Two CEPRI’s achievements won IET Excellence and Innovation Awards

On November 15, 2023, the award ceremony for IET Excellence and Innovation Awards, one of the world’s highest awards in the engineering and technology field, was held in Glasgow, UK. Two of CEPRI’s innovation achievements were shortlisted for the finals. The Advanced Digital Power System Simulator (ADPSS) won the bronze award of the International Awards and the “Grid Guardian - Protection Technology for Preventing Large Area Power Outages in High–penetrationRenewableEnergy Power Systems” won the nomination award. This year, nearly 70 achievements from more than 10 countries have applied for International Awards, involving fields such as healthcare, communication, energy, materials, and environmental protection. Six of them were nominated for the finals, of which the two achievements in the energy filed are both from CEPRI.

ADPSS is a digital power system simulator based on high-performance PC clusters. It accurately simulates complex power systems with large-scale AC-DC interconnected grids withhigh penetration of renewable energy and power electronic devices. It has been widely used in China's power grid planning, dispatching and operation, new equipment research and development, and other fields, providing basic support for the construction of new type of power systems and the implementation of the “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals”, and has been promoted to Portugal, Pakistan and other countries.

The “Grid Guardian - Protection Technology for Preventing Large Area Power Outages in High-penetrationRenewableEnergy Power Systems” proposes new methods to prevent mis-operation and protection malfunction, and develops a new type of protection device for high-penetration renewable energy power systems. It can effectively prevent the occurrence of large-scale power outages in the power grid, greatly improving the safety and reliability of the power grid. More than 18,000 protective devices using this technology have been applied in China and more than 5,000 exported to 27 countries such as Canada, Brazil, and India.

These awards demonstrate that CEPRI’s technological innovation strength has been recognized by international peers. It is of great significance to enhance the image and influence of SGCC and CEPRI as internationally leading brands.