Scope

The working group will cover:

  • DC components, planning issues, standardization and regulatory framework;
  • LV, MV and HV distribution networks;
  • public networks and industrial, buildings, facilities or other specialized networks;
  • pilots and use cases.

It will investigate:

  • economic and technical analysis of DC compared with AC;
  • present maturity and expected progress of the components capable of setting-up DC networks, in particular conversion, protection and metering components;
  • grid integration of components and solutions like power electronic converters in DC distribution networks by matching components as well as grid planning issues;
  • in which distribution network situations DC solutions could be most effective;
  • impact of DC solutions on network architecture;
  • AC to DC system converting (for instance to enable greater power transfer);
  • prospects of developing these networks in complementarity with current networks;
  • standardization and regulatory framework.

Existing demonstration projects should be presented including, when available, lessons learned from these projects.
The Working Group will analyse what could speed up or hamper the development and the large scale implementation of such solutions.

Members

Arnaud Allais

Nexans - France

Michael Bartonek

Eaton Industries - Austria

Elvisa Bećirović

Elektroprivreda BiH Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Roberto Bernacchi

ABB - Italy

Rene Braunstein

Energienetze Steiermark GmbH - Austria

Graeme Burt

University of Strathclyde - United Kingdom

Jintae Cho

Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI) - Korea

Md Masoom Chowdhury

Siemens - United States of America

Jing Dai

Centrale Supélec - France

Nina Fuchs

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology - Austria

Mahmoudreza Haghifam

Tarbiat Modares University - Iran

Klaus-Dieter Haim

Hochschule Zittau / Görlich (FH) - Germany

Gerhard Jambrich

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology - Austria

Youssef Kamelia

Egyptian Electric Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency - Egypt

Ali Kazerooni

Scottish Power Energy Networks - United Kingdom

Juyong Kim

Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI) - Korea

Vasileios Kleftakis

National Technical University of Athens - Greece

Zhengyu Lin

Aston and Loughborough Universities - United Kingdom

Kévin Lorenzo

EDF - France

Ritwik Majumder

ABB - Sweden

Ahmad Makkieh

University of Strathclyde - United Kingdom

Raul Montano

Hawker Siddeley - United Kingdom

Neil Murdoch

GHD - United Kingdom

Pasi Peltoniemi

Lappeenranta University of Technology - Finland

Rafael Pena Alzola

University of Strathclyde - United Kingdom

Christophe Preve

Schneider Electric - France

Raul Rabinovici

Ben Gurion University - Israel

Maximilian Rose

Schleswig-Holstein Netze - Germany

Stefan Rupp

Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH - Germany

Uwe Schichler

Technical University of Graz - Austria

Harry Stokman

DC Current BV - Netherlands

Jan Vočko

PREdistribuce a.s. - Czech Republic

Ye-yuan Xie

NR ELECTRIC CO. LTD - China

James Yu

Scottish Power Energy Networks - United Kingdom

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