Focus of the Workshop

The main objective of the 7th International Hybrid Power Plants & Systems Workshop is to discuss the challenges that 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. International experts will convene for the 7th International Hybrid Power Plants & Systems Workshop to share their project experiences and to detect areas in need of improvement.

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 Systems Design Options (Island Power Systems)
» Hybrid Power System Technologies
» Project Experience and Case Studies: Hybrid Power Systems
» System Modelling and Simulation: Hybrid Power Systems
» 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


*2. Hybrid Power Plants (HPPs)*
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 workshops 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 Design Options (Combined Wind &Solar plus may be storage as a power plant connected to a grid)
» Project Experience and Case Studies: Hybrid Power Plants
» System Modelling and Simulation: Hybrid Power Plants
» Storage Design and Sizing
» Standards and relevant Grid Codes for Hybrid Power Plants
» Intelligent Control and Grid Stabilization
» Resource Assessment and Forecasting
» Managing Variability and Uncertainty
» Remote Mining and Tourist Applications