DISTRIBUTECH International 2020

Jens Boemer
Technical Leader/Project Manager
Electric Power Research Institute


Jens C. Boemer is leading research on the grid integration of renewable and distributed energy resources at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) with a focus on power system stability issues. He received his Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Dortmund, Germany in 2005 where he specialized on power systems and renewable energies. Jens supported the German Government in the drafting of the Ancillary Services Ordinance for wind power plants (SDLWindV) and developed an operational strategy for the Irish transmission system operator EirGrid/SONI with regard to very high instantaneous shares of wind power in the All Island Power System. Until October 2012 he was Senior Consultant in the Power Systems and Markets Group at the Ecofys premises in Berlin, Germany. In 2013/2014 he worked with the Intelligent Electrical Power Grids group of the Electrical Sustainable Energy department at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, for his research towards a Ph.D. degree. In November 2014 he joined the Grid Operations and Planning, Modeling and Simulation group in the Power Delivery and Utilization sector at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Jens is member of IEEE and member of VDE.

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