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17 - 19 September 2024
Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre
Muscat, Oman
Session Two
Power systems and grid solutions
Moderated by
Ahmed Al-Nadabi
Regularity & Compliance General Manager - OETC
Ahmed Al-Nadabi
Regularity & Compliance General Manager - OETC
Eng.Ahmed Al-Nadabi has a Master Degree in Energy System from UK with more than 14 years’ experience in Electricity Transmission business. He is currently working as a Regulatory and Compliance General Manager in Oman Electricity Transmission Company. He also a chairman for Grid Code Review Panel and member in other local and international committees. He contributed in many technical publications internationally.
Energy Interconnection and Energy Transition in the MENA Region
Dr. Kai FU
Senior Manager - GEIDCO
Dr. Kai FU
Senior Manager - GEIDCO
Dr. Kai FU was born in Shandong Province, China. He is an Economist and Senior Manager on grid interconnection at the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO). His expertise includes MENA economic & social affairs study, energy & resources research in China, Africa and MENA countries. GEIDCO is a no-profit INGO, initiated by the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), with HQ in Beijing and 7 regional offices around the globe. At GEIDCO, he is working on international collaboration, energy green transition and sustainable development in the MENA region, and cooperation with government ministries, international organizations, research institutes, energy companies, financing parties, and think-tanks. He participated in the preparation of several GEIDCO annual reports on energy transition and sustainable development in the MENA region.
Dr. Kai holds a doctorate in Arabic Study from the Alexandria University of Egypt, and is an economist certified by the Chinese government.
Renewable Energy Integration: Challenges on integrating renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, into existing power systems.
Akhillas Rashid Nasser Al Waaili
Operational Planning Engineer - OETC
Akhillas Rashid Nasser Al Waaili
Operational Planning Engineer - OETC
An Operational Planning Engineer / Network Study and System Performance Engineer at Oman Electricity Transmission Company. I began my career in November 2019. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a major in Power and Energy Engineering, which I earned from Sultan Qaboos University in 2019. I completed my Master’s degree in the same field at Sultan Qaboos University in September 2024, with a keen interest in Modern Power System Stability.
Enhancing Renewable Energy Integration in Oman
Siti Aziz
Consultant in Electricity Market & Regulation, Elia Grid International - Germany
Siti Aziz
Consultant in Electricity Market & Regulation, Elia Grid International - Germany
Siti Aziz is a Consultant in Electricity Market & Regulation with nearly a decade of experience in the energy sector. Her expertise spans management consultancy, business analysis, stakeholder management, and techno-commercial aspects of energy systems, with a strong focus on renewable energy and sustainability. Equipped with an MBA in Energy Management from Technical University Berlin, Siti has contributed to diverse projects, such as co-founding a startup in aggregating storage micro-capacities and enabling flexibility mechanisms, developing power system resiliency, working on grid code and roadmaps with increasing RES penetration or more broadly electrification of power. She is fluent in English, German, French, and Malay.
Optimizing renewable integration into modern power grids.
Dr. Ralf Blumenthal
Senior Vice President and Head, Siemens Grid Software Middle East & Africa
Dr. Ralf Blumenthal
Senior Vice President and Head, Siemens Grid Software Middle East & Africa
Ralf was appointed in January 2022 and has been in the forefront for grid software business in the Middle East since. As the Senior Vice President he is responsible for the grid operators and industries across Middle East in transmission and distribution control centers, AMI, grid planning, microgrids and EV charging management.
In his previous role as Global Product Manager for Energy Efficiency Analytics, Ralf was leading the way for SaaS product to derive energy and process efficiency measures from big data and AI analysis of energy consumption and process data in industrial and infrastructure processes.
He holds a Dr.-Ing in Thermoacoustic and Dipl.-Ing in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Aeronautical Engineering with majors in Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics.
The challenges of high penetration of renewable energy on today’s power grids and the impact of multi�level STATCOM and grid forming control.
Abdulaziz Mikwar
Power Quality Solutions Sales Manager – MEA, Hitachi Energy
Abdulaziz Mikwar
Power Quality Solutions Sales Manager – MEA, Hitachi Energy
Abdulaziz Mikwar is power quality solutions (PQS) sales and marketing in Middle East & Africa. He has been involved in developing multiple PQS projects in the region for utility and renewables applications. He participated in different events to demonstrate the need for PQS in today’s & future power grids. He received his Master in Power Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. And his bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada.
Voltage Source Converter Representation for Efficient and Credible RMS Studies
Grain Philip Adam
NEOM Energy and Water (ENOWA)
Grain Philip Adam
NEOM Energy and Water (ENOWA)
Dr. Grain Philip Adam is a Principal Planning Expert with NEOM Energy and Water (ENOWA) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), a technical lead of 3000 MW and ±525 kV Bipole Voltage Source Converter HVDC Interconnector under construction between Yanbu and NEOM Industrial City (NIC), and a co-lead of NEOM Grid Design. Previously, Dr. Adam was with the Technology and Innovation Center (TIC) of the Institute of Energy and Environment (IEE) of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. Dr. Adam has authored and co-authored over 100 technical reports as part of R&D with several tier 1 OEMs (ALTSOM Grid, UK; Mitsubishi Electric, Japan; and Rolls-Royce, UK), consultancies for major UK utilities (National Grid, Scottish Power and SSE), and Prestige European and UK research projects, and 3 books in power electronics applications in power systems. Dr Adam is known for his sustained contribution of original ideas in fundamental and applications of power electronics, and he has published over 150 journal and conference articles, with 19 articles ranked in the top 1% of the highly cited papers with more than 100 citations per paper. Dr Adam is senior member of IEEE, IEEE Power Electronics Society and IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), and member of editorial board and associate editor of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE). Dr. Adam received several awards, for example, best paper awards for ICRERA conference in 2018 and 2022, PES reviewer of the year in 2018, star reviewer and associate editor of JESTPE in 2020, 2021 and 2022.