EPSRC GCRF Award Workshops

Big Data Challenges and Opportunities for Smart Grid Modernization

Summary:

Big data is revolutionising and redefining all aspects of our lives as individual consumers, as businesses and as a society. ‘High performance data analytics’ has been recognised as a major player and a game changer for the modern electric power industry. The workshop aims to bring together international experts from both academia and industry in the UK, China, Ireland and US to address big data challenges in smart grid modernisation. Smart grid modernisation is a key component of China’s ambition to deliver a clean, reliable electricity supply to all its citizens, and in particular in rural areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Real-time PMU based data analytics and visualization
Energy forecasting with increased embedded renewable generation
Data driven demand side management
Smart Grid wide-area monitoring and visualization
Smart Grid cyber security

The workshop will be held in Zhejiang University over 2 days from 19 Nov to 20 Nov 2016 and will include an industrial visit to Shanghai Minhang Huadian Energy on 21 Nov 2016. The ultimate goal of the workshop is to provide a platform for attendees to share ideas and develop a road map for future collaborations to address major challenges that exist around big data with application in the clean energy domain.

Main objectives of the workshop

Provide a platform for stakeholders to exchange experiences, and identify promising research directions to address the big data challenges in the smart grid area, with a particular focus on improving the security of electricity supply to rural communities and creating business opportunities for these communities as ‘prosumers’ (i.e. selling services to the grid)
Identify topics where Queen's University Belfast and China can collaborate to deliver high quality research outputs in the smart grid big data area and explore opportunities for future grant applications to support these collaborations.

Sponsored by: EPSRC Global Challenge Research Fund

Scientific Organising Committee

Chair: Prof Sean McLoone, Queen’s University Belfast, s.mcloone@qub.ac.uk

Co-Chair: Dr Xueqin (Amy) Liu, Queen’s University Belfast, x.liu@qub.ac.uk

Co-Chair: Prof Lei Xie, Zhejiang University, leix@iipc.zju.edu.cn

About Hangzhou

G20 summit has just been held in Hangzhou on 4-5th Sep, 2016.

More details about Hangzhou:

http://www.g20.org/English/Hangzhou/About/index.html

Accommodation:

Atour Hotel of Hangzhou Huanglong, Address: No.3, Tihuaner Road, Xihu, 310007, Hangzhou, China杭州黄龙亚朵酒店 (杭州市), 浙江省杭州市西湖区体环二路3号 310007

Workshop Location:

Yuquan Campus, Zhejiang University

Draft agenda:

Day 1 - 19 November 2016
9:00-10:30	Registration & Intro
10:30-10:40	Welcome	Zhejiang University/Queen’s University Belfast
10:40-11:00	Introduction of Queen’s University Belfast	Prof Sean McLoone, Head of Research Cluster, QUB, UK
11:00-11:30	Keynote 1: Big Data Challenges – UK Industrial Perspective: Load Forecasting with Increased Embedded Generation	Mr Tom McCartan, Assistant Grid Control Manager, System Operator Northern Ireland/ Eirgrid, UK/Ireland
11:30-12:00	Keynote 2: Investment Decisions for Reliability Improving in Distribution Network	Prof Junyong Liu, Head of School, Sichuan University, China
12:00-12:20 Tea Break & Networking
12:20-12:50	Keynote 3: Adopting Smart Grid Approaches to Enhance System Flexibility	Prof Damian Flynn, Deputy Director, University College Dublin, Ireland
12:50-14:30 Lunch and networking
14:30-15:00	Keynote 4: Application of Big Data to Enhance Power System Stability	Dr Wuxing Liang, Principal System Engineer, GE Grid Solutions, UK
15:00-15:30	Keynote 5: Wide-area Synchronized Measurements at the Distribution Level and Their Applications	Micah Till, (on behalf of Prof Yilu Liu), University of Tennessee, US
15:30-16:00	Keynote 6: Big Data Applications in Smart Grid - Practical Experience of China Power Information Technology	Huayong Luo, Head of Cloud Computing Division, Beijing Power Information Technology, State Grid, China
16:00-16:30 Tea Break & Networking
16:30-16:50	Keynote 7: A Joint Probabilistic Analytical Model Considering Wind Generation and Load Uncertainties	Prof Libao Shi, Tsinghua University, China
16:50-17:50	Research Challenges in Big data Analytics with Application in Smart Grids	Round table discussion
18:00-20:00 Dinner & Networking
Day 2 – 20 November 2016
09:30-10:00	Keynote 8: Cyber Security Challenges in the Smart Grid	Dr Kieran McLaughlin, QUB, UK
10:00-10:30	Keynote 9: Global Energy Interconnection Based Power System Key Technologies and Equipment	Prof Xueguang Wu, National Distinguished Expert of ‘1000-Elite Program’, State Grid Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute, China
10:30-11:00	Keynote 10: PV eCloud Application	Dr Weizeng Liu, Vice President TBEA Group, China
11:00-11:30 Tea Break & Networking
11:30-12:00	Keynote 11: WAN-friendly Publish-Subscribe Architecture to Support Next-Generation Smart-Grid Applications	Dr John Hastings, Research Assistant, QUB, UK
12:00-12:20	Keynote 12: Smart Grid Big Data Analytics on Wide-area Synchronized Measurements	Dr Xueqin (Amy) Liu, QUB, UK
12:20-14:00 Lunch break and networking
14:00-14:20	Keynote 12: Title to be confirmed	Mr Tang Xin, Vice- Chief Engineer, State Grid Jia Xing Distribution System Operator, China
14:20-14:50	Keynote 14: Energy Forecasting Challenge for Future Power System Planning - A Brief Insight	Dr Siqi Bu, National Grid/Hongkong Polytechnic University, HongKong, China
14:50-15:10	Keynote 15: Title to be confirmed	Mr Weimin Guo, Section Chief, State Grid EPRI in Henan province, China
15:10-15:30 Tea Break & Networking
15:30-15:50	Keynote 16: Cybersecurity Practice and Big Data Application in Jiangsu Power Grid	Dr Yi Yang, State Grid EPRI in Jiangsu province, China
15:50-17:20	Future collaboration opportunities	QUB/Round table discussion
17:20-17:40	Concluding Remarks	Zhejiang University/QUB
18:00-20:00 Dinner & Networking
Day 3 – 21 November 2016
10.30 -17.30 Industrial visit to Shanghai Minhang Huadian Energy