Rajiv K. Varma
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
The University of Western Ontario
London, ON
Canada
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data Names: Varma, Rajiv K., author. Title: Smart solar PV inverters with advanced grid support functionalities / by Rajiv K. Varma. Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley‐IEEE Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021032004 (print) | LCCN 2021032005 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119214182 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119214205 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119214212 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Photovoltaic power systems. | Smart power grids. Classification: LCC TK1087 .V37 2022 (print) | LCC TK1087 (ebook) | DDC 621.31–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021032004 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021032005
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RAJIV K. VARMA is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Western Ontario (UWO). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He was also the Hydro One Chair in Power Systems Engineering from 2012 to 2015.
He has a rich experience of 32 years of teaching and research in academia. He is an internationally renowned researcher in Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), and grid integration of solar and wind power systems. He has received 13 Teaching Excellence awards at UWO.
He was the principal coauthor of the IEEE Press/Wiley book on “Thyristor‐Based FACTS Controllers for Electrical Transmission Systems,” published in 2002. This book has been translated into Chinese and also has a Southeast Asian edition.
He is presently the Chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) “HVDC and FACTS Subcommittee.” He was also the Chair of the “IEEE Working Group on HVDC and FACTS Bibliography” from 2004 to 2019 and the editor of “IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery” during 2003–2008. He has actively contributed to the development of IEEE Standard 1547‐2018 and IEEE Standard P2800.
He was the team lead for the first‐ever IEEE Tutorial on “Smart Inverters for Distributed Generators” in IEEE PES T&D Conference in 2016 and in PES General Meetings in 2017, 2018, and 2019. He co-delivered the IEEE Substations Committee Tutorial on “Static Var Compensator (SVC)” six times at different IEEE PES T&D Conferences and PES General Meetings during 2005–2012.
He has also delivered several tutorials, courses, workshops, and webinars on smart inverters, FACTS, SVC, HVDC, and solar/wind integration in different countries including the United States, Canada, Colombia, Nepal, and India for utility engineers, system planners, and researchers.
He has led several research grants, including multiuniversity multiutility projects, on grid integration of solar PV systems and FACTS, totaling over $11 million. He has also published more than 180 papers in international journals and conferences.
He has developed a set of innovative technologies of utilizing PV solar farms in the night and day as a dynamic reactive power compensator – STATCOM (a FACTS Controller), which he named as PV‐STATCOM. These novel PV‐STATCOM technologies on existing solar farms can provide a 24/7 functionality of a STATCOM at a significantly lower cost for the same benefits. The PV‐STATCOM technology both for night and day applications was successfully installed and demonstrated for the first time in Canada, and perhaps in the world, on 13th December 2016 in the utility network of Bluewater Power Distribution Corporation, in Sarnia, Ontario.
Dr. Varma holds 23 granted patents and 9 pending patents on this technology in the United States, Canada, Europe, China, and India. For this research, he received the Prize Paper Award from IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) in 2012 and the First Place Poster Award in the 7th International IRED Conference in 2016.
He received the prestigious IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award in 2021 “for advancing FACTS controllers application in education, research, and professional society and for developing an innovative STATCOM technology utilizing PV solar farms.” He became a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2021 with the citation, “…Among his pioneering contributions has been a major ground‐breaking utility‐implemented award‐winning technology, PV‐STATCOM, that enables solar PV plants to provide FACTS functionalities at one‐tenth cost