IET Talk on Wednesday the 7th of August 2013 "Electrical Power Quality in New Zealand" Speaker: Professor Neville Watson Time: Talk begins at 6:00 pm, light refreshments from 5:30 pm Venue: University of Canterbury, College of Engineering, Room E16 (second floor on West side of the core block, entrance off Creyke Road near the Engineering & Physical Sciences Library) Abstract: Power Quality is a major concern in the relatively small island electrical network of New Zealand. The influx of new technologies such as electric vehicles, heat-pumps, LED lighting etc., could potentially cause electromagnetic compatibility problems in the future. To manage future power quality, a government funded project entitled: Power Quality (PQ) in Future Electricity Networks (NZ) was instigated in 2008. This project was co-funded by the Electricity Engineers’ Association of NZ (EEA) and the main deliverable was PQ Guidelines that EEA members could adopt as part of their grid connection codes. Other objectives were influencing device standards as well as identifying mitigation techniques. This presentation will give an overview of this project and some of the key findings. In particular how the project was conducted will be outlined as well as experience obtained from laboratory and field measurements. The success of using zig-zag transformers for harmonic mitigation will also be presented. Finally the main features of the developed EEA Power Quality (PQ) Guidelines will be reviewed. Information on speaker: Professor Neville R. Watson was appointed to the academic staff at the University of Canterbury in September 1987 where he has been teaching and performing research into various aspects of power systems and power electronics. Neville’s main research areas have been; Computer Modelling of Electrical power systems, HVDC transmission, power quality, harmonics and electromagnetic transients. He has coauthored seven books, three chapters of books and more than 200 technical papers. Neville has been very active in professional societies and is a member of CIGRE AP C4 committee on Technical Performance, joint Australia/New Zealand standards committee EL034 on Power Quality as well as involvement in IEEE, IET & IPENZ. He has over the years also helped industry to solve issues by undertaking various consultancy jobs (under the auspices of Canterprise and later Electric Power Engineering Centre). More recently he has been the Principal Investigator on the FRST/MSI Power Quality project. Neville is a senior member of IEEE, member of IPENZ and IET (UK). He is also a Charted Professional Engineer, CPEng(NZ) and on the International Professional Engineers register, Int.PE(NZ). Any enquiries, please contact Harsha Sirisena: [email protected]
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