Prof Wang Peng

Prof. Wang Peng

IEEE Fellow

Nanjing Normal University
 
Biography
Peng Wang received his BSc degree in 1978 from Xian Jiaotong University, China; MSc and PhD degrees from University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1995 and 1998 respectively. From 1979 to 1990, he worked as a lecturer in Taiyuan University of Technology, China. He was a visiting scholar in 1991 at The University of British Columbia, Canada. From 1999 to 2023 he successively worked as an assistant, associate and full professor in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Currently he is a professor in Electrical and Automation Engineering College at Nanjing Normal University, China. He was an associate editor of IEEE Trans on Smart Grid and IEEE Trans on Power Delivery. His research areas include power system reliability, resilience, control, operation, renewable power integrations, smart/micro grid techniques. He was the principle investigators of the projects from industries and government organizations in Singapore, China, USA, UK and Europe.

Title
Future Power Systems: What are New and Challenges?

Abstract
Most electrical engineers and researchers know that the changes of power systems in recent decades are very fast and substantial. Starting from power generation, conventional synchronous power generators have been rapidly replaced by renewable wind and solar farms (38.4%) in order to solve the environment problems caused by burning fossil sources; In term of power transmission, more DC lines are visible in AC dominated transmission networks due to their high efficiency and long distance. The most important changes have occurred in distribution networks where AC loads are almost completely replaced by high efficiency DC loads or DC-linked loads. In this talk, we will discuss the recent changes of power systems and the challenge problems caused for power system control and operation. Some of the research works and the unsolved problems left by my research team in Nanyang Technological University will be presented.