2022 News Archive
4-7 December 2022: IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy (iSPEC) Conference
The IEEE PES/PELS WA Chapter, in collaboration with several Western Australian universities, organised an IEEE PES conference held online and in Perth from 4-7 December 2022.
iSPEC was established by the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering in 2019 to emulate the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES)General Meeting in North America. The 4th edition of iSPEC is the first time this conference has been held outside of China.
The conference aims to provide a forum for both researchers and experts in power engineering to discuss and share ideas, present results, reflect on past experiences and discuss future projects on sustainable power systems in contemporary climate change.
More information
For more information, please refer to the iSPEC 2022 conference website.
11 November 2022: IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer Program Presentations
The IEEE PES/PELS WA Chapter is delighted to host two in-person presentations from the Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP).
The presentations are as follows:
- Talk 1: Resilience of Net-Zero Power Systems – Modelling and Control Challenges - Prof. Jovica V Milanović, University of Manchester
- Talk 2: Planning Under Uncertainty of Low-Carbon Grids - Prof. Pierluigi Mancarella, University of Melbourne
Click on the flyers below to find out more details:
Date and Time
The presentations was held on Friday 11 November 2022 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm Perth time (AWST) in the Karri Room at Central Park Conference Centre in Perth, WA. A video of the talk can be found on YouTube.
25 October 2022: Impact and Management of Harmonic Distortion for Large Renewable Generators
The IEEE PES/PELS WA Chapter organised a webinar by Jason David from the University of Wollongong.
This presentation is a summary of a recently completed project by the University of Wollongong, supported by ARENA and project partners. This summary will include major project findings regarding:
- A review of harmonic distortion trends throughout Australia and internationally
- A critical review of harmonic emission limit allocation procedures and the impacts of renewable energy generators on these processes
- Suitable and practical considerations for harmonic allocation in systems with high penetration of renewable energy
- Harmonic source aggregation and impacts of emission diversity
- Optimised mitigation strategies
- Evaluation of compliance assessment
About the Speaker
Jason is a research fellow at the University of Wollongong with the Australian Power Quality & Reliability Centre. Jason continues his contributions to the field undertaking industry supported research and commercial research projects investigating the practical management of harmonics and harmonic modelling in power systems with high penetration of inverter-based resources.
Jason is currently convening a CIGRE International Working Group C4.65 – Specification, validation and application of harmonic models of inverter-based resources and is the secretary for the Australian C4 Panel.
Date and Time
The webinar was held on Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 25 October 2022 from 4.30pm - 6pm Perth time. A video of the talk can be found on YouTube.
12 September 2022: Distributed Energy Resources for Net Zero: Opportunities and Challenges
The ECU School of Engineering and IEEE PES/PELS WA Chapter organised a seminar by Dr Asma Aziz and Associate Professor Iftekhar Ahmad.
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Date and Time
The seminar was held on Monday 12 September 2022 from 4:30pm - 6:00pm Perth time (AWST) in the Karri Room at Central Park Conference Centre in Perth, WA.
2 September 2022: IEEE PES/PELS WA committee member Teresa Smit wins energy award
The IEEE PES/PELS WA Chapter is proud to announce that committee member Teresa Smit has taken out the 2022 Energy Professional of the year award at this year's WA Energy Awards.
Congratulations to Teresa for the well deserved award!.
1 September 2022: IEEE PES Webinar on 'Project Symphony - WA’s largest DER Orchestration Pilot'
The IEEE PES/PELS WA Chapter organised a hybrid seminar / webinar by Bruce Redmond, Jean-Philippe Montandon and Andrei Costache.
Project Symphony is an exciting and innovative project where customer distributed energy resources (DER) like rooftop solar, batteries and major appliances will be orchestrated as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) to participate in a future energy market unlocking greater economic and environmental benefits for the Western Australian community.
Part of the WA Government’s DER Roadmap the project will help provide valuable insight into how the electricity system can be strengthened to continue providing reliable, secure and affordable power in the face of a rapidly changing energy industry.
The pilot is a collaboration between project participants who each has a key role and responsibilities for transitioning into a two-way power grid. Western Power is acting as the Distributed System Operator, Synergy as the Aggregator and AEMO as the Distributed Market Operator. It aims to understand how the opportunities and challenges of increasing DER can be managed through orchestration of VPP’s and the project learnings will inform future implementation as each actor obtains detailed knowledge of the competencies required to execute their future respective roles.
In this session, representatives from AEMO provided an overview of Project Symphony and go into more detail on the four test scenarios, share learnings and results as of today and more broadly discuss how the proposed new market services can play a role in addressing network stability challenges caused by the rapid uptake of roof top solar.
AEMO has set the goal of managing 100 per cent instantaneous penetration of renewable energy by 2025 and the integration of DER in the South West Interconnected System (SWIS) and DER’s participation in the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) is an integral part of that.
About the Speakers
Bruce Redmond is the Principal DER Product Owner with AEMO and lead for Project Symphony Western Australia’s DER orchestration project. Bruce has spent the majority of his career delivering innovative technical solutions in the energy industry. He is particularly interested in the adoption and integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) into market and power systems, and how they can competitively participate in market and system services providing benefits to customers. Bruce enjoys developing and delivering products and solutions that generate value for stakeholders and customers.
Jean-Philippe (JP) Montandon has extensive knowledge of energy markets having worked across both the WEM and the National Electricity Market (NEM) at both Government and Privately owned Gentailers. His knowledge is based on trading both physical and derivatives, modelling both markets to running the Grid as a Controller in AEMO’s Real time Operations. His focus is now on the integration of DER into Virtual Power Plants in the SWIS and WEM.
Andrei Costache is a dedicated energy professional to the electricity system’s transition towards renewable energy. He focuses on implementing project outcomes through design, technical capability and data analysis.
Date and Time
This hybrid talk was held on Thursday 1 September 2022 from 4:30pm - 6:30pm Perth time (AWST) at Central Park Conference Centre in Perth, WA. A video of the talk can be found on YouTube.
22 July 2022: Western Australia Chapter wins the Outstanding Chapter Award (Small Chapter Category)
The committee is very proud to announce that the IEEE PES/PELS WA Chapter won the 2022 IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter Award in the Small Chapter Category.
The award was accepted on behalf of the chapter by committee member Dean Sharafi at the 2022 IEEE PES General Meeting in Denver, Colarado.
