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G-PST/ESIG Webinar: IBR-driven Sub-synchronous Oscillations
November 21, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
Balarko Chaudhuri
Featured Speaker: Balarko Chaudhuri, Reader in Power Systems, Imperial College London
About the Webinar: Increasing shares of inverter-based resources (IBRs) present unprecedented grid stability challenges. One particular concern is sub-synchronous oscillation (SSO) caused by multiple IBRs interacting across the power grid especially, under high IBR scenarios. The opaqueness of IBR controls and lack of an established framework for analyzing SSO makes it difficult for the system operators to foresee SSO as exemplified by recent SSO events such as poorly damped 8 Hz oscillations in Scotland. System operators often respond by limiting the fraction of IBRs i.e., by constraining off renewables in an overly conservative way. This webinar will focus on the IBR-driven SSO problem, analysis and mitigation based on our ongoing research with the National Energy System Operator (NESO) in Great Britain and as part of the Global Centre on ‘Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society (EPICS)’.
About the Speaker: Balarko Chaudhuri is a Reader in Power Systems in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. His research focuses on dynamic stability and control of electric power grids with high shares of variable renewables and inverter-based resources to facilitate the transition to net zero carbon electricity.
Balarko serves as the UK Director of the Global Centre on Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society (EPICS) and is actively involved the Stability Assurance Program supported by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) in Great Britain. He co-leads the workforce development pillar of the Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) consortium where he coordinated the G-PST Teaching Agenda and oversees the development of openly available course materials on ‘forward-looking’ topics for use in teaching, training and self-upskilling. Balarko is a Fellow of the IET and has served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Systems Journal, and Elsevier Control Engineering Practice.
Moderator: Julia Matevosyan, Chief Engineer, ESIG
Registration Cost: FREE
Q&A Session: We will be using the slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
