Webinar - Robust Volt-Var Control in Power Distribution System

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We invite you to attend our webinar entitled "Robust Volt-Var Control in Power Distribution System", by Prof. Bikash Pal from Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

This webinar will be on the 9th of June 2025 from 14h to 15h (Portuguese time), through the Zoom platform: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/0UNkiV1TSY69T9twhZUD-A 

 

Abstract:

Electrical generation, transmission and distribution systems all over the world have entered a period of significant renewal and technological change. There have been phenomenal changes/deployments in technology of generation driven by the worldwide emphasis on energy from wind and solar as a sustainable solution to our energy need.  Increasingly energy demand from heating and transportation are being met by electricity. These changes have significantly influenced the planning, design, operation and control of the power distribution system. Accommodating uncertainties in renewable generation and demand forecast in a cost-effective manner is now a very complex optimization problem. This talk will share our recent research efforts Volt/VAr control (VVC) strategy in distribution systems to address the uncertainties. Efficient chance constrained conic optimisation technique accelerated through scenario reduction approach will be discussed to demonstrate the significant reduction of voltage violations when compared with the deterministic cases while not relaxing the conservativeness of the final solutions. It will also touch upon treatment of certain types of load characteristic in the proposed solution framework.  Future research challenges and opportunities will be highlighted.

 


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  • Date: 09 Jun 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM UTC to 02:00 PM UTC
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  • Starts 26 May 2025 11:00 PM UTC
  • Ends 08 June 2025 11:00 PM UTC
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Prof. Bikash Pal

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Robust Volt-Var Control in Power Distribution System

Biography:

Speaker: Bikash Pal is a Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College London (ICL). He is research active in power system stability, control, and estimation. Recently he led two six university UK-China research consortium on Resilient Operation of Sustainable Energy Systems (ROSES) as part of EPSRC-NSFC Programme on Sustainable Energy Supply (2020-2023) and on Power network stability with grid scale storage (2014-2017): He also led an eight- university UK-India research consortium project (2013-2017) on smart grid stability and control. His research is conducted in strategic partnership with ABB, GE Grid Solutions, UK, and National Grid, UK. UK Power Networks. GE commissioned sequel of projects with him to analyse and solve wind farm HVDC grid interaction problems (2013-2019).  Prof Pal was the chief technical consultant for a panel of experts appointed by the UNFCCC CDM of the United Nations (UN). He has offered trainings to power engineers in Chile, Qatar, UAE, Malaysia and India in power system protections, stability and control topics. He has developed and validated a prize winning 68-bus power system model, which now forms a part of IEEE Benchmark Systems as a standard for researchers to validate their innovations in stability analysis and control design.  He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2012-2017) and Editor-in-Chief of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution (2005-2012). He is Vice President, PES Publications (2019-).  In 2016, his research team won the President’s outstanding research team award at Imperial College London (ICL). He is Fellow of IEEE for his contribution to power system stability and control and Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in Power distribution system estimation and control. In 2025, he won the IEEE PES Prabha Kundur Award for his contribution to Robust Control and Estimation of Power Systems.  He has published about 135 papers in IEEE Transactions and authored four books in power system modelling, dynamics, estimations and control. Two of his papers in power system stability and control topics have received annual best journal paper award. He was Otto Monsted Professor at Denmark Technical University (DTU) (2019) and Mercator Professor sponsored by German Research Foundation (DFG) at University of Duisburg-Essen in 2011. He worked as faculty at IIT Kanpur, India. He holds a distinguished Visiting Professorship at the North China Electric Power University and Tsinghua University, China.

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