HASAN BASRİ ÇETİNKAYA

Renewables, the Challenges and the Future of Electrical Infrastructure

Abstract

The decline in the fuel used by conventional energy production sources, economic consequences and environmental factors have increased the need for sustainable energy resources that can be supplied as the world turns. Depending on this need, technologically developing renewable energy is beginning to integrate very quickly into our energy system today. With the connection of renewables, the energy structure is undergoing a very serious change. Renewable energy integrations create different concerns in transmission and distribution systems. While the system stability is questioned due to the source variability in transmission systems, quality and operation problems such as voltage change, losses, reverse power, harmonics are questioned in distribution systems. Generation integration is not considered in the design of the existing distribution system. For this reason the integration of energy resources, particularly through the distribution system, creates important challenges. Two issues will gain importance as the structure changes. The first of these is that the distribution system should have a flexible structure that will allow these generation integration and the second is questioning the technical suitability. The first issue is related to the “Smart Grid”. The network will need to be smart that will monitor, control and make decisions.

When considering the changes experienced in energy in the world and Turkey’s 2023 strategy document, it is evident that the energy structure of the future will be different than today. Nowadays, everything is energy-dependent and the reliability and sustainability provided in the current system should also be maintained in the new energy structure of the future. The electrification, automation and digitalization will be the most important components of the future energy structure.

Biography

He was born in 1975 in Kocaeli. In 1998, he graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of Kocaeli University. He completed his master’s degree in 2001 and his doctor of philosophy in 2006. Between 2001-2006 he worked as a research assistant at Kocaeli University Department of Electrical Engineering. Since 2006, he has been working in SIEMENS A.Ş. Power Systems Analysis (PTI) group focusing on electrical design and analysis of Transmission&Distribution systems, industrial plants, master plans, grid integration of renewables and the Smart Grid. He has more than 30 publications in national and international congresses and journals.