eGrid 2025 Programme TBC

Note that this programme is still being finalized and will change. Please check back often for updates.

Panel 1: Future Net-zero Power Systems

  • Planning and operating net-zero power systems
  • Bridging political ambitions and engineering complexity of the energy transition
  • Modelling of power electronic systems for large area AC network stability studies
  • Impact on the grid of moving to 100% power electronic fed renewable generation
  • Control of converters in power networks with declined system inertia and low fault level networks

Panel 2: Innovations: Grid Power electronics technologies

  • Power electronics converters including power semiconductor devices, topologies and modulation
  • Technology for integration large offshore systems
  • Grid-forming and Grid-following converters
  • Systems stability and reliability – Incorporation and balancing of flexibility, stability and agility in the grid
  • Real Time Digital Simulation modelling including power hardware in the loop (PHiL)

Panel 3: DC grids: control strategies and technologies

  • DC technology at medium and low voltage
  • DC grid control and protection
  • High power DC/DC converters (isolated and non-isolated)
  • DC forms of DC application such as DC hubs or energy islands
  • Strategies for circuit breakers (hybrid and mechanical)
  • New AC and DC fault ride-through in DC grids

Panel 4: Role of Power Electronics in Distribution Networks

  • Innovations and Integration of energy storage through a power electronics interface
  • Efficient and flexible power flow control including voltage regulation, reactive power management and power factor correction.
  • Enhanced power quality
  • Integration of distributed energy sources
  • Improved system reliability and resilience including ancillary services and black-start
  • Enabling smart grid technologies

Panel 5: Steps towards ensuring efficient network operation and capital cost whilst delivering change at scale and pace

  • Standardising and testing/ verification of power electronic systems at scale
  • Delivering big data and addressing the challenges of having to rely on it
  • Bounding flexibility & lack of certainty/ visibility of resources to deliver system security and resilience
  • Asset life extension fault investigation/ detection
  • Owning more of the asset management responsibility as vendor bandwidth for support declines
  • Key metrics for future network performance- what they are how you measure and assess them- simulation needs and priority areas of research