Guest Lecture ‘Challenges in Microgrid Technologies’

The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering organized a Guest Lecture on Challenges in Microgrid Technologies. The session was organized on 9^th December 2023, at Seminar Hall 5, from 10.00 am to 12.15 pm. The students of 3^rd and 5^th semester EEE and the faculty of the EEE department attended the event. The Guest Lecture was presided over by Dr. Soumya Mishra, HOD, EEE, MVJCE.

Dr. Soumya Mishra, HOD/ EEE, MVJCE presenting bouquet to the Chief Guest

The event started at 10.00 am with the Welcome Speech and Guest Introduction. After this, the Guest Speaker Mr. Nanda Kishore L, Senior Engineer- Solar DNV MES India private limited, Bangalore, took over the session. He first explained about the global energy crisis, fuel exhaustion, electricity shortages, and global warming. Then he explained about the integration of distributed energy resources to design a microgrid and smart grid to form a new power framework for continuous power supply. He also spoke about the power generation from several resources, total power production from renewables, and design architecture of a various Microgrid systems and technical aspects related of Microgrids. Finally, he had explained Microgrid project inaugurated in India by NREL for various power system applications and space research.

Mr. Nanda Kishore L delivering the Lecture

OUTCOME OF THE LECTURE

The students were able to

Understand how renewable energy sources integrated to form a microgrid system with an objective to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the reliability of power supply to remote areas.
Understand the laboratories used for designing the microgrid systems using solar PV panels and grid emulators for integrating renewable energy systems to analyse relevant issues.
Understand the various protection schemes used in micro grid and smart grid system design.
The contribution of micro grids towards remote and rural electrification. Parameters related to design of micro grid architecture.