The Renewable Energy Integration with Mini/Microgrid Conference successfully convened in Tianjin from October 18 to 20, 2017. The conference, co-hosted by Tianjin University and Elsevier's Applied Energy magazine, was chaired by Prof. Wang Chengshan, Dean of the School of Electrical Automation and Information Engineering and the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, and Prof. Yan Jinyue, editor-in-chief of Applied Energy, from the Royal Institute of Technology. The executive chairman was Prof. Wu Jianzhong from Cardiff University. More than 100 experts and scholars from various disciplines such as electrical engineering, information management, and thermophysics from the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Singapore, Japan, and China attended the conference.
There were four presentations, given respectively by Prof. Wu Qinghua, Tenure of School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Liverpool and Dean of the Energy Research Institute of the South China University of Technology, Prof. Phil Jones from Cardiff University, Prof. Chris Marnay of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Prof. Wu Guohong from Tohoku University.
The conference established two panels. The first one, “UNiLAB DEM”, hosted by Prof. Wu Jianzhong from Cardiff University, discussed the latest developments in the DEM (Distributed Energy & Microgrid) field and how to build a world-leading sustainable ecosystem with multi-energy microgrids. The second one, “From Clean Energy Research into Innovation”, hosted by Associate Professor Wang Xiaonan of the National University of Singapore, held discussions on the innovative opportunities involving practical products/services offered by clean energy research, and how researchers, entrepreneurs, and government agencies around the world could make a collaborative contribution.
The three-day conference set 4 venues, holding a total of 17 sessions. Delegates at the conference conducted in-depth discussions on the issues of community microgrid energy management, distributed renewable energy integration, demand side management, energy storage, cyber-physical system, distributed energy, microgrid flexibility and other hot topics. The conference has promoted exchange and cooperation between domestic and foreign scientific research institutions, enterprises, and universities, and was of vital and profound significance for developing the original projects in the energy propulsion field and researching related technologies.
Applied Energy, whose impact factor is 7.182(SCI zone 1), ranks first among Elsevier's scientific and technological fields and is the second highest ranked periodical in Google’s top academic publications. The Applied Energy UNiLAB is an international joint laboratory established by Applied Energy, aiming to integrate resources and advanced technologies in the energy sector, break the common barriers regarding collaboration in scientific research and innovation and provide a robust platform for collaborative research and development of high-level achievements. In October 2016, Tianjin University led the establishment of the Applied Energy UNiLAB：DEM .The member units include Malardalen University, the Royal Institute of Technology, the Integrated Energy Research Institute at Victoria University, Cardiff University, Laurence Berkeley National Laboratory, State Grid Tianjin and other famous institutions at home and abroad.
By: Wang Fangzhou and Zeng Xun
Photo: School of Electrical Automation and Information Engineering
Editors: Qin Mian and Keith Harrington
