Sponsor: Foothill Section Chapter, PE31
Speaker: Kyeon Hur of Yonsei University

Meeting Date: 16 Jan 2024
Time: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
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Reservations: IEEE
Summary:
This webinar highlights the emerging challenges in modeling and analyzing the electric power system due to the widespread growth of variable renewable energy (VRE), particularly in the form of distributed energy resources (DERs) that are displacing traditional large power plants. Understanding the dynamic behavior of the power system should be critical to addressing the potential stability concerns, refining the grid requirements, and developing effective and reliable measures, among many alternatives. However, conventional methodologies for resource integration and network expansion studies, as well as application-specific electromagnetic transient (EMT) studies, need improvements. This talk thus presents recent academic and industrial efforts to advance the existing approaches, especially by incorporating the variability of VRE, and EMT dynamics of IBRs, focusing on Jeju island and Honam province power grids of Korea.

Bio: Professor Kyeon Hur (Senior Member, IEEE) is an accomplished professional with extensive expertise spanning academia, research, and industry. Prof. Hur received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. Later, he earned his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 2007.

Prof. Hur’s career began as a Research and Development Engineer with Samsung Electronics, South Korea, from 1998 to 2003, where he designed control algorithms and power electronic circuits for AC drives. After completing his Ph.D. dissertation, he joined the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Taylor, TX, USA, as a Grid Operations Engineer from 2007 to 2008. Subsequently, he worked with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA, USA, managing research projects in grid operations and planning from 2008 to 2010.

Since March 2010, Prof. Hur has served as a Professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, where he leads the Smart-Grid Research Group. His current research interests include dynamic performance modeling, analysis, and control of power grids with high levels of stochastic and power electronic interfaced renewable energy resources, HVDC/FACTS, and data-driven approaches in grid operations and planning.