By Amanda Rocca and Vignesh Laksharam
The presentation is about how different fields of Electrical Engineering supports Fusion in general to achieve a 100% green energy
Electrical engineers are key enablers of fusion technology, providing the expertise to design, build, operate, and optimize the complex electrical and control infrastructures required for sustainable and scalable fusion energy. Their work bridges theoretical plasma science with practical engineering, ensuring fusion moves from laboratory breakthroughs toward real-world energy applications. It doesn’t stop there , we Electrical Engineers are also responsible to connect this to the power grid and make sure relevant Electrical infrastructures are in place to enable a smooth transmission of power from Fusion power plants to our homes.
This is a massive undertaking which needs all branches of Electrical Engineering ranging from modelling to commonising/ handover to work in harmony to achieve this.
The thing that makes it interesting is the working of these Fusion facilities as its not a standard or a constant load scenario, the operation of fusion plants are based on pulse scenario meaning its seen as a spike in the power grid rather than a constant power consumption but for a few seconds.
So the real challenge is the modelling and running load profiles and simulating them which also requires vast understanding of how these loads work to create this pulse which combines manual calcs with software based approach and also designing and manufacturing of electrical systems for such use.