Annual meeting, IEEE Sweden PES/PELS Chapter
Pls join us for the Annual Meeting of the joint Swedish Chapter of Power & Energy Society and Power Electronics Society!
Apart from news from the Chapter and reports from the board, we will listen to an interesting technical seminar, and award the prize for the best MSc thesis, Outstanding Engineer Award and Outstanding Volunteer Award.
Agenda:
- Activity Report 2025
- Keynote Speech by new IEEE Fellow, Abhay Kumar, Senior Principal Project Lead Engineer at Global HVDC Engineering, Hitachi Energy
- Awards announcement:
– Best M.Sc. thesis 2025
– Outstanding Engineer Award 2025
– Outstanding Volunteer Award 2025
Keynote Speech: “Status and Trends of HVDC in India”
Abstract:
Government 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 addition 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 location 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 while major load centres are located in Punjab and Delhi in North, Maharashtra in West and Telengana in South part of the country primarily requiring transfer of bulk power for long distances. As per the 2024 National Electricity Plan (NEP), the installed HVDC transmission system as on date is 34500 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 by 2032. The NEP envisages 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.
Bio of Keynote speaker:
Abhay Kumar (Jain) is Senior Principal Project Lead Engineer at Global HVDC Engineering with Hitachi Energy in Ludvika, Sweden. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee 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 and 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 Fellow of IEEE.
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- Teknikringen 33
- floor 4, room Sten Velander
- Stockholm, Stockholms lan
- Sweden 11543
- Room Number: 3412
- Starts 10 February 2026 11:00 PM UTC
- Ends 09 March 2026 11:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge