ECE SEMINAR
PROFESSOR BALA VENKATESH
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
RYERSON UNIVERSITY
TORONTO
Invited by Professor Kankar Bhattacharya
Co-hosted by IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Abstract:
Utility scale battery storage will soon reach a level of maturity where the modular design of the technology and aggregation will allow custom built solutions for energy and ancillary service needs of the power system. Several projects are in the demonstration phase worldwide and hold promise for successful incorporation of battery storage into traditional power systems operations. The talk describes various technologies being developed, tested and installed today. Further, a grid scale application is described in detail.
Biography:
Dr. Bala Venkatesh is both founding Academic Director and Head of the Centre for Urban Energy (CUE) at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is also a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He specializes in electric power systems with interests in transmission and distribution systems, renewables, energy storage and smart grids. He obtained his Ph.D. from Anna University (India), and he has also taught at the University of New Brunswick, Multimedia University (Malaysia) and Anna University since 1994. Dr. Venkatesh leads the NSERC Network on Energy Storage Technologies, a large Canadian research network involving several Universities, industry partners and other organizations.