Supergrid Architecture & Systems
![Bruno Luscan, Department Director – Supergrid Architecture & Systems](https://www.supergrid-institute.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/bruno-luscan-supergrid-institute-2024.jpg)
“How should a supergrid system be technically designed and operated? The Supergrid Architecture and Systems research department aims to answer this question by developing control and protection concepts for HVDC systems, and by defining the requirements for the key components of the system.”
Bruno Luscan, Department Director – Supergrid Architecture & Systems
SuperGrid Institute’s experts work to overcome the technical challenges confronting DC grids. We develop technologies to control and protect the stability of HVDC and MVDC networks, which need to be much more dynamic than AC networks. Defining the requirements for the key components of DC grids or combined AC-DC power systems and designing and simulating the technical performance of these systems are key to our work.
We employ real-time, electromagnetic transient simulations with accurate, built-in models of power converter control systems to demonstrate how a system will perform when a new technology is integrated into the network (for example, a new protection strategy).
![Managing the stability of a DC network requires the control systems to be much more dynamic than those used in AC networks.](https://www.supergrid-institute.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/supergrid-architecture-protection-strategy.jpg)
Recent publications
New deliverable for InterOPERA – Functional requirements for HVDC grid systems and subsystems
The InterOPERA project's Deliverable D2.1 sets out guidelines for the definition of functional requirements in HVDC grid systems in a multi-terminal multi-vendor context.
Impact of renewable energy generation on power reserve energy demand
This work focuses on analysing the relationship between reserve energy demand and load, wind, and solar generation.
Superconducting Cable Modelling into Electro-Magnetic Transient Simulation
The European project SCARLET aims to study and realize a demonstrator of a MVDC high-power superconducting cable.