Guest Lecture Pablo Garcia, University of Oviedo, Spain

 

Biography:

Prof. Pablo García (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Luanco, Asturias, Spain. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain, in 2001 and 2006, respectively.,In 2004, he was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. In 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar with The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronics, Communications and Systems Engineering, University of Oviedo. Since 2022, he has been with the Spanish Research Agency as the Manager for international projects in the Energy and Transport division area. His research interest include control of grid-tied power converters for distributed resources integration and particularly for the control of grid-tied battery energy storage systems, parameter estimation, optimization of distributed resources, and digital signal processing for real-time embedded systems. He is the coauthor of more than 40 journal papers and more than 80 international conference papers.

 

Dr. García was a recipient of the 2005 IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Third Place Prize Paper Award, three IEEE Industry Applications Society Conference prize paper awards in 2006, 2010, and 2016, respectively and one EPE Conference Award in 2018 and was also a fellowship for the national research and training program by the Ministry of Science and Technology in Spain, from 2002 to 2006. He is a member of the LEMUR research group. He has been the Principal Investigator of 50 projects with companies, one European H2020, and four national funded projects. He is the co-founder of the ENFASYS startup, focused on the development of solutions for the integration of energy storage in distribution and generation applications.

Abstract:

 

During the last 10 years, the Lemur research group at the University of Oviedo (Spain) has developed a research line for the integration of energy storage systems into the grid, leaded by Pablo García. In this talk, solutions regarding control architectures and power converter alternatives for modular Li-ion energy storage systems and interlinking converters will be provided. The main results presented in here are also part of a recently ended European Project, TALENT (https://talentproject.eu/).

 

The talk will provide insight on challenges and new architectures for the interconnection of energy storage devices in urban areas as well as proposals for reduced costs from a holistic point of view.