On May 25, the 15th Distinguished Lecture of the Jingde Forum was held in Lecture Hall 217, Zone 3, West Main Building. Invited to Tsinghua University, Professor Anjan Bose — Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), Tsinghua Distinguished Visiting Professor and Professor of Washington State University — delivered an academic lecture themed on the development of power systems for carbon neutrality.
Attendees included Zheng Zedong, Party Secretary of the Department of Electrical Engineering (DEE); Wu Wenchuan, Deputy Party Secretary of DEE; faculty members Zhang Boming, Guo Qinglai and Lin Chenhui, as well as more than 40 faculty and student representatives. The lecture was presided over by Sun Kai, Deputy Head of DEE.
At the certificate presentation session, Sun Kai introduced Professor Bose’s academic achievements and remarkable contributions to boosting Sino-U.S. academic exchanges and talent cultivation. Afterwards, Zheng Zedong, Party Secretary of DEE, presented the commemorative certificate and plaque of the Jingde Forum to Professor Anjan Bose. As a core academic event of the Jingde Forum, this lecture inherited the rigorous academic spirit of predecessors represented by Mr. Gao Jingde, focused on frontier research directions of electrical engineering, and facilitated in-depth collision of academic ideas between China and overseas.
Zheng Zedong Presenting the Jingde Forum Commemorative Certificate to Professor Anjan Bose
Professor Bose then delivered a keynote speech entitled Grid Control, Operation, and Electricity Markets for a Carbon-Neutral Future . Centered on core technologies for grid security and energy management, he pointed out that the global deployment of clean energy installations maintained steady growth, while the proportion of non-fossil power consumption kept rising. Nevertheless, the inherent intermittency of photovoltaic and wind power brought new challenges to energy management technologies.
He systematically reviewed the evolution and future trends of Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Distribution Management Systems (DMS), and analyzed potential risks of complex power systems with growing penetration of power electronic equipment. He stressed that securing reliable control and stable grid operation under high-variability renewable energy integration was a core challenge for power systems at present and in the future, which required joint efforts from academia and industry to tackle.
Professor Anjan Bose Delivering the Jingde Forum Academic Lecture
After the speech, faculty and students raised active questions covering microgrids, AI application scenarios and future grid architectures. Professor Bose answered every question thoroughly amid a lively exchange atmosphere.
Q&A Session
Brief Introduction to the Jingde Forum
Mr. Gao Jingde was a renowned Chinese power engineering expert, distinguished educator, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), former President of Tsinghua University, founder of the State Key Laboratory of Power System and Large-Scale Generation Equipment Safety Control and Simulation, and an IEEE Fellow.
The Jingde Forum aims to carry forward the fine traditions of DEE, commemorate outstanding predecessors represented by President Gao Jingde, and pass down their spirit of rigorous scholarship and bold innovation. The forum invites high-impact domestic and overseas experts in electrical engineering, energy and higher education, with lecture topics covering cutting-edge technological advances, major strategic planning, talent training models and innovative educational philosophies.
Guest Profile
Professor Anjan Bose currently serves as Regents Professor and Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering at Washington State University. He served as Dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture from 1998 to 2005, and acted as Senior Grid Advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy between 2012 and 2013. As a world-leading scholar in power system operation and control with over fifty years of experience in industry and academia, he holds the titles of NAE Member, Foreign Member of CAE, IEEE Fellow, Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE), and Distinguished Member of CIGRE.
He has received numerous top international awards, including the IEEE Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, IEEE Millennium Medal, IEEE Herman Halperin Transmission and Distribution Award, CIGRE Philip Sporn Award and CIGRE Medal, and is a distinguished alumnus of Iowa State University and the Indian Institutes of Technology. He was appointed Tsinghua Distinguished Visiting Professor in 2021.
Professor Bose has long devoted himself to academic and industrial services. He has served on editorial boards of multiple journals and technical committees of international conferences. Appointed by the Governor of Washington State to the Washington Technology Center Board, he was also designated by the U.S. Secretary of Energy to join special investigation committees for the 1999 and 2003 U.S. major blackout incidents. He has served on various committees and councils of the U.S. National Academies, is a founding board member and former President of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and provides long-term professional consulting services to power enterprises and government institutions worldwide.
