Microgrids: The Pathway to Smart and Cleaner Energy Future

Over the last few decades, electrical energy systems have become overstrained and faced various stressed conditions more often because of increased electricity demand and the adaptation of various fluctuating renewable energy resources. Undoubtedly, at some point within the next decade, intensive electricity demand will exceed total electricity generation and transmission capacity, which will force decision makers to build new plants and put major changes in the whole grid infrastructure. Such solutions will not be practical considering economic, safety, and environmental concerns. Therefore, the traditional utility grid has to experience an inclusive transformation to avoid a prospective crisis with existing power plants and available infrastructure.
To ensure electricity continuity and minimize the difference between the supply and demand energy, smart grid paradigm has to be introduced with solutions that include demand response, energy efficiency improvement, and renewable energy integration. To combine these three elements in an appropriate and reliable solution, microgrids play an important role to meet future electricity demands without significant investment in new power plants.
This talk primarily focuses on design consideration of microgrids, including the current status and also future opportunities of renewables, energy storages, power electronics, microgrid control techniques, and the challenges of integrating microgrids into the electricity grid.

This webinar will be presented by Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub, professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ), and the Managing Director of TEES Smart Grid Center-Qatar, working in the area of microgrids, power electronics, and smart grids.

Date: October 13, 2023 at 5 pm (GMT+3)

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