HVDC-WISE webinar, titled “Advanced Tools and Methodologies to support resilience-oriented HVDC planning”, takes place on April 28 at 2 p.m.

Integrating High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) systems into modern power grids holds significant potential for improving efficiency and resilience. However, there is a need to assess HVDC-based grid architectures more in-depth as a concerns normal operation and extreme events.

Robust solutions are crucial to maximizing the performance and benefits of HVDC systems in a comprehensive view.

In this webinar, HVDC-WISE researchers will introduce a common methodology for R&R-oriented HVDC-based reinforcement comprising key indicators, practical assumptions, operational scenarios. Then, a Reliability & Resilience (R&R) tool to assess techno-economic indices of transmission projects in support of decision-making in AC/DC grid transmission planning will be presented. The tool includes multi-terminal HVDC grids represented with a detailed multi-conductor model within a nodal OPF application. A security-constrained OPF tool for hybrid AC/DC grids and a cascading tool will finally be presented. The cascading tool evaluates the impact of initiating events and determines if failures spread across the system, implementing, if necessary, a mitigation strategy to prevent further spread.

This work builds upon the efforts undertaken in WP5 (Simulation Tools for Reliability and Resiliency-Oriented Planning and Operation of Hybrid AC/DC Power Systems) and WP6 (Reliability and Resiliency-Oriented Network Expansion Planning Methodology: Application to Use Cases).