In the global power system of 2050, we will need around four times the power generation capacity and the ability to transfer up to three times as much electrical energy compared to 2020. This is due to the rapid growth of electrification of transportation, industry, IT, and building sectors. For this enormous demand for electricity, inverter-based generation sources, active loads, and energy storage technologies are being installed at a fast pace to enable the gradual phase-out of fossil-based synchronous generation.
It is now the objective of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) International Technical Roadmap on High-Power Electronics for Modern Energy Grids (ITRG) team to set out a long-term roadmap for High-Power grid-connected converters from 10s of megawatts to gigawatt scales. The ITRG started, therefore first with a global survey to harvest the industry and academia experts’ views, opinions, and visions in the high-power electronics field, and the outcomes are discussed in this manuscript.
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