Renewable power generation technologies
Wind
- Turbine and system design including wake effects
- Floating wind turbines
- Offshore assets and systems
- Condition monitoring, operations, maintenance and control
- Power conversion and grid interaction
Solar PV
- PV system design - including integration
- Power conversion and grid interaction
- Condition monitoring, operations, maintenance and control
Thermal power plant
- Geothermal
- Biomass/biofuel
- Low-carbon/alternative fuels (eFuels, hydrogen, biomass, biofuels, CCUS)
- Solar thermal
Other renewables
- Wave
- Tidal
- Hydropower
Future power systems and network operation
Network planning and technologies
- Long-term infrastructure planning and investment
- Grid-forming inverters
- HVDC for renewable power integration
- DC/DC conversion and DC distribution systems
- Alternative transmission systems - low-frequency, GIL, etc.
Network operation
- Low inertial power system operation, management and planning
- Power quality
- Generator protection and resilience
- Compliance with system security and quality standards
- Operation, management and planning of power system with low grid strength
- Dynamic management and optimisation of networks
Digitalisation
- IT, automation and control
- Cyber and system security
- Asset & IT interoperability
- Automation scalability
Power demand and storage
Demand flexibility
- Demand side management
- Demand response
- Power-to-X
- Consumer behaviours
Load forecasting
- Electrification rate modelling
- Intra-day forecasting
- Long-term forecasting
Energy storage
- Grid-scale storage and network planning
- System balancing - technology suitability
- Connection process
- Vehicle-to-grid charging
Policy, market design and consumers
- Role of the Future System Operator
- Future grid code requirements - compliance and assessment
- Economic, social and environmental policy
- Supply chain assessment
- New energy market design and operation - incl. Ancillary service markets
- Investment, funding and finance
- Social acceptance & permitting