C6 Report 2022 ��Prof. Jun Liang�

UK AGM, Birmingham, November 22^nd , 2022

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Myself

Jun Liang is a full Professor at Cardiff University. Lead researches on renewable energy, DC transmission/distribution, power electronic converter control, power system operation and electrified transport.

Research funding over £17M in 30+ projects. The Coordinator and Scientist-in-Charge of 3 EC Marie-Curie Action ITN/ETN/DN projects (total €12M, 2013-2026). Leads a major EPSRC-China NSF project (total £1.1M) on intelligent control of AC/DC network for clean energy supply in urban areas, and a major EPSRC UK-Australia project on cyber security on grid integration of EV.

He has published over 240 papers including 150 journal papers, 1 book in IEEE/Wiley, and 4 book chapters. He has supervised 32 PhD students with 21 of them graduated so far, and 10 post-doctoral researchers.

An Associate Editor-in-Chief of CSEE JPES, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Sustainable Energy, a Guest Editor of IEEE Transaction on Power Delivery, and technical committee members of several international Conferences.

CIGRE C6 UK Regular Member from June 2022, an IET Fellow, the Chair of UK&RI Chapter of IEEE Power Electronics Society, an Organising Committee member of the IET ACDC conferences, a committee member of CIGRE Working Groups, Committee member of the British Standards Institution (BSI), the Committee member of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) SC 8A,

STUDY COMMITTEE SC C6��Active Distribution Systems and Distributed Energy Resources

• SC Chair: Kurt Dedekind, replacing Christine Schwaegerl, starting from 01/09/2022
• SC Secretary: Evert de Haan, replacing Geza Joos
• Communications Officer: Harry Evans

Mission:

• To facilitate and promote the progress of engineering and the international exchange of information and knowledge in the field of distribution systems and distributed energy resources (DER).
• To add value to this information and knowledge by means of synthesizing state-of-the-art practices and developing recommendations

STUDY COMMITTEE SC C6��Active Distribution Systems and Distributed Energy Resources

• Areas of attentions:
• Enabling technologies: active network management, micro-grids, virtual power plants, distribution management systems (ADMS, DERMS), DER monitoring and control, aggregation systems, platforms, block-chain applications.
• Innovative solutions: smart inverters and power electronic interfaces and interconnection device applications, MV/LV DC supply systems, distribution system modernization
• Storage technologies: electrochemical electric battery energy storage systems, flywheels, flow batteries, and new storage technologies, hydropower, hydrogen, multi-energy solutions (with thermal storage), power2X applications (power to heat, power to gas …), electric vehicles.
• Consumer integration and empowerment: Demand side integration and participation, demand response, load management, smart load, new customer sectors such as electric vehicles, smart home and smart meter applications with impact on distribution systems.
• Smart cities: integrated distribution system technologies, power, control and information and communication technology deployment for flexibility, integration of multi-energy systems.
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• Rural Electrification, islanded power systems and individual customer off-grid systems and solutions.

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Preferential Subjects (CIGRE 2022)

Preferential Subject  1: Flexibility Management in Distribution Networks  

• Energy storage systems with the associated provision of their grid services
• Evolving planning and operational objectives and criteria with increased electrification, coupled with the changes in end-to-end technology behaviours
• Electric Vehicle integration and impacts

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Preferential Subject 2: Power electronic based solutions for Smart Distribution Systems

• Evaluating and quantifying the added value of smart invertor and convertor functions and their integration into Distribution Networks.
• Case Studies of DC and DC/ AC hybrid grid solutions for the future
• Provision of ancillary services for Distribution and upstream networks

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Preferential Subject 3: Rural, islanded and industrial electrification standards, practices and technology options.

• Microgrid and multi-microgrid installations
• Off-grid and island DER applications including appropriate resilience measures
• Applications highlighting the interface between technical and non-technical aspects for rural electrification 

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New Working Groups

Technical Panel Meetings, Seminars & Tutorials

• “Electric Vehicles as Distributed Energy Resource (C6.40)” – CIGRE Conference in Paris 01/09/2022
• “Medium Voltage DC distribution systems (C6/B4.37)” – online 18/10/2022
• “Flexibility provision from distributed energy (C6.34)” -CIGRE symposium 2022 in Kyoto, Japan

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Technical Brochures published in 2022

• JWG C6/B4.37 - ‘Medium Voltage DC distribution systems’
• JWG C1/C6.37/CIRED - ‘Optimal transmission and distribution investment decisions under increasing energy scenario uncertainty’ TB863

The following brochures are being finalized for publication in 2022-23:

• C6.40 - ‘Electric Vehicles as Distributed Energy Resource’
• C6.35 - ‘DER aggregation platforms for the provision of flexibility services’
• C6.43 - ‘Aggregation of battery energy storage and distributed energy resources (DER), including solar PV’
• C6.36 - ‘DER benchmark models for quasi-static time-series power-flow simulations’. Under review

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Current Working Groups and UK Members�

Last Study Committee Meeting

• The last SC C6 meeting took place hybrid (in-person and online) on 1^st September 2022 in Paris CIGRE 2022.

The meeting covered the following topics:

1. Welcome and introduction
2. Report of the Chair (by Christine Schwaegerl and Kurt Dedekind)
3. Summary of recent SC C6 events
4. Final reports of terminated WGs (by the WG convenors)
5. Report of Advisory Groups (by the AG convenors)
6. Status of On-going WGs (by the relevant convenor)
7. Status of WGs led by other SCs with expected C6 contribution (by the relevant convenor)
8. SC C6 Green Book
9. SC C6 Strategy
10. New and Planned WGs
11. 2024 Paris General Session
12. Next SC Meeting, Future Events and Activities
13. Organizational Issues and other business

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