About this Technical Webinar:
Low voltage DC grids have great potential for increasing the energy efficiency and maximizing the ampacity of residential networks. Although these advantages, low voltage DC grids have difficulties in being integrated in residential applications. Two challenges have been identified: cost-effective protections, and low-complexity control options.
In this presentation, the Energy Lab team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will present their ideas and developments on DC grids. The State-of-Grid control concept will be introduced, that allows coordinated management of DC energy resources without communication.
Cost-effective protection solutions will be presented as a cooperative work with the IIT Dharwad in India. The goal is to reduce protection complexity and costs, in order to enable a wider integration in the residential sector
Presenter: Giovanni De Carne
Giovanni De Carne received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, in 2011 and 2013, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Chair of Power Electronics, Kiel University, Germany, in 2018.
Prof. De Carne is currently W3 (full) professor at the Institute for Technical Physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, where he leads the Real Time Systems for Energy Technologies Group and the “Power Hardware In the Loop Lab”. He is currently supervising PhD students, managing academic and industrial projects, and developing multi-MW Power Hardware In the Loop testing infrastructures for energy storage Systems and hydrogen-based drives.
He has authored/coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His research interests include power electronics integration in power systems, solid state transformers, real time modelling, and power hardware in the loop
