#20: System Strength with Stephen Hinchliffe (Part 1)

Part 1 of our chat with Stephen Hinchcliffe. About Stephen:
Stephen is a Chartered Engineer (UK), a Fellow of the Institute
of Engineering and Technology (UK), has a Ph.D. in power inverter
technologies, Masters’ degrees in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, Business Administration and in Commercial Law with
more than twenty-five years' energy sector working on projects in
the UK, Europe, Northern Africa, Indonesia, Chile, PNG,
Australia, and New Zealand. Impressed yet?

We learned:


What is system strength? In short, a measure of the network’s
ability to maintain voltage levels during fault conditions

What will the transition to renewables look like?

As Australia’s power system transitions toward renewable
forms of power generation, system strength has emerged as a
prominent issue and has led to difficulties in developing and
operating renewable generation projects.



Further reading: Stephen suggests reading the report Managing
System Strength during the transition to renewables.





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