International Symposium on Smart Grid for Smart City

Reported by Christine Tao and May Wu, Guangdong University of Technology,

Guangzhou, China

23 November 2017

Summary

Smart Grid lightens Smart City, and Smart City makes life better.

International Symposium on Smart Grid for Smart City was

successfully held.

On November 20, 2017, the International Symposium on Smart Grid for Smart City was

organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering in School of Automation from

Guangdong University of Technology. The venue was in the Guangzhou National Integrated

Circuit Design Industrialization Center from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The International

Symposium was opened by the Vice President of the International Activities of Guangdong

University of Technology, Professor Zhang Li. The Symposium Chair was 1000-talent

Programme of China, IEEE Fellow Professor Loi Lei Lai. The attendees consisted of invited

speakers & guests, government officials, decision makers, industrialists, academics,

researchers and postgraduates. The symposium was presided by Christine Tao. Professor

Zhang Li gave the welcome address of the Symposium too.

With the theme on "Towards a smart, clean, efficient and sustainable future" and

technical domain covers system Integration; intelligence & data analytics; management &

control; sensors & IoT and communication & security, this symposium aims to provide an

international forum for researchers and practitioners to report the latest innovations and the

state-of-the-art, and to share ideas in all aspects of smart grid, smart cities, emerging

technologies and data engineering & sciences. The symposium invited speakers were from

China, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. This event is an important

international event that promotes the development of the industry, enhance academic

exchanges and promotes the rapid development of smart grid smart cities. The co-sponsors

included DRPT International Inc., 1000-talent programme Data Centre, Shenzhen Clou

Electronics Co. Ltd., and Guangzhou National Integrated Circuit Design Industrialization

Center for Modern Service Industry. Technical Co-sponsors included IEEE Smart Grid and IEEE

Smart Cities. The support was from IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Intelligent Power and

Energy Systems, IEEE Beijing (Guangzhou) Section and IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter

(Guangdong University of Technology)

Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Honorary President of State Grid

Electric Power Research Institute, Professor Yusheng Xue gave a report entitled Cyber-

Physical-Social systems in energy for Smart City, and after the report, Professor Yusheng Xue

discussed the future development trend with the delegates, and made lots of valuable

suggestions. IEEE Fellow, Changjiang Scholar, from North Carolina State University, USA,

Professor Mo-Yuen Chow delivered his talk titled Collaborative distributed control on smart

micro-grid energy management, which was inspiring. After the morning tea break, IEEE Fellow,

Distinguished Expert, 1000-talent Programme of China, SHaRP Professor from University of

New South Wales in Australia, Professor Joe Zhaoyang Dong gave a report entitled Experience

and lesion learned from demonstration project in Smart Grid for Smart City in Australia. After

lunch, IEEE Fellow, the Member of US National Academy of Engineering, Bodine Chair

Professor, from Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, Professor Mohammad Shahidehpour

talked about Smart Cities for promoting global sustainability. Follow to this, Distinguished

Expert, 1000-talent Programme of China, Deputy Chief Engineer of Electric Power Research

Institute in China Southern Power Grid, China, Dr Xuzhu Dong gave a report entitled

Demonstration of Smart Distribution self-healing control for Smart City at China Southern

Power Grid. After the afternoon tea break, Power System Laboratory Director of Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, Professor Zhao Xu shared with Emerging analytics for big data analysis

in Smart Grid. And Technical Expert and Group Leader in Ford Motor Company, Michigan,

USA, Dr Jianbo Lu gave a report entitled Smart mobility: The inevitable contributor of Smart

Cities. Finally, IEEE Smart Cities Publications Committee Secretary at the University of Oxford,

Chun Sing Lai brought us the speech about Data analytics and energy economics – Solar PV

and electrical energy storage, and made a lot of valuable suggestions in the Q&A time. At

6:30 p.m., the International Symposium on Smart Grid for Smart City had come to a successful

conclusion.

This symposium offered the delegates lots of opportunities and gains; they all believe

that these speeches have broadened their thinking as well as making them keep up with the

pace and directions of international mainstream research.