 35 GW of wind and 26 GW of solar. As renewables grow more cost-competitive and increasingly contribute power to electric grids, the challenges of integrating such nondispatchable, variable generation are becoming more prominent. Strengthening the grid integration strategies and grid operations will help to manage these challenges. This talk will start with the present status and operational practice of Indian power sector and later will discuss the operational impacts of high penetration of RE into the grid and also the policy and regulatory framework to support RE integration and grid management in India.
Biography:
Prof. Naran M. Pindoriya is Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India. Before he joined IIT Gandhinagar, he was a research fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2010. He received PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 2009. His focused research interests include smart distribution grid/microgrids and grid integration of renewable energy and energy management.
He is currently the Principal Investigator of the DST/SERB-EMR project on “Smart Integrated Campus Energy Monitoring and Management System” and the international collaborative research projects viz DST-UKIERI thematic partnership on “D-DIEM: Data driven intelligent energy management for Sustainable Energy Access” and Indo-German (IGSTC) industry relevance project on “ECO-WET: Efficient Coupling of Water and Energy Technologies for Smart Sustainable Cities”, and Co-Investigator of DST Mission Innovation - Smart Grid project on “Development of Prosumer Driven Integrated SMART grid”. In past, he has successfully completed a couple of research projects/activities (Fast-track DST/SERB research project grant, Newton-Bhabha India – UK Advanced Training School award).
He has been awarded IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Gujarat Chapter Outstanding Engineer award (2017) to recognize his research contribution in power systems and smart distribution grid. He is a recipient of the prestigious Building Energy Efficiency Higher & Advanced Network (BHAVAN) Fellowship by India-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) under which he has spent three months in 2016 at Virginia Tech University - Advanced Research Institute (ARI), VA USA for carrying out research in building energy management.
He is an Associate Editor of the IET Smart Grid Journal, Member of Editorial Board of International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems and Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Data-Driven Methods in Modern Power Engineering of the MDPI Energies Journal.
He is a senior member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE and member of the Institution of Engineers (India).
Title: Renewable
Dr Shivashankar Sukumar of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, India.
Integrating solar photovoltaic (PV) in LV/MV distribution networks: challenges and potential solution using battery ener
Grid connected solar PV is the fastest growing renewable energy sources power generation technology. The quantity of electricity produced from solar PV directly depends on intensity of sun light. The PV penetration relies on solar radiation which fluctuates daily, hourly and over a shorter period of time (minutes and seconds). Solar PV when connected to the grid has positive impact on the network and at the same time, integrating the intermittent source with the utility grid can have negative impact. Therefore, the talk seeks to identify the challenges of integrating solar PV at LV/MV level distribution network and potential solution to address the challenges using BESS with a practical case study.
Biography:
Dr Shivashankar Sukumar is currently working as Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, India. He received his PhD in 2017 from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Before joining IIT, he was a Post Doctoral Fellow at University Tenaga National (UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur. His research interests include smart distribution system, microgrids, renewable energy integration and energy management.