Focus of the Workshop - Late Abstracts are welcome, reach out to the organizers at submission@integrationworkshops.org

This workshop provides a unique platform to connect with industry leaders, academic experts, and practitioners actively shaping the future of hybrid power systems. The main objective of the 10th International Hybrid Power Plants & Systems Workshop is to gain insights into the design, operation, and integration of hybrid power plants, explore innovative technologies, and discuss pressing challenges, implementation strategies, and business models.

Challenges arise with the integration of high shares of renewables (wind, solar, hydro) into isolated/island power systems/micro-grids in combination with batteries/flywheels and conventional power generators. Finding viable combinations of conventional and renewable energy is one key solution for the efficient and sustainable running of these types of power systems.

Workshop Target Group

- system planners and designers
- operators of small systems
- project developers and consultants
- universities and research institutes
- regulators and NGOs
- technology vendors of distributed variable generation & storage technology

*Proposed Preferential Topics of the Workshop*
This Workshop aims at reconciling 2 different approaches to the term Hybrid Power System:

*1. Hybrid Power/Energy Systems (HESs)*
Combination of different types of generation, storage, and consumption technologies in a single system with at least one type of generation being renewable, including systems that are 100% based on renewable energy [e.g., solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind], or combine different energy storage systems (e.g., BESSs, fuel cells, and supercapacitors). Typically found on islands and remote places such as mines.

» Hybrid Power System Technologies and Design
» Project Experience and Case Studies
» System Modelling and Simulation
» Pico-/Mini-/Micro-Grid Systems Design
» Intelligent Control and Grid Stabilization
» Managing Variability and Uncertainty
» Load Assessment Strategies
» Standards and relevant Grid Codes for Hybrid Power Systems
» Regulatory Challenges related to Hybrid Power Systems
» Protection Issues for Hybrid Power Systems
» Design of Energy Management Systems for Hybrid Power Systems
» Economic Evaluation of Hybrid Power Systems
» Ancillary Services in Hybrid Power Systems
» Demand-Side Management (DSM) projects & solutions
» Hydrogen and Hybrid Power Systems
» Smart Sector Coupling in Island Grids: Co-Optimizing Energy and Water for Sustainable Transitions
» AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Hybrid Power Systems



*2. Hybrid Power Plants (HPPs - Grid Connected Co-Located Resources such as Wind, Solar and Storage)*
Power-generating facilities combining variable renewable energy sources (e.g. wind and solar), with or without storage, and sharing the same substation/point of common coupling. This workshop looks into such issues as how to maximize the utilisation of the grid connection capacity, how to establish HPPs in the regulatory framework (network codes) or how to develop control concepts to maximize renewable energy feed.

» Hybrid Power Plant Technologies and Design
» Project Experience and Case Studies: Hybrid Power Plants
» System Modelling and Simulation: Hybrid Power Plants
» Storage Design and Sizing
» Metering and Park Control Concepts
» Managing Variability and Uncertainty
» Resource Assessment and Forecasting
» Standards, Grid Codes and Grid Code Validation for Hybrid Power Plants
» Regulatory Challenges related to Hybrid Power Plants
» Economic Evaluation of Hybrid Power Plants
» Ancillary Services from Hybrid Power Plants
» Hydrogen and Hybrid Power Plants
» AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Hybrid Power Plants