Guest Lecture: Ghanim Putrus

April 05, 2022

5:50 p.m. - 7:10 p.m. CAT

Virtual

Battery Technology to Support Electric Utility Systems

Speaker: Ghanim Putrus, Professor of Electrical Power Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Abstract: With the increased concern about climate change, the interest in renewable energy generation and electric transport is continually increasing. Integrating the electricity grid, renewable energy, and transport systems is the way forward to reduce carbon emissions, improve the environment and provide sustainable energy and transport systems. Battery technology plays a key role in this integration. This talk will give an overview of the challenges facing electricity grids due to the increased deployment of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles. It will also cover opportunities that battery energy storage systems provide not only to meet these challenges but also to foster new operational models that will help maintain reliable and affordable electricity and transport systems as well as improve their efficiency and lower their environmental impacts

Biography: Ghanim Putrus is a professor of Electrical Power Engineering at the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University. He has over 30 years of research experience with over 200 publications, including one patent and has given several invited talks at national and international events. He has led several research projects and has often provided consultancy for industry in the area of electrical power engineering. Prof. Putrus is Associate Editor for Elsevier Renewable Energy journal and serves on the editorial board for the World Electric Vehicle Journal and the technical/steering committees for several conferences. He has been actively involved in the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET), Chairman of the IET Northumbria Network (2004/2005) and served on the executive committee of the Power Trading and Control Professional Network (2001-2010). His main research interests are the application of power electronics in power systems, the integration of renewable energy generation and electric transport into the electricity distribution networks (smart grids).

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