New HVDC research to be presented in Berlin this April

There is less than a month until ACDC Europe 2026, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)’s international conference on AC and DC Power Transmission. Over 100 engineers are looking forward to the meeting in Berlin on 28-29 April, where researchers from industry and academia will present some of the latest results and project updates in HVDC.

 New contributors have joinedthe panel session exploring HVDC deployment across Europe. Richard Poole, HVDCPrincipal Consultant Engineer, National Grid Ventures, UK, and Robert H.Renner, Team Lead HVDC Studies, Siemens Energy, Germany, will join previouslyconfirmed panellists Jutta Hanson, Professor, TU Darmstadt, Dirk Biermann, COO,50Hertz Transmission GmbH, and panel chair Willem Leterme, Professor, RWTHAachen University.

 Several new speakers havealso joined the conference programme, including Joan Hernandez, Product Ownerfor HVDC System Dynamics, Hitachi Energy, Sweden, and Christian Rauscher, AssetSpecialist HVDC Converters, TenneT TSO, who will give a talk on heat extractionat HVDC converter stations, and the use of HVDC converter heat losses.

 They join an intensive, 2-dayprogramme that also includes invited and peer-reviewed content in HVDC:

 - SébastienSilvant, Horizon Europe Project Coordinator for HVDC interoperability atSuperGrid Institute, will look at how the InterOPERA Project’s work istransforming interoperability in HVDC into industrial reality.

- Grid FormingControl Scheme Applied to 2GW-525kV MMC-HVDC Converter Station Model for Use inMulti-Vendor HVDC System Design Studies (TenneT, Germany)

- Impact of DC circuit breaker operation in HVDC grids on the testing requirements of HVDC cables — a tentative study (Scibreak AB, Sweden)

- Estimation of necessary design margins in HVDC protection settings (KU Leuven and Energyville, Belgium)

- Method for DC reactor and DC circuit breaker design in HVDC grids (Supergrid Institute,France)

- Integrating Dynamic Breaking Chopper into DC Circuit Breaker for HVDC Systems (E.ON Energy Research Center, Germany)

- System-level impacts of proactive isolation and failure-mode operation of hybrid DCCBs in multi-terminal HVDC hubs (University of Edinburgh and the National HVDC Centre, UK)

You can see the full programme for ACDC Europe 2026 at https://spkl.io/6005AtpUU. The conference takes place on 28 - 29 April at the Radisson Collection Hotel,Berlin