E-lesson

Solid state transformers course – e-lesson #6: Improvements by distributed generation

Intermediate level Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 2:00 PM TZ Europe/Zagreb
Intermediate level

Hosted by: Mario Salano / Basic level

The sixth lesson of the new course titled "Improvements by distributed generation" is scheduled for May 6th at 2 pm CET.

The topics of the first lesson are:

 

  • Renewable energies are some of the fixed points to improve in order to reduce the greenhouse effect and base the electric network on a clean source.
  • Renewable sources naturally regenerate over time and do not run out. The distribution system in a smart grid facilitates a two-way flow between customers and users so that users are both producers and users (prosumers) of electricity.
  • An important role is played by storage devices by storing the excess of energy produced and release to the network when needed. Distributed generation is a set of small scale (10 – 150 MW) generation units connected to medium voltage (MV) and low voltage (LV) distribution network in order to produce electricity close to the end users.
Subscribe to this course
If you are already a subscriber of the Transformers Academy or Transformer Magazine, please log in with your credentials. Login

The main topic of this session is the considerations of products that meet technical specifications overcoming business and social problems: concept applied to line frequency transformers.

As the course author – Mr. Salano – likes to  put it: Technical specification is the mother of every design as it communicates the needs and requirements of the users in manageable technical data.

Attend and learn more.

Keywords: specification, requirements, design, data sheet, standards

About the author

Mario Salano

Mr. Salano’s expertise in the field of power transformers comes from a well established engineering skills acquired in “Salano transformers”, renowned Italian company that manufactured line-frequency power transformers for Italian power utilities. While inheriting the company from his father, Sig. Mario Salano used his vast engineering skills and he managed to maintain the company in rough period of seventies, adding new technologies and novel approaches to traditional values and products of “Salano transformers”.

His current interests include high-efficiency distribution transformers, the impact of nonlinear loads on power transformers, novel materials for transformer cores and also high-frequency power transformers for the use in conjunction with power electronics topologies.