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Springer Handbook of Power Systems published

Springer Nature has released a comprehensive source for electrical power professionals. The Springer Handbook of Power Systems, which is endorsed by CIGRE, covers all elementary topics related to the design, development, operation and management of power systems and provides insights from worldwide key players in the electrical power systems industry.

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Dutch CIGRE C0 kick-off meeting

On the 26th of February 2021 a CIGRE C0 kick-off meeting was organised in the Netherlands. Due to covid-19 circumstances this meeting was held online. CIGRE C0 stands for the combination of the Dutch Study Committees C1, C2, C5 and C6 activities, as these are the committees that take the system perspective.

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DC and Power Electronics – key enablers of flexible, reliable, and economic future networks

Power electronics are the enabling technology of the modern power industry and have revolutionized the industry with developments in excitation systems, High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC), Static var compensator (SVC), Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) and converter systems for coupling distributed generation to the grid.  Power electronic converter systems are also at the forefront in the development and deployment of battery energy storage systems which are a significant factor in the long-term development of power system with declining use of fossil fuelled synchronous generators.

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Three driving forces that determine the future of green hydrogen application

Green hydrogen is presented at many occasions and in many ways as a 'silver bullet' solution for the integration of large scale intermitting renewable energy from wind and solar power into the energy system. It is in the end not to be expected that there will be technological blocking aspects for green hydrogen to play this ' silver bullet' role. From a technological perspective, however, there are still several and crucial aspect regarding production and transportation of green hydrogen that need to be further developed for a cost competitive application at market scale.

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CIGRE's unique knowledge programme comes to life through its worldwide array of face to face and online events. International human interaction facilitates free exchange of knowledge within the CIGRE community. More>
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Electra

April 2021

 

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