Anup Joshi
PhD
Stability of an islanded power system with a grid-forming VSC-HVDC link, an LCC-HVDC link and non-synchronous generation (WP3)
Host organisation
Ecole Centrale Lille/L2EP Laboratory
Company
Red Eléctrica de España
Project Description
This project deals with the stability assessment of islanded power system in a converter dominated system. Modern power systems are seeing an increasing level of electric power generation, transmission, and storage with power converters. These include solar PV, offshore and onshore wind, battery energy storage and HVDC transmission. This is especially prevalent in European electricity networks. Although higher converter participation helps in transitioning to greener energy usage it also leads to complexity in design and functionality. Islanded systems are those systems which are located very far from the source of generation. They are usually powered by local generation or by long transmission lines usually based on HVDC technology. In this project I will study the effect of increased converter penetration in islanded network which is powered by HVDC based transmission and local generation (of which a large part is converter interfaced generation) and try to come up with possible solution to the challenges regarding stable functioning that may arise.
Supervisors
Prof. Xavier Guillaud (CLille)
Dr. Javier Renedo (Red Electrica)
Background
I am from Nepal. I did my bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Nepal in 2018. I joined University of Bologna, Italy for my master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2020 and I graduated in 2022. I like hiking/trekking, playing football, travelling, and reading mystery novels. My favorite writer is Agatha Christie.
Motivation
I always wondered how I could do something impactful and meaningful with my work and I figured the way to achieve it is by contributing in solving problems for technological advancement that makes people’s life better. An industrial doctorate research positions gives me all the tools for that. I will get an opportunity to dig deep in the research, identify the problems that need to be addressed, and prepare methodology to develop solution and through the industrial collaboration I will be able to tackle real world issue. I hope at the end of this journey I will be able to identify the existing and forthcoming issues and develop solutions in the area of modern electric power system.