Using buildings for virtual energy storage
27 Nov | Dr VSK Murthy Balijepalli will describe how we can exploit the thermal inertia of buildings for energy storage using virtual storage from a resilience perspective in this webinar.
Using the Virtual Storage (VS) concept, the thermal inertial of buildings can be exploited to store energy using pre-cooling strategies. As an alternative to grid-level storage, VS could enhance grid resilience for an extended timeframe, while reducing capital investments, grid reinforcements, and allowing renewable energy integration with reduced energy storage investments.
Grid resilience is refers to the power system's ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover from disruptive events. Anticipated two-way power flows of renewable energy systems (RES) drive the grid resilience considerations at building levels, and RES is essentially a part of modern buildings. The challenge lies in aligning VS and Singapore's energy policy in terms of RES, transportation electrification, and regulatory measures with grid resilience aspects.
The talk "Buildings as Virtual Energy Resources: A Resilience Perspective" highlights some of the finer aspects of resilience in the context of buildings-to-grids, an analytical framework to quantify resilience metrics and a process to utilize them in real-time operations. Dr VSK Murthy Balijepalli from the Future Resilient Systems will use the resilience analysis process (RAP) to define resilience metrics and their value to the grid with VS.
This webinar is part of the CREATE webinar series organised by the external pageCampus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise.
Speaker
Dr VSK Murthy Balijepalli (Krish) is a researcher at the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) programme at the Singapore-ETH Centre. He is an active contributor to smart energy grids with over 10 years of experience in the design, architecture, and implementation of standards-based innovative solutions in the power sector. Prior to joining FRS, he was with the Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab and actively contributed towards the research on power grid codes, grid compliance of hybrid microgrids, and various project management activities.
Currently, he serves on the expert committee of Sustainable Energy to the United Nations Economic Commission (UNECE) for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland on an invitational basis. Dr Krish is an active member of various panels under CIM Users Group (CIMug), IEEE Power & Energy Society, and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) PC118-Smart Grid User Interface. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 international peer-reviewed publications and holding/filed a couple of patents in the area of smart energy grids. His research interests are in the areas of smart grids, power grid modelling, common information models, resilience metrics, and power system optimization.
He holds a Ph.D. degree (2014) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He was a recipient of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Young Innovator Award (TR35 India, 2012), the Department of Science and Technology-Lockheed Martin Award (2012), and The Institution of Engineers Young Engineer Award (2012) for his outstanding research on smart grids. He had worked with India Smart Grid Task Force, Inter-Ministerial Group on Smart Grids (Energy of Future), and was involved in project execution and evaluation of Smart Grid pilot projects in India.