Keynote Talk 4: Flexibility, Reliability, and Resilience from Distributed Energy Resources (DER)

Pierluigi Mancarella is the Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems at The University of Melbourne, Australia, and Professor of Smart Energy Systems at The University of Manchester, UK.
He received his MSc (2002) and PhD (2006) degrees from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, worked as a post-doc at Imperial College London, UK, and held visiting positions in the US (NREL), France (Ecole Centrale de Lille), Chile (University of Chile), and China (Tsinghua University).
Pierluigi's research interests include techno-economic modelling of low-carbon grids, multi-energy systems, energy system planning under uncertainty, and reliability and resilience of future networks. He has been involved in/led more than 70 research projects worldwide and actively engaged with energy policy in the UK, Europe, and Australia, and is author of several books and of over 300 research publications and reports.
Pierluigi is an IEEE Power and Energy Society Distinguished Lecturer, an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and Oxford Open Energy, the Convenor of the Cigre C6/C2.34 Working Group on "Flexibility provision from distributed energy resources", and the past Chair of the Working Group on Energy of the IEEE European Public Policy Initiative.
Pierluigi was awarded the 2017 veski Innovation Fellowship by the Victorian Government for his "FlexCity" project on multi-energy urban virtual power plants, and an international Newton Prize 2018 for his UK-Chile Newton-Picarte project on power system resilience. He also led the Melbourne Energy Institute's work "Power system security assessment of the future National Electricity Market" for the Australian Chief Scientist's "Finkel Review".
Pierluigi is currently working closely with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) and the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) and a number of other industry stakeholders in the development of distributed energy marketplaces and new power system security and resilience services.