Growth of HVDC Power Transmission Should Bring Challenges and Opportunities For Power Electronics Engineers

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Over the last 50 years, high-voltage dc (HVDC) power transmission has made tremendous progress. As the technology improved and design challenges were overcome, voltages and power levels rose, while newer systems became smaller in size and offered greater control over power flow. Meanwhile, the time and manpower required to design HVDC power systems has greatly decreased. Nevertheless, growing demands for energy have increased the number of HVDC systems being designed and implemented, suggesting there will an ongoing need for more engineers in this field, including the power electronics (PE) engineers who design the multi-megawatt-scale ac-dc and dc-ac power converters that are at the heart of these systems. In this Power Supply Jobs & Technology feature, Roger Critchley, Head of Power Electronics at Alstom Grid’s Technology Centre, discusses at length the history of this field and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for current and future generations of PE engineers.

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David G. Morrison, Editor, How2Power.com, How2Power Today, Jul 01 2012

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