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MEDOW’s objectives are to find comprehensive solutions to the key techniques of DC grids for integrating renewable power and to remove the barriers to the interconnection of AC and DC grid<\/strong>s.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Renewable power, particularly offshore wind power, will be a major element of European and other countries’ transition to meet their energy demands while reducing carbon emissions. HVDC will be the key technology for integrating offshore wind power into the onshore AC grids and for interconnecting AC grids across Europe with the aim of creating an offshore ‘supergrid’.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

MEDOW researchers will study DC power flow, DC relaying protection, steady state operation, dynamic stability, fault-ride through capability, and impacts of DC grids on the operation of AC grids and power market. They will carry out systematic comparison of DC grid topologies and stability control strategies and will investigate DC grids for offshore wind power transmission and onshore AC grid interconnection.\u00a0 Operation and control will be evaluated using various simulation platforms and experimental test rigs.<\/p>\n

MEDOW’s entry on the European Commission’s Energy Research Knowledge Centre (ERKC) database can be accessed here<\/a>.\u00a0 The ERKC is offered by the Strategic Energy Technology Information System (SETIS), the body which leads the implementation of\u00a0 the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan).<\/span><\/p>\n

MEDOW has\u00a0 12 key research objectives (O1-12) under 4 Work Packages (WP1-4):<\/p>\n

WP1: Connection of offshore wind power to DC grids:<\/strong>
\nO1: Design and analyse the topologies of offshore DC grids
\nO2: Determine steady state operation characteristics
\nO3: Develop dynamic control systems for offshore DC grids<\/p>\n

WP2: Investigation of voltage source converters for DC grids:<\/strong>
\nO4: Design and compare various voltage source converters
\nO5: Investigate power flow control in DC grid
\nO6: Develop tools for analysing and simulating converter stations<\/p>\n

WP3: Relaying protection:<\/strong>
\nO7: Analyse DC grid faults
\nO8: Develop DC protection algorithms and post-fault restoration schemes
\nO9: Investigate AC protection with DC grids<\/p>\n

WP4: Interactive AC\/DC grids:<\/strong>
\nO10: Develop simulation and experimental platforms for the integrated DC\/AC system
\nO11: Investigate impact between AC and DC grids
\nO12: Validate integrated DC\/AC systems using simulation and experimental platforms<\/p>\n

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MEDOW’s objectives are to find comprehensive solutions to the key techniques of DC grids for integrating renewable power and to remove the barriers to the interconnection of AC and DC grids.\u00a0 Renewable power, particularly offshore wind power, will be a major element of European and other countries’ transition to meet their energy demands while reducing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P41kOo-g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}