Special Session Introduction

Abstract: In recent years, the large-scale distributed renewable energy sources have integrated into active distribution networks (ADNs). Its randomness and volatility have brought severe challenges to the safe and economic operation of ADNs. Although the existing research considers the uncertainty of renewable energy and allocates regulating capacity to deal with operational risks, increasingly scale of renewable energy integration and inadequate regulation capacity have brought great challenges to the safety of power system operating. New operational optimization approaches are required. Therefore, with the support of National K&D Program (2019YFE0118400), we organize this Special Session to promote the collaborative operation of ADNs.
Technical Outline of the Session: Our project of National K&D Program (2019YFE0118400) will be finished in this year. We are looking forward to sharing our research achievements with other researchers under the platform of this conference. The theme of our project is about collaborative operation of active distribution network, which is related to the topic "Energy Systems" of this conference and will provide advanced dispatch technologies for the operation of energy system.

Special Session Organizer

Ming Yang is the senior member of IEEE. He received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He was an exchange Ph.D. Student at the Energy System Research Center, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA, from Oct. 2006 to Oct. 2007. He conducted postdoctoral research at the School of Mathematics, Shandong University, from July 2009 to July 2011. From November 2015 to October 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA. He is currently a Professor with Shandong University. His research interests include power system optimal operation and control. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. Power Systems, IEEE Trans. Industry Applications, and IET Renewable Power Generation. He is an Editor of Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems.

Zhaohao Ding is the senior member of IEEE. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the B.A. degree in finance from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA, in 2015. He is currently an Associate Professor with North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China. His research interests include power system operation, power market, and demand response. He is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.