Technical Talk
Student & Young Professionals (S&YP) Activity Committee of the Industrial Electronics Society (IES)
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- Start time: 20 Jun 2025 01:56 PM UTC
- End time: 23 Jun 2025 01:58 PM UTC
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- York University Student Centre
- Toronto, Ontario
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- Co-sponsored by IEEE IES-SYPA
- Starts 29 April 2025 04:00 AM UTC
- Ends 20 June 2025 04:00 AM UTC
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Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam
From Transition to Transformation: The Future of Energy Systems and Markets
The energy landscape is changing rapidly with far-reaching implications for the global energy industry and actors. While the transformation of the energy system is rapid in certain regions of the world-such as Europe, the speed of the global energy transition remains highly uncertain and there exist a number of socio-technical challenges yet to be solved. Harvesting renewable energies implies decentralization, where many consumers also become producers, who at times export electricity to the grid. To accommodate large numbers of renewable resources, energy distribution and transmission networks need to be adapted and expanded to avoid network congestion and failures. Flexibility options and services have to be also enabled not only at the supply side but also through responsive loads and suitable means of energy storage to maximize the security of supply and the quality of service in the most efficient way. Accelerating the energy transition also requires a rethinking of electricity markets in many aspects, a key one being the adaptation of their design and operation to support higher shares of variable renewables as well as distributed power generation. This talk covers the aforementioned promising areas in green energy transition and discusses the current and future opportunities and challenges exist in this context.
Biography:
Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam (S’10 -M’14 -SM’17) is a Full Professor and Leader of Intelligent Energy Systems and Flexible Markets (iGRIDS) Research Group at the Department of Energy (AAU Energy), Aalborg University where he is also acting as the Vice-Head of Department (Research) and the coordinator of Integrated Energy Systems Laboratory (IES-Lab). His research interests include Planning, Control and Operation Management of Microgrids, Renewable/Hybrid Power Systems and Integrated Energy Systems with appropriate market mechanisms. He has (co)authored more than 300 technical articles, 7 books and 17 book chapters in the field. Dr. Anvari-Moghaddam serves as a Member of Council for Energy Efficient Transition at the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, a member of Reference Group 5 “Climate, Energy and Mobility” for Horizon Europe (HE) at the Danish Agency for Education and Research (UFS), a Board Member of Energy Mission at Aalborg University, and the Chair of IEEE Denmark Section. Additionally, he holds the position of Editor-in-Chief for Academia Green Energy journal and has served as Associate Editor for several leading journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, and e-Prime Elsevier. He is an active member of IEC Standardization Subcommittees 8B-WG3, WG6 & WG8 as well as the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC/SR-73, TC-8X, TC-95X & SR-120). Furthermore, he has contributed as a technical committee member to various IEEE PES/IES/PELS and CIGRE working groups. He was the recipient of 2020 and 2023 DUO–India and SPARC Fellowship Awards, DANIDA Research Fellowship grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark in 2018 and 2021, IEEE-CS Outstanding Leadership Award 2018 (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), and the 2017 IEEE-CS Outstanding Service Award (Exeter-UK).
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