Kaushik Das works with hybrid power plants, which are renewable power plants combining wind, solar, storage and energy conversion technologies (P2X). The advantage of those power plants is that they are less dependent on the weather, as sun and wind complement each other, and thereby also can avoid expensive grid upgrades. The challenge that Kaushik Das together with other DTU researchers addresses is that there are many control layers, which have to play together across a hierarchy of energy management system, hybrid plant controller, wind farm and solar farm controller and down to the individual component controllers.
From the laudation: Kaushik Das is publishing in a steady stream, is teaching courses, supervises a large number of Master and PhD students’ thesis and even manages a study line. He was taking the initiative to the Danish-Indian project HYBRIDize, which received funding from Innovationsfonden Danmark and Indian funding sources, and combined academia and industry around the challenges. He also was instrumental in establishing the Danish Hybrid Wind Power Plant Forum with significant participation from developers, manufacturers, suppliers, grid companies and academia. More globally, he is now the Operating Agent of the International Energy Agency Wind Task on Hybrid Power Plants.
Before coming to DTU Wind for his PhD, Kaushik Das worked in industry and received 4 patents in power systems.
For more information on his research and education activities on hybrid power plants, see DTU Orbit.
