Week 08 - Smart Grids and Smart Buildings in the Carbon-Neutrality Era | PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research (PAIR)

Lecturers from Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE)

Ir Prof. WANG Shengwei

Chair Professor of Building Energy and Automation in the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering

Director of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Research Institute for Smart Energy

+852 2766 5858
shengwei.wang@polyu.edu.hk

Prof. XU Zhao

Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Management Committee Member of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Research Institute for Smart Energy

+852 2766 6160
zhao.xu@polyu.edu.hk

Topic Overview:

Discuss the needs and challenges for high renewable generation in carbon-neutral power grids, present and elaborate the needs, solutions and technologies of enhancing the energy storages at generation, distribution and demand sides, elaborate the need of new energy flexibility feature of buildings in future high renewable power grids, and the latest advances and applications of building energy flexibility technologies.

Key Topics:

Challenges and solutions of power grids for high renewable penetration
Roles of energy storage in high-renewable power grids, energy storage resources and technologies
Energy flexible buildings, building flexibility potentials and technology progress

Teaching Format:

Lecture and case studies