As part of the UNIFI Consortium (UNiversal Interoperability for grid-Forming Inverters, more information here), and as part of Berkeley EECS290 (21st Century Power System Dynamics), we are pleased to announce the Fall 2021 UNIFI Seminar Series.
All talks will be by zoom. You must register ahead of time here. (Note this is a University of Minnesota link; Sairaj Dhople kindly gave us that so that we can allow unauthorized users to join. This is a team effort!)
We will post videos of the talks after they happen, accessible by clicking on the links after the titles. In some cases we’re also able to make the slides available.
All talks will be Mondays 4-5 Eastern / 3-4 Central / 2-3 Mountain / 1-2 Pacific.
| Date | Speaker | Organization | Title |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Ben Kroposki | NREL | The Need for Grid-forming Inverters in the Future Power System (video) |
| Sept 13 | Vijay Vittal | Arizona State University | WECC Models for Representing Inverter Interfaced Generation in Transient Stability Studies (video; slides) |
| Sept 20 | Julia Matevosyan | ERCOT | Survey of Grid Forming Inverter Applications (video; slides) |
| Sept 27 | Julie Cohn | University of Houston | The Grid: Biography of an American Technology (video; slides) |
| Oct 4 | Donny Zimmanck | Enphase | Plug and Play! Creating a Simple and Universal Inverter Based Microgrid Ecosystem (video; slides) |
| Oct 11 | Deepak Ramasubramanian | EPRI | Modeling and Control of Grid Forming Inverters for Large System Studies (slides; no video due to technical difficulties) |
| Oct 18 | Deepak Divan | Georgia Tech | Realizing GFM Inverters at Scale: Challenges & Opportunities (video; slides) |
| Oct 25 | Dominic Gross | University of Wisconsin | Rethinking grid-forming control: a universal control paradigm and protection challenges (video; slides) |
| Nov 1 | Sairaj Dhople | University of Minnesota | Power-system Modeling for the Era of Inverter-based Resources (video; slides) |
| Nov 8 | Ivan Čelanović and Humberto Pinheiro | Typhoon HIL and Federal University of Santa Maria | Primary Controllers for Grid-Forming Converters (video) |
| Nov 15 | Brian Johnson | University of Washington | Experiments to Accelerate Innovation in Grid-forming Inverter-based Power Systems (video; slides) |
| Nov 29 | Iqbal Husain | North Carolina State University | Grid Forming Converters for Ride-Through of Symmetric and Asymmetric Faults (video; slides) |
| Dec 6 | Ulrich Muenz | Siemens | Dynamic Security Optimization for N-1 Secure Operation of Hawai`i Island’s Power Systems with 100% Inverter-based Resources (video; slides) |
| Dec 13 | Vahan Gevorgian | NREL | Large-scale Grid Forming Inverter Experiments at NREL |
Questions? Send an email to Duncan Callaway, dcal@berkeley.edu.