17 July - 17 July, 2026
July 17 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (United Kingdom Standard Time)
Event Start Time (United Kingdom):
Webinar details
The supply-demand balance will be impacted by the growing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in the electrical grid, including solar, wind, battery storage, and electric vehicles (EVs). In order to combine those scattered DERs, forecast supply and demand, and take advantage of their flexibilities to maximize their advantages and support the grid’s ancillary services like voltage and frequency, virtual power plants (VPPs) technology has been developed. VPPs are a cloud-based network that aggregates and orchestrates the operation of dispersed DERs to function as a virtual single large-scale power plant.
Key takeaways from this webinar:
- Distributed energy resources like solar, wind, batteries, and EVs are reshaping how the grid is managed.
- Virtual power plants aggregate and coordinate distributed energy resources to operate as a single system.
- Virtual power plants optimize energy use while improving grid reliability and stability.
Event Details
- Date: Friday 17 July 2026
- Time: 11am GMT+1
- Location: Online Session
Meet the Presenter
Mohammed Qais – ECT Lecturer
M. H. Qais is currently working as a part-time lecturer at the Engineering College of Technology. He was a research associate at the Institute for Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh, from 2024 to 2026, where he conducted research on flexibility assessment and autonomous coordination of aggregated EVs and batteries under normal and extreme weather. In addition, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from Aug 2021 to Dec 2023 and at King Saud University from Jun 2020 to Jun 2021. He received his Ph.D. degree in power systems from the Electrical Engineering Department, King Saud University, in 2020.
His research interests include virtual power plants, energy storage, V2G, energy management and optimisation, AI-based control systems for IBRs, renewable energy, microgrids, power system operation and control, power system protection, and condition monitoring of power electronics.
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