Friday, October 18, 2024 - 11:00am
Event Calendar Category
EIMC2 Talks
Speaker Name
Mark O’Malley
Affiliation
Imperial College London
Building and Room number
45-332
Event Recording
“Energy & Infrastructure Systems: Modeling, Computing, and Control”
Connection to the power system via synchronous machines (SMs) was the norm for fossil fuels, nuclear, hydro etc. and they inherently have inertial response. Variable renewable energy (VRE) sources (wind & solar photovoltaic) are connected to the grid with power electronic (inverters/converters). These inverter-based resources (IBRs) do not behave like SMs and e.g. have no inertial response. With increasing penetrations of VRE inertia in power systems is now a very popular research topic. The impact on power systems of this trend and its impacts on power systems and the urgent need for research will be explored. When coupled with “inertia” in the power systems research community some interesting observations can be made.
Mark O’Malley is the Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College London. He is a co-founder of the Global Power System Transformation Consortium, Global Director for the international research centre, Electric Power for a Carbon free Society and a Hagler Fellow at Texas A&M. He is a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a foreign fellow of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering and has received two Fulbright Fellowships.
The newly formed Energy Systems & Infrastructures: Modeling, Computing and Control (EIMC2) LIDS research group comprises 10 LIDS subgroups working in this field unique to LIDS–modeling, control, and computing. EIMC2 is launching a biweekly seminar series. The seminars will be help in 45-500A on Tuesdays, 4-5pm unless otherwise specified.