The CONNECT Centre is pleased to invite you to a research seminar hosted by Dr. Jin Zhao – Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin & CONNECT Researcher featuring renowned energy systems expert Dr. Fangxing “Fran” Li, who will present his latest work on Virtual Inertia Scheduling (VIS) – a transformative approach for enhancing the stability and efficiency of power grids with high levels of renewable energy.
This seminar will explore Virtual Inertia Scheduling (VIS), a framework designed to efficiently manage the growing integration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) in modern power systems. VIS serves as an inertia management framework designed to achieve security-constrained and economy-oriented inertia scheduling and generation dispatch of power grids with a large scale of renewable generations. The seminar begins by discussing the transition of IBRs from passive components to active participants in system dynamics, followed by an introduction to the VIS framework and its general mathematical formulation. The application of VIS in power system economic dispatch is then explored, focusing on inertia and damping management while considering transient frequency performance metrics such as the rate of change of frequency (RoCoF) and frequency nadir. A case study will be presented to validate the proposed VIS concept of incorporating system dynamics into economic dispatch in the IEEE 39-bus test system with high-penetration renewable energy.
About Dr. Fangxing “Fran” Li
Dr. Fangxing “Fran” Li received his B.S.E.E and M.S.E.E degrees from Southeast Univesity (China) in 1994 and 1997, and his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech in 2001. He is currently a John W. Fisher Professor in electrical engineering at UTK and the Director of CURENT. His research interests include grid resilience, power system economics, and AI for power.
Professor Li has received numerous research awards including a R&D 100 Award in 2020, the IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper award twice in 2019 and 2024, and six additional prize/best paper awards from international journals. Presently, he is serving as the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) of IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (OAJPE) and the Past Chair of IEEE Power System Operation, Planning and Economics (PSOPE) committee. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Date: 2nd May
Time: 3 – 4pm
Location: M12 Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin
Register here for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/public-lecture-by-dr-fangxing-fran-li-tickets-1336535606979?aff=oddtdtcreator