This page contains information from our past events and webinar. Recordings for online webinars can be found here.
January 2025
TRAINING: Introduction to HVDC and Project De-risking
Date: Monday, 13 Jan 2025
Location: The National HVDC Centre, Cumbernauld
December 2024
ONLINE WEBINAR: INCENTIVE – Show and Tell Webinar
The INCENTIVE project focuses on how offshore wind farms can help improve grid stability using:
- Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
- Grid-Forming (GFM) Converters
- Static Synchronous Compensators (STATCOMS)
Date: Thursday, 12th Dec 2024
Resource: Video
November 2024
TRAINING: Introduction to HVDC and Project De-risking
Date: Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024
Location: The National HVDC Centre, Cumbernauld
November 2024
ONLINE WEBINAR: HVDC Replicas Explained: What? Why? When? Where? How?
Date: Tuesday, 19 Nov 2024
Resource: Video (with Slides and Q&A)
October 2024
WEBINAR: BLADE SIF Project – Outcomes of Alpha Phase
Date: Tuesday, 15 Oct 2024
Resource: Video
September 2024
WEBINAR: Aquila Interoperability Project Update
Date: Tuesday, 17 Sept 2024
Resource: Video
September 2024
TRAINING: Introduction to HVDC and Project De-risking
Date: Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Location: The National HVDC Centre, Cumbernauld
September 2024
WEBINAR: INCENTIVE SIF Project – A Pathway to Testing Grid-Forming Devices
Date: Tuesday, 3 Sept 2024
Resource: Video
August 2024
WEBINAR: AC Protection in a low strength network
Date: Tuesday, 22 Aug 2024
Resource: Video
June 2024
EVENT: Annual HVDC Operators’ Forum
Date: Wednesday-Thursday 12-13 June 2024
Location: The National HVDC Centre, Cumbernauld
To download the agenda please, click here
June 2024
WEBINAR: Small Signal Analysis Studies
Date: Tuesday, 18 Jun 2024
Resource: Video
April 2024
TRAINING: Introduction to HVDC and Project De-risking
Date: Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Location: The National HVDC Centre, Cumbernauld
April 2024
WEBINAR: Introduction to HVDC
Date: Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Resource: Video
March 2024
CONFERENCE: EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub Risk and Resilience Day 2024
Date: Tuesday, 12 Mar 2024
Location: Newcastle University
Venue Details: The Catalyst, 3, Helix, Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG
For further information on this event, click here
February 2024
WEBINAR: Needs And Solutions For DC Architectures For Future Reliable And Resilient Hybrid AC/DC Systems
Date: Thursday, 22 Feb 2024
November 2023
EVENT: Energy Innovation Summit
Date: 31 Oct – 1 Nov 2023
Location: Exhibition Centre Liverpool
October 2023
WEBINAR: Network DC – The Why and How of DC Circuit Breakers
Date: 25 Oct 2023
For the recording of this webinar, click here
September 2023
EVENT: CIGRE B4-Meeting Vienna 2023 International Conference
Date: 11 -15 Sept 2023
June 2023
EVENT: 14-15 June 2023: 2023 Annual HVDC Operators’ Forum (Event)
Location: The National HVDC Centre, Cumbernauld
For presentations, click here
March 2023
EVENT: 1 – 3 March 2023: ACDC 2023
Location: Glasgow
February 2023
WEBINAR: 22 February 2023: SIF Show and Tell webinars – Effective Renewable Integration
January 2023
TRAINING: 25 – 27 Jan 2023: Introduction to RTDS ®
September 2022
EVENT: 28-29 September 2022: Energy Innovation Summit. For more details, click here. For presentations, click here
August 2022
EVENT: 28 August to 02 September 2022: CIGRE Session 2022. For more details, click here
June 2022
EVENT: 21-22 June 2022: 2022 Annual HVDC Operators’ Forum. For presentations, click here
February 2022
15 February 2022: HVDC Technology Choice for AC Grid Reinforcements
November 2021
Webinars held as part of the COP26 event are listed below. For presentations and videos, click here
WEBINAR: 1 November 2021: HVDC & Climate Change – What is HVDC and why is it important to achieving net-zero.
WEBINAR: 3 November 2021: Offshore Coordination – How a coordinated approach enables net-zero.
WEBINAR: 5 November 2021: Building a Better Network -A Technical discussion on how HVDC can enable a more stable network whilst integrating renewable generation.
WEBINAR: 9 November 2021: Networking for a Net Zero Future (Led by SSEN Transmission and supported by Hitachi Energy).
WEBINAR: 11 November 2021: HVDC R&D Strategy for Coordinate Offshore – Exploring the innovations required to meet net-zero.
December 2020
Friday, 4 December. Event: Launch of the 2021 HVDC Centre Research programme. Led by the HVDC Centre.
November 2020
Tuesday, 3 November at 9:00 CST: RTDS User Spotlight Series Week 10, for further details and to register https://www.rtds.com/events/uss-week-10/.
24- 26 November. Training Course: Enhanced FST requirements for HVDC, FACTs and Protection in an invertor dominated system. Led by the HVDC Centre.
October 2020
20 – 22 October. Training Course: RTDS advanced training. Led by the HVDC Centre.
27 – 29 October. Training Course: PSCAD advanced training. Led by the HVDC Centre.
September 2020
Tuesday, 8 September: RTDS User Spotlight Series Week 2, for further details and to register https://www.rtds.com/events/uss-week-2/.
Wednesday, 9 September. Virtual Demonstration Events: Demonstration of DC Grid Protection – Interoperability, Primary and Back-up Protection. Hosted by the HVDC Centre and PROMOTioN WP9 Partners.
Integral to the development of the meshed offshore grid is the ability to protect it in such a way to isolate faults while retaining as much transfer capability as possible. Recently, standalone HVDC protection relays or intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), essential for selective DC line protection, are under development by various industrial vendors and research institutes. To increase the technology readiness level, improve confidence in the maturity of the technology and show that it is in principle ready for real-world application, PROMOTioN will demonstrate the IED performance. To this end, fully hardware implemented IED prototypes will be tested against realistic HVDC grid models being run in a real-time simulation environment.
Please find below 1) the formal invitation letter 2) a program for the event 3) a brief technical overview
1)HVDC Grid Protection System Demo Invite Letter
2) Program
3) invite-technical-description
August 2020
2 – 6 August. Conference: IEE PES Conference, paper and presentation: Techniques and insights associated with de-risking HVDC. Presented by the HVDC Centre. For more details visit IEEE PES.
Thursday, 20 August. Webinar: ‘How to’ series; Understanding inverter dominated voltage instability. Hosted by the HVDC Centre.
24 August – 4 September. Conference: CIGRE Paris symposium virtual conference, paper publication: Multi-vendor extension of existing HVDC Schemes. Presented by the HVDC Centre. For more details visit Cigre
July 2020
Wednesday, 8 July. Technical Webinar: ‘Considerations for the Development and Integration of HVDC in GB’ . Presented by the HVDC Centre and hosted by CIGRE UK. Click here for the presentation.
Thursday, 16 July. Webinar: ‘How to’ series; Sub synchronous damping solutions, effect of SCL change. Hosted by the HVDC Centre.
June 2020
Thursday, 11 June. Webinar. ‘How to’ series; Frequency sweep and small signal analysis steps in PSCAD. Hosted by the HVDC Centre.
Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 June. Training Course: Caithness- Moray Operator. Led by the HVDC Centre.
May 2020
Thursday, 7 May. Webinar: Protection validation techniques in an inverter and FACTS dominated network. Hosted by the HVDC Centre.
Wednesday, 13 May. Webinar: Demonstration of DC Grid Protection – PROMOTioN WP9 Updates. Hosted by the HVDC Centre and PROMOTioN WP9 Partners. Click here for the Presentation and further information.
Tuesday, 26 – Thursday, 28 May. Event: PROMOTioN Project Final Dissemination. Hosted by the HVDC Centre.
Friday, 29 May. Webinar: Guidelines for inverter-dominated network study. Hosted by the HVDC Centre.
April 2020
Tuesday, 7 April. Training Course: Caithness-Moray Operator training. Led by the HVDC Centre.
Thursday, 16 April. Webinar: Practical Use of Real Time Simulation for De-risking HVDC Integration. Hosted by the HVDC Centre and RTDS Technologies. The Presentation and videos of the presenters, and a summary of the Q&As, can be found here
Friday, 24 April. Webinar: Practical Use of Real Time Simulation for De-risking HVDC Integration. Hosted by the HVDC Centre and RTDS Technologies.
Thursday, 30 April. Webinar: Development of Stability Pathfinder test bed models. Hosted by the HVDC Centre and National Grid Electricity System Operator.
March 2020
Monday, 9-12 March. Conference: IET’s Developments in Power System Protection Conference, Paper and presentation on DC circuit protection: 1) RTDS HiL environment testing and 2) Multi-vendor multi-terminal interoperability tests. Presented by the HVDC Centre; EPRI & PROMOTioN Project Partners.
Friday, 20 March. Webinar: HVDC challenges in meeting current GB Grid Code in a weak network. Hosted by the HVDC Centre and Cardiff University.
February 2020
Thursday, 13 February. Webinar: Black Start from VSC-HVDC and the impacts on AC protection coordination. Hosted by the HVDC Centre & EPRI.
Thursday, 27 February. Webinar: Stability assessment and mitigation of HVDC converter interactions. Hosted by the HVDC Centre & the University of Strathclyde.
January 2020
Monday, 20 January. Conference: CIGRE UK B4 (DC Systems & Power Electronics) Liaison Meeting: 11.30 – 17.00; 20th January 2020 ; WSP at The Mailbox – Birmingham. For speaker profiles go to: https://cigre.org.uk/events/technical-liaison-meetings/
December 2019
4th December 2019: HVDC Centre publishes report on ‘Maximising HVDC Support for GB Black Start’, commissioned by the Scottish Government. Click here for full report.
Also, a summary article of the HVDC black start report published in Networks Magazine is available here.
November 2019
12th November 2019: Technical Seminar on Impact of Converter-based Technologies on Power System Stability. Click here for presentation.
5-7th November 2019: Introduction to RTDS® – Training Course. For more information click here.
October 2019
30-31st October 2019: Presenting at the LCNI Conference
September 2019
17th September 2019: HVDC Black Start Industry Consultation. Click here for presentation.
5th September 2019: Introduction to HVDC – Training Course. For more information click here.
August 2019
22nd August 2019: PROMOTioN (WP9) Meshed Grid Protection Demonstration
July 2019
4–5th July 2019: RTDS® Basics – Training Course
June 2019
26–27th June 2019: 2019 Annual HVDC Operators’ Forum. For presentations, click here.
April 2019
30th April–2nd May 2019: Introduction to RTDS® – Training Course. For more information click here.
March 2019
30th March 2019: Caithness-Moray Grid Integration Knowledge Sharing