National Energy Technology Lab holds workshop on hybrid power
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) hosted energy experts from the United States, China, and Europe this week to share ideas and challenges on ways to improve flexibility in hybrid power cycles.
The goal of the event, the Low Emission Advanced Power Workshop on Flexibility in Power Systems, is to accelerate the development of highly flexible, low-emission, high-efficiency hybrid power systems. The changing electric market has placed greater value on technologies that are both efficient and flexible over a wide load range.
Workshop participants talked about a variety of topics, including the need to bridge technology from the existing fleet to advanced power systems and incorporate flexibility into future system designs that include load following.
The sessions seek to uncover critical research needs and opportunities to coordinate efforts internationally. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will publish a final assessment of general opportunities and technical issues related to highly integrated hybrid power systems that came out of this workshop.
Angelos Kokkinos, director of the Division of Advanced Energy Systems at the DOE, delivered the keynote remarks. Other speakers included Massardo Aristide, chair of the PE08 European Research Council Panel for the Horizon 2020 Program and dean of the Polytechnic School of Engineering and Architecture, and Mingang Han, program leader of the National Program on Key Basic Research Projects and professor at Tsinghua University.
