ECE Seminar Series - Smart Grid: Offshore Wind Power Integration

The Electrical and Computer Engineering department will host a seminar featuring Dr. Lina He, an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She will speak on the integration of offshore wind power. 
 

ABSTRACT

Smart grid is a global effort to modernize electric energy infrastructures with advanced information, communication, computing, control, and power technologies to achieve high-level reliability, security, integration of renewables, and energy efficiency. This presentation is concerned with technical issues related to the large-scale integration of offshore wind power.

In the European renewable energy development plan, offshore wind significantly reduces fossil energy production and associated carbon emissions. According to a European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) report, installing offshore wind units in Europe will reach 150 GW by 2030, aiming to provide 14% of the electricity demand. The rapid growth of offshore wind power and its inherent characteristics of offshore wind farms (e.g., large scale and long distances) make integrating offshore wind power to onshore grids a great technical challenge. When a transmission line close to points of common coupling experiences a short-circuit fault, the fast reactive power control of voltage-source converter-HVDC (VSC-HVDC) can affect the protective relay operation of transmission lines. This presentation will discuss the technology issues, including protection coordination and modeling of the VSC-HVDC link that enables voltage stability control of an integrated AC/DC system.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Lina He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois of Chicago, Chicago, IL. She received her Ph.D. from University College Dublin, Ireland, in 2014. She also received her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2009 and 2007, respectively. She was a Senior Consultant at Siemens headquarters in Germany and Siemens US from 2014 to 2017. She was also an Electrical Engineer at State Grid Corporation of China, Tianjin, China from 2009 to 2010. In addition, she was a Research Scholar at Washington State University, WA, USA, in 2013.

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Take a selfie at the event, then email the photo to engineering@iit.edu, along with your A# and 3-4 sentences about what you learned at the seminar.