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SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR FIRST WORKSHOP ON SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY ORGANIZERS First Workshop on CO-ORGANIZERS Smart Grid and Renewable Energy 22-23 March 2015 Doha, Qatar PARTNERS SPONSORS FIRST WORKSHOP ON SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY FIRST WORKSHOP ON SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SGRE 2015 PROGRAM: CONTENTS First Workshop on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy 22-23 March 2015 Doha, Qatar Message from the SGRE 2015 Workshop Chairs 4 Message from the SGRE 2015 Technical Program Chairs 6 SGRE 2015 Workshop Overview Workshop Topics Workshop Structure Workshop Committees 9 9 10 Schedule: Day One, 22nd March 2015 14 Schedule: Day Two, 23rd March 2015 16 Poster Session 1 18 Poster Session 2 19 Keynotes and Panel Talks: Abstracts and Speaker Biographies Solar Energy: Status and Prospects Miroslav M. Begovic 20 Smart Grid Test Beds: Development, Operation and Standards Osama A. Mohammed 22 TEES Smart Grid Center Activities Overview Mladen Kezunovic 25 TEES Smart Grid Center Extension in Qatar: Activities Overview Haitham Abu-Rub 27 Renewable Energies Research at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute Antonio P. Sanfilippo 28 Qatar University Research in Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Adel Gastli 29 Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Integration Saleh Hamad Al-Marri 31 Impact of Electric Vehicles on Voltage Profile and Harmonics in a Distribution Network Carlo Cecati 52 An Overview for Smart Grids Ilhami Colak 54 34 The Future of the Qatar Solar Market and Case Study on the QF Smart Grid Project Omran Al-Kuwari 55 Test Solutions across the Power Converter Design Cycle Carlo Canziani 35 Power Electronics: The Key Technology for Renewable Energy System Integration Frede Blaabjerg 56 Hybrid Power Generation Strategies for Microgrid Applications Kaushik Rajashekara 36 Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Systems Bimal K. Bose 58 Small Wind Turbines and PV Installations in Modern Distributed Power Generation Systems Mariusz Malinowski 38 The Future of Energy: Smart Grid and Beyond John D. McDonald 60 Power Electronic Converters for Microgrids Mohammad Abusara 40 Smart Grid Cyber Security: On the Importance of Building Bridges between Communities Marc C. Dacier 62 Integration Considerations for Inverter-based Distributed Generation Shehab Ahmed 41 Communication Technologies for Smart Grid: A Consumer-centric Overview Fethi Filali 63 Energy Storage Technologies for the Grid Storage Application Ilias Belharouak 42 Improving Security for Infrastructure Networks and Utility Grids Abderrahman Mtibaa 64 Integrating Oil and Gas Renewable Solar Nitrogen Energy Storage Systems into the Smart Grid Daniel Aklil 43 Cybersecurity Challenges for Smart Grid Systems: From Cryptographic Viewpoints Yongge Wang 65 Microgrids, Distributed Generation and Energy Storage: Opportunities and Challenges Suleiman Sharkh 45 Smart Grids Enabled by ICT 67 Mohammad Hammoudi Balancing Changes of Energy Mix with Innovation in Energy Management Marc Lamey 32 First Advanced Metering Infrastructure Project in Qatar Mohammed Junaid 33 Advanced Metering Deployment in ERCOT H.B. “Trip” Doggett Flywheel Energy Storage Systems 46 Ahmed Massoud Protecting Cyber Assets in Substation Automation Systems Akhtar Kalam 68 Energy Storage as an Enabling Technology for the Smart Grid Omar Ellabban 47 Solar Photovoltaic Charging for Electric Vehicles Zainal Salam 69 Smart Grid Standardization and Interoperability George W. Arnold 49 Solar Power Generation: Challenges and Opportunities Tapas Kumar Mallick 71 Fostering the Smart Grids: The Power Electronics Contribution Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo 50 Photovoltaic System Architectures: Integration, Cost and Efficiency Mohamed Orabi 72 Wind Farm Diversification as a Means to Smooth Intermittency Chanan Singh 51 Energy Management in Modern Utility, Automotive and Residential Platforms: New Opportunities and Challenges for Power Electronics Babak Fahimi 74 4 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR FIRST WORKSHOP ON SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY 5 a member of Qatar Foundation. We express deep appreciation for the administration of Texas A&M University at Qatar for the financial and technical support provided for the success of the workshop. MESSAGE FROM THE SGRE 2015 WORKSHOP CHAIRS We acknowledge the support from Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Qatar University (College of Engineering), Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA), British Council at Qatar and all companies sponsoring the event: ALSTOM, KEYSIGHT and SIEMENS. Additionally, thank you to all of the reviewers of the papers. We also acknowledge the help and cooperation of the organizing and technical committees for their tireless efforts in making this workshop a success. We wish all participants a happy and pleasant stay in Doha. On behalf of the organizing committee, it is our pleasure to welcome all the delegates, representatives of various universities, research institutes, industries and participants from all around the world to the First Workshop on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE2015), 22-23 March 2015 in Doha, Qatar. Looking at the importance of the smart grid and renewable energy resources integration for Qatar and the world, this workshop will explore the viability of this advanced technology. This workshop brings together leading scientists, researchers and stakeholders from international and national research institutions, universities and industry to exchange information on medium- to long-term research and future challenges of smart grid and renewable energies. Therefore, attendees will engage in discussions of ongoing and future research toward next-generation smart grid technologies and applications, leading to research collaboration opportunities among participants. The goal of the workshop is to generate a long-term smart grid research agenda relating to smart grid and renewable energy. This should lead to a smarter electric grid that is necessary for maintaining rapid economic development, improved social lifestyle and a greener living environment. Furthermore, the workshop will generate awareness in the industries, engineers and researchers about advanced smart grid technologies and their benefits; renewable energy resources and their integration with the smart grid and information and communications technologies and their adoption in the smart grid. We must thank all the contributors of this workshop. Special thanks go to staff at Texas A&M University at Qatar, Mr. Majid Farooqi, Mrs. Noha Ezzat, Mrs. Carol Nader, Mrs. Germin Abdel Moati, Mr. Khalid Ahmad and Mrs. Sahar Mari. We acknowledge the support we received, particularly from Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Haitham Abu-Rub Rashid Alammari Mladen Kezunovic Chair First Workshop on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Co-chair First Workshop on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Co-chair First Workshop on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Professor and Chair Electrical and Computer Engineering Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar Dean College of Engineering Director TEES Smart Grid Center Texas A&M University, USA Managing Director TEES Smart Grid Center Extension in Qatar Dean Qatar University, Qatar 6 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR FIRST WORKSHOP ON SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY 7 The technical program of SGRE 2015 would not have been possible without the tremendous efforts of the entire SGRE 2015 technical program committee and organizing committee. We are most grateful to the authors who submitted their work to SGRE 2015, the workshop chairs who have worked so hard to organize the workshop, the technical program committee members, the reviewers who have so diligently supported the peer review process, the technical program chairs, and everyone else who helped to put together this remarkable program for their time, dedication and hard work. MESSAGE FROM THE SGRE 2015 TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS On behalf of the Technical Program Committee of the First Workshop on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE2015), it is our pleasure to present the proceedings of this workshop held in Doha, Qatar. Not only is Qatar the richest country in the world, enjoying the highest GDP per capita worldwide, Qatar has also taken major initiatives to achieve its 2030 national vision, which is to establish a knowledge-based economy. To this end, Qatar has established the Qatar Foundation, which fosters a number of key world universities to offer education and research that is equivalent to what is offered on the mother campuses of those universities. Within Qatar Foundation, the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) funds cutting-edge research with participants from all over the world. Each year, QNRF invests more than $150 million in research. In terms of infrastructure, the Doha City is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. Currently, there are more than 15,000 hotel rooms, and many more will be built in the next few years in preparation for hosting the World Cup 2022. We are proud to tell you that SGRE2015’s program committee put together an outstanding program, including two keynote and three panel sessions and five parallel panel sessions and featuring 40 talks given by international and local expert scientists covering all aspects of the smart grid: power, communications, cybersecurity and economics. More than 100 technical experts from all over the world participated in the peer-review process. Based on the results of a rigorous peer review process, 29 best papers were selected for poster presentation and publication in SGRE 2015 Proceedings, resulting in a 57 percent acceptance rate. Mariusz Malinowski Adel Gastli Omar Ellabban Technical Program Chair Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics Technical Program Co-chair Technical Program Co-chair Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor & KahramaaSiemens Chair in Energy Efficiency Assistant Research Scientist, Member of the TEES Smart Grid Center Extension in Qatar Warsaw University of Technology, Poland College of Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar 8 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR FIRST WORKSHOP ON SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY First Workshop on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are experiencing rapid economic growth that has resulted in the need for immense infrastructure development and tremendous growth in demand for energy. Therefore, to ensure electric energy security with high cost and limited sources of fossil fuels — and reducing greenhouse gasses — renewable energy resources and their integration into the smart grid is becoming an attractive solution. Looking at the importance of the smart grid and renewable energy resources integration for Qatar, this workshop is planned to further explore the viability of various related technologies. This workshop will convene leading researchers and stakeholders from international research institutions, universities and other private-sector R&D programs to exchange information on the medium-to long-term research agenda, progress and future challenges of smart grid and renewable energies. SGRE 2015 WORKSHOP OVERVIEW WORKSHOP TOPICS »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» Renewable energy resources: current status and future prospects Integration of large, utility-scale renewable energy into the smart grid Synchrophasors and wide-area applications New concepts for protective relaying and fault location Integration of energy storage into the smart grid Electric vehicle integration into the smart grid Smart grids communications architectures and solutions Information and communications technologies (ICT) and their adoption in the smart grid Advanced metering infrastructure Smart grid cyber-physical security Demand response and demand management Energy optimization and dynamic trading Economic models, price management and domestic energy market interactions WORKSHOP STRUCTURE The workshop will feature: »» »» »» »» Keynotes by invited experts Focus group sessions by invited experts Posters and presentations Input and comments by participants 9 10 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR FIRST WORKSHOP ON SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY WORKSHOP COMMITTEES Honorary Chair H.E. Eng. Essa bin Hilal Al-Kuwari, President of Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA), Qatar Workshop Chairs »» Haitham Abu-Rub (Chair), Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar »» Rashid Alammari (Co-chair), Qatar University, Qatar »» Mladen Kezunovic (Co-chair), Texas A&M University, USA Technical Committee »» Mariusz Malinowski (Chair), Warsaw University of Technology, Poland »» Omar Ellabban, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar »» Adel Gastli, Qatar University, Qatar Organizing Committee »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» Abdulla Majid Al Khulaifi, Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA), Qatar Antonio P. Sanfilippo, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Atif Iqbal, Qatar University, Qatar Ahmed Massoud, Qatar University, Qatar Ali Elrayyah, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Ali Ghrayeb, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar Ali Mohamed Al-Ali, Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation, Qatar Dallia Ali, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar Islam Safak Bayram, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Laoucine Kerbache, HEC Paris in Qatar, Qatar Lazhar ben Brahim, Qatar University, Qatar Mohamed Trabelsi, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar Mohammad Abusara, University of Exeter, UK Mohammed Saleh, Qatar Airways, Qatar Nasser Al-Emadi, Qatar University, Qatar Sertac Bayhan, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar Shady Khalil, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar Shehab Ahmed, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar Zhaohui Cen, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar International Committee »» »» »» »» Abdel-Aty Edris, Exponent, USA Abdellah Kouzou, Djelfa University, Algeria Akhtar Kalam, Victoria University, Australia Ali Emadi, McMaster University, Canada »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» Babak Fahimi, University of Texas-Dallas, USA Bikash Pal, Imperial College London, UK Bimal K. Bose (honorary member), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Bin Wu, Ryerson University, Canada Carlo Cecati, University of L’Aquila, Italy Chanan Singh, Texas A&M University, USA Chandan Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, India Erchin Serpedin, Texas A&M University, USA Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark George W. Arnold, Tercio Solutions LLC, USA Hamid Toliyat, Texas A&M University, USA Hussein A Kazem, Sohar University, Oman Ilhami COLAK, Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey Issa Batarseh, University of Central Florida, USA Jaroslaw Guzinski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Joachim Holtz (Honorary member), Wuppertal University, Germany John McDonald, General Electric, USA Jose I. Leon, University of Seville, Spain Jose Rodriguez, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile Joseph Ojo, Tennessee Tech University, USA K. Gopakumar, Indian Institute of Science, India Kamal Al-Haddad, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada Karen Butler-Purry, Texas A&M University, USA Kaushik Rajashekara, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Leopoldo Franquelo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Le Tang, ABB Inc., USA Malik Elbuluk, Akron University, USA Marian Kazmierkowski, Warsow University of Technology, Poland Mehrdad Ehsani, Texas A&M University, USA Miroslav Begovic, Texas A&M University, USA Mohamed Orabi, Aswan University, Egypt Osama Mohammed, Florida International University, USA Prasad Enjeti, Texas A&M University, USA Rached Dhaouadi, American University of Sharjah, UAE Ralph Kennel, TU Muenchen, Germany Robert Balog, Texas A&M University, USA Saifur Rahman, Virginia Tech, USA Zbigniew Krzeminski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Zainal Salam, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Ziyad Salameh, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA 11 12 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ORGANIZERS FIRST WORKSHOP ON SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY 13 Venue: Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Centrally located in Doha’s Diplomatic area, only 30 minutes from the Hamad International Airport. Top among hotels in Doha. CO-ORGANIZERS PARTNERS The British Council’s Researcher Links program supports collaboration between UK and Qatari early-career researchers SPONSORS Keynotes: Al Areen 4 Panel Sessions: Al Areen 4, 5 & 6 Lunch: Al Areen 1 , 2 & 3 Gala Diner: 1 , 2 , 3 & 4 Breaks: Al Areen Foyer Posters and Exhibition: Al Areen Foyer 14 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR DAY ONE 22 MARCH 2015 8 – 9 a.m. Registration and Welcome Coffee (Al Areen Foyer) 9 – 9:15 a.m. Al Areen 4 Welcome, Opening Remarks, Workshop Goals and Objectives Haitham Abu-Rub , Workshop Chair Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar 9:15 – 9:45 a.m. Al Areen 4 Welcome » Mark Weichold , Dean and CEO, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar » Rashid Al-Ammari , Dean, College of Engineering Dean, Qatar University, Qatar » Essa bin Hilal Al-Kuwari , President, Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA), Qatar » Mohamed Khaleel , Executive Director, Qatar Energy and Environment Research Institute (QEERI), Qatar » Abdul Sattar Al-Taie , Executive Director, Qatar National Research Fund, Qatar » Martin Hope , Director, British Council, Qatar 9:45 – 10:15 a.m. Al Areen 4 Keynote 1: Solar Energy: Status and Prospects Miroslav M. Begovic , President of IEEE Power and Energy Society Carolyn S. and Tommie E. Lohman ’59 Professor Texas A&M University, USA Moderator: Garng Huang , Texas A&M University, USA 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break (Al Areen Foyer) 10:30 a.m. – noon Al Areen 4 Panel Session 1 Moderator: Abdulla Majid Al Khulaifi , KAHRAMAA, Qatar » TEES Smart Grid Center – Activities Overview Mladen Kezunovic, Texas A&M University, USA » Smart Grid Center Extension in Qatar (SGC-Q): Activities Overview Haitham Abu-Rub, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar » Renewable Energies Research at Qatar Energy and Environment Research Institute Antonio Sanfilippo, Qatar Energy and Environment Research Institute (QEERI), Qatar » Qatar University Research in Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Adel Gastli, Qatar University, Qatar » Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Integration Saleh Hamad Al-Marri, KAHRAMAA, Qatar Noon – 1:30 p.m. Lunch (Al Areen 1, 2 & 3) FIRST WORKSHOP ON SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY 1:30 – 3 p.m. Al Areen 4 15 Parallel Panel Session 1: Smart Grid: Current Status Panel Chair: Robert Balog , Texas A&M University, USA » Smart Grid Test Beds – Development, Operation and Standards Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University, USA » Balancing Changes of Energy mix with Innovation in Energy Management Marc Lamey, Alstom, Qatar » AMI Project – First Advanced Metering Infrastructure Project in Qatar Mohammed Junaid, Siemens, Qatar » Advanced Metering Deployment in ERCOT H.B. “Trip” Doggett, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), USA » Test Solutions across the Power Converter Design Cycle Carlo Canziani, Keysight Technologies, Spain 1:30 – 3 p.m. Al Areen 5 Parallel Panel Session 2: Microgrids and Distributed Generation Panel Chairs: Joseph Ojo, Tennessee Tech University, USA, and Lazhar ben Brahim , Qatar University, Qatar » Hybrid Power Generation Strategies for Micro grid Applications Kaushik Rajashekara, University of Texas at Dallas, USA » Small Wind Turbines and PV Installations in Modern Distributed Power Generation Systems Mariusz Malinowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland » Power Electronic Converters for Microgrids Mohammad Abusara, University of Exeter, UK » Integration Considerations for Inverter-based Distributed Generation Shehab Ahmed, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar 1:30 – 3 p.m. Al Areen 6 Parallel Panel Session 3: Energy Storage Systems in the Smart Grid Panel Chairs: Dallia Ali, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar, and Gavin Walker , University of Nottingham, UK » Energy Storage Technologies for the Grid Storage Application Ilias Belharouak, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Qatar » Integrating Oil and Gas Renewable Solar Nitrogen Energy Storage Systems into the Smart Grid Daniel Aklil, Pure Energy Centre, UK » Microgrids, Distributed Generation and Energy Storage: Opportunities and Challenges Suleiman Sharkh, University of Southampton, UK » Flywheel Energy Storage Systems Ahmed Massoud, Qatar University, Qatar » Energy Storage as an Enabling Technology for the Smart Grid Omar Ellabban, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar 3 – 4 p.m. Break and Posters (Al Areen Foyer) 4 – 5 p.m. Al Areen 4 Report by Focus Groups and Open Discussion Robert Balog, Joseph Ojo, Lazhar ben Brahim, Dallia Ali and Gavin Walker 6 p.m. City tour by DOHA bus, free for all SGRE attendees (Dinner not Included) 16 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR DAY TWO 23 MARCH 2015 8 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and Welcome Coffee (Al Areen Foyer) 8:30 – 9 a.m. Al Areen 4 Keynote 2: Smart Grid Standardization and Interoperability George W. Arnold, Tercio Solutions LLC, USA Moderator: Omar Ellabban, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar 9 – 10 a.m. Al Areen 4 Panel Session 2: Moderator: Kamal Al-Haddad, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada »»Fostering the Smart Grids: the Power Electronics Contribution Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo, University of Seville, Spain »»Wind Farm Diversification as a Means to Smooth Intermittency Chanan Singh, Texas A&M University at Qatar, USA »»Impact of Electric Vehicles on Voltage Profile and Harmonics in a Distribution Network Carlo Cecati, University of L’Aquila, Italy »»An overview for Smart Grids Ilhami Colak, Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey 10 – 10:30 a.m. Break (Al Areen Foyer) 10:30 a.m. – noon Al Areen 4 Panel Session 3: Moderator: Atif Iqbal, Qatar University, Qatar »»The Future of Qatar Solar Market and Case Study on Qatar Foundation (QF) Smart Grid Project. Omran Al-Kuwari, GreenGulf Inc., Qatar »»Power Electronics, The Key Technology for Renewable Energy System Integration Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark »»Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Systems Bimal K. Bose, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA »»The Future of Energy: Smart Grid and Beyond John D. McDonald, GE Digital Energy, USA Noon – 1:30 p.m. Lunch (Al Areen 1, 2 & 3) FIRST WORKSHOP ON SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY 1:30 – 3 p.m. Al Areen 4 17 Parallel Panel Session 4: Smart Grid Communications and Cybersecurity Panel Chairs: Ali Ghrayeb, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar and Mohammed Saleh, Qatar Airways, Qatar »»Smart Grid Cyber Security: On the Importance of Building Bridges Between Communities Marc C. Dacier, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar »»Communication Technologies for Smart Grid: A Consumer-Centric Overview Fethi Filali, Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC), Qatar »»Improving Security for Infrastructure Networks and Utility Grids Abderrahmen Mtibaa, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar »»Cybersecurity Challenges For Smart Grid Systems: From Cryptographic Viewpoints Yongge Wang, Qatar University, Qatar »»Smart Grids Enabled by ICT Mohammad Hammoudi, CISCO, Qatar »»Protecting Cyber Assets in Substation Automation Systems Akhtar Kalam, Victoria University, Australia 1:30 – 3 p.m. Al Areen 5 Parallel Panel Session 5: Renewable Energies Integration into the Smart Grid Panel Chairs: Zbigniew Krzeminski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, and Islam Bayram, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar »»Solar Photovoltaic Charging for Electric Vehicles Zainal Salam, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia »»Solar Power Generation: Challenges and Opportunities Tapas Kumar Mallick, University of Exeter, UK »»Photovoltaic System Architectures: Integration, Cost and Efficiency Mohamed Orabi, Aswan University, Egypt »»Energy Management in Modern Utility, Automotive, and Residential Platforms: New Opportunities and Challenges for Power Electronics Babak Fahimi, University of Texas at Dallas, USA 3 – 4 p.m. Break and Posters (Al Areen Foyer) 4 – 4:50 p.m. Al Areen 4 Report by Focus Groups and Open Discussion Mohammed Saleh, Charles Nolan, Zbigniew Krzeminski and Islam Bayram 4:50 – 5 p.m. Al Areen 4 Closing Remarks Mladen Kezunovic, Workshop Co-Chair, Texas A&M University, USA 7 – 9 p.m. Gala Dinner and Awards (Al Areen 1, 2, 3 and 4) 18 19 POSTER SESSION 1 POSTER SESSION 2 22 MARCH, 3 – 4 P.M. 23 MARCH, 3 – 4 P.M. Session Chairs: Ali Elrayyah and Zhaohui Cen, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Session Chairs: Dailla Ali and Mohamed Trabelsi, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar P1-1 Analysis of Two Single-phase DC-AC Multilevel Converters with Multiple Sources Bhanu Naga V Angirekula and Olorunfemi Ojo, Tennessee Tech University, USA P2-1 Droop-based Demand Response for Power Systems Management Ali Elrayyah, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar P1-2 Prediction-based Sampled-data Control for DC-DC Buck Converters Xingda Yan, Zhan Shu, Suleiman M. Sharkh, University of Southampton, UK P2-2 P1-3 Model Predictive Control of Grid-tied Photovoltaic Systems: Maximum Power Point Tracking and Decoupled Power Control Mohammad B. Shadmand, Xiao Li, Robert S. Balog, Haitham Abu Rub, Texas A&M University, USA Optimal Planning of Fast PEV Charging Facilities Muhammad Ismail, Islam Safak Bayram, Mohamed Abdallah, Erchin Serpedin, Khalid Qaraqe, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar P2-3 Transmission Line Switching in Power System Planning with Large-scale Renewable Energy Tian Lan, Garng. M. Huang, Texas A&M University, USA P2-4 P1-4 Quasi Seven-level Operation of Multilevel Converter with Selective Harmonic Elimination with Unequal DC Source Mina G. Fakhry, Ahmed M. Massoud, Shehab Ahmed, Qatar University, Qatar Smart Grid Self-healing: Functions, Applications and Developments Mohamed A. Elgenedy, Ahmed M. Massoud, Shehab Ahmed, Alexandria University, Egypt P2-5 P1-5 Distributed Cooperative Control with Lower Generation Cost for DC Microgrid Mohamed Orabi, Emad Ahmed, Mohamed Zaery, Afef Ben Abdelghani, Aswan University, Egypt Energy in Smart Grid: Strategies and Technologies for Efficiency Enhancement Mohamed A. Elgenedy, Ahmed M. Massoud, Shehab Ahmed, Alexandria University, Egypt P2-6 P1-6 A Novel Power Control Strategy for Wind-driven Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator Based on a Single Leg Multimode Power Converter Sertac Bayhan, Haitham Abu-Rub, Ilhami Colak, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar Impact of Different Penetrations of Renewable Sources and Demand Side Management on Australian Future Grid Zhuoyang Wang, Wang Zhang, Liyan Zhang, Chen Guo, Zhaoyang Dong, Tingwen Huang, University of Sydney, Australia P1-7 Distributed Maximum Power Point Tracker for Additional Energy Harvesting During Partial Shading of PV System Zainal Salam, Zulkifli Ramli, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia P2-7 An Efficient Biogeography-based Optimization Algorithm for Smart Radial Distribution Power System Reconfiguration Abdallah Kouzou, Ridha Djamel Mohammedi, A Hellal, University of Djelfa, Algeria P1-8 Inductive Power Transfer for Railway Applications Rehab Ahmed, Reem Faris, Dahbya Almuhannadi, Ahmed Massoud, Qatar University, Qatar P2-8 The Deployment of Advanced Metering Infrastructure: Implementation Lessons Learned, Qatar Ghassan Abdulla, KAHRAMAA, Qatar P1-9 Dynamic Voltage Restorer for Voltage Sag Mitigation in Oil and Gas Industry Chresteen Baraket, Marina Messiha, Ahmed Massoud, Atif Iqbal, Ramadan Soliman, Qatar University, Qatar P2-9 Fault Location Based on Smart Meters Time Synchronized Measurements Mutaz Khairalla, A. Abdrabou, Abdulrahman Dahir, A. M. Gaouda, United Arab Emirates University, UAE P1-10 Three-phase Multilevel Grid Interactive Inverter for PV Systems with Reactive Power Support Capability Saban Ozdemir, Sertac Bayhan, Ibrahim Sefa, Necmi Altin; Gazi University, Turkey P2-10 Power Electronic Transformer for Smart Grid Application Marcin Morawiec, Arkadiusz Lewicki, Zbigniew Krzeminski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland P1-11 Nonlinear Control of Five Phase Induction Motor with Synchronized Third Harmonic Flux Injection Marek Adamowicz, Jaroslaw Guzinski, Zbigniew Krzeminski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland P2-11 Residential Load Management System for Future Smart Energy Environment in GCC Countries Shady Khalil, Haitham Abu-Rub, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar P2-12 P1-12 Power Quality Effect of Using Incandescent, Fluorescent, CFL and LED Lamps on Utility Grid Mohd. Shafiul Islam, Abdul Kader Sakil, Noor Alam Chowdhury, Amith Khandakar, Atif Iqbal, Haitham Abu-Rub, Qatar University, Qatar Proportional Reactive Power Sharing Algorithm in Islanded AC Microgrid Adam Milczarek, Mariusz Malinowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland P2-13 Impact of Electric Vehicles on Voltage Profile and Harmonics in a Distribution Network Carlo Cecati, Abbasi Ehsan, Kai Strunz, Azhar Ul-Haq, University of L’Aquila, Italy P1-13 Feasibility of Photovoltaic Systems in Oman Review Article Hussein A Kazem, Sohar University, Oman P2-14 P1-14 Identification of One-Diode Model Parameters of PV Devices from Nameplate Information Using Particle Swarm and Least Square Methods Mohamed Azab,Yanbu Research Center, KSA Effect of Dust and Weather Conditions on Photovoltaic Performance in Doha, Qatar Bing Guo, Wasim Javed, Benjamin Figgis, Talha Mirza, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar P2-15 Sensitivity Analysis to Model Parameter Errors of MPPT by Model Predictive Control for Photovoltaic Applications Morcos Metry, Mohammad B. Shadmand, Robert S. Balog, Haitham Abu Rub, Texas A&M University, USA P1-15 Polynomial Computational Method Tracking MPP using Enhanced PV Diode Model Maged Baumoy, Haytham Gamal, Adel Shaltout, SHAKER Consultancy Company, Egypt 20 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR KEYNOTES AND PANEL TALKS: ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES SOLAR ENERGY: STATUS AND PROSPECTS Miroslav M. Begovic President of IEEE Power and Energy Society Carolyn S. and Tommie E. Lohman ’59 Professor Texas A&M University, USA Worldwide consumption of electricity is expected to nearly double in the next two-anda-half decades. International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that meeting this demand for power will require more than 5,000 GW of new electricity generating capacity (including replacement capacity) at a cost of more than $5 trillion. The new plants will require an additional $6 trillion worth of additional infrastructure, making electric power an $11 trillion market during the next 25 years. The search for new generation technologies is accelerating. In 2010, photovoltaic generation accounted for 0.28 percent of the renewable generation mix in the United States. It has recently been growing at an annual rate of more than 220 percent. Rapid transformation of modern energy systems brings about challenges in keeping up the level of information and skill in a diverse workforce with very non-uniform age demographics, operating some of the largest human-made assets which are rapidly aging. The increased presence of renewable generation (with its inherent low cost and stochastically available resources) is a mixed bag of benefits, offering some opportunities ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 21 (peak load shaving, effective loss reduction due to the proximity of generation and loads, potential to be used for volt/VAR management and control, etc.), but also creating new problems (need for additional spinning reserve/demand response/storage to cover the uncertainties involved in the inputs). This calls for analysis of resource scheduling and dispatch at utility level, which has traditionally been developed for non-stochastic, non-renewable resources whose operational costs depend on the fuel consumption and location of the plant in the electrical network. The presentation will address some aspects of the solutions that the author has been contributing to in his prior research at Georgia Tech and within IEEE and IEEE PES. Miroslav M. Begovic is head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Carolyn S. and Tommie E. Lohman ‘59 Professor at Texas A&M University. Prior to that, he was professor and chair of the Electric Energy Research Group in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and an affiliated faculty member of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems and University Center of Excellence in Photovoltaic Research, at Georgia Tech. Begovic obtained his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech University. His research interests are in monitoring, analysis and control of power systems, as well as development and applications of renewable and sustainable energy systems. For the Centennial Olympic Games in 1996 in Atlanta, he designed with Professor Ajeet Rohatgi a 340 kW photovoltaic system on the roof of Aquatic Center at Georgia Tech, which at that time was the largest roof-mounted PV system in the world. He has been a member of the IEEE PES Power System Relaying Committee for two decades and chaired a number of its working groups. Begovic was editor of the section on transmission systems and smart grids in Springer Encyclopedia on Sustainability (published in 2012), coordinated by an editorial board consisting of five Nobel Prize laureates; was guest editor of the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution Special Issue on Wide Area Monitoring and Control in 2010; has been author of one section of a book, nearly 200 journal and conference papers, two IEEE special publications, and given more than 100 keynote and invited presentations. He has written invited papers in three special issues of IEEE Proceedings: on future energy systems (2010), on critical infrastructures (2005) and on renewable energy (2001). Begovic is a Fellow of IEEE and member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi and Eta Kappa Nu. Begovic is a former chair of the Emerging Technologies Coordinating Committee of IEEE PES, IEEE PES treasurer (2010-2011), IEEE PES distinguished lecturer, and currently serves as president of the IEEE Power and Energy Society. 22 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR SMART GRID TEST BEDS — DEVELOPMENT, OPERATION AND STANDARDS Osama A. Mohammed Professor, Florida International University, USA ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 23 application to prevent cascading outages, islanding situations and grid blackout. The test bed should include emulation modules of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (PHEVs) and (PEVs) that emulate energy storage systems, SOC and SOH for batteries. It should further enable the integration of hybrid ACDC systems such as micro grid solutions for residential and industrial applications and enhancement of energy efficiency and management in addition to integration of multi agents in an embedded platform to utilize data from components and systems including smart meters, hardware-in theloop (HIL) controllers and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). Osama A. Mohammed is a professor of electrical engineering and director of the This presentation will discuss the development of a laboratory-based smart grid test bed. A well-developed test bed laboratory should provide abilities to achieve the full potential for testing practical issues in smart grid research, investigate and validate the performance of components and techniques in flexible hardware based platform. This ability enable researchers to practically utilize, test and enhance modern standards such as the IEC61850 and provide an environment and an interface for related fields such as market analysis. One of the most important characteristic is to enable secure remote operation with online and/or off campus accessibility. The smart grid testbed developed at FIU will be presented as an example. Energy Systems Research Laboratory at Florida International University in Miami. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He has performed research on various topics in power and energy systems in addition to computational electromagnetics and design optimization in electric machines, electric drive systems and other low frequency environments. He performed multiple research projects for several federal agencies since the1990s dealing with power system analysis, physics based modeling, electromagnetic signature, sensorless control, electric machinery, high frequency switching, electromagnetic interference and ship power systems modeling and analysis. The abilities of the testbed, from a technical point of view, include the development of a communication system infrastructure and provide ability to perform real-time monitoring of the hybrid system. This includes a variety of architectures and distribution system connectivity ideas to emulate different systems and microgrids. Furthermore, the test bed should enable a cyber-physical infrastructure by developing measures for data handling and real-time control. The test bed should also enable the implementation of wide-area protection system and the study of dynamic issues such as real-time voltage stability. The test bed should enable the development of monitoring and operation strategies using synchrophasors. Mohammed currently has active research programs in a number of these areas funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Energy and several industries. Mohammed is a world-renowned leader in electrical energy systems and computational electromagnetics. He has published more than 400 articles in refereed journals and other IEEE refereed international conference records. He also wrote a book and several book chapters. Through the hardware/software capability of the test bed, we should be able to conduct experiments on energy management systems for smart grids including alternate and sustainable sources. Controllers will enable the integration of embedded architecture and distributed control through intelligent agents as well as perform market analysis, economic studies and social behavior. In addition it should link to other infrastructures to enable resiliency studies. The test bed needs to have several practical components and schemes in an integrated platform to provide significant capabilities. This includes; phasor measurement units for monitoring, protection and control. It should also include distributed and renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and fuel cells. The test bed should include new operational schemes for protective digital relaying and wide area protection as well as intelligent protection schemes and their Mohammed is fellow of IEEE and of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society. He is the recipient of the prestigious IEEE Power and Energy Society Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award and the 2012 outstanding research award from Florida International University. Mohammed has lectured extensively with invited and plenary talks at major research and industrial organizations worldwide. He serves as editor of several IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, COMPEL and IEEE Power Engineering Letters. Mohammed served as the International Steering Committee chair for the IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC) and the IEEE Biannual Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC). Mohammed was the general chair of the 2009 IEEE IEMDC conference held in Miami in 2009 and was the editorial board chairman for the IEEE CEFC2010 held in Chicago in 2010. 24 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR Mohammed was also the general chair of the IEEE CEFC 2006 held in Miami in 2006; the 19th annual Conference of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society ACES-2006 held in Miami in 2006; the 1993 COMPUMAG International Conference and the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems (ISAP’96). Mohammed has chaired the Electric Machinery Committee for IEEE PES, was the vice chair and Technical Committee program chair for the IEEE PES Electric Machinery Committee for a number of years. He was a member of the IEEE/ Power Engineering Society Governing Board (1992-1996). He also serves as chairman, officer or as an active member on several IEEE PES committees, subcommittees and technical working groups. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 25 TEES SMART GRID CENTER ACTIVITIES OVERVIEW Mladen Kezunovic Professor, Texas A&M University, USA The Smart Grid Center in the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) coordinates efforts of 70 faculty and more than 100 graduate students who perform research in various aspects of the smart grid. The center’s mission is to form a competitive environment to advance efficient use of electric energy and modernization of the electricity grid, as well as to promote creation of multidisciplinary research teams to solve problems and deliver innovative and effective smart grid. The center’s vision is a seamless integration of power system infrastructure with the transportation and existing built environment to create 21st century energy ecosystems capable of solving pressing energy issues while meeting the needs and expectations of future generations. This talk will review the main SGC activities including research projects, industry partnerships and international collaboration. Particular emphasis will be given to the future collaborative opportunities with the local industry in Qatar through joint efforts with Texas A&M University at Qatar and the Smart Grid Center Extension in Qatar. Mladen Kezunovic is a professor at Texas A&M University where he has been employed since 1986. Kezunovic serves several as director of the TEES Smart Grid Center; site director of the NSF Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSerc); and director of the Power Systems Control and Protection Lab. He also acts as the principal consultant, as well as president and CEO, of XpertPowerTM Associates, which has been providing consulting, product development and training services for utility industry for the last 23 years. He worked for Westinghouse Electric in the USA as a systems engineer on developing the first all-digital substation during 1979-1980 and for Energoinvest Company in Europe as the technical lead for substation automation development during 1980-1986. He spent nine months as a consultant for EdF’s Research Centre in Clamart, France, in 1999-2000 and was a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong in fall 2009. He has served as a consultant to more than 50 utilities and vendors worldwide. He served two terms (2009-2013) as director on the Board of Directors of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) representing research organizations and universities, and served was a member of 26 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR The Smart Grid Center in the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) coordinates efforts of 70 faculty and more than 100 graduate students who perform research in various aspects of the smart grid. The center’s mission is to form a competitive environment to advance efficient use of electric energy and modernization of the electricity grid, as well as to promote creation of multidisciplinary research teams to solve problems and deliver innovative and effective smart grid. The center’s vision is a seamless integration of power system infrastructure with the transportation and existing built environment to create 21st century energy ecosystems capable of solving pressing energy issues while meeting the needs and expectations of future generations. This talk will review the main SGC activities including research projects, industry partnerships and international collaboration. Particular emphasis will be given to the future collaborative opportunities with the local industry in Qatar through joint efforts with Texas A&M University at Qatar and the Smart Grid Center Extension in Qatar. Mladen Kezunovic is a professor at Texas A&M University where he has been employed since 1986. Kezunovic serves several as director of the TEES Smart Grid Center; site director of the NSF Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSerc); and director of the Power Systems Control and Protection Lab. He also acts as the principal consultant, as well as president and CEO, of XpertPowerTM Associates, which has been providing consulting, product development and training services for utility industry for the last 23 years. He worked for Westinghouse Electric in the USA as a systems engineer on developing the first all-digital substation during 1979-1980 and for Energoinvest Company in Europe as the technical lead for substation automation development during 1980-1986. He spent nine months as a consultant for EdF’s Research Centre in Clamart, France, in 1999-2000 and was a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong in fall 2009. He has served as a consultant to more than 50 utilities and vendors worldwide. He served two terms (2009-2013) as director on the Board of Directors of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) representing research organizations and universities, and served was a member of the SGIP Testing and Certification Committee and member of the SGIP Membership and Marketing Committee. His research interests are protection and control of power systems, as well as smart grids. Kezunovic was a principal investigator on more than 100 R&D projects, published more than 450 papers and has given more than 100 invited lectures, short courses and seminars around the world. He is an IEEE fellow and distinguished speaker, CIGRE fellow, and registered Professional Engineer in Texas. He is the recipient of the Inaugural 2011 IEEE Educational Activities Board Standards Education Award “for educating students and engineers about the importance and benefits of interoperability standards”. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 27 TEES SMART GRID CENTER EXTENSION IN QATAR: ACTIVITIES OVERVIEW Haitham Abu-Rub Electrical and Computer Engineering Program Chair and Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar A brief description about the research activities of the Smart Grid Center Extension in Qatar will be given. The described projects relate to PV and wind renewable energy systems, grid tie converters, power quality issues, microgrids, load management, electric storage, fault detection and condition monitoring, electric drives, and other related aspects. Other research activities related to smart grid will be pointed out such as wireless communication and security issues. Low power scale and high power scale renewable energy systems will be described together with various control strategies. Haitham Abu-Rub holds two Ph.D.s, one in electrical engineering and another in humanities. Since 2006, he has been associated with Texas A&M University, where he was promoted to professor. Now, he is chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program and managing director of the TEES Smart Grid Center Extension in Qatar. His main research interests are energy conversion systems, including renewable and electromechanical. Abu-Rub is the recipient of many prestigious international awards, such as the American Fulbright Scholarship, the German Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the German DAAD Scholarship and the British Royal Society Scholarship. Abu-Rub has published more than 200 journal and conference papers, and has earned and supervised many research projects. Currently he is leading many potential projects on photovoltaic and hybrid renewable power generation systems with different types of converters and on electric drives. He is co-author of three books, two of which are with Wiley. He is also an author and co-author of several book chapters. Abu-Rub is an active IEEE senior member and is an editor in many IEEE journals. 28 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES RENEWABLE ENERGIES RESEARCH AT QATAR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE QATAR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN CLEAN ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY Antonio P. Sanfilippo Research Director, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Adel Gastli Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Professor and Kahramaa-Siemens Chair in Energy Efficiency, Qatar University, Qatar Energy security is one the greatest concerns of our century, and renewable energy is the most ubiquitous solution. In this panel presentation, we outline the renewable energy program within Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) with specific reference to solar energy and grid integration. 29 Research in renewable energy and smart grid applications has recently witnessed a significant development at Qatar University despite the moderate resources and infrastructure development. The development is mainly due to Qatar University human resource high qualification and manpower quality supported by good financial support through different research funding schemes. The areas of research expertise cover a wide spectrum within the multidisciplinary areas of renewables and smart grid applications. Antonio Sanfilippo is research director for measurements and analytics in Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI). From 2003 to 2014, he was chief scientist for computational and statistical analytics at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the U.S. While at PNNL, he led research grants on emergency response from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); modeling the scientific workforce and gene network prediction in stroke from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH); and science of science and innovation policy from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). From 2007 through 2011, he directed a four-year advanced research program at PNNL on predictive analytics focused on security, energy and environment applications. In 2004-2005, he headed a consortium of five national laboratories that established the Motivation and Intent thrust area at DHS and led the PNNL team in this effort through 2009. Prior to joining PNNL, Sanfilippo worked as R&D director in the private sector, providing strategic vision, competitive intelligence and leading the development of new products. From 1998 to 2000, he served as a consultant within the European Commission, overseeing research consortia and organizing promotion, consultation and dissemination events. While at SHARP Laboratories of Europe from 1992 to 1998, he supervised linguistic development activities in the information technology group. Prior to joining SHARP, he was a research associate at the Centre for Cognitive Science (Edinburgh, UK) and the Computer Laboratory (Cambridge, UK). Sanfilippo holds M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in anthropological linguistics from Columbia University (USA), and a Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Edinburgh (UK). The spectrum of research areas covers but is not limited to the following: Solar energy, biofuels (liquid and gas), biomass (recycled waste), GTL, energy storage, power electronics applications to renewable energy and smart grids, zero emission buildings, energy management and efficiency, electric and hybrid vehicles, voltage regulation in smart grids, integration of renewables into the smart grid and smart microgrids. Even though the research efforts in these fields were very important and significant outcomes were recorded, these research efforts at Qatar University were very much scattered and sometimes duplicated because of the lack of clear strategies and coordination. Therefore, the Qatar University Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Research Group (CE3RG) was established in May 2014 as an important initiative toward organizing and boosting the future research activities and aligning them with the country’s strategies and priorities. This research group is contributing to enhancing quality education and research activities and also facilitating the development of a strong platform for students and researchers to learn and develop innovative solutions for the sustainable development of the country in the clean energy and energy efficiency sectors. Adel Gastli received the B.Sc. in electrical engineering from National School of Engineers of Tunis, Tunisia, in 1985. He worked for two years with the National Institute for Standards and Intellectual Property in the fields of standardization and certification of electric products in Tunisia. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1990 and 1993 respectively. He joined the R&D Department at Inazawa Works of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in Japan from April 1993 to July 1995. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman, in Aug. 1995. 30 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR He served as head of the department from September 2001 to August 2003 and from September 2007 to August 2009. In 2003, he established the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Research Group (RASERG) at Sultan Qaboos University and was its chair until January 2013. He also established the University Quality Assurance Office in February 2010 and served as its director from February 2010 to January 2013. In February 2013, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Qatar University as a professor and the KAHRAMAA-Siemens Chair in energy efficiency. In August 2013, he was appointed the College of Engineering associate dean for academic affairs. In April 2014, he established the Qatar University Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Research Group (CE3RG) that he is currently chairing. His current research interests include energy efficiency and renewable energy. He has published more than 115 papers in reputable journals and conferences and is a senior member of IEEE. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 31 SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY INTEGRATION Saleh Hamad Al-Marri Head of Renewable Energies Technologies Section KAHRAMAA, Qatar Kahramaa’s plans to implement Solar Energy projects in Qatar, upcoming project tenders, and how to make such projects viable in a market dominated by natural gas as fuel to generate power. Saleh Hamad Al-Marri graduated as a mechanical engineer from Qatar University in 2001 and holds Master of Business Administration from the Qatar University College of Business Management and Economics, as well as others professional certificates and training such as AVE, PMP and professional manager, As head of the Renewable Energy Technologies Section he leads the development and implementation of a comprehensive KAHRAMAA Strategy for Renewable Energy Projects and contributes in policies in this regard. He is one of the main people behind Qatar’s creative Solar Project idea and initiative to produce 200 MW by 2020. Due to his significant experience, activities and role he has been nominated as KAHRAMAA official representative in the Arabic Renewable Energy Strategies Team in the Arab Union of Electricity under Arab’s Electricity Ministers Council, on level of League of Arab States. He was nominated as member in IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) Renewable Energy Experts Team, representing KAHRAMAA and on behalf of the State of Qatar monitoring the trends and leading the analysis of investment opportunities technically and economically in the area of renewable energy/water production and evaluation of smart grid implementation. Moreover, he participates as team member/ leader in many events and initiation for many purposes, including negotiations, evaluations of new technologies collaboration, economic opportunities and projects for Qatar’s interests. 32 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES BALANCING CHANGES OF ENERGY MIX WITH INNOVATION IN ENERGY MANAGEMENT FIRST ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT IN QATAR Marc Lamey Vice President of Smart Grid Sales and Business Development, Alstom, France Mohammed Junaid Project Manager, Siemens, Qatar For the benefit of society, our grids must support the development and integration of renewable energy solutions. In many areas, penetration is occurring faster than anyone predicted, thanks to regulatory incentives. But our core mission is yet primarily grid reliability. The technologies are improving The first-order effects of renewables — namely the intermittent nature of wind and solar, and how solar in particular can drive rapid swings in power balance in regional areas — is a challenge and we today are starting to recognize the more substantial challenges of loss of frequency inertia and reactive power quality. We will see what are the solutions on the weather is our fuel — wind and sunshine — and what is available to yet manage the reliability of the grid. Marc Lamey has been vice president of smart grid sales and business development since April 2011. In his role, Lamey is responsible for developing the Alstom Grid leadership in smart grid-ready management solutions. He focuses on ensuring that Alstom grid development goes in the direction of the market requirements and to be the leading smart grid solution provider, responding to challenges of increased energy efficiency, network reliability and stability, and integration of renewable energy into the grid. A solid footing of 29 years in the oil and gas and then electricity industries, he gained a comprehensive experience in the automation business. He was a sales and business development director at Honeywell EMEA prior to joining Alstom T&D in 2002. He led the Alstom and Areva T&D Automation sales for years and graduated from the French Engineering School of Marseille as a physics engineer. 33 The presentation will be on the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project, which we are executing for KAHRAMAA. Discussed in the presentation will be the technical architecture of the first AMI implementation; Benefits of the AMI system and AMI as one step towards smart grids. Mohammed Junaid has more than 12 years of experience in the field of project/ construction management in the GCC region. His career started in Gulf as he was placed through college campus recruitment. He has worked in different capacities and has delivered a positive contribution towards each phase of the project. His project management acumen is built upon a rich mixture of practical and theoretical knowledge garnered throughout the years. Being highly motivated and goal driven has helped him to propel and successfully complete multiple projects from concept to completion whilst optimizing costs and profits. His versatile project management skills have been further proven as he managed projects of different backgrounds 34 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES ADVANCED METERING DEPLOYMENT IN ERCOT TEST SOLUTIONS ACROSS THE POWER CONVERTER DESIGN CYCLE H.B. “Trip” Doggett President and Chief Executive Office Electric Reliability Council of Texas, USA Carlo Canziani Business Development Manager Keysight, Spain Doggett’s presentation will be an overview of ERCOT and its Competitive markets, and growth of advanced metering infrastructure in ERCOT. H.B. “Trip” Doggett was named president and chief executive officer of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), in May 2010. Doggett had served as interim president and chief operating officer since November 2009. Doggett has also served as senior vice president and chief operating officer for ERCOT since June 2008, directing system operations, system planning, market operations and compliance. 35 With the emergence of alternative energy, electric vehicles, electrification of aircraft and many other energy related markets, the volume and variety of power components and power converters is expanding rapidly. Keeping up with new power semiconductor technologies (SiC, GaN) and new designs for solar and wind inverters, DC-DC converters, and motor drives is a significant challenge for today’s design engineer. Only Keysight Technologies Inc. provides test solutions across the power converter design cycle, giving you the insight you need to stay ahead of the competition. Carlo Canziani joined HP/Agilent/Keysight in 1985 after studies in telecommunications. He has 29 years of experience in the electric power industry, including seven years as an independent consultant in the ERCOT market, providing consulting and project management services related to market participant readiness for a nodal market in Texas. He chaired the Texas Nodal Transition Plan Task Force (TPTF) from 2005 to June 2008, and also served as an independent facilitator for the Texas Nodal Team, an ERCOT stakeholder team that developed the ERCOT nodal protocols. Prior to leading the market engagement and readiness team, he was involved in the stakeholder development and implementation of the zonal protocols. Before coming to ERCOT, Doggett worked 22 years with Duke Energy where he led projects in the area of transmission substation engineering and was part of the team that launched the California Independent System Operator. Doggett is a Registered Professional Engineer and earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has experience in test and measurement where he had multiple roles in technical support, metrology and sales. He joined marketing in 2009 in the role of business development manager in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the Power and Energy Division. 36 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR HYBRID POWER GENERATION STRATEGIES FOR MICROGRID APPLICATIONS Kaushik Rajashekara Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Distinguished Chair of Engineering University of Texas at Dallas, USA A hybrid power generation system is a combination of two or more power generation sources to best make of use of their individual operating characteristics and to obtain efficiencies greater than that could be obtained from a single power source. These hybrid power sources can be a combination of a fossil fuel-based plant and a renewable energy source as in a gas turbine combined with a high-temperature fuel cell based system or a combination of two or more renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar. In this presentation, hybrid power generation systems with different combinations of fuel cells and renewable energy sources for microgrid applications will be discussed. The hybrid systems discussed in this paper are combined cycle operation of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and a micro turbine; proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell and wind turbine; combination of SOFC and PEM fuel cell; and SOFC and solar thermal power generation system. The advantages and limitations of these strategies for microgrid systems will also be presented. Kaushik Rajashekara obtained his Ph.D. (1984) degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science. In 1989, he joined Delphi division of General Motors Corporation in Indianapolis as a staff project engineer. In Delphi and General Motors, he held various lead technical and managerial positions, and managed a team responsible for developing electric machines, controllers, and power electronics systems for electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicle systems, and in 2000, he was promoted to technical fellow and chief scientist for Advanced Propulsion Systems. In 2006, he joined Rolls-Royce Corporation as a chief technologist and was a RollsRoyce Fellow for More Electric Aircraft architectures and power conversion/control technologies for gas turbines in aero, marine, defense and energy applications. Since August 2012, he has been professor of electrical engineering and mechanical engineering and Distinguished Chair of Engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He also holds the honorary Qiushi Chair Professor in Zhejiang University in China. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 37 Rajashekara has published more than 120 papers in international journals and conferences, and has more than 35 patents on power electronics and drives, electric/ hybrid vehicle propulsion, fuel cell power conversion systems, and more electric aircraft. He has given more than 100 invited presentations in more than 40 countries in international conferences and universities. He has been co-author on one IEEE Press book on sensorless control of ac motor drives and contributed individual chapters to five published books. Rajashekara was elected a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for contributions to electric power conversion systems in transportation (2012) and as Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2012). He is the recepient of the IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann award (2013) for outstanding contributions to the advancement of electrical systems in transportation; IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Outstanding Achievement Award for outstanding contribution for the application of electricity to industry (2009); and IEEE IAS Gerald Kliman award (2006) for contributions to the advancement of power conversion technologies through innovations and their applications to industry. He is a fellow of IEEE (1999) and SAE International (2006) for contributions to the advancement of power conversion and propulsion systems. 38 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR SMALL WIND TURBINES AND PV INSTALLATIONS IN MODERN DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS Mariusz Malinowski Professor, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Renewable energy sources (RES) play more and more important role in modern distributed power generation systems (DPGS). Some of RES technology (e.g., high power wind turbines) are already reaching mature stage of development. However, there is another area of low-power, small wind turbines (SWTs) and PV installations (SPV) that are still under development. Many solutions with different features are being proposed aiming to achieve best performance while minimizing the cost. The aim of this presentation is to investigate dynamically expanding sector of SWTs and SPV. In order to determine technological state of the art and near future trends, structure of energy conversion system in SWT and SPV, including power electronics converter topologies and their controls, are presented and compared. Mariusz Malinowski received the Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering (with awards) from the Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics at Warsaw University of Technology (WUT),in Poland, in 2001 and 2012, respectively. He was a visiting scholar with Aalborg University in Denmark; the University of Nevada, Reno, USA; the Technical University of Berlin, Germany; and the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He was also a visiting professor with the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaíso, Chile; the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France; and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Électronique, d’Électrotechnique, d’Informatique, d’Hydraulique, et des Télécommunications–Laplace in Toulouse, France. He is currently with the Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics, WUT. He has been co-author of more than 130 technical papers and six books. He is also the holder of two implemented patents. His current research activities include the control and the modulation of grid-side converters, multilevel converters, smart grids, and power-generation systems based on renewable energies. Malinowski is an active member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and the IEEE Poland Section (PS), where he is currently IES vice president for Workshops Activities and vice president of PS IEEE. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 39 He is also an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and the past editor-in-chief for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine (2010-2012). He was the recipient of the Siemens Prize (2002 and 2007), the WUT President Prize (2001, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013), a paper award at the Industrial Electronics Conference 2000 and European Power Electronics– Power Electronics and Motion Control 2004, the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education Awards (2003 and 2008) and the Prime Minister of Poland award for habilitation in 2013. His industry application received many awards and medals, including the Innovation Exhibition in Geneva (2006) and the Exhibition in Brussels “Eureco” (2006). He received IEEE IES David Irwin Early Career Award for “Outstanding research and development of modulation and control for industrial electronics converters” in 2011 40 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS FOR MICROGRIDS Mohammad Abusara Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter, UK ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 41 INTEGRATION CONSIDERATIONS FOR INVERTER-BASED DISTRIBUTED GENERATION Shehab Ahmed Associate Professor Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar Power Electronics Converters are at the heart of integrating renewable energy resources. They manage the flow of power from these sources into the grid or from the grid into the energy storage systems. They need to comply with national and international grid codes of practice including supplying high quality currents, low voltage ride through, and steady state network support. Inverter-based distributed generation (IBDG) is characterized by its negligible fault current contribution compared with synchronous generators due to its inherent nonoverload capabilities. Thus, IBDG hardly affects the fault current level; this shadows the conventional protection schemes resulting in improper system protection especially with a high penetration of IBDGs at high power levels and/or in island operation mode. In case of remote areas where frequent power outage is expected, power electronic converters need to operate autonomously to form an islanded microgrid. They also need to transfer seamlessly from grid-connected mode to island mode and vice versa in order to provide uninterruptable power supply. In this presentation I will give an overview of the above issues inspired by my industrial and academic work. In this presentation, we will discuss an experimental investigation of two scenarios for IBDG fault current contribution under different fault conditions. In the first scenario, the inverter is controlled to produce zero output current or is disconnected upon fault occurrence, which is the case for most commercial grid-connected inverters. In the second scenario, the inverter contributes its rated current to the fault. The practical selection may be questionable and is affected by the fault level, employed protection scheme, and the penetration level of IBDGs. Mohammad A. Abusara is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter in the UK. Prior to joining academia in 2010, he spent 10 years in industry working for Bowman Power Group in Southampton as Principal Control Engineer responsible for research and development of power electronics for distributed generation, hybrid vehicles, and machines and drives. During his years in industry, he significantly contributed to the design and prototyping of a number of commercial products that include grid-connected inverters, microgrid, converters for hybrid vehicles, and sensorless drives for high speed permanent magnet machines. He is currently the Engineering Director of the recently founded company HiT Power Ltd. Shehab Ahmed received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Alexandria University in Egypt in 1999; and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA, in 2000 and 2007, respectively. From 2001 to 2007, he was with Schlumberger Technology Corporation working on downhole mechatronic systems. He is currently an associate professor with Texas A&M University at Qatar in Doha, Qatar. His research interests include mechatronics, solid-state power conversion, electric machines and drives. 42 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE GRID STORAGE APPLICATION Ilias Belharouak Chief Scientist, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Energy storage R&D at the Qatar Environment and Research Institute focuses on the development, materialization and insertion of advanced electrochemical energy storage technologies that are reliable, affordable and safe, with the purpose of coupling these storage devices with renewable photovoltaic systems in order to improve and stabilize the electrical grid in Qatar. The presentation will review several battery technologies and will demonstrate the technology readiness level of these systems in large-scale stationary battery applications. Ilias Belharouak is the chief scientist and Energy Storage Group leader at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute in Doha, Qatar. Under his leadership, several scientists conduct work in the areas of lithium batteries, sulfur batteries, sodium batteries and other energy storage systems. Before joining Qatar (2001-2013), Belharouak was a senior materials scientist and battery expert in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory, USA. Belharouak has extensive experience working with multiple branches of the U.S. government in applying lithium-ion battery research for projects ranging from hybrid plug-in vehicles to medical and military applications of lithium-ion battery technology. Belharouak was recognized with several awards, including four US. R&D-100 Awards; U.S. federal and state laboratory awards; and letters from top U.S. government officials. He published more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact international journals, holds18 patents in the field of batteries and has presented several papers at professional society meetings. He is also the author and editor of three books and several book chapters related to materials and technologies for the battery application. Belharouak holds Ph.D. (1999) and master’s (1996) degrees in materials science from the Institute for Solid State Chemistry in Bordeaux, France. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 43 INTEGRATING OIL AND GAS RENEWABLE SOLAR NITROGEN ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS INTO THE SMART GRID Daniel Aklil MD Pure Energy Centre, Pure Energy Centre, UK Nowadays, there are numerous power systems that suffer from the integration of renewable energy systems (RES). The issue is the inability of conventional electrical grid network to absorb the sudden surge in RES generation. An increased level of solar energy integration into the electrical grid will affect its stability and reliability. In this context, the SNS is proposed to allow Qatar projected increase of solar integration into the grid to 1 GW by 2020. This talk will demonstrate how nitrogen (as a commodity widely used by the oil and gas industry) can be utilized to provide a unique grid-balancing opportunity, thereby increasing the level of renewable integration into Qatar grid. The talk will disclose how smart grid technologies, renewable energy, energy storage technologies and an enduser being the oil and gas industry, can nowadays contribute to the increase of the level of renewable penetration in Qatar and beyond. Daniel Aklil is CEO of the Pure Energy® Centre in the UK and an expert in renewable, energy storage, green fuels and smart management systems. Aklil has led the company to design, develop, manufacture, install and commission several world renown renewable smart management hydrogen systems, including the Hydrogen Office (H2Office), the H2SEED in the Western Isles, the Yorkshire Forward Hydrogen Mini Grid, Lews Castle College Hydrogen system, the Sunderland Race Track Hydrogen System, the African World’s First Wind hydrogen installation in Morroco and then the Mauritanian one, the Rio De Janeiro Hydrogen System, South Africa and Austria Hydrogen Energy storage system, and UK/Germany World first hydrogen Heating Boiler System. He has also managed a countless number of feasibility studies on hydrogen, smart systems, renewable and energy storage for SEGEC, HIE, CNES, SIC, YF, and more, as well as feasibilities on renewable ammonia. Aklil was the chairman of the Hypothesis 2013 Conference and Exhibition held in Edinburgh. He is the author and co-author of more than 30 publications and two hydrogen book chapters, and has more than 15 years engineering experience in energy technologies. He is an eExpert for the EU commission on renewable, hydrogen and energy storage technologies. Past roles for Aklil are: director 44 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR of SHFCA; board member of Fuel Cell Europe; chair of Sustainable Transport Asia; board member of Nordsesil; director of Sohy Ltd.; director of pureShetland; director of SiGen; board member of NAHA; member of the Mexican Hydrogen Association; member of FREDS Group; chairman of IET North Network; vice chairman of IET North Network; chair of the Research Student Association; and head of the Aberdeen Motor Club. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 45 MICROGRIDS, DISTRIBUTED GENERATION AND ENERGY STORAGE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Suleiman Sharkh Professor, University of Southampton, UK Microgrids are envisioned to be the building blocks of the future smart grid in which communication and information technologies are used to actively monitor and control the generation, consumption and flow of energy in different forms: electric, thermal and chemical. They are envisioned to be zones within the grid where cluster of electrical and thermal loads, distributed generators (including renewables) and energy storage exist together under an embedded management and control system. Waste heat may be used locally and the intermittency of renewable sources may be buffered by energy storage. This will have the benefit of increasing overall energy efficiency, capacity and reliability of the power system, in addition to reducing harmful emissions, greenhouse gases and maybe cost. This will be possible thanks to ongoing advances in technology: information networks; communications; high energy density batteries; electric vehicles whose batteries may be used in vehicle to grid mode; and power electronics. But there will be many challenges: security and immunity to cyber threats; impact on power system stability and protection coordination and power quality; impact on power system architecture and power flow spatial and temporal pattern; impact on battery degradation, especially those of EVs participating in vehicle to grid (V2G) schemes. This will raise a number of fundamental research questions that will in turn drive the direction of technological developments at the component level. In this presentation I will give a personal perspective on these issues, informed by my research and industrial experience. Suleiman Sharkh is professor of power electronics, machines and drives and head of the Electro-Mechanical Engineering Research Group. He is also the managing director of HiT Systems Ltd. and a visiting professor at Beijing Jiaotong University. His research interests include high-performance electrical machines and power electronics for demanding applications, including exhaust energy recovery, submersible pumps, marine propulsions, cryogooler, electric vehicles and microgrids. Sharkh was the winner of the DTI Faraday SPARKS award in 2002 and the Engineer Innovation and Technology Award in 2008. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IET and a Chartered Engineer. 46 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 47 FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS ENERGY STORAGE AS AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR THE SMART GRID Ahmed Massoud Associate Professor, Qatar University, Qatar Omar Ellabban Assistant Research Scientist Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar Flywheels are one of the oldest and most popular energy storage media due to the simplicity of storing kinetic energy in a rotating mass. Flywheel energy storage systems (FESSs) can be used in different applications, e.g. electric utilities and transportation. With the development of new technologies in the field of composite materials and magnetic bearings, higher energy densities are allowed in the design of flywheels. The amount of stored energy in FESS depends on the mass and the speed of the rotor; while the maximum power that can be generated depends on the rating of the electric machine and the power electronics-based converters. The construction (electric machine, power electronics converters, bearings, and casing), features (efficiency, lifetime, cost, and safety), and applications (utility, transportation, and renewable energy sources) represent the important aspects in understanding FESSs. Ahmed M. Massoud received the B.Sc. (first-class honors) and M.Sc. degrees from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Department of Computing and Electrical, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, U.K., in 2004. From 2005 to 2008, he was a research fellow at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, U.K. From 2008 to 2009, he was a research fellow at Texas A&M University at Qatar in Doha, Qatar. From 2009 to 2012, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, where he is currently an associate professor in the same department. His research interests include power electronics, energy conversion, renewable energy and power quality. In today’s world, the need for more energy seems to be ever increasing. The high cost and limited sources of fossil fuels, in addition to the need to reduce greenhouse gasses, have made renewable energy sources (RES) attractive in today’s world economy. However, the fluctuating and intermittent nature of these RES causes variations of power flow that can significantly affect the stability and operation of the electrical grid. In addition, the power output of these RES is not as easy to adjust to changing demand cycles as the output from the traditional power sources. To overcome these problems, energy from these RES must be stored when excess is produced and then released, when production levels are less than the required demand. Therefore, in order for RES to become completely reliable as primary sources of energy, energy storage systems (ESS) are a crucial factor. The impact of the ESS in future grid is receiving more attention than ever from system designers, grid operations and regulators. Energy storage technologies have the potential to support our energy system’s evolution, they can be used for multiple applications, such as: energy management, backup power, load leveling, frequency regulation, voltage support, and grid stabilization. In this presentation, an overview of the current and future energy storage technologies used for electric power applications is carried out. Furthermore, an assessment of the dynamic performance of energy storage technologies for the stabilization and control of the power flow of emerging smart grid will be presented. The EES can enhance the operation security and ensure the continuity of energy supply in future smart grids. Omar Ellabban received the B.Sc. with honors from Helwan University, Egypt, in 1998 and the M.Sc. from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2005, both in electric power and machines engineering; and the Ph.D. with the greatest distinction in electrical engineering from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, in May 2011. In May 2011, he joined the R&D Department, Punch Powertrain, Sint-Truiden, Belgium, where he and his team developed a next-generation, high-performing hybrid powertrain. Since May 2012, he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Machines and Power Engineering, Helwan University. 48 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR In June 2012, he joined Texas A&M University at Qatar as postdoctoral research associate and then as assistant research scientist in December 2013, where he is involved in different renewable energy projects. Ellabban has published more than 40 journal and conference papers, one book chapter and one conference tutorial. He is an active IEEE senior member and act as a reviewer for different IEEE journals and conferences. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 49 SMART GRID STANDARDIZATION AND INTEROPERABILITY George W. Arnold CEO, Tercio Solutions LLC, USA In addition, he has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World (2014 and 2015). His research interests include automatic control, motor drives, power electronics, electric vehicles, switched reluctance motor, renewable energy and smart grid. The smart grid enables the dynamic, two-way flow of electricity and information to support high-penetration use of distributed energy resources and ubiquitous intelligent appliances and buildings that can dynamically adjust power consumption in response to conditions on the grid. Seamless interworking of devices and systems from many suppliers requires a solid foundation of architecture, standards and protocols. This talk will be overview recent public/private sector partnership efforts to create the standards foundation for smart grid interoperability. From 2009 to 2013, George W. Arnold was the federal government’s national coordinator for smart grid interoperability at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), responsible for leading the development of standards underpinning the smart grid in the U.S. He returned to the private sector in June 2014 and is presently CEO of Tercio Solutions LLC, a high-tech software company specializing in dynamic scheduling and optimization of industrial operations. Arnold previously served as a vice president at Bell Laboratories where he directed the company’s global standards efforts and management of intellectual property. Prior to this role, Arnold had a wide range of technical and managerial assignments at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and AT&T in research and development, product management, quality management and process re-engineering. Arnold also served as chairman of the board of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), a private, nonprofit organization that coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. He also served as vice president of policy for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and president of the IEEE Standards Association. Arnold received a Doctor of Engineering Science in electrical engineering and computer science from Columbia University in 1978. He is an IEEE fellow. 50 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES FOSTERING THE SMART GRIDS: THE POWER ELECTRONICS CONTRIBUTION WIND FARM DIVERSIFICATION AS A MEANS TO SMOOTH INTERMITTENCY Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo Professor, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Chanan Singh Professor, Texas A&M University, USA During the last decade, the traditional power networks have experienced a deep transformation moving from a centralized energy production and passive consumption paradigm to a much more complex, decentralized and interactive model, usually referred as the smart grid. Under this paradigm, it will be required access to reliable and safe energy sources that guarantees optimal and efficient operation of all involved agents. The same concept can be applied in systems with lower nominal power leading to microgrids or nanogrids. In general, the distributed energy systems need intelligent control methods in order to improve overall efficiency, power quality, robustness and stability. These features can be achieved by using power electronics such as renewable energy and energy storage power converters, efficient motor drives, HVDC systems and FACTS, among others, with optimal control and modulation techniques. In this talk, the smart grid, microgrid and nanogrid concepts are briefly presented showing a picture about how power electronics play a key role to achieve current smart energy systems. The presentation mainly focuses on the introduction of the common and recent modulation methods applied to power converters in order to achieve the needed performances. Several recent examples will be presented in order to illustrate the concept. Leopoldo G. Franquelo received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain in 1977 and 1980 respectively. In 1978 he joined the Universidad de Sevilla as research assistant, becoming associate professor in 1982 and professor in 1986. From 1998 to 2005 was director of the Electronics Engineering Department. His technical interests started in 1978 with microprocessor industrial electronics applications, evolving to electronics power applications, and in the 1990s to application-specific IC design for the control of power converters. His current research interest lies on modulation techniques for multilevel inverters and its application to power electronic systems for renewable energy systems. 51 Due to the intermittent nature of the wind and the lack of efficient and economical way of storing energy, the main challenge in high penetration of wind lies in ensuring power system reliability standards at reasonable costs. This talk will discuss the idea of exploiting wind farm diversification primarily as a means to reduce wind power variability and unpredictability. The hope is that steadier wind power outputs can better help serve the base load while relaxing the requirements on conventional generation backups. This approach may improve wind capacity credit, as shown by a study of a virtual wind power plant supplying moderate loads. This should significantly increase infrastructure development options and support broad market penetration. Chanan Singh is Regents Professor and Irma Runyon Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He is also a guest professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. His research and consulting interests are in the application of probabilistic methods to power systems. He has authored/ co-authored numerous papers and three books and has contributed to several books. He has consulted with many major corporations and given short courses nationally and internationally. Singh is a fellow of IEEE and the recipient of the 1998 Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award given by the IEEE Power Engineering Society. For his research contributions, he was awarded a D.Sc. degree by the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1997. In 2008, he was recognized with the Merit Award by the PMAPS International Society. In 2010, he was the inaugural recipient of the IEEE-PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award. 52 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR IMPACT OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON VOLTAGE PROFILE AND HARMONICS IN A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK Carlo Cecati Professor, University of L’Aquila, Italy Because of their high demand of electrical energy, large-scale penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) negatively affect distribution network and may lead to unwanted peaks in the power consumption and consequent power quality issues. Power quality parameters such as voltage profile, harmonic distortion, frequency variations, voltage drop/dip may cause significant problems to the grid. Therefore, it is important to identify and determine the presence of voltage drop and harmonics, in order to deal with them timely for trouble free operation of power system. This talk aims to summarize and determine the impact of EVs on the grid in term of power quality indices (i.e., voltage drop and harmonic distortion in a distribution system), associated with a large number of EV charging. Focus of this talk is a sample residential low-voltage (LV) distribution network that is based on the CIGRE low voltage European benchmark configuration. The distribution network is tested and analyzed while considering distinct EV charging strategies including uncontrolled charging scheme and tariff-based charging and EV controlled charging strategy at different penetration levels of EVs. Carlo Cecati graduated from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 1983. In the same year he joined the same university as a research fellow and a teaching assistant and since 2006 has been a professor of converters, electrical machines and drives. He is founder and the coordinator of the Ph.D. courses in energy management, renewable energy and sustainable building. From 2005 until September 2013, he was a Rector’s delegate. In August 2014 he was appointed chief international academic adviser at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. His research and technical interests fall in the area of renewable energies and energy saving, in particular applications of power electronics to renewable energy systems, distributed generation, smart grids, electrical drives, electric vehicles and other applications, with emphasis on modeling, control, modulation techniques, fault diagnosis, and in microprocessor applications and industrial networks. In these fields he been author of about 150 technical papers published in prestigious international ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 53 journals. Cecati has received three Best Paper Awards: the 2012 and 2013 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Best Paper Award and the 2012 IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine Best Paper Award. Since 2013 he has been editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Previously, he was a co-editor-in-chief (2009-2012) and an associate editor (2004-present) of the same journal. From 2006-2008, he was a technical editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. In 2014, in recognition of his outstanding career, Cecati was awarded the “Frentano d’Oro 2014,” a prestigious national award. He is a registered engineer in Italy. 54 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR AN OVERVIEW FOR SMART GRIDS Ilhami Colak Vice rector and Dean of Engineering Architecture Faculty, Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 55 THE FUTURE OF THE QATAR SOLAR MARKET AND CASE STUDY ON THE QF SMART GRID PROJECT Omran Al-Kuwari Co-founder and CEO, GreenGulf, Qatar This presentation introduces the smart grids by giving their definitions according to different organizations. Expectations, opportunities, current subjects, targets, benefits, structures and communication techniques of smart grids have been summarized. My contributions to smart grids are given as last part of this presentation. The speaker will discuss the potential future of solar energy in the Qatari market, focusing on the reasons for the growth. He will then provide a technical and commercial overview of the country’s first smart grid project at Education City, a project developed by GreenGulf for Qatar Foundation in 2014. Ilhami Colak received his diploma in electrical engineering from Gazi University, Turkey, Omran Al-Kuwari is the co-founder and CEO of GreenGulf, a leading clean technology in 1985. He did his M.Sc. in electrical engineering in the field of speed control of wound rotor induction machines using semiconductor devices at Gazi University in 1991. After that he did his M.Phil. at Birmingham University in England by preparing a thesis on high-frequency resonant DC link inverters in 1991. Finally he did his Ph.D. at Aston University in England on mixed-frequency testing of induction machines using inverters in 1994. At Gazi Universit, he became an assistant professor in 1995, an associate professor in 1999 and a professor in 2005 respectively. advisory and development business based in Qatar with a presence in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. He is an energy professional with more than 15 years of experience in the energy industry. After joining the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplier, Qatargas, in 1999, Al-Kuwari worked for several joint ventures, Qatar Petroleum affiliates and ExxonMobil in Doha and the United Kingdom. Positions held include roles in information systems, marketing, commercial negotiations and management with experience working with Japanese, European and North American customers and partners. He was the general manager and director of South Hook Gas Company in London until August 2009, Qatar Petroleum’s first LNG trading venture abroad and the UK’s largest LNG importer (supplying more than 10 percent of the UK gas demand). From May 2014 to Dec 2014, Al-Kuwari also served as CEO of Enterprise Qatar, a semigovernmental organization chaired by the Qatari Minister of Economy and Trade, whose services provide a gateway to growth for SMEs in Qatar and fosters entrepreneurship. Al-Kuwari graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in 1999 with a Bachelor in Business Administration and obtained a Master of Business Administration in 2010 from City University London, Cass Business School, with a thesis, “Renewable Energy in Qatar.” In 2011, he was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and “Middle East Clean Tech CEO of the Year” in 2012’s New Economy. He was also recognized in 2014 by MESIA (Middle East Solar Association) and PWC as a “Solar Pioneer” during the World Future Energy a Summit in Abu Dhabi. He has published more than 180 papers in different subjects including electrical machines, drive systems, machine learning, reactive power compensation, inverter, converter, artificial neural networks, and distance learning automation and alternating energy sources. More than 70 of his papers have been cited in SCI. His papers have received more than 280 citations. He supervised 19 M.Sc. students and 12 Ph.D. students. He is member of IEEE, IES, IAS, PELS and PES. In the past 10 years, he has been concentrated his studies on renewable energy and smart grids by publishing papers, journals (www.ijre.org) and organizing international IEEE sponsored conferences (www. icrera.org). He also spent about three years at European Commission Research Centre (JRC) in Netherlands. He is currently holding positions of vice rector and dean of engineering and architecture faculty of Istanbul Gelisim University. He frequently lectures in topics related to entrepreneurship, energy economics and renewable energy including talks in TEDx, the World Bank, Harvard University and Georgetown University throughout the years. Al-Kuwari is fluent in French, English and Arabic. 56 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR POWER ELECTRONICS — THE KEY TECHNOLOGY FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM INTEGRATION Frede Blaabjerg Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark The energy paradigms in many countries (e.g., Germany and Denmark) have experienced a significant change from fossil-based resources to clean renewables (e.g., wind turbines and photovoltaics) in the past few decades. The scenario of highly penetrated renewables is going to be further enhanced– Denmark expects to be 100 percent fossilfree by 2050. Consequently, it is required that the production, distribution and use of the energy should be as technologically efficient as possible and incentives to save energy at the end-user should also be strengthened. In order to realize the transition smoothly and effectively, energy conversion systems, currently based on power electronics technology, will again play an essential role in this energy paradigm shift. Using highly efficient power electronics in power generation, power transmission/distribution and end-user application, together with advanced control solutions, can pave the way for renewable energies. In light of this, some of the most emerging renewable energies — , e.g., wind energy and photovoltaic, which by means of power electronics are changing character as a major part in the electricity generation —, are explored in this paper. Issues like technology development, implementation, power converter technologies, control of the systems, and synchronization are addressed. Special focuses are paid on the future trends in power electronics for those systems like how to lower the cost of energy and to develop emerging power devices and better reliability tool. Frede Blaabjerg (S’86–M’88–SM’97–F’03) was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he was a Ph.D. student with Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He became an assistant professor in 1992, an associate professor in 1996 and a professor of power electronics and drives in 1998. His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, harmonics and adjustable speed drives. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 57 He has received 15 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014 and the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014. He was an editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics from 2006 to 2012. He has been distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2011. He was nominated in 2014 by Thomson Reuters to be among the most 250 cited researchers in Engineering in the world. 58 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES IN SMART GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS Bimal K. Bose Condra Chair of Excellence University of Tennessee, USA Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques — such as expert system (ES), fuzzy logic (FL), artificial neural network (ANN), and genetic algorithm (GA) — have brought a new and advancing frontier in power electronics and power engineering. The goal of AI is to plant human intelligence in a computer so that a computer can think intelligently like a human being. Computational intelligence has been debated over a long time. However, there is no denying the fact that AI techniques can solve complex problems that are difficult to solve by traditional methods. Recently, AI technology has advanced significantly, and the availability of powerful DSPs and FPGAs is making AI applications economical with improvement of performance in various industrial systems. Although AI applications have been considered widely in smart grid and renewable systems, most of the applications are general in nature, and specific applications are few. Bimal K. Bose has held the Condra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, since 1987, where he has been responsible for teaching and the research program in power electronics and motor drives. Concurrently, he was the distinguished scientist (1989-2000) and the chief scientist (1987-1989) of EPRI-Power Electronics Applications Center in Knoxville, Tenn. Prior to this, he was a research engineer in the General Electric Corporate Research and Development (now GE Global Research Center) in Schenectady, N.Y., for 11 years (1976-1987); an associate professor of electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., for five years (1971-1976); and a faculty member at Bengal Engineering and Science University (formerly Bengal Engineering College) in India for 11 years (1960-1971). He specializes in power electronics and motor drives area and has made extensive contributions in power converters, PWM techniques, electric/hybrid vehicle drives, microprocessor/DSP control, system simulation, renewable energy systems, and application of artificial intelligence techniques (expert system, fuzzy logic and neural network) in power electronics and drives systems. He served as a visiting professor in Federal University of Mato Grosso Sul, Brazil (1989); Aalborg University, Denmark (1997); Padova University, Italy (2003); Sevilla University, Spain (2008); and European Ph.D. School, Italy (2010). He has been a power electronics consultant in a large number of industries. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 59 Bose has been author and co-author on more than 250 papers and holds 21 U.S. patents. He has been author or editor of seven books in power electronics: Power Electronics and Motor Drives – Advances and Trends (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2006); Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives (Prentice-Hall, 2001); Power Electronics and AC Drives (Prentice-Hall, 1986); Power Electronics and Variable Frequency Drives (Wiley/IEEE Press, 1997); Modern Power Electronics (IEEE Press, 1992); Microcomputer Control of Power Electronics and Drives (IEEE Press, 1987) and Adjustable Speed AC Drive Systems (IEEE Press, 1981). The books have been translated in several foreign languages. “The IEEE IE Society Magazine (June 2009) honored him by publishing a “Special Issue Honoring Dr. Bimal Bose and Celebrating His Contributions in Power Electronics” with his photo on front cover. Bose has served the IEEE in various capacities, including member of the IEEE Awards Board, member of the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering Committee, chairman of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Power Electronics Council, associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE IECON Power Electronics chairman, chairman of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Industrial Power Converter Committee, IAS member of the Neural Network Council, vice chair of the IEEE Medals Council, vice chair of the IAS Distinguished Lecture Program, member of IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee, member of the IEEE Fellow Committee, member of IEEE Lamme Medal Committee, member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE, and member of the IEEE Spectrum advisory board. He was the guest editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE “Special Issue of Power Electronics and Motion Control” (August 1994), and special section editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Neural Network Applications in Power Electronics and Motor Drives, February 2006). Bose earned a B.E. in 1956 from Bengal Engineering and Science University (India), an M.S. in 1960 from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ph.D. in 1966 from Calcutta University. 60 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR THE FUTURE OF ENERGY: SMART GRID AND BEYOND John D. McDonald Director, Technical Strategy and Policy Development GE Digital Energy, USA The purpose of this lecture is to familiarize participants with key industry/societal trends, and smart grid concepts and solutions, including distribution optimization, transmission optimization, asset optimization, demand optimization, smart meters and communications, and workforce and engineering design optimization. Smart grid industry standards efforts and the impact of policy on smart grid technology investment will be discussed. The concept of the “smarter” grid will compare the old grid, or the intelligence already added to the grid, with the “smarter” grid, or the new smart grid intelligence being added today. A smart grid technology roadmap will highlight the importance of integration of technology components, resulting in successful interoperability to provide a greater value proposition than the sum of the value propositions of the technology components individually. The impact of high penetration of rooftop solar PV on the distribution system creates three new applications of power electronics. Effective device and system integration, and enterprise data management, provides greater value from the investment in intelligent electronic devices (IEDs). John D. McDonald, P.E., is director of technical strategy and policy development for GE Energy Management’s Digital Energy business. McDonald has 40 years of experience in the electric utility industry. He joined GE in 2008 as general manager of marketing for GE Energy’s Transmission and Distribution (now Digital Energy). In 2010, he accepted his current role of director of technical strategy and policy development where he is responsible for setting and driving the vision that integrates GE’s standards participation, and Digital Energy’s industry organization participation, thought leadership activities, regulatory/policy participation, education programs, and product/systems development into comprehensive solutions for customers. He is a sought-after industry leader, technical expert, educator and speaker. In his 28 years of working group and subcommittee leadership with the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Substations Committee, led seven working groups and task forces who published standards/tutorials in the areas of distribution SCADA, master/remote ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 61 terminal unit (RTU) and RTU/IED communications protocols. He was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE-SA (Standards Association) for 2010-2011, focusing on longterm IEEE smart grid standards strategy. He was elected to chair the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) Governing Board for 2010-2012. He is presently chairman of the board for SGIP 2.0 Inc., the member-funded nonprofit organization. McDonald is past president of the IEEE PES, chair of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative Board, member of the IEEE PES Region 3 Scholarship Committee, the vice president for Technical Activities for the U.S. National Committee of CIGRE, and the past chair of the IEEE PES Substations Committee. He was the IEEE Division VII director in 2008-2009. He is a member of the Advisory Committee for the annual DistribuTECH Conference, vice chair of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Smart Grid Center Advisory Board, and member of the Purdue University Office of Global Affairs Strategic Advisory Council. He received the 2009 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University. He teaches a smart grid course at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a smart grid course for GE, and substation automation, distribution SCADA and communications courses for various IEEE PES local chapters as an IEEE PES distinguished lecturer. He has published 80 papers and articles in the areas of SCADA, SCADA/EMS, SCADA/ DMS and communications, and is a registered Professional Engineer (electrical) in California and Georgia. He received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. (power engineering) degrees from Purdue University, and an MBA (finance) from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary) and Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary), a fellow of IEEE, and was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the IEEE PES Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering Award in 2002, and the IEEE PES Substations Committee Distinguished Service Award in 2003. He was co-author of Automating a Distribution Cooperative from A to Z: A Primer on Employing Technology for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Cooperative Research Network, in 1999, and Power System SCADA and Smart Grids, published by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press in 2015. He was editor of the substations chapter and a co-author of the book, The Electric Power Engineering Handbook, co-sponsored by the IEEE PES and published by the CRC Press in 2000, and editor-in-chief of the book, Electric Power Substations Engineering, Third Edition, published by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press in 2012. 62 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 63 SMART GRID CYBER SECURITY: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART GRID: A CONSUMERCENTRIC OVERVIEW Marc C. Dacier Principal Scientist Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Fethi Filali Head of technology development and applied research Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar The past few years have highlighted the fact that many critical infrastructures are vulnerable, especially to targeted attacks carried out by resourceful and motivated attackers. In this presentation, we will present the underlying trends that are likely to make the situation even worse in the coming years. Technical problems exist, for sure, but as far as ICS security is concerned, there also exists a huge cultural gap between academia and industrial practice. More often than not, the first ones ignore the operational constraints that ICS systems are facing whereas the others are not aware of the latest best practices and techniques that could help them. It becomes urgent to build bridges for these various communities to meet and, hence, to dramatically improve the security of systems such as smart grid ones. Marc Dacier is a principal scientist in the Cybersecurity Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). He is helping building there a cybersecurity research team of more than 50 full-time, permanent researchers and engineers. Dacier holds a Ph.D., European Label, from the Institute National Polytechnique of Toulouse, France, which he obtained in 1994 after having worked for three years at LAAS-CNRS. After a year as a security consultant in Paris, he joined IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, to form and lead the Global Security Analysis Laboratory. In 2002, he left IBM to become a professor at EURECOM in Sophia Antipolis, France. EURECOM is one of the most active European research and training institutes in cybersecurity. Subsequent to his tenure with EURECOM. Dacier joined Symantec to help form its European Research Labs and later direct all of the collaborative research projects carried out within the company in France, Ireland and in the United States. While at Symantec, he also spent two years in the USA overseeing university relationship management worldwide for Symantec Research Labs. An internationally recognized expert in computer and network security, Dacier has served on more than 60 program committees of major security and dependability conferences and as a member of the editorial board of several technical journals. The objective of this talk is to give a short overview of the recent advancements and trends of communication technologies and standards for smart grid systems. Both wireline and wireless technologies will be discussed and compared with a particular focus on the end-user benefits that could help pushing forward the development of smart grid worldwide. Reliability, private data protection, cost-effectiveness, availability, and efficiency are among the comparison criteria. Fethi Filali is the head of technology development and applied research at Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC). He is leading a group of 20 scientists at QMIC in charge of the technology development of QMIC’s Masarak solution, Labeeb IoT platform, WaveTraf sensor and Connected Vehicles solution. He is the lead PI of several (applied) research projects funded by the Qatar National Research Fund in several area including intelligent transportation, smart grid, Internet of things and multimedia wireless communication. He earned a Ph.D. and Habilitation degree in computer science from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, in 2002 and 2008, respectively. Before joining QMIC in 2010, he was assistant/associate professor at EURECOM for eight years and was a key investigator in several European projects. He is the Ph.D. supervisor of nine Ph.D. students in the area of computer networking, wireless sensor and mesh networks, broadband networks, vehicular communications, and mobility management. Fethi published more than 100 research papers and several patents. He is a senior member of IEEE and active member in IEEE ITS and IEEE Communications Societies. 64 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES IMPROVING SECURITY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS AND UTILITY GRIDS CYBERSECURITY CHALLENGES FOR SMART GRID SYSTEMS: FROM CRYPTOGRAPHIC VIEWPOINTS Abderrahmen Mtibaa Assistant Research Scientist Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar Yongge Wang Assistant professor, Qatar University, Qatar Infrastructure security is of paramount importance in urban and industrial environments, especially within the oil and gas process control facilities. We are currently working with a large network to understand the security issues in the current protocols used in infrastructure networks. Our work will build on this experience to address the identified vulnerabilities. The current networks suffer from the assumption that security belongs to the network domain, and not the protocol/architecture domain. Hence, current infrastructures are heavily dependent on the network deployment practices of end users. The current proposal plans to build enhancements to protocols and architectures such that the security can be improved without depending on the proven end user deployment practices. Abderrahmen Mtibaa is currently an Assistant Research Scientist at Texas A&M University in Qatar. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. Graduated on June 2010 from the University of Paris VI and Technicolor Paris Research Lab. 65 The smart grid system improves existing energy distribution systems with digital information management and advanced metering systems. Increased interconnectivity and automation over the grid systems presents new challenges for deployment and management. Though cyber security has been extensively studied and is well understood by the community, security for smart grid systems and control systems is a relatively new topic and existing approaches for Internet-based security research is not sufficient to address the challenges faced by the smart grid and control systems. There are numerous challenges in integrating security solutions into legacy control systems. For example, an integrated solution must consider the following constraints: encryption of repetitive messages, minimizing delays due to cryptographic operations, assuring integrity with minimal latency, and intramessage integrity. In particular, for SCADA control systems, delays introduced by cryptographic modules may interfere with the SCADA system’s error-handling mechanisms (e.g., time-out errors). In this talk, we will review these challenges, industry and government efforts to address these challenges (e.g., DHS/IEEE efforts) and open questions. Yongge Wang is an associate professor for cybersecurity at Qatar University. Wang His current areas of interest include mobile opportunistic networks/DTN, wireless and Ad-hoc networks, mobility models, protocol design, routing/forwarding, network communities and social networking. received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Since then, Wang worked in the industry for a few years until he joined the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, in 2002. Wang also worked in Certicom (now a division of RIM) as a cryptographic mathematician specializing in efficient cryptographic techniques for wireless communications. Wang has been actively participated in and contributed to standard bodies, such as IETF, W3C XML Security protocols, IEEE 1363 standardization groups for cryptographic techniques, ANSI X9 group for the financial services industry standards, and ANSI T11 groups for SAN network security standardsWang is the inventor of Secure Remote Password authentication protocol SRP5 which is an IEEE 1363.2 standard and the inventor of identity based key agreement protocol WANG-KE which is an IEEE 1363.3 standard. 66 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR Wang also worked with Cisco researchers and American Gas Association researchers to design security protocols for the SCADA industry (which was adopted in IEEE 1711 standard). He has published extensively on research topics including computational complexity, algorithmic information theory, randomness and pseudorandomness, critical infrastructure protection, perfectly secure message transmission, cryptography and secure authenticated communications, and statistical testing. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 67 SMART GRIDS ENABLED BY ICT Mohammad Hammoudi General Manager, CISCO, Qatar Today’s utilities are increasingly turning to smart grids to help transform their business, comply with regulation, manage their customers and ensure grid stability is maintained. However, building the “smart grid” can be a complex, multiyear process and one that requires utilities to meet key technology milestones driven by present and future business, communication and security needs. In this presentation, we will address the role of ICT in enabling the next generation of grids and the key considerations in such initiatives. Mohammad Hammoudi joined Cisco in September 2013. He joined from Microsoft where he gained considerable experience in areas critical to the use and growth of the ICT industry. Hammoudi has considerable and deep knowledge and understanding of leading successful business operations and transformations in major growth markets. He built impressive experience over a 28-year period where he held senior management positions in Microsoft and IBM in Europe, Middle East and Africa. His previous position at Microsoft was the public sector director for the Gulf Region which followed a successful tenure in Qatar as the general manager of Microsoft. Hammoudi also led a special division of IBM in Central Europe where he led key transformational initiative across many countries in Emerging Markets. Hammoudi began his career as a systems programmer for Royal Jordanian Airlines. He has worked and lived in Doha and Dubai for the past 13 years with his wife and three children. 68 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES PROTECTING CYBER ASSETS IN SUBSTATION AUTOMATION SYSTEMS SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC CHARGING FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES Akhtar Kalam Victoria University, Australia Zainal Salam Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Akhtar Kalam has been at Victoria University, Melbourne, since 1985 and was a deputy dean of the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science for seven years. He is currently the Discipline Group Leader of Electrical, Electronic and Sports Engineering. Further, he has a Distinguished Professorship position at University of New South Wales and five Malaysian universities. He has wide experience in educational institutions and industry across four continents. He received his B.Sc. and B.Sc. Engineering from Calcutta University and Aligarh Muslim University, India, in 1969 and 1973 respectively. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma, USA, and the University of Bath, UK, in 1975 and 1981 respectively. He has worked with Ingersoll Rand and other electrical manufacturers. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq and Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education, Rockhampton, Queensland. He is regularly invited to deliver lectures, work on industrial projects and examine external thesis overseas. His major areas of interests are power system analysis, communication, control, protection, renewable energy, smart grid, IEC61850 implementation and cogeneration systems. He has been actively engaged in the teaching of energy systems to undergraduates, postgraduates and providing professional courses to the industry both in Australia and overseas. He regularly offers continuing professional development and master class courses on power system protection, renewable energy, IEC61850, cogeneration and gas turbine operation and PBL in engineering education to practicing engineers, the Energy Supply Association of Australia (ESAA) and the Australian Power Institute (API). He also runs postgraduate distance education program on power system protection for the ESAA. He has conducted research, provided industrial consultancy and published more than five hundred publications on his area of expertise and written more than 29 books in the area. More than 35 students have graduated under his supervision and he is an external examiner of many external doctoral students in Australia and overseas. He provides consultancy for major electrical utilities, manufacturers and other industry bodies in his field of expertise. Kalam is a fellow of EA, IET and AIE, and a member of IEEE and CIGRE AP B5. 69 The application of solar photovoltaic (PV) to charge the electric vehicle (EV) has been on the rise due to several factors, namely continuous reduction in the price of PV modules, rapid growth in EV and concerns over the effects of greenhouse gases. It is also considered as one of the major component of a future smart grid system. This talk will highlight some important aspects related to the integration of PV with EV: the prospects, the technical/social challenges and the issues on the charging infrastructure itself. It will also demonstrate the design and construction of a 15 kW solar PV charging station for EV, built at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Zainal Salam obtained his B.Sc in electronics engineering, M.E.E. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in power electronics from California State University (USA), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM, Kuala Lumpur) and University of Birmingham (UK) in 1985, 1989 and 1997, respectively. He has been a lecturer for 30 years and is now professor in power electronics and renewable energy at the Centre of Electrical Energy Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UTM. Zainal currently holds the position of dean of research for Energy Research Alliance, overseeing and managing energy-related research work in the university. He is founder and current director of the Inverter Quality Control Center (IQCC) UTM. This facility is responsible for testing PV inverters that are to be connected to the local utility grid. Zainal has been author or co-author of more than 180 papers in various technical journals and conference proceedings. Since 2011, he has been the editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (an IEEE Power and Energy Society publication) and a member of editorial board for the Scientific World Journal (Hindawi Publishing Corporation). He represents Malaysia as the expert for the International Energy Agency (IEA) PV Power Systems Task 13 Working Group, which focus on the reliability and performance of PV power systems. Zainal is vice chair IEEE Power Electronics, Industrial Electronics and Industry Application Joint Chapter, Malaysia Section (2011-2013); organizing chairman for the Fifth IEEE 70 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR International Power Electronics and Drives Systems Conference (2005, Kuala Lumpur); and co-organizing chairman for the Second IEEE International Power and Electronics and Energy Conference (2008, Johor Bahru). He is involved in more than 30 projects and consulting works on power converters, solar energy and machine control. His main research interests include all areas of design, instrumentation and control of power electronics renewable energy systems. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 71 SOLAR POWER GENERATION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Tapas Kumar Mallick Professor, University of Exeter, UK The quest for economically viable solar technologies has accelerated with the imperative to become far less reliant on fossil fuels. An innovative way to reduce its cost is through the utilization of low-cost materials, enhancing efficiencies and concentrating sunlight into smaller area. This lecture will outline the diverse range and scale of potential implementation of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies, ranging from innovative prototypes to large scale implementations. Key technical challenges and advances in PV research such as materials, efficiency, optics, heat transfer and other components will be discussed. An overview of promising current research directions that should lead to economically viable solar photovoltaic systems will be presented. In addition, the stability and variability of new materials will also be discussed. Tapas Kumar Mallick is a chair in Clean Technologies in the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) at the University of Exeter, UK. He leads the Clean Technology Group within ESI and experts in applied solar technologies. Prior to joining the University of Exeter, he was at Heriot-Watt University where he led applied solar energy research and also the Concentrating Solar Energy group within the Scottish Institute for Solar Energy Research. He has secured research funding exceeding £4 million as PI and co-PI of various national, European, international and industrial grants. Mallick is leading the UKIndia project, “Development and Integration of Biomass and Concentrating Photovoltaic System for Rural and Urban Energy Bridge: BioCPV,” jointly funded by Indian and UK government agencies. In addition, he leads the low- and medium-temperature thermal energy storage activity of the newly funded EPSRC-DST project RESCUES. He has published more than 130 research articles and holds two patents on solar technology. In addition to serving as a board member of numerous national and international conferences and seminars, Mallick is on the editorial board of Advances in Solar Thermal Technology Journal. In 2013, Mallick’s group was recognized with the “Outstanding Impact Award in Sustainable Future” from the University of Exeter. Mallick has successfully supervised five Ph.D. candidates to completion and is currently primary supervisor of 15 Ph.D. students. 72 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES: INTEGRATION, COST AND EFFICIENCY Mohamed Orabi Associate Professor, Aswan University, Egypt PV energy harvesting is considered as cornerstone in the past decade to redraw a new world without gas, oil and its resultant pollution. Also, power management PV architectures emerged to as one of the most popular alternatives to nonrenewable energy resources due to its robust and continuous growth in research and industry. Industry mainly depends on the cost and the reliability of PV architectures and their implementing components. Thus, much research is focused to improve the power yield of the latest PV architectures to implement new and cost-effective PV systems and meet the global industrial trend. Moreover, it is necessary to improve the PV system efficiency as a crucial requirement, with investigating more about mismatch losses that should be taken into account. Through this talk, the system solution from using bypass diode to differential power solution will be discussed. On the other hand, the integration from cell level into string level is also explained. Emphases on the total system efficiency are highlighted. Mohamed Orabi received an M.S. from El-Minia University, Egypt, in 2000 and the Ph.D. from Kyushu University Japan, in 2004. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, Egypt. He is founder and director of the Aswan Power Electronics Application Research Center (APEARC) at Aswan University. He previously was with Enpirion Inc. and Altera Corp. for several years (June 2011 – July 2014) where he was the senior manager of the Altera-Egypt Technology Center. Orabi has led several projects funded by STDF, ENPIRION and USAID in addition to several multinational projects. He has published more than 175 papers in international conferences and journals. His research interest includes power electronics applications, including switched power supply dc-dc and ac-dc power-factor-correction converters, integrated power management, the modeling and analysis of nonlinear circuits and power converter design and analysis for renewable energy applications. Orabi is actively serving as a reviewer to several international journal and conference publications, including IEEE Transactions and conferences. ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 73 He has been a senior member of IEEE science 2008. Orabi receivedthe 2002 Excellent Student Award of the IEEE Fukuoka Section, the Best Paper Award of the 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE IES (2002), the IEEE-IES Student Grant from the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, and the Best Young Research Award from the IEICE Society, Japan, in 2004. Also, Orabi has received the South Valley University Encouragement Award for 2009, the National Encouragement Award in 2010 for his great achievements in the Engineering Science, and Aswan University Award for Supervising Graduate Students in 2013. 74 SGRE 2015: DOHA, QATAR ABSTRACTS AND SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN MODERN UTILITY, AUTOMOTIVE AND RESIDENTIAL PLATFORMS: NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR POWER ELECTRONICS Babak Fahimi Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Efficient and reliable management of power and energy in modern distributed microgrids plays a central role in ultimate technical and commercial success of future power systems. Decentralized nature of generation, distribution and control as enhanced by an information intensive cyber layer creates ample opportunities and challenges that require due diligence. This talk provides an insightful picture of these opportunities and inevitable implications for today, the near future and a distant future of distributed power system from a power electronics specialist’s point of view Babak Fahimi is a professor of electrical engineering and the founding director of the renewable energy and vehicular technology research center at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1999. His areas of interest include numerical modeling of electromechanical converters, design and control of power electronic circuits and energy management systems. He holds 11 U.S. patents and has seven more pending. Fahimi has been co-author of more than 275 scientific articles in his field of endeavor, and four of his former Ph.D. graduates hold the rank of associate and assistant professor. Fahimi has been the recipient of the Richard M. Bass Young Power Electronics Investigator Award from the Power Electronics Society of the IEEE, the Young Investigator Award from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the Ralph Teetor Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the Fulbright Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State. He is a fellow of IEEE for his contributions to “analysis and modeling of adjustable AC motor drives”. Fahimi has been the chairman of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Committee on Power Electronics and Electric Machinery. He has been the general chairman of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics and Expo, IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference and IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion. His industrial experience includes being a research scientist at the ElectroStandards Laboratories (1999-2002) and the vice president of engineering at EF technology LLC.(2006-2008). Fahimi is a distinguished speaker of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and a frequent plenary/keynote speaker at major conferences around the globe. Texas A&M University at Qatar Education City, PO Box 23874 Doha, Qatar Tel +974 44230010 Fax +974 44230011 www.qatar.tamu.edu 75
