This presentation will be delivered in two parts. Part one will provide an update on how the University of Queensland is currently collaborating with industry to conduct solar plant controller hardware tests to provide more surety for large-scale solar projects. One of the greatest challenges is ensuring safe and sufficient access to sustainably sourced energy; UQ will showcase research and findings on hardware testing of their large-scale solar plant controller.

Part two will focus on evaluating the dynamic responses of electronic-based load and small-scale Photovoltaic (PV) inverters through hardware in loop experiments using RTDS.

Speakers

Dr Ruifeng (Richard) Yan
Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland
Ruifeng (Richard) Yan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE), University of Queensland (UQ). His research interests include power system operation and analysis and renewable energy integration into power networks.

Dr Feifei Bai
Senior Lecturer, Griffith University
Advance Queensland Fellow, University of Queensland
Feifei Bai is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University and an Advance Queensland Fellow in the School of ITEE at UQ. Her research interests are renewable energy integration, low-frequency oscillation detection and damping control, and big data technology applications in power grids. 

Dr Yi Cui
Research Fellow, University of Queensland
Yi Cui is a Research Fellow in the School of ITEE at UQ. His research interests include wide-area monitoring and control, data analytics and machine learning of distribution networks, condition assessment and fault diagnosis of power transformers.