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Research Center

Affiliated Institutes

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Green Energy Storage Institute

Centering on the "sustainable design, low-carbon manufacturing, highly efficient operation & maintenance, and green recycling" of green energy storage, the Institute carries out technical research, industrial demonstration and standard formulation to provide dedicated energy storage batteries, technologies and solutions with "high safety, low cost, and easy recycling" for the emerging long-duration energy storage market, serving carbon neutrality in China and globally.

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Compressed Air Energy Storage and Energy Highly Efficient Use Institute

The Institute focuses on clean energy storage and highly efficient utilization, and is committed to the R&D and breakthrough of compressed air energy storage and smart energy Internet technology. The Institute aims to build a world-class R&D team for the highly efficient use of clean energy, provides one-stop solutions for the highly efficient use of clean energy, and independently develops software and hardware products for smart energy network.

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Energy Management and Control for Distribution Networks and Renewable Energy Institute

The Institute, led by the Energy Management System (EMS) Laboratory of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, has conducted over 40 years of theoretical research and engineering practice in power system automation, intelligent dispatching, and operational control. It possesses robust scientific research capabilities and an extensive academic background. The Institute focuses on developing and promoting innovative products for intelligent planning, dispatching, and operational control throughout the entire process for distribution networks and renewable energy. Additionally, it has established a world-class energy management system and operational control equipment platform for distribution networks and renewable energy.

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System Hybrid Simulation Institute

The research institute focuses on the simulation and analysis of new power systems with new energy as the main body, high coupling advanced power electronic equipment, and system analysis challenges. It develops new power system stability analysis, new energy modeling and parameter identification, system analysis technology and configuration principles for multiple types of energy storage, electromechanical electromagnetic hybrid simulation, harmonic resonance and harmonic power flow analysis, and other technologies, and develops related support platforms to provide technical support for the safe operation of China's new power system and the research and development of high-end electrical equipment.

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New Energy Power System Analysis and Optimization Institute

The institute is committed to developing into a professional scientific and technological development, technical consultancy and software development institution in the field of new energy power system. The research scope includes new energy station analysis and optimization technology, flexible planning and operation technology of energy power system with high-proportion renewable energy, new energy power supply capacity prediction and coordinated optimization dispatching technology under extreme/turning weather process, new energy output prediction and electricity price prediction technology based on power spot market, construction of power and energy balance analysis platform based on probability and flexibility balance, power prediction platform suitable for wind power plants and meteorological data management platform construction, etc.

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Smart Microgrid Institute

The Institute is committed to promoting the transformation of the energy and power industry with intelligent applications, centering on energy digitalization under the goal of carbon neutrality. It focuses on key areas such as the construction of new energy systems, carbon monitoring & carbon asset management, zero-carbon park construction, and safe operation monitoring of energy storage. It provides one-stop solutions for carbon-driven and digital native hardware & software spanning across technology research, engineering applications and product R&D.

Core technology

R&D Team: Compressed Air Energy Storage and Energy Highly Efficient Use Institute

Key technologies for integrated optimization and construction of compressed air energy storage

• Dynamic modeling: develop highly efficient power-thermal dynamic processes
• Simulation design: build a multi-functional compressed air energy storage simulation platform
• Technical scheme: develop compressed air energy storage scheme, and form technology process and design scheme
• Operation strategy: provide CAES operation mode and management mode for large CAES power station and park

R&D Team: Energy Management and Regulation Institute of Distribution Network and New Energy

Support energy management and cluster control system of active distribution network for distributed photovoltaic grid connection

• Make innovation on autonomous coordinated regulation technology for active distribution network with widespread access of distributed power generation
• Establish a regulation and operation system of "cluster autonomy-inter-group collaboration - transmission & distribution coordination", and realize friendly grid-connection and highly efficient operation of new e

R&D team: System Hybrid Simulation Institute

MEET real-time hybrid simulation platform

• Realize real-time simulation of electromechanical & electromagnetic hybrid in large power grids with tens of thousands of nodes
• Large scale and high efficiency of electromechanical transient simulation
• More accurateness & advantages and rich interfaces of electromagnetic transient broadband simulation & model
• High accuracy of simulation model and strong practicability of project
• The achievements have been applied in central enterprises and design

R&D team: New Energy Power System Analysis and Optimization Institute

Flexible planning platform for power system with high proportion of renewable energy

• Established the flexible theoretical method system for power system with high proportion of renewable energy based on probability principle
• Proposed a multi-time scale and whole-link flexible probability assessment system, and achieved quantitative assessment of flexiblity
• Developed a flexible planning platform for power system with high proportion of renewable energy
• The achievements have been applied in

R&D team: Smart Micro-grid Complex Institute

Safety operation risk monitoring and intelligent warning system for energy storage power station based on big data

• Innovate the three-level active safety prevention & control system for electrochemical energy storage power station, and promote the transformation from post-disposal to pre-prevention
• Build a complex coupling system model of "battery-environment" driven by physical-data fusion and an online identification algorithm for equipment breakdown characteristics
• Active safety manageme

R&D team: Green Energy Storage Institute

Principle research and industrial technology development of semi-open battery special for lithium energy storage

• The battery adopts the innovative design of semi-open structure. The safety agent can be injected into the cell to cut off electrochemical reaction, so as to avoid battery thermal runaway and achieve the intrinsic safety of the cell level
• Replace the battery electrolyte every 6 to 8 years, repair the active material interface, which can extend the battery life to 15 to 25 years an

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Application Cases

• The project of "Energy Storage Technology Development and Its Application in Power System" of SCEPA

  ·Analyze the typical application scenarios of different energy storage types in power grids

  ·Explore the cost recovery model and commercial operation mode of energy storage

  ·Propose policies and mechanism suggestions related to energy storage development

• Research on energy storage allocation method and control technology considering the transmission-to-user of large-scale offshore wind power in Guangdo

  ·Research on the key bottleneck factors in the transmission-to-user of offshore wind power in Guangdong

  ·Research on the feasibility & economy of deploying energy storage to solve different transmission-to-user bottlenecks of Guangdong offshore wind power and the profit model of energy storage

  ·Research on the energy storage allocation methods for peak & frequency regulation of power system, transmission of offshore wind power, and stabilization of power fluctuations of offshore wind power

• Carry out the research and demonstration application of key technologies of "integration of source, gird, load and storage" in Ulanqab of Three Gorges

  ·In the project, multi real-time simulator inter-connection applications such as RTDS and RTLAB have been developed

  ·The Electromechanical and Electromagnetic simulator RT-MEET have been applied

  
  

  
  

• Research on system analysis model and configuration principle of multi-type energy storage

  ·Having systematically studied the energy storage configuration planning and analysis method of State Grid Guangdong Electric Power Co., Ltd

  ·Having developed new power system timing simulation and analysis tools

  ·Having systematically guided the energy storage planning method of State Grid Guangdong Electric Power Co., Ltd

• Research on the mechanism and high frequency characteristics of flexible DC transmission system

  ·Adopt self-developed harmonic wave scanning tools and full electromagnetic simulation

  ·Accurately analyze the risk of back-to-back DC high-frequency resonance in Guangdong, and obtain field verification

• Energy Internet planning in Jinan Start-up Area from zero carbon perspective

  ·Integrate the new power system development concepts and digital solutions in the context of carbon peaking & carbon neutrality into top-level design and planning

  ·Establish a regional energy system evolution path with "minimum process carbon emissions and zero carbon emissions in long term"