Bo Zhao

Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., Ltd.

Bo Zhao is a chief expert at the Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., a professor and doctoral supervisor at North China Electric Power University, and a chief expert of State Grid Corporation of China. He is also the director of the Key Laboratory of Distributed New Energy Grid Connection and Consumption Technology of Zhejiang Province, the director of the State Grid Distributed Power Source and Microgrid Technology Laboratory, and the vice chairman of the Zhejiang Society of Engineers.

For a long time, Zhao has been engaged in research on distributed power sources, microgrids, and electro-hydrogen coupling technologies. He has led the construction of several microgrid projects, including the first megawatt-level independent island intelligent microgrid and the first commercial AC/DC hybrid microgrid on the user side in China. He has also carried out electro-hydrogen coupling engineering demonstrations in various scenarios such as islands, rural areas, industrial bases, and industrial parks in Zhejiang Province. He has presided over one major national science and technology project, one key research and development plan project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and three projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 60 papers in top domestic and international journals and conferences, including 12 first/communicating author papers in SCI Zone 1. He has published one Chinese and one English monograph as the first author with Science Press and Wiley, respectively. As the first inventor, he has been granted 30 Chinese invention patents and one US patent. He has been selected as a highly cited researcher by Elsevier for many consecutive years and has won seven first prizes of provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards.