PES DL on 'Smart Grid Opportunities and Challenges', 9.30AM, April 2, BHEL R&D.

[Mithun M. Bhaskar]

Dear Members:

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Hyd. Section

PES/IAS/PELS Joint Chapter

in association with

Corporate R&D, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL)

Invites you for
Distinguished Lecture

Smart Grid Opportunities and Challenges

Prof. Saifur Rahman, FIEEE

Founder Director - Advanced Research Institute

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

 

Date            :  Monday, April 2, 2012

Venue         :  Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Corporate Research & Development Division,

                      Vikas Nagar, Hyderabad 500 093

Time           :  09:30 – 12:00 AM

 

Profile of the Speaker:

Dr. Saifur Rahman is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering and the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, and a distinguished lecturer of the Power & Energy Society. He is the chair of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Committee on International Science and Engineering. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He received an MS in electrical sciences from State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech. Prof. Saifur Rahman directs the Centre for Energy and the Global Environment and the Consortium for Intelligent Grid Research, Analysis and Education from Virginia Tech. He served for three years as a program director in the Engineering Directorate at NSF. He was a research scientist at the Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan for one year. He has also worked as an electrical engineer with Progress Energy in North Carolina and the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. He has consulted for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the US Agency for International Development. He has served as the chair of the IEEE Publications Board, the Lifelong Learning Committee, Periodicals Committee and the Products and Services Committee. He is currently serving as the vice president for Publications for the IEEE Power & Energy Society, and a member of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee.   

 

Abstract of the Talk:

While central station electric power plants have long provided the bulk of electricity in all industrialized and most developing countries, the traditional need for reliability of electricity supply is now being supplemented by the need for security and environmental sustainability. As many developing countries begin to industrialize to provide jobs and better living conditions to its citizens, the requirements for reliable, secure and environmentally sustainable supply of electricity becomes paramount. While fossil fuels have been the primary sources of electricity for the last one hundred years, their cost, uneven global distribution and global warming potential are encouraging world leaders to look for alternatives in renewable solar resources, which are distributed. But distributed generation sources have their own challenges - primarily intermittency.  Many believe that the smart grid – due to its inherent communication, sensing and control capabilities – will have the ability to manage the load, storage and generation assets in the power grid to enable a large scale integration of distributed generation. The success of Smart Grid largely depends the state of the grid and its components can be exchanged quickly over long distances and diverse networks, grid integration of sustainable energy sources, such as wind, solar, off-shore electricity, etc. for smoother system operation. But in order for this to be possible, the electric utility will have to evolve and change their ways of operation to become an intelligent provider of these services. This lecture introduces the operational characteristics of renewable energy sources, and various aspects of the smart grid - technology, standards, regulations and data security – which are needed to effectively integrate these sources of electricity into the grid. This lecture also addresses the interplay among distributed generation and storage, conventional generation and demand response to provide an efficient operational strategy in the context of the smart grid.

 

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Directions to Venue: http://BHELRnD.tk

 

Queries be directed to:

Mithun Bhaskar

Secretary, IEEE PES/IAS/PELS

Email: mith...@ieee.org

Phone: 9293181378