Pressure on reducing carbon emission from electricity generation and growing concern over depleting fossil fuel reserve have driven the development of power generation from renewable and low carbon sources. Wind and solar are the major contributors. Clearly Europe is taking the lead in this sector.

The electricity network all over the world has been planned, designed and operated with centralized generation comprising of several large power plants in each country. With the shift in generation technologies, the generation is getting less concentrated in nature throwing up technical challenges in network design, operation and control philosophy. There has also been development in the demand sector. Heat and transport sector energy demand is now poised to be met through electricity. This is challenging from demand side management and control perspective. The key question is whether the standard tools in network control such as state estimation, optimal power flow, dynamic security analysis are as effective. Research undertaken by Dr Pal focuses on modelling the characteristic of these new generation technologies, analysis of their dynamic interaction with the network and control strategy to make greater utilization of their capacity while leveraging intermittency.

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Selected publications

  1. F. Ul Nazir, B. C. Pal and R. A. Jabr, `` Approximate Load Models for Conic OPF Solvers,'' IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Early Access.
  2. F. U. Nazir, B. C. Pal and R. A. Jabr, `` Distributed Solution of Stochastic Volt/VAr Control in Radial Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 5314-5324, Nov. 2020.
  3. X. He, H. Geng, R. Li and B. C. Pal, ``Transient Stability Analysis and Enhancement of Renewable Energy Conversion System During LVRT'', IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy,vol. 11, no. 3 pp.161-1623, August 2020.
  4. H. R. Ali, L. P. Kunjumuhammed, B. C. Pal, A. G. Adamczyk and K. Vershinin, `` Model Order Reduction of Wind Farms: Linear Approach,'' IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1194-1205, July 2019.
  5. E. I. Batzelis, G. Anagnostou, I. R. Cole, T. R. Betts and B. C. Pal, `` A State-Space Dynamic Model for Photovoltaic Systems With Full Ancillary Services Support,'' IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1399-1409, July 2019.
  6. F. U. Nazir, B. C. Pal and R. A. Jabr, `` A Two-Stage Chance Constrained Volt/Var Control Scheme for Active Distribution Networks With Nodal Power Uncertainties,'' IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 314-325, Jan. 2019.
  7. H. R. Ali, L. P. Kunjumuhammed, B. C. Pal, A. G. Adamczyk and K. Vershinin, `` Model Order Reduction of Wind Farms: Linear Approach,'' IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1194-1205, Jul. 2019.
  8. A. V. R. Teja, C. Chakraborty and B. C. Pal, `` Disturbance Rejection Analysis and FPGA-Based Implementation of a Second-Order Sliding Mode Controller Fed Induction Motor Drive,'' IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1453-1462, Sept. 2018.
  9. X. Gong, S. Kuenzel and B. C. Pal, `` Optimal Wind Farm Cabling,'' IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1126-1136, Jul. 2018.
  10. S. Basak, C. Chakraborty and B. C. Pal, `` A New Configuration of Dual Stator Induction Generator Employing Series and Shunt Capacitors,'' IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 762-772, Jun. 2018.
  11. C. Battistelli, Y. P. Agalgaonkar and B. C. Pal, `` Probabilistic Dispatch of Remote Hybrid Microgrids Including Battery Storage and Load Management,'' IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1305-1317, May 2017.
  12. S. Kuenzel, L. P. Kunjumuhammed, B. C. Pal and I. Erlich, `` Impact of Wakes on Wind Farm Inertial Response,'' IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 237-245, Jan. 2014.
  13. R. A. Jabr and B. C. Pal, `` Ordinal optimisation approach for locating and sizing of distributed generation,'' IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 713-723, Aug. 2009.
  14. B. Das and B. C. Pal, `` Voltage control performance of AWS connected for grid operation,'' IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 353-361, Jun. 2006.
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