Georgios Demetriades

TL;DR: An overview of the recent advances in the area of voltage-source converter (VSC) HVdc technology is provided in this paper, where a list of VSC-based HVDC installations worldwide is included.

TL;DR: In this article, the principle of modularity is used to derive the different multilevel voltage and current source converter topologies for high-power dc systems, where the derived converter cells are treated as building blocks and are contributing to the modularity of the system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive review of power electronics (PE) topologies for utility BESS that have been proposed either within industry or the academic literature, and a comparison of the presently most commercially viable topologies is conducted in terms of estimated power conversion efficiency and relative cost.

TL;DR: The applications of power semiconductors in circuit-breaker (CB) technology can help achieve considerable improvement in its performance and possible new capabilities as discussed by the authors, and new trends in power electronics for the applications in CBs are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a unified distributed control strategy for DC microgrid operating modes, without bus voltage signaling or mode detection mechanisms that are normally required for decentralized control strategies, is proposed, which is based on the novel integration of distributed controllers for energy balancing between DC micro-grid energy storage systems with distributed controllers used to regulate the average DC micro grid bus voltage, and a new method for controlling the grid connected rectifier that maintains the distributed control structure.