“ENSURE” Meets the World: the German Strategic Initiative ENSURE Presents Its Energy Cosmos
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Marco Liserre, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Kiel University)
Maximilian Dauer, Siemens AG
Abstract
In 2050, the German power generation will mostly rely on renewable sources such as wind and PV and will face a variety of new electrical consumers such as electric vehicles, which requires a restructuration of the entire energy grid. In the German strategic project “New ENergy grid StructURes for the German Energiewende – ENSURE” partners from industry, academia and civil society are developing a holistic solution for the future German energy grid called “Energy cosmos ENSURE” based on new technological concepts, such as sector coupling, innovative power electronics-based assets and profound ICT-integration and automatization, which fit in the actual social-economic framework. Along the way, a digital twin of the entire system is built for co-simulation and advanced testing purposes and selected pilot plants are installed in northern Germany to demonstrate the systematic interaction of the novel assets, control and protection strategies in the “Energy cosmos ENSURE”. In the first part of the special section the challenges and conceptual solutions of ENSURE will be presented including: Power Electronic Transformer, MVDC grid coupling, dynamically meshed operation of hybrid distribution grids, and Co-Simulation as advanced testing facility for large grid infrastructure projects. The second part is dedicated to international strategic projects to expand the vision of future power grids to a worldwide perspective, including topics such as Hybrid AC/DC networks in the US, new HVDC technologies in China and soft-open points and DC links in the distribution network in UK.
Short Bio of Organizers
Marco Liserre (S’00-M’02-SM’07-F´13) received the MSc and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bari Polytechnic, respectively in 1998 and 2002. He has been Associate Professor at Bari Polytechnic and from 2012 Professor in reliable power electronics at Aalborg University (Denmark). From 2013 he is Full Professor and he holds the Chair of Power Electronics at Kiel University (Germany). He has published 500 technical papers (1/3 of them in international peer-reviewed journals) and a book. These works have received more than 35000 citations. Marco Liserre is listed in ISI Thomson report “The world’s most influential scientific minds” from 2014. He has been awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project “The Highly Efficient And Reliable smart Transformer (HEART), a new Heart for the Electric Distribution System”.
He is member of IAS, PELS, PES and IES. He has been serving all these societies in different capacities. He has received the IES 2009 Early Career Award, the IES 2011 Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award, the 2014 Dr. Bimal Bose Energy Systems Award, the 2011 Industrial Electronics Magazine best paper award and the Third Prize paper award by the Industrial Power Converter Committee at ECCE 2012, 2012, 2017 IEEE PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award and the 2018 IEEE-IES Mittelmann Achievement Award.
Speakers and presentations
1. Marco Liserre, Kiel University
Unlocking the Hidden Capacity of the Electrical Grid through Power Electronics
2. Stephan Rupp, Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen
High Power Charging System with Power Electronic Transformers
3. Javier Iglesias, Hitachi ABB Power Grids
Flexibility in Distribution Grids with Medium-Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) – Technology and Use Cases
4. Silas Reigardt, SW Kiel Netz GmbH
Evaluation of dynamically meshed network topologies for improved power flow allocation and network capacity enhancement
5. Frank Jungnickel, Siemens AG
Co-Simulation test bench for grid integration of power electronics under usage of Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop
6. Johan Enslin, Clemson University
Hybrid HVDC and HVAC Networks with Hybrid Substations for a Carbon-neutral Grid by 2050
7. Shukai Xu, China Southern Power Grid
Innovation of HVDC technology to support the power grid to integrate more renewable energy
8. Tim Green, Imperial College London; Jun Liang, Cardiff University
Back-to-Back Converters and DC links in UK Distribution Networks