Special Session
Special Session Title: Key technologies for energy storage and virtual power plants participating in power system operations
Submission linkage: https://confsys.iconf.org/submission/pssgt2025 (please choose the title when you enter into the system)
Organizers: 1) Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Mingze Zhang, Harbin University of
Science and Technology
2) Engr. Dr. Jiakai Shen, China Electric
Power Research Institute
3) Sn. Engr. Dr. Cuicui Jin, Electric
Power Research Institute of State Grid
Tianjin Electric Power Company
4) Engr. Dr. Liu Liu, State Grid JiangXi
Electric Power Research Institute
5) Dr. Feixiang Peng, Anhui University
Chair information: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mingze Zhang, Harbin University of Science and Technology
Short description of the proposed topic
The consumption of new energy is the main support for achieving the dual-carbon national strategic goal. However, with the continuous increase in the penetration rate of new energy, conventional generation units as the main flexibility regulation resources in power grids are gradually being phased out, which results in the inability to guarantee the secure operation for power systems and thus greatly restricts the consumption of new energy. Flexible regulation resources including energy storage and virtual power plants can play an important role in power grid operations, and reasonable application them can help better ensure the secure, high-quality, economical, and low-carbon operations for power systems. However, the participation of the flexible resources in the regulation and operation and related market mechanisms require research and exploration to adapt to the construction and development of new power systems. This subject is to conduct extensive solicitation for key technologies related to the participation of flexible resources such as energy storage and virtual power plants in the operations and regulation of power systems, as well as commercial mechanisms, to promote the full utilization of flexible regulation resources and solve theoretical problems for flexible resources in new power systems.
Topics:
1. Planning, configuration, dispatch,
and control strategies for energy
storage and virtual power plants
participating in power system
operations.
2. Business modes and trading mechanisms
of energy storage and virtual power
plants in power systems.
3. Dispatchable capacities and control
strategies for distributed flexible
resource aggregation.
4. Aggregation, trading, dispatch, and
control strategies for distributed
energy storage resources and virtual
power plants.
5. Collaborative control of the
main-distribution network to support the
flexible role of distributed resources.
6. Integration application and technical
effectiveness of big data and artificial
intelligence technology with energy
storage and virtual power plants.
7. Analysis and optimization control of
frequency security and stability
mechanisms in new power systems.
8. Inertia support technology and
frequency regulation capability
evaluation for new power systems.
9. Coordination control for multi-type
regulation resources with flexibility
support in new power systems.
10. Modeling establishment and
predictive evaluation theories of user
energy consumption characteristics for
dual-carbon goals.
11. Classification and design of load
forecasting application scenarios under
the influence of multiple factors.
12. Coordination optimization and
control of multiple resources for
conventional power sources, new energy,
energy storage, and virtual power
plants.
13. Theory and key technologies of
distributed resource participation in
the electricity retail market.
About the organizer
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mingze
Zhang is a member of the
Communist Party of China and
serves as a master’s supervisor.
He is also the Secretary and
Deputy Director of the Institute
of Power System and Its
Automation at Harbin University
of Science and Technology. He
graduated from Dalian University
of Technology in 2024 with a
major in Power System and Its
Automation, and his supervisor
is Professor Weidong Li. His
main research focuses on the
dispatch automation of power
systems, especially in the
operations and control for
centralized and distributed
energy storage participation in
power systems with a high
proportion of renewable energy. As the project leader, He is researching 1 project from the Education Department of Heilongjiang Province and 1 project of State Grid Corporation of China. As the topic leader, He is researching 1 key research and development plan project of Heilongjiang Province. As the project executive director, He has participated in 1 joint fund key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 10 projects of State Grid Corporation of China. He has published 24 papers indexed by SCI/EI. His ORCID is 0000-0001-5201-1674. In addition, he serves as a young editorial board member for international journals such as Clean Energy Science and Technology and Energy Lab, as the Managing Guest Editor in Energy Reports, and he is an invited reviewer for top international journals such as Energy, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, Electric Power Systems Research, and Journal of Electrochemistry. He is also a chairman of specialized sub-committees for international conferences in the field of electrical engineering such as CSCSG, CEECT, ICPEA, EI2, ICSGSC, EPEE, ICEI, ICPE, ICET. |
Co-organizers
 Dr. Jiakai Shen |
 Dr. Cuicui Jin |
 Dr. Liu Liu |
 Dr. Feixiang Peng |