Symposium Cairns

Summary

The session had as its theme “The End to End Electricity System: transition, development and integration”. This theme was divided into three topic streams:

Learning from experiences. What can we draw from past experience to develop the end-to-end electricity system?
Developing practices, functionalities and applications. What are the current developments and their application for an end-to-end electricity system?
Towards a sustainable power system. What are the future needs and requirements of an end-to-end power system?

The symposium focused on the integrated electricity system and the transformation into the electricity system of the future. It sought to identify what can be learned from the experience with current developments in technology, equipment, controls as well as electricity system architecture, operational practices and planning criteria.

The topics then covered the changes that are necessary to meet community expectations and policy requirements. The conference embraced many of the CIGRE domains of work — see the list of study committees — by including planning, operations, markets and economics as well as the technical aspects of the network and then through to the integration of distributed energy resources. It examined new ideas, approaches, technologies and operations.

List of videos available:

Opening session
Opening Ceremony - Welcome to Country by the Minjil people, the traditional owners of the Cairns region
D2 - Time in Communication Networks, Protection and Control Applications — Time Sources and Distribution Networks by Antti Viro
D1 - UHF Partial Discharge Detection System for GIS: Application Guide for Sensitivity Verification by Professor Uwe Schichler
C5 - Certification of the electricity used to produce hydrogen by Ricardo Gedra and Anant Venkateswaran.
C2 - Power system restoration accounting for a rapidly changing power system and generation mix by Babak Badrzadeh, Cheryl Noronha, Lalin Kothalawala and Vikas Singhvi
C2 - Mitigating The Risk of Fire Starts and the Consequences of Fires Near Overhead Lines for System Operations by Frank Crisci
C1 - Role of green hydrogen in energy transition by Alexandre Oudalov, Jaydeep Deshpande, Antonio Iliceto, Herath Samarakoon and Kewei Hu.
B5 - Applying Synchrophasor Technology for Protection of the Power System by Anita Oommen
B3 - Air Insulated Substation Design for Severe Climate Conditions by Mark McVey
B3 - Knowledge Transfer of Substation Engineering and Experiences by Hugh Cunningham
A3 - Measurement of Harmonics and Impact of High Frequency Transients on Instrument Transformers by Eric Sperling and Zolton Roman