8^th World Congress and Expo on Green Energy June 15-16, 2020 London, UK

Dr Abhishek Asthana is the Director of Hallam Energy, the energy research group at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). In 2009, he co-founded Hallam Energy and has since led and delivered 67 projects of industrial energy research and consultancy. He has won £9.1 million external funding, co-authored 39 scientific papers and 1 book, invented 4 patents and developed 5 commercial software packages. He is the course director for BEng Energy Engineering and MEng and BEng Chemical Engineering programs at the university. In 2015, he established a Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) in Energy to train PhD students conducting energy research. The DTA has now grown to 120 PhD students and 180 Supervisors across 15 British Universities in the University Alliance, UK, and Abhishek is currently its Deputy Director. He also recently led the alliance to success in winning €6.5 Million funding from the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND to further expand the DTA program. Abhishek is a reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals and the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Industrial Energy

Dehua Zheng has completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China in 1982 and 1987, respectively. He has also graduated another M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1995. His profesional experience includes the Manitoba Hydropower Company, University of Manitoba MB Canada (he involved in the PSCAD & RTDS development teams), Saskachewan Polytech Institute SK Canada, China Goldwind Science and Technology Co., Ltd., and others. Dehua Zheng is currently a Deputy Director of China Smart Distribution System & Decentralized Generation Committee, Deputy Director of China National Wind Power Engineering Technology Research Center, Chief Scientist of Goldwind Science and Technology Co., Ltd., IEC project leader for IEC/TS 62898-3-1: Microgrids – Technical Requirements – Protection and Dynamic Control, IEEE Senior Member, and registered senior electrical engineer, PhD. professor in many universities. He is also leading the Microgrid and Energy Internet Technology and Business in China, and devotes himself to research and development of Chinese and world microgrid and energy internet technology.

A comprehensive protection and dynamic control strategy for microgrids with high renewable energy penetration