Conference Agenda

Session

A2-1: A2 Power Transformer and Reactor: Renewable Energy Applications

Time:

Tuesday, 30/Sept/2025:

10:30am - 12:00pm

Location: Room 520F

Session Topics:

A2 Power transformers and reactors

Presentations

10:30am - 10:45am

Solar Inverter Duty Transformer performance optimization using alternate dielectrics under varying ambient conditions

Parag Chatterjee, Subir Karmakar

NTPC Limited, India

10:45am - 11:00am

New conservator design for floating offshore transformers in extreme weather

RUPESH DARIPA¹, Oguzkan SENTURK², Vivekkumar CHAUBEY³, Tobias STIRL⁴, Jian ZHANG⁵, Rajeev GUPTA⁶, Tirdad BOROOMAND⁷

¹GE Vernova, India; ²GE Vernova, Turkey; ³GE Vernova, India; ⁴GE Vernova, Germany; ⁵GE Vernova, China; ⁶GE Vernova, United Kingdom; ⁷GE Vernova, United Kingdom

11:00am - 11:15am

Transformers and Reactors for Floating-Offshore- Substations. Technical Requirements, Solutions, Experiences and Outlook

Ewald Werner Taschler¹, Joerg Findeisen², Martin Stoessl¹

¹Siemens-Energy, Austria; ²Siemens-Energy, Germany

11:15am - 11:30am

Impacts of Reverse Power Flow through Substation Transformers due to high penetration of DERs

Milad Akbari¹, John Penaranda¹, Mohsen Mostafaei², Afshin Rezaei-Zare²

¹Hydro One, Canada; ²York University, Canada

11:30am - 11:45am

Enhancing Wind Farm reliability through regular Transformer testing and monitoring solutions

Ahmed El-Rasheed¹, Volney Naranjo²

¹Megger, Canada; ²Megger, USA