On the afternoon of Nov. 07, 2018, Prof. Tapan Saha, an expert of new-energy power system from the University of Queensland in Australia was invited to pay a visit to Department of Electrical Engineering, THU. He delivered the academic report onResearch in Condition Monitoring of Electrical Ageing Assets and Renewable Energy Integration, The seminar was presided over by Zhang Ling who is an assistant research fellow of the Department, and Doc. Richard Yan of University of Queensland and more than 20 teachers and students of the Department attended the seminar.

In his report, Prof. Tapan Saha first introduced the Transformer Innovation Research Centre of University of Queensland and the importance of condition monitoring and failure diagnosis of solar photovoltaic system. In recent years, the solar photovoltaic generating capacity grows year by year at a faster and faster rate, and both condition monitoring and failure diagnosis are the important means that guarantees a safe and steady system operation. After that, Prof. Tapan Saha detailed the research status and development trend of new-energy access in the Queensland region, proposing four future development directions of power system: access technology of renewable energy sources; roof photovoltaic generation in distributed grids, battery-based storage and electromobile; controllability of distributed grids; and large-scale renewable energy sources and applications. Finally, teachers and students had a heated discussion on reports with Tapan Saha.

Prof. Tapan Saha has worked in several universities in Australia for more than 25 years. At present, he serves as Director of the Solar Energy Research Center of University of Queensland, Director of the Transformer Innovation Research Center of Australia, and takes office in several international organizations such as IEEE and CIGRE. His research fields include new-energy access and power system analysis, electricity market analysis, high-voltage transformer intelligent analysis and ageing research, and he has published more than 500 papers in such journals as IEEE, IET and Elsevier.