Mingfei Ban, Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Secretary of "Control Science and Engineering" and Director of Electrical Engineering Program of Northeast Forestry University, and a high-level talent in Heilongjiang Province. He is mainly engaged in research in the field of power system operation and control, mainly involved in the planning and operation of low-carbon integrated energy system, optimal scheduling of power system with clean power source and electric vehicle, synergistic optimization strategy of power system economic operation and air pollution prevention, microgrid with distributed power source and energy storage, and integrated monitoring system based on wind-optical-storage-unmanned aerial vehicle. He has presided over the youth project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the high-end foreign experts project of State Administration of Foreign Affairs, the excellent youth project of Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and other provincial and ministerial research projects. He has published more than 50 academic papers, of which more than 30 are SCI-recorded papers and more than 10 are EI-recorded papers, with the highest citation of 200+ in a single paper, and he has served as a member of the IET Electrical Systems in Transportation, Frontiers in Energy Research and other journals, as well as IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy and other journals reviewer. He has been cooperating with Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Southeast University and other universities for a long time to jointly train doctoral and master's degree students.

Biography: 

Yunpeng Xiao is a Special Appointed Researcher and doctoral supervisor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University. He has been selected for the Young Talent Program in Xi'an Jiaotong University. He has long been engaged in research on electricity markets and energy economics, as well as on power system dispatching, operation, and planning optimization. He has published more than 30 papers in top international journals such as the IEEE Transactions and Energy Economics, including two highly cited papers in ESI. He has led over ten scientific research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, sub-projects under the National Key R&D Program, and technological projects from the State Grid Corporation of China headquarters. He has received one provincial and ministerial level scientific research award.

Title: Capacity market design to improve adequacy of flexibility and resilience of power systems

Abstract: 

The capacity market plays a crucial role in ensuring the adequacy of power systems, with current mechanisms adopted by various countries effectively ensuring the adequacy of power systems during peak load periods. However, the rapid development of new-type power systems has placed higher demands on system flexibility and resilience. The existing capacity market mechanisms cannot guarantee the adequacy of flexibility and resilience resources, nor do they sufficiently incentivize investment in these areas. To address this issue, the study proposes a capacity market mechanism that takes into account the need for flexibility and resilience, encompassing declaration, clearing, pricing, and settlement processes. Additionally, it introduces a method for formulating the capacity market demand curve embedded with  generation investment equilibrium modelling. This research aids in ensuring the adequacy of the system to meet the needs for flexibility and resilience, providing sufficient incentives for investments in these resources.

Meng Song, Doctor of Engineering, joined the School of Electrical Engineering of Southeast University in March 2021, and was selected as one of the Southeast University's "Young Scholars of Zhi Shan" (Level A), Jiangsu Provincial Association for Science and Technology's Young Science and Technology Talent Enhancement Project, the Eighth Young Talent Enhancement Project of Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, and the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Think Tank's Young Talent Program. He has conducted research in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Central Florida and other universities and research institutions. At present, he has presided over 2 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) face/youth projects and 2 Key Laboratory Open Funds. He has published 1 monograph in English, published/recorded 17 papers in SCI journals as the first/corresponding author, 5 papers in EI journals, and has been authorized with 6 Chinese patents; he also won 1 Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Advancement for Excellent Achievements of the Ministry of Education, 1 First Prize of Science and Technology of Electrician of Jiangsu Province, and 1 First Prize of Scientific and Technological Advancement of Shanghai Electric Power Company. He is a member of the editorial board of "Power Demand Side Management", "Power Construction" and other magazines, and a member of the Youth Expert Group of Journal Center of China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI).