Welcome Address

 

  It’s a great pleasure for us to welcome you to the 3rd International Symposium on Green Energy Policy Innovation that starts in Jinju, South Korea. We wish you will have a wonderful time here. The objective of the symposium is to promote the researches in the field of policy and strategy engineering from private companies to public organization for sustainable and green energy based on electricity. It places emphasis on the methodologies employed in the policy and strategy engineering, that include not only operational research and policy & strategy science but also the theoretical and methodological research works such as credits evaluation and integrated information system for policy decision making of the harmonized and coordinated new generation grid planning and operation.

 

There are three keynote speeches in this symposium.

 

Dr. Hiroyuki Mori, who is a Professor, Director in Research Institute of Smart Grid Innovation and Meiji University in Japan, will give a talk on “Current Status of Green Energy Policy in Japan”.

Abstract: This talk presents the current status of green energy policy that is related　to the outage of nuclear power plants and the linearization of the electric power networks　in Japan. Since the earthquake and tsunamis in Fukushima, Japan in March 2011, the Japanese government has been faced with the complicated conditions that the outage of nuclear power plants has brought about. The electricity prices have risen under the conditions that the nuclear power plants are not available. That is inclined to hurt earnings of the power companies. At the same time, the manufacture companies are forced to be in a severe state in a sense that they have to raise the cost of production. On the other hand, local people near the nuclear power plants have hesitations to restart them. As the alternative energy sources, green energy such as PV systems, wind power generation and so on is moved into the limelight with the cleanness. Although it is expected to introduce a lot of green energy into the power systems, there are some obstacles that promote the players to take a part in energy business. For example, the capacity of the interconnections between power companies and the transmission networks still has room to be improved. Also, the complete linearization of the power networks is supposed to start in 2016 so that the institutional reforms of power companies have been made. A power company will be split up to fit for competitive environment. In this talk, the focus is drawn to the topics of the current status and the challenges of green energy policy in Japan.

 

Dr. Yi Gao, who is a Senior Engineer in Transmission Network Planning Center in China, will give a talk on "Development and Integration of Wind Power in China”

Abstract: There are five sections in the speech.
1. Introduction of China Energy. The distribution of coal, hydro, nuclear, wind and solar will be briefly presented to give the basic concept of power energy in China.
2. Power grid development in China. The progress of power grid could be observed from the data of installed generation capacity, electricity consumption, power grid scale, reliability level ect.
3. Wind power development in China. Wind power, the most developed and commercialized renewable energy technology, has considerable potential. The typical interconnection design schemes for wind farm with different installed capacities into a power grid will be presented. Several wind power outage accidents since 2008 will be introduced to show the reason to modify Grid Code for Wind Power Connection in China.
4. “The twelve- five year” (2010-2015) State Grid development planning considering large-scale wind power integration. Eight large wind power bases with capacity larger than 10 GW are in plan. Integrating massive amounts of such resources into the power grid presents is a significant challenge. Planning deciding-making procedure is briefly introduced. The methods of selection of transmission mode (HVDC/AC), the joint wind power and coal-fired power transmission mode will be then presented. Finally, a practical project that Hami-Henan ±800 kV HVDC transmission project will be shown as an example.
5. China wind energy development roadmap 2050. In the next two or three decades, China will need more energy while reducing fossil fuel consumption and ensuring energy security. To meet the demand for large-scale renewable energy development, China will position itself to accelerate power system development for the sake of the state, with a strategic perspective. The efforts proposed in this roadmap, including wind power forecasting techniques, optimal scheduling technology, long-distance transmission technology and large-capacity storage technology, along with power system reform, will be introduced.

 

Dr. Yongbeum Yoon , who is a Head in KEPCO Research Institute ESS R&BD Center in Korea, will give a talk on "4MW/8MWh BESS Demonstration Project in Jeju island, Republic of KOREA"

Abstract: This paper presents the demonstration project results for large-scale grid-connected Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) at 4MW/8MWh capacity in Jeju Island, Republic of KOREA. The BESS has the three operation modes such as the peak shaving, frequency regulation, and wind power smoothing. That project has been completed initial testing of the BESS for all modes of operation and collected system performance data accordingly.

 

 

We express the thanks to the LINC, RIGET and SMART2 of Gyeongsang National University, the WeGAT of Chonbuk National University, KOSEP, KEPRI of KEPCO, KPX, KHNP, GETCon(Global Energy and Technology Co., Libya) that supported the organization of the symposium and also appreciate the support of other companies.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the Symposium.

Wishing great time in Jinju, Korea,

Sincerely yours,

 

Chair, Dr. Jaeseok Choi, Professor, Gyeongsang National University

Co-Chair, Dr. Yongchoel Kang, Professor, Chonbuk National University

 

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