Power Systems Monitoring and Control

·         Monitoring and control of electrical power systems, such as system stability (angular, voltage, frequency), system control (frequency and voltage), and congestions management, in the context of the interconnected operation within the ENTSO-E system and the European internal electricity market, by using advanced on-line and off-line tools

·         Integration of renewable energy sources at both the customer and the network levels to meet all the technical, economic, and environmental criteria set within the EU objectives, by employing various advanced solutions based on power electronic technologies, artificial intelligence techniques, advanced forecasting and planning solutions, optimization and predictive maintenance tools, all under the newest smart grids concepts

·         Smart and reliable network development by using power electronics applications, including High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission and Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS), energy storage systems, advanced electric equipment, high-temperature conductors

·         Improving energy efficiency at a large scale in accordance with the European law, while reducing the CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas emissions, which refers to the support of distributed energy resources (DER) at the customer premises, optimized consumption by load shifting and peak shaving, power quality monitoring and mitigations solutions, optimized network planning and operation to minimize the active power losses, using the Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology to support the system operation under special conditions

·         Digitalization of the power system infrastructure as a way to achieve the clean energy targets until 2050 by smart metering, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and powerful hardware and software tools

Research topics (selection)

Smart grid topics (microgrids, virtual power plant, local energy communities, smart metering, electrical vehicles), power system stability (angle stability, voltage stability, frequency stability), power system optimization (network development, income maximization in electricity markets, power losses minimization, maximizing renewables hosting capacity), power electronic applications (HVDC development, FACTS devices to support network operation, low-voltage and medium-voltage microgrids, battery energy storage systems), power quality improvement (harmonics, sags, short- and long-duration interruptions, flicker, notch), artificial intelligence techniques (evolutionary computation, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, expert systems), digital technologies (SCADA, smart meters, smart controllers, communication technologies), renewable energy systems (wind systems, photovoltaic systems)

The theoretical concepts are very well supported by practical applications, either by means of laboratory setups (e.g. SCADA and protection cabinets, energy use and power quality, high voltage installations, electromagnetic compatibility) or by powerful specialized software (e.g. EUROSTAG, MATLAB/SIMULINK, NEPLAN, EDSA, ETAP).

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