Planning a resilient energy system with high renewable penetration

About the speaker

Professor Marta Victoria is Professor of Power and Energy Systems Resilience at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Her research focuses on the modelling of large-scale energy systems with high renewable penetration, paying special attention to the role of solar photovoltaics, carbon management, and the design of resilient systems. She co-develops PyPSA-Eur, an open networked sector-coupled model of the European energy system, used by academia, system operators, and industry. She is a respected supervisor and teacher, teaching MSc courses on Integrated Energy Grids and Solar Energy, and has recently published a textbook on solar photovoltaics.

About the lecture

The power grid is the largest machine we have ever built, yet mitigating climate change demands its profound and rapid transformation. Deploying wind and solar power, combined with the direct and indirect electrification of other sectors, offers a cost-effective strategy to decarbonize our energy system, but makes it more exposed to increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events. In this lecture, Professor Marta Victoria will introduce the fundamentals of modelling large-scale energy systems with high renewable penetration and share key learnings from a decade of research in this area. She will then discuss strategies for ensuring resource adequacy in net-zero emissions systems and close with a look at open research questions in the field.

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