TwInSolar Summer school #2
2024-11-18 08:00 - 2024-11-22 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | La Reunion, France
After a successful first edition, the TwInSolar consortium is pleased to invite you to its second summer school in La Reunion on November 18-22nd 2024.

Who is it for ? All researchers, including Postdoctoral researchers and PhD students

What’s in for you?– Join us for high-level lectures on solar energy,by Fraunhofer ISE, DTU and University of La Reunion researchers on monitoring PV systems performance and solar forecasting,– Benefit from site visits of hybrid power plants and remote PV systems,– Take part in networking opportunities with experts from all over Europe !– Universities from CPMR Islands Commission member regions can benefit from a grant, to support their travel costs.

More information, complete programme and registration

Registration is open until September 20th. Please, keep in mind that places are limited.Looking forward to a great week of scientific exchanges!

Online Workshop: Smart Operation and Maintenance of PV power plants
2024-09-19 11:30 - 14:30
On September 19, 2024, the TwInSolar consortium is pleased to present a workshop on “Smart Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of PV power plants”.

Event details

Registration link: https://forms.gle/3ihfE4rVBqEUrpVs6

Date and time: Thursday, September 19, 2024

11:30AM – 2:30PM (CET) / 1:30PM – 4:30PM (Reunion)

Location: Online, a link will be provided to registered participants

About the workshop

The Fraunhofer experts will give an introductory course on operation and maintenance of PV farms.The workshop, which will last 3 hours, will take place as follow:

Introduction to O&M of PV power plants

PV Performance Monitoring

Key Performance Indicators

Data-driven O&M

Digitalization of PV systems operation

Speakers

David Melgar, Leader of the Data-driven Quality Assurance team, Fraunhofer ISE

David Melgar is an engineer at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, specializing in the performance evaluation of photovoltaic (PV) systems. He began his career in the PV industry at ISOFOTÓN, a manufacturer of PV cells and modules, where he developed new processes and measurement systems for PV cell and module production. At Fraunhofer ISE, David has been actively involved in the characterization of PV modules in the laboratory and the analysis of power plants, including monitoring and field measurements. Since January 2024, he has been leading the “Data-driven Quality Assurance” team within the “Photovoltaic Power Plants” group at the institute.

Christian Schill, Head of Photovoltaic Power Plants group, Fraunhofer ISE

Christian Schill has been the group leader of the “Photovoltaic Power Plants” group at Fraunhofer ISE since 2021, following positions at the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF), PSE GmbH, and the University of Freiburg. He is an alumnus of the Sustainability Center Freiburg. He works in the areas of photovoltaic power plant quality, outdoor exposure of PV modules, climate data, and spatial analysis, with a focus on integrated PV and digitalization in the PV industry.

Séminaire européen Twinsolar "Recherche et Innovation pour la transition énergétique"
2024-04-25 08:30 - 12:30 | La Ruche, 14 Chemin des Anglais Bât C, local n°3, LE PORT, 97420, Reunion
Le projet européen Twinsolar ambitionne de faire de La Réunion un territoire pionnier en matière de recherche et d’innovation pour l’intégration massive des énergies renouvelables dans les sites non interconnectés – îles et zones périphériques. Pour ce faire, l’Université de La Réunion et l’agence Nexa se sont associées à deux instituts européens de renommée mondiale en transition énergétique – l’Université technique du Danemark et l’institut de l’énergie solaire de la Fraunhofer en Allemagne – ainsi qu’avec la Conférence des régions périphériques maritimes, afin de renforcer les capacités de recherche et d’innovation de La Réunion et des territoires isolés pour la transition énergétique.

Pour cela, les parties prenantes de domaine de l’énergie se réuniront lors d’un séminaire territorial le Jeudi 25 avril 2024, de 8h30 à 12h30, pour :

découvrir et discuter de 8 initiatives remarquables favorisant les coopérations de recherche et d’Innovation notamment Université/entreprises, issues d’un benchmark réalisé auprès des territoires partenaires du projet (Allemagne et Danemark)

découvrir et échanger autour du micro-réseau du campus de Terre-sainte et son potentiel pour des projets d’innovation collaborative

partager la vision stratégique de la R&D de l’UR et sa déclinaison en potentiels projets

Agenda

• 08:30 : Accueil des participants

• 09:00 : Mot d’introduction & présentation du projet européen TwInSolar

• 09:15-12:30:

• Présentation d’initiatives européennes remarquables pour favoriser la Recherche & l’Innovation pour la transition énergétiques

• Le micro-réseau du campus de Terre-Sainte : opportunité pour de l’innovation collaborative ?

• Table ronde “Partage de la vision stratégique de la R&D de l’UR et sa déclinaison en potentiels projets”

• Conclusions et suites à donner

• 12:30-13:30 Déjeuner sur le pouce

Online Workshop: Modelling individual components and a whole energy system, which integrates a large share of variable renewables
2024-04-09 13:00 - 17:00
Registration link: https://forms.gle/DMvCoMUJDretii268

Workshop day 2: Renewable Hybrid Power Plants

Tuesday, April 9, 2023, from 1PM to 5PM (UTC+4h) – corresponding to 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. CET

Connection link will be sent to registered participants

Speakers:

Kaushik Das, Associate Professor with the Department of Wind and Energy Systems, DTU

Kaushik received a PhD degree from DTU in 2016. His research interests include hybrid power and energy plants, power system balancing, and grid integration of renewables in power systems. He is a Member of IEA Wind, CIGRE, IEEE, and other professional bodies. He is also an operating agent for IEA Wind Task 50 on Hybrid Power Plants. He was the recipient of the prestigious AEG Elektronfonden’s Elektron Award in 2022.

Megha Gupta, Postdoc, Department of Wind and Energy Systems, DTU

Megha received a PhD degree in “Coordinated operation of TSO and DSO for efficient grid management” from Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, India in 2022. Her research interests include hybrid power plant sizing and operations with Power-to-X; power system steady state analysis, optimization and energy markets. She is currently working on the research and development of an open-access tool ‘HyDesign’ at DTU Wind for the design and operation of utility-scale hybrid plants with P2X.

About the workshop

Focused on the massive integration of variable renewable energies, such as solar and wind, in electricity grids, the second part of the workshop is also based on lectures and exercises. Trainees will learn how to design and model Hybrid Power Plants (HPPs), which mix multiple technologies like wind, solar and energy storages. Applications of massive penetration of variable renewables energies on electricity grids will be tested with HyDesign, an online tool for design and control of utility scale wind-solar-storage based hybrid power plant (HPP) developed by DTU researchers. The exercises will be done online with collaborative Jupyter Notebooks, which requires basic knowledge on programming with Python and are accessible to beginners.

Online Workshop: Modelling individual components and a whole energy system, which integrates a large share of variable renewables
2024-04-08 13:00 - 17:00
Registration link: https://forms.gle/DMvCoMUJDretii268

Workshop day 1: PV system modelling

Monday, April 8, 2024, from 1PM to 5PM in La Reunion (UTC+4h) – corresponding to 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. CET

Connection link will be sent to registered participants

Speaker: Sergiu Spataru, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering, Photovoltaic Materials and Systems, DTU

Sergiu received a Ph.D. degree in “Characterization and diagnostic methods for PV modules and arrays”, at the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University. During this period, he was a guest researcher for six months at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in US, within reliability testing and modelling of solar photovoltaic modules. He continued research as a PostDoc and thereafter as Assistant Professor at Aalborg University, within performance modelling of photovoltaic systems, electroluminescence imaging, modelling and machine learning methods applied to diagnostic and condition monitoring of photovoltaic systems. In 2020, he started a new position as Associate Professor in the Department of Photonics Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). There he is currently teaching and developing solar PV energy engineering courses and conducting research within performance modeling of standalone PV products, diagnostic imaging and drone inspection of PV systems.

About the workshop

In this first part of the workshop DTU experts will give complete course on PV system modelling with lectures and exercises. Trainees will learn how to assess the solar irradiance received on the plan of the PV modules. Then they will model and evaluate the performance of the different components of a PV system: the modules and the inverters. The exercises will be done online with collaborative Jupyter Notebooks and the library pvlib, which requires basic knowledge on programming with Python and are accessible to beginners.

Workshop “Solar forecasts and their integration in the management of energy systems”
2023-08-21 09:00 - 16:00 | En ligne

Summer school on sizing, modelling and designing of renewable and hybrid power systems
2023-08-21 - 2023-08-25 | En ligne
Program summer school

Workshop “Research and Innovation for energy transition”
2023-06-15 | Sainte-Clotilde, Saint-Clotilde
Program:

Bring together the different types of territorial actors in research and innovation in energy transition: researchers, companies, public authorities and user representatives.
present the Twinsolar project, the partners (German Institute for Solar Energy and the Technical University of Denmark) and the expected benefits for Reunion
Identify the brakes and the levers to bring out and deploy collaborative research and innovation projects for the energy transition in islands and isolated sites

Réunion de consortium
2023-02-13 08:00 - 2023-02-20 17:00
