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, …
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Draft ISP and Alternative Transmission Solutions
In February, the Real-time Digital Simulation Laboratory at UNSW Sydney (RTS@UNSW) submitted its comments to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) Draft 2020 Integrated System Plan document, the Draft ISP. Our submission, together with all other submissions to the consultation of the Draft ISP are available in the links below: [1]-[3]. [1] https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/major-publications/integrated-system-plan-isp/2020-integrated-system-plan-isp [2] https://aemo.com.au/consultations/current-and-closed-consultations/2020-draft-isp-consultation …
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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 …
Student Practical Learning with Real-time Simulations
This is a student post by Xuejian Li, who completed his thesis project for the degree of Master’s of Engineering in the RTS@UNSW Lab in July 2019. My first experience with real-time simulations was with the ELEC 9781 (Real-time Digital Simulations) course in the first semester of 2018. In the class, I first came into …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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