Renewable Power for Sustainable Growth

This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Renewable Power (ICRP 2020), held during 13–14 July 2020 in Rajouri, Jammu, India. The book covers different topics of renewable energy sources in modern power systems. The book focusses on smart grid technologies and applications, renewable power systems including solar PV, solar thermal, wind, power generation, transmission and distribution, transportation electrification and automotive technologies, power electronics and applications in renewable power system, energy management and control system, energy storage in modern power system, active distribution network, artificial intelligence in renewable power systems, and cyber-physical systems and Internet of things in smart grid and renewable power.

Atif Iqbal, Fellow IET (UK), Fellow IE (India) and Senior Member IEEE, Vice-Chair, IEEE Qatar section,  DSc (Poland), PhD  (UK)- Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. On Industrial Electronics, IEEE ACCESS, Editor-in-Chief, I’manager journal of Electrical Engineering, Former Associate Editor IEEE Trans. On Industry Application, Former Guest Associate Editor IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics. Full Professor at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University and Former Full Professor at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India.  Recipient of Outstanding Faculty Merit Award academic year 2014-2015 and Research excellence awards 2015 and 2019 at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. He received his B.Sc. (Gold Medal) and M.Sc. Engineering (Power System & Drives) degrees in 1991 and 1996, respectively, from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India and PhD in 2006 from Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.  He obtained DSc (Habilitation) from the Gdansk University of Technology in Control, Informatics and Electrical Engineering in 2019. He has been employed as a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, AMU, Aligarh since 1991 where he served as Full Professor until Aug. 2016. He is a recipient of Maulana Tufail Ahmad Gold Medal for standing first at B.Sc. Engg. (Electrical) Exams in 1991 from AMU. He has received several best research papers awards e.g. at IEEE ICIT-2013, IET-SEISCON-2013, SIGMA 2018,  IEEE CENCON 2019, IEEE ICIOT 2020, and Springer ICRP 2020. He has published widely in International Journals and Conferences his research findings related to Power Electronics, Variable Speed Drives, and Renewable Energy Sources. Dr. Iqbal has authored/co-authored more than 420 research papers and four books and several chapters in edited books. He has supervised several large R&D projects worth more than multi-million USD. He has supervised and co-supervised several PhD students. His principal area of research interest is Smart Grid, Complex Energy Transition, Active Distribution Network, Electric Vehicles drivetrain, Sustainable Development, and Energy Security, Distributed Energy Generation, and multiphase motor drive system.



Hasmat Malik (M'16) received Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Aryabhatt Govt. Polytechnic Delhi, B.Tech. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the GGSIP University, Delhi, M.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, and Ph.D. in Power System from Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. He is currently Postdoctoral Scholar at BEARS, University Town, NUS Campus, Singapore, and Assistant Professor (on-Leave) at Division of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology Delhi, India. He is a life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (IETE), International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong (IAENG), and International Society for Research and Development, London (ISRD), and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, and Mir Labs, Asia. He has published more than 100 research articles, including papers in international journals, conferences and book chapters. He is Guest Editor of Special Issue of Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 2018, (SCI, Impact Factor 2019:1.637), (IOS Press). He received the POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA 2017) for his Ph.D. work for research and innovation in the area of power system. He has received best research papers awards at IEEE INDICON-2015 and full registration fee at IEEE SSD-2012 (Germany). He has supervised 23 PG students. He is involving in several large R&D projects. His principle area of research interests is artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics for renewable energy, smart building & automation, condition monitoring and online fault detection & diagnosis (FDD).


Kouzou Abdellah (IEEE senior member) is Full Professor at the University of Djelfa, Algeria. He was a researcher with Munich Technical University in Germany in 2010, 2011 and 2012. He is a collaborator researcher at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He has participated and led several research projects. He is Founder of the Power Electronics and Power Quality research group at the University of Djelfa. He is a member of many editorial boards in several scientific journals and a member of the steering committees in several national and international conferences. He was an expert in several national and international scientific activities and project evaluations. He has published more than 320 papers.  His main research interests include power quality issues, power electronics devices, application of power electronics in renewable energies, sensorless and predictive control, fault diagnosis in power electronics converters, smart grid and smart buildings, reliability and diagnostics in power electronics converters.


Ahmed Riyaz received his M.Tech. (Power System & Drives) and B.Tech. (Electrical) Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (AMU), India, in 2009 and 2007, respectively, and he has completed the Ph.D. degree with the Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India. He has worked as Senior Research Fellow in an MHRD sponsored research project at IIT Roorkee (India) developing online open source simulation tools. He has research and teaching experience of ten years. He is currently working as a faculty member at BGSB University, Govt. of J&K (India), and developed multi-phase drives lab simultaneously handling many key responsibilities in administration. He is also Nodal Officer (Academics) for a World Bank sponsored project worth one hundred ten million Indian Rupees at BGSB University. His area of research includes multi-phase (more than three-phase) electric drives, power electronic converters and renewable energy.

Sertac Bayhan (SMIEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. His undergraduate studies are also at the same university, and he graduated as valedictorian. In 2008, he joined the Electronics and Automation Department, Gazi University, as a Lecturer, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. From 2014 to 2018, he also worked at Texas A&M University at Qatar as Associate Research Scientist. Dr. Bayhan is currently working in Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) as Scientist. His research interests lie in the areas of advanced control of PV and wind systems, microgrids and smart grid applications. He has led multi-PI projects with collaborators from all over the world. He has authored 120 high-impact journal and conference papers. He is the co-author of two books and three book chapters. Dr. Bayhan has been an active senior member of IEEE. Because of the visibility of his research, he has been recently elected as Chair of IES Power Electronics Technical Committee and selected as Co-Chair of IEEE-IES Student and Young Professional Activity Program. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics and IEEE TRANSACTIONS on INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS and Guest Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS on INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS. Dr. Bayhan was the recipient of many prestigious international awards, such as the Research Fellow Excellence Award in recognition of his research achievements and exceptional contributions to the Texas A&M University at Qatar in 2018, the Best Paper and Presentation Recognition at the 41st and 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 2015 and 2016, Research Excellence Travel Awards in 2014 and 2015 (Texas A&M University at Qatar) and Researcher Support Awards from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (ten times).