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Dentro de las actividades del programa de doctorado interuniversitario en Sistemas de Energía Eléctrica, en colaboración con el Master Erasmus Mundus REMplus y el capítulo PES de IEEE España, el profesor Pierluigi Mancarella (The University of Melbourne) visitará la UPV/EHU para contar la experiencia australiana en la operación de sistemas de energía eléctrica con muy elevada penetración de renovables.

La conferencia "Security, reliability and resilience in low-carbon power systems" tendrá lugar el jueves 19 de junio a las 17 horas, en la Sala de Conferencias del Edificio I de la Escuela de Ingeniería de Bilbao.

Contenido: Our understanding of the classical reliability concepts of security and adequacy is increasingly being challenged by: (a) growing shares of inverter-based resources and weather-driven variable renewable energy technologies that call for new operation and planning approaches, particularly to deal with decreasing levels of inertia and system strength, larger reserve requirements, and increasing volumes of distributed energy resources that are not “visible” to the system operator; and (b) the more frequent occurrence of extreme, high-impact low-probability events (including driven by climate change), with potentially catastrophic impacts.

In this IEEE PES Distinguished Lecture we will discuss the need for introducing new analysis and modelling frameworks to deal with the increasing fragility of low-carbon grids and exposure to extreme events. The key desirable features of such frameworks will be presented for operation and planning and from technical, technology, regulatory, and economic perspectives, along with metrics, methodologies and modelling tools that can help make future systems (and markets) more secure, reliable and resilient.

A number of major events that occurred in recent years around the world will be analysed and compared, including the South Australia “Black System” event of September 2016, the Australian system separation event of August 2018, several events in different parts of Australia with significant disconnection of distributed generation, the UK demand disconnection event of August 2019, the February 2025 Chilean blackout, and finally the April 2025 blackout in the Iberian peninsula.