Power & Energy (PE) and Power Electronics (PEL) Chapter
About us:
Welcome to the joint IEEE Chapter of Power & Energy and Power Electronics. Our ambition is to provide support to all IEEE PE/PEL members in Sweden, by interesting seminars, webinars, membership development support, and other useful tools and information for your academic or industry work life.
Recent News:
We are pleased to announce the award for Best Master Thesis of 2023 to Klas Lindgren, KTH for the M.Sc. thesis: “Dynamic Control, Modeling and Sizing of Hybrid Power Plants Investigating the optimum usage of energy storage for Fortum’s hydropower“
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Upcoming Events:
Jun. 18th, 2024: IEEE Distinguished Lecture on “Control and Protection of Multi-Terminal DC Grids” by Prof Maryam Saeedifard, Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Selected Past Events:
Feb. 21st, 2024: Annual Meeting, IEEE PES/PELS Chapter, Sweden. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alireza Nami, Research Centre Manager, Hitachi Energy
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Sep. 29th, 2023: IEEE Seminar on Future energy system with focus on grids in distribution and wind power by Dr. Fredrik Carlsson, R&D portfolio manager, Distribution, Vattenfall and Viktorija Dudjak, Senior R&D Engineer, Vattenfall.
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Sep. 1st, 2023: CAREER PATHS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR IN TRANSITION
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The event explored the importance of diversity in the energy transition by bringing speakers with different backgrounds and experience together to share their journey and learnings. Agenda and presentations:
- Welcome and introduction to IEEE PES/PELS Sweden by Dr. Qianwen Xu, Vice Chair
- Introduction to IEEE Women in Power Sweden by Dr. Marina Oluic, Chair
- Keynote speech by Sonja Berlijn, Business Development Manager at DNV, and professor at KTH
- Keynote speech by Ambra Sannino, Vice President R&D at Vattenfall, and Chair of IEEE PES/PELS, Sweden
Mar. 16th, 2023: Annual Meeting, IEEE PES/PELS Chapter, Sweden. Keynote Speaker: Prof. Xiongfei Wang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, “Powering the Future: Grid-Forming Converter Technology and Implementation“
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Jan. 27th, 2023: WBG Power Center Seminar on “Efficiently Paralleling GaN-Transistors for High-Current and High-Frequency Applications Using a Butterfly Layout” by Dr. Martin Wattenberg, Infineon Technologies.
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Nov. 18th, 2022: IEEE Seminar on “Integration of Distributed Energy Resources & Electric Transportation in Distribution Systems” by Dr. Julio Romero Agüero, Vice President, Strategy & Business Innovation at Quanta Technology.
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Mar. 28th, 2022: Annual Meeting IEEE PES/PELS Sweden Chapter, including Keynote Speech “Fundamentals of HVDC LCC and Chile´s Kimal Lo Aguirre HVDC project” by Dr. Gabriel Olguin.
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Dec. 9th, 2021: IEEE on-line seminar “Integration of Inverter-Based Resources, an example of ERCOT” by Dr. Julia Matevosyan.
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Nov. 4th, 2021: IEEE Seminar on “High Power Density Converter Designs – New Circuit Topologies, Control Techniques, and Packaging to Achieve Extreme Size Reductions in Applications Ranging from Datacenter Power Delivery to Electric Aircrafts.” by Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, UC Berkeley.
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Sep. 23rd, 2021: IEEE Seminar on “Electrical vehicles for sustainable developments with a European perspective”, by Professor Lina Bertling Tjernberg.
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May 26th, 2021: IEEE Seminar on “Microgrids: Swedish and International Perspectives” by invited experts from academia and industry.
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Apr. 23rd, 2021: IEEE Lunch Webinar: “The role of inertia and fast frequency control in the Nordic power system” by Dr. Robert Eriksson, Svenska kraftnät.
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For more information about upcoming or past events please see events posted at http://r8.ieee.org/sweden/events/.
The current board of the PE/PEL Chapter
Chair: Ambra Sannino, ambra.sannino@ieee.org
Vice-chair: Qianwen Xu, qianwenx@kth.se
Treasurer: Sara Rönnberg, sarah.ronnberg@ltu.se
Secretary: Fran Marquez, fran.marquez@iea.lth.se,
Membership development: Johanna Rosenlind, johanna.rosenlind@foi.se
Webmaster: Daniel Johannesson, daniel.johannesson@hitachienergy.com
Student Representative: Ali El Mohajer, aliem@kth.se
IEEE Power & Energy (PE) and Power Electronics (PEL) joint Chapter, Sweden
Last update: 2024-06-13