Appointments

Associate Professor, Wind and Energy Systems, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
Scientific director, DTU-TotalEnergies Excellence Center, Denmark
Operating agent in IEA Wind Task 50 on Hybrid Power Plants

Research

Teaching & Education

Coordinator - MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology- Wind Energy study line
Coordinator - Nordic Five Tech Master in Innovative Sustainable Energy Engineering - System Integration of Wind Power study line
46060 : Hybrid Power Plant Design Project
46W47 : Hybrid Power Plants
46230 : Power system balancing with large scale wind power
46W27 : Grid connection and integration of wind power
Individual courses :
- Hybrid Wind Power Plant
- Optimization in Wind Energy
- Modelling and control of wind and solar power plants

Research Projects

Currently working in 11 national/international research projects. Previously worked in 10 research projects which have now been completed.

Operating agent in IEA Wind Task 50 on Hybrid Power Plants
DTEC project GREAT on grid services from converter-connected technologies
Horizon Europe project DTWO on the digital twin of power and energy systems
GINP H2BRIDGE project on Indo-Danish Bilateral Research Initiative on Digitalized Green Hydrogen Ecosystems
Horizon Europe project HAVEN on Hybrid Energy Storage System
Horizon Europe project SolarX on optimization and economic assessment of SolarX technology
Horizon Europe project TwinSolar on energy system modelling with high share of solar
DTEC project Hybrid Power Plants Lifecycle Project
EUDP project REALISE on Hybrid Power Plant design and operation
EUDP project HybridStorage on hybridisation of different storage technologies
MSCA-ITN project WinGrid on grid support from wind and hybrid power plants
Indo-Danish IFD project HYBRIDize on sizing and operation of hybrid power plants
EU H2020 project FarmConners on wind power control
EU H2020 project TotalControl on wind power control
Forskel project NetVind on active distribution network
Forskel project NSON-DK on power system balancing
Forskel project OffshoreWake on impacts of wakes on power system balancing
EU InterReg project Baltic InteGrid on wind power integration in Baltic countries
EU FP7 project iTESLA on power system resilience

PhD Supervisions

Physical and Electrical Design of Hybrid Power Plants (Supervisors: P-E Rethore, K. Das, S. Røpke, M. El Sied, N. Dkhili)
Robust Control and Stability of Multi-vendor & Multi-technology Hybrid Power Plants (Supervisors: K. Das, P.Sørensen, M. Gryning, M. B. Dowlatabadi)
Operation and control of Hybrid Power Plants including Energy Management System (Supervisors: P. Sørensen, K. Das, M. El Sied, M. A. Rahmani)
Sizing of Hybrid Wind Power Plants Considering Operational Strategies (Supervisors: K. Das, J. P. Murcia Leon, P. Sørensen, S. Ghazouani)
Control of Hybrid Power Plants connected to weak grids (Supervisors: P. Sørensen, K. Das, A. D. Hansen, R. Yan)
Optimization and Control of Wind, Solar, and Storage in Hybrid Power Plants (Supervisors: P. Sørensen, K. Das, A. D. Hansen)
Wind power plant support for weather-dependent active distribution networks (Supervisors: A. D. Hansen, K. Das, M. Koivisto)
Design and optimization of electrical infrastructures in offshore wind power clusters (Supervisors: N. Cutululis, M. Stolpe, K. Das)

Professional Activities

Editor - Energies: Special issue on "Coordinated Control of Wind Power in Power Systems with a Large Share of Renewables"
PhD Evaluation - Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
Task Group
- Operating agent on IEA Wind Task on "Hybrid Power Plant"
- Working Group Member - WindEurope: System Integration "Hybrid Power Plants"
- Joint Working Group - Member of CIGRE JWG C6/C2.34: "Flexibility provision from Distributed Energy Resources"
Advisory Committee
- International Hybrid Power Systems Workshop
- 1st International Conference on Large-Scale Grid Integration of Renewable Energy in India
- 14th IEEE PES Asia-Pacific and Energy Engineering Conference
Membership
- IEA Wind, Member (Task 25: Design and operation of power systems with large amounts of wind power, Task 41: Distributed Wind)
- CIGRE, Member
- IEEE, Senior Member (Power & Energy Society)

Kaushik Das