A summary of Grid Inertia 2021
Event overview
As large amounts of renewable energy generation are introduced to electrical grids and fossil-fuelled plants close down, the energy system loses the short-term storage provided by the huge spinning rotors of the power stations. This event provides a space to discuss the reduction in grid inertia and to explore solutions in terms of technology, markets and policy.
This is a summary of Grid Inertia 2021 which was run in conjunction with EPRI.
Below is the agenda for the event, followed by links to various thought pieces. For more technical details about this event, please visit the EPRI website here.
| Time (GMT) | Session |
| 9:10 -9:20 | Welcome – Seamus Garvey |
| 9:20 – 10:40 | Networks and Technology session
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| 10:40 – 10:50 | Break |
| 10:50 – 12:10 | Market and policy session
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| 12:10 – 13:00 | Lunch
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| 13:00 – 13:55 | Break-out sessions |
| Room 1: Synchronous Machines Tutorial – Seamus Garvey, University of Nottingham | |
Room 2: Grid forming and Synthetic Inertia – Mark Sumner, University of Edinburgh
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Room 3: Storage and Fast Frequency Response – Papiya Dattaray, EPRI
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Room 4: Pure Flywheels – James Rouse, University of Nottingham
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| Room 5: Inertia and Renewables | |
| 13:55 – 14:05 | Break |
| 14:05 – 15:00 | Panel / Q & A – Michael Colechin
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Links to Events and Thought Leadership Pieces on Energy Storage
We have developed a number of useful events and thought leadership pieces on energy storage. A link to each of these can be found below.
www.era.ac.uk/Medium-Duration-Energy-Storage
www.era.ac.uk/Medium-Duration-Energy-Storage-2022
www.era.ac.uk/Hydrogen-Storage-in-Caverns-2021
Event sponsors
As large amounts of renewable energy generation are introduced to electrical grids and fossil-fuelled plants close down, the energy system loses the short-term storage provided by the huge spinning rotors of the power stations.
Want to work with us?
For more information about this event, or if you are a company and would like to discuss ideas related to this topic, please contact Professor Seamus Garvey at the University of Nottingham.
An enhanced flywheel system would be much cheaper than a battery based equivalent. It turns out after all that some new problems have some excellent old solutions.
Professor Seamus Garvey, University of Nottingham