When we were writing about problems with definitions last September (https://rtsunsw.home.blog/2019/09/26/definition-problems/), I honestly thought I would not have to revisit the issue of grid-forming and grid-feeding converters. However, things have become worse as for some reason some part of the (non-power electronics) industry has started referring to grid-supporting, and in some occasions even grid-forming converters, …
Author Archives: Georgios Konstantinou
Definition Problems…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) released its large-scale battery energy storage system report this week which is available here: https://arena.gov.au/assets/2019/09/large-scale-battery-storage-knowledge-sharing-report.pdf It provides a summary of ARENA funded work in the area of energy storage systems across Australia, specifically the following 4, to a total funding of $100M. And although the learnings are very interesting …
RTDS Australian Users Group Meeting 2019 – Preview
The preliminary schedule for the 2019 RTDS Australian Users Group Meeting (the first one down-under) was released today. The UGM will take place in Melbourne on the 2nd and 3rd of October. We are excited as RTS@UNSW to join many of our colleagues from universities and industry across the country with our 3 scheduled presentations, …
Continue reading “RTDS Australian Users Group Meeting 2019 – Preview”
Can we improve the good old Power Transformer without Power Electronics??
It was a tweet that sparked the follows a few days ago. A company that attracted external funding of £25 million was going bust. But really, it was not the money, it was the claim of the company to to revolutionize the grid… … without power electronics? This was quite interesting, as the introduction of …
Continue reading “Can we improve the good old Power Transformer without Power Electronics??”
Our TL;DR view on Australia – South East Asia Interconnectors
Over our three previous posts, we tried to provide some background in what we think are critical parts of understanding the Australia to South East Asia Interconnectors: In our first post we summarised previous ideas and proposals that made it out to the public: https://rtsunsw.home.blog/2019/07/24/links-to-the-rest-of-the-world/ Our second post tried to explain the scale of the …
Continue reading “Our TL;DR view on Australia – South East Asia Interconnectors”
Cable News
We have been discussing this third part for a while in the lab and in the end we decided to keep it simple (we spent too much time on the title, TBH). In the previous two parts we explored previous examples for connection between Australia and South East Asia, https://rtsunsw.home.blog/2019/07/24/links-to-the-rest-of-the-world/ and how the proposed projects …
AU – ASEAN projects and the current HVDC scene
In the first part, available here https://rtsunsw.home.blog/2019/07/24/links-to-the-rest-of-the-world/, we looked back into the Australia – ASEAN HVDC connection history. In this second part we will try to place the three HVDC projects (WA – Indonesia, NT – Indonesia and NT – Singapore) within the context of current HVDC technology and existing HVDC systems. Firstly, a mention …
Continue reading “AU – ASEAN projects and the current HVDC scene”
(HVDC) Links to the world
Part One: History repeating itself This post was not intended to be that long, however, we found that it was worth exploring some of the history behind projects in the desert and HVDC links. In just one month the term “HVDC” made it to the front page of many Australian and South East Asian news …
Return To Sender 