e-News for power industry leaders

Dear Reader,

Well, another year draws to a close.

CIGRE like many other businesses and organisations has not gone untouched by COVID, however whilst not being able to hold all the physical events we would normally hold, we have been able to provide several webinars online and have held virtual sessions for our Transformer Workshop and Annual Technical reporting sessions available on our YouTube site.

Pleasingly we have also seen a consistent increase in our membership base which now has over 100 corporate and 230 Individual members.  Our sixteen technical panels also continue to attract interest and members and now number over 380 participants.

CIGRE globally has continued to function and through mainly online collaborations our suite of Technical Brochures and papers continue to be produced.

This edition of ITL highlights three of the recent technical contributions that Australian members have been involved with.

First up is the publication of two texts which provide a comprehensive explanation of all the components of power systems and how they interact, and offers a look into the future of how power systems will need to evolve to accommodate the rapid changes that are occurring to deal with climate change.  These two texts are a Green Book - Electricity Supply Systems of the Future with Australian contributions from Les Brand (DC Systems), Alex Cruickshank (Markets) and Phil Southwell (Power System Development) and a Handbook on Power Systems with contributions from Terry Krieg for the Substations chapter and Phil Southwell, Greg Thorpe and Alex Cruickshank for the Markets chapter

The second feature is a Technical Brochure coming from Working Group B2.69 which looks at advancements made in the last decade regarding surface engineering techniques and surface coatings which allow the introduction of important properties such as self-cleaning, icephobicity, and anti-corrosion.  The Australian member of this working group was Francis Lirios. 

Finally we have a Technical Brochure 845 coming from Working Group C2.40 which has explored how coordination can be improved between TSO’s and DSO’s.  The technical Brochure has specified a set of control centre tools and related IT needed for the TSO’s and DSO’s to manage and operate this newly evolved power system.  The Australian Member on the Working Group was Matt Rigano.

We have a number of events planned for 2022 including our Transformer Workshop in April, CIDER (DER event in May) and the 2022 Paris Session in August and it is only six hundred and twenty days until we host our International Symposium in Cairns - 4th-7th September 2023.  Information on all these events, our webinars can be found on our EVENTS webpage HERE ,

From everybody at CIGRE Australia, we thank you for your interest in our activities during 2021 and wish you, your family and loved ones all the best for the Festive Season and a prosperous and healthy 2022.

Best Regards

Terry Killen
CEO

Technical Editor - Phil Southwell

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