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Yifan Zhang

Power Plant Solution Engineer

Yifan Zhang
Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Oct 2024 - Present
1 year 4 months

Power Plant Solution Engineer

Vestas

  • Addressed customers’ electrical and grid-related inquiries to ensure projects were delivered on time and in full compliance with grid code requirements.
  • Documented areas for improvement encountered during projects and provided feedback to the R&D team for future product enhancements.
  • Supported Nordseecluster (NSC) and Nordlicht (NDL) projects by explaining Vestas PPC and WTG control logic and methods and authoring PPC Function Design Specification (FDS) documents.
  • Tuned PPC parameters according to project-specific settings agreed upon by the customer and TSO to ensure full grid code compliance.
  • Assisted project managers by clarifying the technical background of contractual agreements and participated in negotiating testing procedures for the Baltic Eagle project, then issued grid code testing procedure documents for NSC and NDL.
  • Created grid code compliance statements (GCCS) based on German and Dutch grid codes, assessed Vestas PPC, WTG, and SCADA system capabilities against these requirements, and documented gaps for R&D prioritization.
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
2 years 1 month
Hybrid

Hybrid Power Plant Control Engineer

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

  • Used field wind speed data to validate the generic hybrid plant simulator model in Simulink and analyzed the results.
  • Developed an automated script for Model-in-the-Loop (MiL) testing report generation and assisted in setting up Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) testing.
  • Interpreted technical documentation and developed the control algorithm for the Limited Energy Reservoir (LER) concept to meet grid code compliance requirements from the Danish TSO, Energinet.
  • Ported all control algorithms from Simulink to the Siemens Energy Omnivise T3000 platform for the Kragerup Gods wind-to-X demonstrator project, created porting guidelines, and performed HiL testing, utilizing Modbus communication and thorough testing methods.
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
3 months

Student Worker

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

  • Designed Python code to automatically call MATLAB Simulink to generate structured text and import it into CODESYS as a CODESYS library.

Summary

As I transitioned into the industry, I began working on hybrid power plant control.

At Vestas, I serve as a Front-End Engineer, addressing electrical and grid-related topics in compliance with the VDE-4131 German offshore HVDC grid code requirements.

Skills

  • Vde-4131 Grid Code
  • Ppc And Wtg Control
  • Hybrid Power Plant Control
  • Power System Analysis
  • Siemens Energy Omnivise (T3000)
  • Matlab And Simulink
  • Digsilent Powerfactory
  • Python
  • Codesys

Languages

Chinese
Native
English
Advanced
Danish
Elementary
German
Elementary

Education

Sep 2020 - Jul 2022

DTU, Technical University of Denmark

Master of Science, Wind Energy · Wind Energy · Lyngby, Denmark

Sep 2016 - Jun 2020

Qingdao University of Science And Technology

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering · Electrical Engineering · Qingdao, China

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