TERSE: Techno-Economic framework for Resilient and Sustainable Electrification
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract
Rural electrification is fundamental for the social and economic development and well-being of developing countries, as it supports the development of vital critical infrastructures (e.g. communication and transportation) and it provides energy to critical services to peoples' quality of everyday life, such as home appliances, health and water supply. The lack or limited and highly unreliable access to electricity still remains one of the key challenges that rural and remote communities face in these countries. In order though for the electrification to go beyond lightning, it is critical to develop energy networks that are sustainable, cost-effective, and scalable, as well as resilient, particularly in areas that are frequently exposed to natural hazards, such as floods, monsoons, etc.
In this context, the ambition of this project is to develop a novel holistic techno-economic framework for supporting and enabling the decision, policy and regulatory making towards the design of transformative energy networks in developing countries. This holistic framework will be supported by the development of an options portfolio for sustainable electrification, including a mixture of infrastructure solutions (e.g. building new or upgrading existing infrastructure) and emerging low-carbon distributed energy resources that will focus on the development of sustainable microgrids (both grid-connected and off-grid). Further, integrated system simulation models will be developed to analyse the vulnerability and quantify the risk and resilience profile of these energy solutions to natural hazards and extreme weather. This is is highly timely given the latest evidence of the impact of such events worldwide and also highly critical if the rural communities are to withstand and quickly recover from such catastrophic events. Following these analyses, stochastic optimization planning techniques will be developed to support the optimal design of these energy networks, considering transformative energy technologies, to maximize the impact on the well-being of local communities.
Building on this last point, the research team has developed a well-structured user-engagement strategy, bridging to wider socio-economic aspects of communities facing electrification challenges. The aims of this strategy are to get an in-depth understanding of the electricity needs of rural communities in the partner countries (China and Malaysia), enable their active role in the project and provide briefing and training sessions on the use of the new energy technologies to be applied in these communities. The UK and overseas research teams will jointly work with the local industrial partners to facilitate this active involvement of remote villages, communities and their local authorities.
This project will aim to complement and further strengthen the current electrification plans of the partner countries, i.e. Malaysia and China. The research team will work closely with Sarawak Energy and other authorities in Malaysia to review and improve its Rural Power Supply Scheme that was formulated in 2015, as well as evaluate and improve the design, operability and maintenance planning of existing microgrids in Zhoushan islands, China, which also serve as excellent testbeds for validating the simulation models developed by the project. Within this context, this project will also aim to develop recommendations for changes and improvements in standards, regulatory and policy-making frameworks. We will aim to make the key findings and recommendations of this work of generic applicability and validity to accommodate its international development importance. This would also be of UK national importance, where building sustainable energy networks for reducing its carbon footprint, while being resilient to extreme weather (e.g., the storms of 1987, 2007 and 2015 which resulted in major power outages) is key for safeguarding the social and economic well-being of the country.
In this context, the ambition of this project is to develop a novel holistic techno-economic framework for supporting and enabling the decision, policy and regulatory making towards the design of transformative energy networks in developing countries. This holistic framework will be supported by the development of an options portfolio for sustainable electrification, including a mixture of infrastructure solutions (e.g. building new or upgrading existing infrastructure) and emerging low-carbon distributed energy resources that will focus on the development of sustainable microgrids (both grid-connected and off-grid). Further, integrated system simulation models will be developed to analyse the vulnerability and quantify the risk and resilience profile of these energy solutions to natural hazards and extreme weather. This is is highly timely given the latest evidence of the impact of such events worldwide and also highly critical if the rural communities are to withstand and quickly recover from such catastrophic events. Following these analyses, stochastic optimization planning techniques will be developed to support the optimal design of these energy networks, considering transformative energy technologies, to maximize the impact on the well-being of local communities.
Building on this last point, the research team has developed a well-structured user-engagement strategy, bridging to wider socio-economic aspects of communities facing electrification challenges. The aims of this strategy are to get an in-depth understanding of the electricity needs of rural communities in the partner countries (China and Malaysia), enable their active role in the project and provide briefing and training sessions on the use of the new energy technologies to be applied in these communities. The UK and overseas research teams will jointly work with the local industrial partners to facilitate this active involvement of remote villages, communities and their local authorities.
This project will aim to complement and further strengthen the current electrification plans of the partner countries, i.e. Malaysia and China. The research team will work closely with Sarawak Energy and other authorities in Malaysia to review and improve its Rural Power Supply Scheme that was formulated in 2015, as well as evaluate and improve the design, operability and maintenance planning of existing microgrids in Zhoushan islands, China, which also serve as excellent testbeds for validating the simulation models developed by the project. Within this context, this project will also aim to develop recommendations for changes and improvements in standards, regulatory and policy-making frameworks. We will aim to make the key findings and recommendations of this work of generic applicability and validity to accommodate its international development importance. This would also be of UK national importance, where building sustainable energy networks for reducing its carbon footprint, while being resilient to extreme weather (e.g., the storms of 1987, 2007 and 2015 which resulted in major power outages) is key for safeguarding the social and economic well-being of the country.
Planned Impact
Through the development of novel stochastic simulation and optimization models for rural electrification planning and their validation in collaboration with the project academic and industrial partners, this project will be of significant timeliness, relevance and appropriateness to a wide range of stakeholders. This includes system operators, energy producers, manufacturers, policy makers and regulators which will benefit from our research by getting a comprehensive quantitative understanding of emerging energy technologies and a set of engineering and policy recommendations for changes at different levels, including planning, design, operation, monitoring, and maintenance practices and standards (forming the basis for ISO standards) for rural electrification. Such knowledge would benefit the long-term operational viability of the newly designed rural energy networks and contribute to measuring their potential long-term impact in developing countries. The proposed work may also lead to recognition that such support through a formal regulatory and commercial framework would increase revenue streams to those new and transformative technologies that can provide low-carbon energy services, while contributing to resilience under natural hazards. The research team will ensure that the research outcomes will be of generic applicability and validity and will also be internationally disseminated (through, for example, the relevant IEEE Task Force on understanding and measuring power systems resilience with which the research team maintains strong links, talks and panels at world-leading relevant international conferences and publication of research articles in high impact journals) to support and strengthen the international development importance of this research. This work will also be of great importance to the industrial partners and stakeholders of the project. This includes key partners in Malaysia, where the proposed research will support the improvement of the Rural Power Supply Scheme that was formulated in 2015, contributing towards achieving energy security to remote communities. In China, this project will provide vital insights on the criticality of the energy products manufactured by Clenergy (including PV-mounting products and solutions for residential, commercial and utility scale customers) and how can these technologies be utilized to the benefit of remote communities in China. In Chile (as an external project partner), the research team will continue the fruitful collaboration with leading Chilean Universities and stakeholders (including University of Chile, Pontificia Universidad Catolica and Chilean system operator) to understand how low-carbon distributed energy resources can contribute to the energy sustainability and resilience of rural regions. To facilitate the active and constructive knowledge exchange with the project industrial partners and stakeholders, several forms of interaction have been planned by the research team, including advisory board meetings, regular physical and web-conferenced meetings and technical workshops. Appropriate socio-economic and engineering quantitative metrics and indicators will be jointly developed with the project LMIC industrial and academic partners for measuring the impact of the research proposed in the LMIC context, with focus on the improvement of the social and economic well-being of the rural communities and the long-term usability and financial support of the proposed energy networks. Within this context, the research team has developed a thorough user-engagement strategy which will enable the active participation of the local partners and communities to the design of the new energy networks from the initial stages of the project, which will contribute to the social acceptance and adoption of the proposed energy technologies. This would ensure that the proposed energy networks can facilitate the energy needs of local communities, going beyond home lightning.
Publications
Alvarado D
(2023)
Co-Optimizing Substation Hardening and Transmission Expansion Against Earthquakes: A Decision-Dependent Probability Approach
in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Alvarado D
(2019)
Transmission Network Investment With Distributed Energy Resources and Distributionally Robust Security
in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Arrighi C
(2019)
Preparedness against mobility disruption by floods
in Science of The Total Environment
Birgitte Bak-Jensen
(2022)
Multi-energy System Interactions in Distribution Grids
Eggleston J
(2021)
From Security to Resilience: Technical and Regulatory Options to Manage Extreme Events in Low-Carbon Grids
in IEEE Power and Energy Magazine
Espinoza S
(2020)
Risk and Resilience Assessment With Component Criticality Ranking of Electric Power Systems Subject to Earthquakes
in IEEE Systems Journal
| Description | Our research within the project has generally found that, in the context of electrification of remote areas, distributed energy systems might play a key role in developing optimal technology portfolios that are both low-cost and resilient. This is of particular relevance in ODA countries and in isolated areas (as our case study applications, particularly in Malaysia where villages are extremely difficult to reach), where the development of microgrids could avoid costly and unreliable grid connections or use of alternative, more expensive and less "green" solutions, while also substantially enhancing the system resilience to extreme events. However, as a further important if not key finding, our research also points out that for more extensive electrification network expansion, supplementing and coming after an initial use of distributed energy resources, might be a better tradeoff when looking at different perspectives. In particular, as from our socio-economic studies that have supported our technical studies, it emerges how larger volumes of electricity, which can only be economically achieved though network expansion, could improve significantly the social welfare of isolated villages. Our studies also suggest that incorporation of requirements to deal with extreme events such as landslides and flooding might change the initial energy system design (assumed that this would be based on only economic factors). Moreover, incorporation of socio-economic aspects into the technical modelling can provide further insights into the suitability of given planning solutions also from the perspective of the impacts on local communities, again with the chance that the final design might be quite different than originally thought. "Do it WITH them, not to them, even if for them" is how we are describing the principles that should underlie a sustainable plan for electrification that accounts for the requirements of the local communities and fully involve them from the beginning, eventually resulting in a more optimal (from a social welfare perspective) solution. This also includes the need for technology maintenance, which may become a burden to the local community, eventually resulting in technology failure. In the longer term we expect further various impacts of our work, ranging from development of new socio-techno-economic tools to contributing to improving, through resilient and sustainable energy system design for isolated communities, the economic development and welfare of DAC list country/countries in general and Malaysia and China in particular. As specific results from our research in Malaysia, we can conclude that: 1. Providing 24/7 electricity access to indigenous people living in remote villages increases their social economy status and quality of life. However, living cultural heritage may fade away with the change of lifestyle, which is a broader challenge that governments should account for 2. The project has successfully introduced to Sarawak Energy, the local utility, the importance of multi-criteria decision analysis which includes potential natural hazards (flood, landslide, etc) in designing and planning for a new/upgrade of rural electrification project. This fundamental shift of approach is likely to have enduring impact in their future network design and policy to supply remote communities 3. It is economically sensible to provide remote villages with off-grid standalone battery-solar system to meet their basic needs. Nevertheless, if the availability and reliability of kWh energy to the villagers were to be matched with the on-grid supply, on-grid electrification might become more appealing straight away for villages with higher consumer density. These findings somehow also point to a potential staged approach to electrification, starting with renewable local energy supply which may be implemented relatively fast and economically, to start with, to then move forward with grid connections while the demand for energy services increases As specific outcomes from our research in China: 1. The project greatly helped capacity building at Xiamen University, particularly to build a set of tools for economic and reliability assessment of island microgrids to support remote island electrification strategies. Graphical user interfaces, in particular, could enable broader engagement of several (technical and non-technical) parties that need to be consulted to put together a feasibility study for a complex situation like remote islands in South East China 2. The decision between development of a renewables-based microgrid or installation of a submarine cable to provide power to remote islands needs to be considered case by case and is a function of a number of techno-economic parameters, including reliability aspects that are often overlooked in feasibility studies 3. In spite of the fast decreasing trend in cost of solar energy and battery technologies, at present connection to the main grid is an option that appears more feasible for islands that are not prohibitively far from the coast 4. Even under a positive techno-economic feasibility result for islanded microgrids, it is essential to consider how maintenance will be carried out and the practical requirements and cost of such maintenance, including the role and expectations of the local community. Overlooking this aspect may result in stranded asset and complete failure of a project 5. Engagement with the island residents is essential to understand the actual boundary conditions of energy use and technology literacy, besides the theoretical feasibility study that are based on sheer engineering |
| Exploitation Route | The methodologies and models that have been developed are of completely general validity, with potential in both ODA and non-ODA countries. They is of particular relevance to extremely isolated areas in developing countries that are far from the main networks and hard to reach, such as the case of Borneo we have analysed in Malaysia and of course islands such as our case study in China. Similar situations occur in large parts of South East Asia. Specifically for the case of Malaysia, we have: i. Shared our project outcomes through various dissemination events with targeted utility and government stakeholders ii. Disseminated our findings through different paper publications iii. Provided continuous training and built engagement with industry partners to ensure the project outcomes are being and will be utilised to the fullest. This has already led to a fundamental shift in the decision making methodology adopted by Sarawak Energy for electrification of remote areas, who are now using our techno-economic/reliability/resilience multi-criteria approach. Furthermore, they have been introduced to a new set of tools for hazard modelling and resilience studies which they will keep using in the future. iv. Initiated a relationship with engineers from the utility company to further their postgraduate study, which is something that is currently being considered by UTeM, our local university partner. Specifically for the case of China: i. Papers that are being prepared and presentations at different conferences and events will help disseminate project findings that may be of general interest in many similar applications in remote islands in South East Asia and can therefore support the decision making process in other situations ii. The two software tools that have been developed can support new users to make the island microgrid feasibility study process more systematic and clear. Xiamen University, in particular, will progress research in this field, thus creating more opportunities for other parties to relate to and deploy the project outcomes. We have also tested part of the framework we have developed in this project beyond Malaysia and China, through further ODA applications to Costa Rica within a project with Costa Rica and Chile which we were awarded for winning a UK-Chile 2018 Newton Prize. We generally expect that, with the restrictions due to the pandemic hopefully being gradually lifted, the opportunities for dissemination and practical impact of our work will greatly improve. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Energy |
| Description | The key driver for our research is to answer the key question as to whether, how, to what extent, and under what conditions, different types of microgrids and distributed energy solutions can provide both economic and resilient support to isolated areas that are not easily reachable by the main grid. Although the project has just finished, we can already see a significant impact on our project partners, and in particular in Malaysia. in fact, the methodologies and models developed in the project and the results from our studies have been practically applied (and will be applied in the future too) by Sarawak Energy, the local utility, in the island of Borneo, Malaysia. This was enabled by our active collaboration and engagement with them, whom we have met several times and with whom we have worked closely (in spite of the huge limitations due to the Covid-19 pandemic) to establish a general methodology and develop relevant modelling tools for investment into distributed energy systems and/or extension of the existing network infrastructure which makes use of actual data on characteristics and cost of technologies and details of the use cases (network data, load profiles, etc). Specifically, several of the project technical findings have been utilised by the Sarawak Energy utility to inform their decision-making process, including, for example: - off-grid and on-grid planning criteria, as well as the transition between them, depending on the specific case; and - potential benefits/challenges to "re-use" existing battery-solar systems for grid integration, which includes improving the network performance such as in terms of voltage profiles and network losses. An interesting piece of evidence of these outcomes is a conference paper jointly prepared by UTeM, Sarawak Energy, and MOU (Ministry of Utility), Sarawak. In particular, the detailed electricity energy consumption analysis developed for their SARES technology off-grid sites has given Sarawak Energy in-depth information on the actual on-site SARES system utilisation. The findings of the analysis further reinforced their decision to increase the current 2 kWh daily energy limit for the villagers to 3 kWh/day. Several training sessions have also been provided to allow the local utility's engineers to familiarise with the approaches and modelling developed by the research team, particularly in terms of hazard modelling (floods and landslides) and techno-economic network expansion design with multi-criteria considerations that explicitly include reliability and resilience. Sarawak Energy engineers are now considering adopting, as business-as-usual, the hazard data, tools and methodologies that have been used and developed by the project team. The Malaysia Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) has also strongly been involved in and supported our project, particularly in terms of aligning our development and findings with the more general low-carbon technology strategies of the Malaysian Government. We would also like to note that in late 2019 there was a trip to a few isolated communities in Borneo, before Covid-19 stopped any travelling, and part of the UK research team, assisted by Sarawak Energy, spent several days with the local communities trying to understand the social impact of different energy planning solutions. We expect this to be able to drive towards new, integrated socio-technical planning solutions that also consider impacts on and role of local communities. With regards to the applications in China, two major project outputs consist in two software tools developed by Xiamen University which have been applied for specific analysis of the Dongfushan island and will generally be applied for systematic assessment of remote island microgrids considering both techno-economic and reliability criteria, which greatly reinforces the robustness of feasibility studies. We have also worked with multiple parties in China to ensure that the project was adequately informed by real-world practices and constraints as well as that it could inform potential new developments. The parties involved include government officials, local residences, design firms, academic experts and technology providers, who have all been involved in the decision making process for electrifying Dongfushan island, and have also provided feedback that our studies and findings will help them in their future activities. We are now continuing our communication with the above parties to provide reference for their future work that is related to electrifying remote off grid islands using microgrids or submarine cables. Finally, we would like to underscore that while the extension to most other ODA countries should be straightforward, interestingly the general methodologies we have developed, particularly with regards to techno-economic/reliability/resilience multicriteria design, could also be applied to developed countries and the UK alike, for example to identify the optimal portfolio of distributed and centralised energy resources to move towards meeting ambitious environmental and net-zero targets while also enhancing system resilience. Our project is also contributing to several UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), for example SDG7 ("Affordable and Clean Energy") and SDG9 ("Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure") through the development of methodologies and tools capable of determining an optimal portfolio of low-carbon resources (including investments in traditional network reinforcements and low-carbon distributed energy systems such as community based systems and micro-grids) while assessing and enhance the resilience to the impact of extreme natural events (e.g. flooding) on the electricity infrastructure. These tools can be applied to any extreme weather event (such as windstorms, hurricanes and floods), which are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change. In this respect, our project also contributes strongly to SDG13 ("Climate Action"), for which it is also important to highlight that the impacts of climate change are significantly stronger in ODA countries. In the case of the electricity sector, this problem is exacerbated by the presence of weaker infrastructure, commonly observed in poorer countries. Hence, the countries in question are not only more exposed to the effects of climate change, but also less prepared to face them. It is thus critical, in this context, to develop solutions that are affordable for developing regions, with the minimum budget expenditure so as to improve the overall quality of the electricity service in an economic fashion. A last point we'd like to make refers to gender and social equality. The project has sought, from the research team's establishment point, provision of equal gender opportunities, and in fact we have put in place a gender-mixed international research team. We also notice that the studies we are carrying out, and in particular on the socio-economic aspects of our system design, can influence gender and social equality opportunities via the possibility of providing affordable and reliable electrification to isolated communities and households, with relevant social and gender equality-related benefits. In this regard, as noticeable impact already achieved, our preliminary report and results from the socio-economic team at the University of Manchester, prepared after the 2019 site visits to the remote villages in Sarawak, were presented to the Ministry of Utility (MOU), Sarawak, on 23 October 2019. This has provided MOU with new and additional insights on the actual 'feedback' from the villagers concerning the electrification options Sarawak Energy is implementing: the MOU had never carried out such social study before, and our findings are now being assessed to redefine some of the solutions that had been originally proposed. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Energy,Environment,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | AEMC Resilience Framework |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | The Australian Energy Market Commission used the resilience framework developed in "The Grid: Stronger, Bigger, Smarter?: Presenting a Conceptual Framework of Power System Resilience" as fundamental framework to enhance power system resilience in Australia, particularly in response to the 2016 blackout |
| URL | https://www.aemc.gov.au/news-centre/media-releases/new-mechanisms-enhance-resilience-power-system-fi... |
| Description | Academic Advisor on Energy Research Partnership's White Paper on Future UK Electricity Network Resilience |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | This report published by Energy Research Partnership (ERP) in UK has recognized the need of considering resilience as a regulatory standard and power systems planning criterion. The UK National Infrastructure Commission has then published in 2020 a new report, citing this ERP report, on driving the pathways towards resilience regulatory standards. |
| URL | https://erpuk.org/project/future-resilience-of-the-uk-electricity-system/ |
| Description | Academic Advisor to Ofgem on the consideration of climate change adaptation and resilience in RIIO-2 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Dr Panteli was a member of an advisory committee to Ofgem, UK Electricity and Gas Regulator, on the challenges related to climate change impacts on the electricity infrastructure, and how resilience and adaptation can help tackle these challenges. As a result, Ofgem has considered these aspects in RIIO-2, i.e., climate change resilience and adaptation of the UK electricity infrastructure. |
| Description | Citation in World Bank Report - Addressing Gender Gaps in Housing Interventions |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Changing how people think about gender roles in DRR |
| URL | https://www.thegpsc.org/sites/gpsc/files/addressing_gender_gaps_in_housing_interventionsfinal.pdf |
| Description | Resilience briefing papers by Prof Mancarella for Australian Energy Regulator (AER) |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Prof Mancarella provided several briefing papers to the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) on power system resilience to High Impact Low Probability (HILP) events, within the context of assessing the economic "value of customer reliability" (VCR). As a consequence of the briefing papers, the AER is now investigating further the VCR associated to HILP events, with an option of introducing, first in the world, a specific "value of customer resilience" |
| Description | Resilience enhancement framework developed by the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | The research framework outlined in "The Grid: Stronger, Bigger, Smarter? Presenting a conceptual framework of power system resilience" has been adopted by the Australian Energy Market Commission as the overarching framework to enhance power system resilience in Australia. This is crucially important in Australia, which undergoes every year very severe resilience events ranging from bushfires to heatwaves, droughts and floods, costing billions of AUD$ |
| URL | https://www.aemc.gov.au/news-centre/media-releases/new-mechanisms-enhance-resilience-power-system-fi... |
| Description | Euniversal: market enabling interface to unlock flexibility solutions for cost-effective management of smarter distribution grids |
| Amount | € 285,140 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 02/2024 |
| Description | Forward Resilience Measures (Stage 1) |
| Amount | £426,291 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIA_NGT0049 |
| Organisation | National Grid UK |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Severe Impact Resilience: Framework for Adaptive Compound Threats |
| Amount | $1,127,800 (USD) |
| Organisation | Department of Defense |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | UKRI UoM GCRF/Newton Consolidator Funding |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Title | Software tool for "Economic evaluation of distributed photovoltaic-energy storage hybrid system for off-grid islands" |
| Description | This software tool can be used for economic evaluation of distributed photovoltaic-energy storage hybrid system for off-grid islands. It is based on a classical net present value method, and developed and implemented in the Matlab App Designer platform. The tool processes, outputs and evaluates the cash flow of the microgrid under study and exhibits the following features: 1) Specific PV and energy storage capacity configurations can be selected according to the island's electricity consumption (which is an input to the tool) 2) Each system parameter is given a recommended value; users can also modify the parameters according to specific conditions 3) Calculation of the cost of the photovoltaic-energy storage hybrid systems based on the net present value method 4) Visualization of cash flow histograms, which makes the results much more intuitive and attractive 5) Certain data storage and processing ability are available, e.g., providing comparison of different schemes |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The tool can and will be used for high-level, preliminary assessment and design of island microgrids based on PV and batteries, which is quite a widespread situation in South East Asia. |
| Title | Software tool for "Multi-criteria assessment of remote island microgrid reliability" |
| Description | The tool, implemented in Matlab and based on fuzzy-analytical hierarchy process (FAHP), was designed to perform multi-criteria studies on the reliability of microgrids in remote islands. The tool guides the user step by step to use the FAHP method to assess the microgrid reliability, and can provide recommendations as to how the outage risk of particular elements and the whole microgrid could be reduced, thus improving system reliability |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The tool will enable users to perform a preliminary reliability and risk analysis for island microgrid projects, to complement initial economic feasibility studies. This is an important feature that is rarely considered in high-level studies |
| Description | Memorandum of Understanding between UTeM, Sarawak Energy and MIGHT |
| Organisation | Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Prof Madya Ir. Dr. Gan Chin Kim, UTeM, has led the establishment of the collaboration between UTeM (as overseas academic project partner), Sarawak Energy and MIGHT for the signature of this Memorandum of Understanding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sarawak Energy and MIGHT confirmed in this document their commitment to the project for providing the guidance, assistance and data required for the successful delivery of the project and the application of the advanced mathematical tools developed in the project on real case studies in Malaysia. |
| Impact | This collaboration is expected to provide outcomes of strategic impact on the policy and regulatory decision-making for the rural electrification of Malaysia, with focus on Borneo island. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Memorandum of Understanding between UTeM, Sarawak Energy and MIGHT |
| Organisation | Sarawak Energy |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Prof Madya Ir. Dr. Gan Chin Kim, UTeM, has led the establishment of the collaboration between UTeM (as overseas academic project partner), Sarawak Energy and MIGHT for the signature of this Memorandum of Understanding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sarawak Energy and MIGHT confirmed in this document their commitment to the project for providing the guidance, assistance and data required for the successful delivery of the project and the application of the advanced mathematical tools developed in the project on real case studies in Malaysia. |
| Impact | This collaboration is expected to provide outcomes of strategic impact on the policy and regulatory decision-making for the rural electrification of Malaysia, with focus on Borneo island. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Co-author of CIRED Technical Brochure on "Resilience of Distribution Grids" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited member to the CIRED Working Group "Resilience of Distribution Grids" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.cired.net/cired-working-groups/resilience-of-distribution-grids |
| Description | Co-chair of panel session with Dr Rodrigo Moreno in 2019 IEEE PES General Meeting on power system flexibility, reliability and resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rodrigo Moreno and Dr Mathaios Panteli hosted a panel session on "International Practices and Models in Network Planning Under Uncertainty: Flexibility, Reliability and Resilience" at the 2019 IEEE PES General Meeting conference in Atlanta, USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | DIgSILENT Powerfactory training workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A two-day Digsilent training workshop was delivered for 11 engineers from Sarawak Energy Berhad. The focus of this workshop is off-grid to on-grid rural electrification modelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Flood modelling workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The training workshop was delivered for 16 engineers from SEB's R&D and Hydropower department. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Guest blog article on how organisational resilience helps in dealing with COVID-19 and large-scale crises |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Guest blog article on how organizational resilience helps in dealing with COVID-19 and large-scale crises |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk/science-engineering/2020/04/28/guest-post-how-organisational-re... |
| Description | How data collected from mobile phones can help Electricity planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This newsletter highlights the availability and importance of new sources of data (e.g., mobile phone data) to support electrification in developing countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/how-data-collected-from-mobile-phones-can-help-electricity-planning-1108... |
| Description | IEEE Power Energy Society Distinguished Lecture "Flexibility and grid services from multi-energy systems", Paris, France, October 2020 (delivered online) - Prof Mancarella |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In this invited lecture, Prof Mancarella presented his latest research on "Flexibility and grid services from multi-energy systems". There were many questions about the role of flexibility and potential for new business cases. The was excellent feedback in terms of clarity of definitions of new concepts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ewh.ieee.org/r8/france/pes/soirees/20201013%20Invitation%20IEEE%20PES%20-%20Systemes%20multi... |
| Description | Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on power systems and interdependent critical services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This newsletter highlight the impacts of shocks (e.g., Covid-19) on interdependent infrastructures and services: |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.futuredams.org/power-systems-covid19/ |
| Description | Invitation to join IEEE Task Force on Resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mathaios Panteli has been invited to join the IEEE Task Force on Resilience, which is composed by academics and professional practitioners worldwide that are experts on the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited Lecture "Flexibility, reliability and resilience services from distributed multi-energy resources", Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, 27 September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Mancarella delivered a lecture: "Flexibility, reliability and resilience services from distributed multi-energy resources" at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, on 27 September 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited Lecture: "Reliability and resilience in low-carbon power systems: Challenges and potential solutions", E.ON Energy Research Centre and RWTH Aachen, Aachen , Germany, 9 April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Mancarella delivered the lecture: "Reliability and resilience in low-carbon power systems: Challenges and potential solutions", E.ON Energy Research Centre and RWTH Aachen, Aachen , Germany, 9 April 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited Panel Presentation at 2021 IEEE PESGM conference - "Cascading and Resilience Modelling for Future Low-Carbon Energy Systems" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | About 70 people from around the world attended this panel presentation, stimulating discussion on future needs for cascading modelling in low-carbon energy systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited Presentation at "Ask the experts" seminar at The University of Manchester - "Development and Assessment of Sustainable and Resilient Energy Systems" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | About 70 international students attended the seminar and were presented with key areas of research in Manchester, which they could explore if they take the relevant postgraduate studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Presentation at JUMP2EXCEL EU Working on PV - "PV Integration: Flexibility and Resilience Services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | About 50 pupils attended for a training workshop on PV integration and relevant challenges and opportunities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Special Session "Understanding system resilience in critical infrastructure", IEEE Power Tech 2019, Milan, Italy, 27 June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Mancarella delivered the special session: "Understanding system resilience in critical infrastructure", IEEE Power Tech 2019, Milan, Italy, 27 June 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited blog article on "Community resilience - Are we unable to deal with power cuts?" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited blog article in Manchester eNewsletter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/energy_environment/2019/11/community-resilience-are-we-unable-to... |
| Description | Invited blog article on "Rethinking power grid resilience: experiences and lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited blog article in CIGRE CEO eNewsLetter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cigre.org/article/GB/rethinking-power-grid-resilience-experiences-and-lessons-from-the-c... |
| Description | Invited panel presentation - Dr Mathaios Panteli |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cascading Modelling for Resilience Analysis and Enhancement of Power Networks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited panel presentation, "Operational flexibility for resilience-oriented network planning", IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Mancarella delivered the panel presentation: "Operational flexibility for resilience-oriented network planning", IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited panel presentations, "Reliability and resilience in low-carbon power and energy systems: do we need a stronger, bigger or smarter grid?", IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Mancarella delivered the panel presentations: "Reliability and resilience in low-carbon power and energy systems: do we need a stronger, bigger or smarter grid?", IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited plenary presentation "Flexible planning for planning flexibility", in the workshop "If you fail to plan you plan to fail", Electrical College Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 30 July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Mancarella delivered the plenary presentation: "Flexible planning for planning flexibility", in the workshop "If you fail to plan you plan to fail", Electrical College Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 30 July 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation "Power system resilience to extreme events", Isaac Newton Institute "The mathematics of energy systems", Cambridge University, UK, 15-17 April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Mancarella delivered the presentation: "Power system resilience to extreme events", Isaac Newton Institute "The mathematics of energy systems", Cambridge University, UK, 15-17 April 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation in CIGRE UK Event "Developments for Facilitating the Integration of RES in a Transforming Converter-Dominated Power-Grid" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation in CIGRE UK Study Committee C4 Technical Event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited presentation of Dr Mathaios Panteli by ULB and ENGIE-Tractebel, Brussels, Belgium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mathaios Panteli has been invited to give a presentation to ULB and ENGIE-Tractebel in Brussels, Belgium, on experiences and applications on power grid resilience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation of Dr Mathaios Panteli in a special session by Prof P. Mancarella and Dr R. Moreno, 2019 IEEE PES PowerTech conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mathaios Panteli has been invited by Prof P. Mancarella and Dr R. Moreno to a special session on resilience and flexibility in the 2019 IEEE PES PowerTech conference in Milan, Italy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation of Dr Mathaios Panteli to IEEE Cascading Failures Working Group on progress of CIGRE WG C4.47 "Power System Resilience" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mathaios Panteli has been invited to give a presentation on the progress and next steps of the CIGRE WG C4.47 "Power System Resilience" to the IEEE Cascading Failure Working Group in the 2019 IEEE PES General Meeting conference in Atlanta, USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation of Prof Madya Ir. Dr. Gan Chin Kim to off-grid electrification workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Chin Kim was invited to give a presentation at the "Workshop on Off-Grid Electrification Option for Remote Regions in APEC Economies", 10 September 2018, Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote: "Assessing the contribution to adequacy in low-carbon power systems", Workshop on "New trends to assess the capacity value in low-carbon electricity systems", Santiago, Chile, 23rd September 2020 - Prof Mancarella |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Keynote presentation in the International workshop on renewable energy capacity assessment, Santiago, Chile, 23rd September 2020, aimed at clarifying key aspects of the contribution of renewables and storage to adequacy of supply and resilience. The audience was primarily industry-based and there was a very positive feedback in terms of research tools that could be sued by industry. The arguments provided are now being used in the design of the capacity market in Chile |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://acera.cl/events/tendencias-actuales-para-el-reconocimiento-de-potencia-en-sistemas-electrico... |
| Description | Keynote: "Digital energy system platforms to provide flexibility and resilience services to low-carbon electricity grids", 11th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy 2020), Melbourne. Australia, 25th June 2020 - Prof Mancarella |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this keynote Prof Mancarella presented the role of "Digital energy system platforms to provide flexibility and resilience services to low-carbon electricity grids". The talk sparked great interest and was follow by several requests for engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2020/program.php |
| Description | Keynote: "Flexibility and grid services from multi-energy systems", International Conference on Smart grid and Energy Systems 2020, Perth, Australia, 26th November 2020 - Prof Mancarella |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Keynote: "Flexibility and grid services from multi-energy systems", International Conference on Smart grid and Energy Systems 2020, Perth, Australia, 26th November 2020. The talk provided a unique perspective in new developments about sector coupling and hydrogen internationally. The talk was followed by several questions and successive interactions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.sges2020.org/ |
| Description | Keynote: "Microgrids and the energy trilemma", CREDUM-HYRES Project Virtual Workshop, Cyprus, 4th September 2020 - Prof Mancarella |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The keynote on "Microgrids and the energy trilemma" sparked an intense discussion about the role of microgrids in future energy systems, particularly in the context of electrification purposes in developing countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Melecon 2022 tutorial |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | tutorial "Resilience in Low-Carbon Grids" at Melecon 2022 international conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://melecon2022.org/tutorials/ |
| Description | Newspaper article on the first visit of UK Academics to UTeM, Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The newspaper MelakaKini published a detailed article for the visit of UK academics to UTeM, Malaysia in November 2018 in the context of kicking-off the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | PMAPS 2022 tutorial |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Tutorial "Flexibility and Resilience in Future Low-Carbon Energy Systems" at PMAPS 2022 international conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.pmaps2022.org/tutorials/#tutorials |
| Description | Panel Presentation, 2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mathaios Panteli was invited to give a panel presentation in the super session "Power Grid Resilience" at the 2019 IEEE PES General Meeting, held in Atlanta USA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Panel Session chaired by Dr Mathaios Panteli on "Current Practices and Future Challenges to Power Grid Resilience" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Panteli chaired a panel session on "Current Practices and Future Challenges to Power Grid Resilience" at the 2019 IEEE PES General Meeting in Atlanta, USA, where he invited experts from around the world to present their views on the matter. Dr Rodrigo Moreno and Prof Pierluigi Mancarella were invited as panellists in this session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Plenary talk: "Flexibility Provision from Distributed Energy Resources:", Paris Cigre Session 2020 (online), 24th August 2020 - Prof Mancarella |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In this Plenary talk at the Paris Cigre Session 2020, delivered online, I presented key findings on modelling activities from the Cigre Working Group C6/C2.34 that I chair. There has been great interest, followed by invitation to more such events and talks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation in CS-Now Online seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The key work on resilience in power system and integrated systems from the University of Manchester was presented and discussed with key UK stakeholders (National Grid, ENWL, etc.) and academics. The presentation covered energy system modelling, hazard modelling and fragility considerations, as well as resilience measures and assessment metrics. Feedback about the modelling assumptions and results was provided by the stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation in Jump2Excel 2022 workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation highlighted electrification planning methods used to deploy low carbon technologies, especially hybrid PV systems. Hybrid PV systems, where the renewable supply is supported with an additional energy technology such as batteries, offer various economic and environmental benefits when properly designed. However, the recommended approaches to size and operate hybrid PV systems changes as a function of the criteria under consideration, energy prices, and type of system, e.g., building, district or off-grid system. To illustrate the aforementioned points, this tutorial illustrates different hybrid system design optimisation approaches with various case studies taken from some of the latest research projects led by The University of Manchester. The studies show how to manage, through visualization techniques, trade-offs between multiple and variable criteria (e.g., costs, emissions, efficiency, peak demand, etc.) when optimising the design and operation strategies of different types of hybrid PV systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://jump2excel.eu/events/school3/ |
| Description | Presentation of Prof Duncan Shaw to Ministry of Utilities and Sarawak Energy, Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Duncan Shaw and Dr Jennifer Bealt gave a presentation to Ministry of Utilities and Sarawak Energy on their key findings from their field trip to communities in Borneo island in order to gather data and questionnaires on the experiences and main challenges of rural electrification in the island. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Prof Mancarella advisory role to Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) and Australian Energy Market Regulator (AER) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mancarella provided advisory role troughout 2019 to the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) and the Australian Energy Market Regulator (AER) on power system resilience during relevant projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Prof Mancarella's IEEE Power Energy Society Distinguished Lecture in Delft, The Netherlands, December 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mancarella's IEEE Power Energy Society Distinguished Lecture "Integration of electricity, gas, and hydrogen systems", Delft, The Netherlands, December 2019. Much discussion was about the integration of electricity and hydrogen systems, which could generate further industry-based collaborations. The ability to provide system resilience and deliver on sustainable plans through system integration was also discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.tudelft.nl/en/events/2019/powerweb/lecture-ieee-prof-pierluigi-mancarella-flexibility-re... |
| Description | Prof Mancarella's IEEE Power Energy Society Distinguished Lecture in Leuven, Belgium, December 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mancarella's IEEE Power Energy Society Distinguished Lecture "Integration of electricity, gas, and hydrogen systems", Leuven, Belgium, December 2019. This was a public event that generated lots of discussion about the role of system integration and other forms of energy storage for low-carbon futures, and their ability to provide system resilience and deliver on sustainable plans. Discussions about future collaborations with KU Leuven took place. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/212356 |
| Description | Prof Mancarella's Keynote on Power system resilience for Asian Development Bank, Melbourne, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mancarella's Keynote: "Power system resilience to extreme events: a stronger, bigger or smarter grid", Asian Development Bank and IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 14-17 October 2019. The talk, given primarily to policy makers from Asian countries, stirred great interest in potential ways to deal with resilience issues in develop countries and prompted discussions on future activities and potential projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Prof Mancarella's Keynote talk at 9th IEEE ICPES Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mancarella's Invited Keynote talk: "Flexibility, reliability and resilience from distributed multi-energy systems", at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, Perth, Australia, December 2019. The presentation illustrated how flexible options, including multi-energy storage and new technologies, can provide flexibility, reliability and resilience in future energy systems. The audience showed great interest in the talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://icpes.org/keynote.html |
| Description | Prof Mancarella's Plenary Talk on Resilience at the Energy Summit in Sydney, Australia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mancarella givign a Plenary Talk: "Stronger-Bigger-Smarter? A framework for power system resilience" at the International Summit on Future Electricity Markets, Sydney, Australia, 18-20 November 2019. The audience, primarily composed of industry and policy makers, showed huge interest in the topic and several follow-up activities were discussed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.iea.org/events/future-electricity-markets-summit |
| Description | Prof Mancarella's Plenary Talk: "Resilience in low-carbon power systems" in Champery, Switzerland, 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mancarella's Plenary Talk: "Resilience in low-carbon power systems", 2nd International Conference on Future Electric Power Systems and the Energy Transition, Champery, Switzerland, February 2019. The talk illustrated the challenges of low-carbon power system operation under extreme events. The talk prompted a number of follow-up activities, including international collaborations with important institutions (e.g., UPC Barcelona, ETH Zurich) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hevs.ch/en/minisites/events/future-electric-power-systems-and-the-energy-transition/ |
| Description | Prof Mancarella, IEEE Power Energy Society Distinguished Lecture "Reliability and resilience in low-carbon power systems", North Carolina, US, 20th May 2021 (delivered online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | IEEE Power Energy Society Distinguished Lecture given at North Carolina, US, 20th May 2021 (delivered online), following the dramatic extreme weather events in Texas in February 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Prof Mancarella, IEEE Power Energy Society Distinguished Lecture "Sustainable Electrification, Power System Resilience and the Energy Quadrilemma", IEEE Power and Energy Society Day, India, April 2021 (delivered online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | IEEE Power Energy Society Distinguished Lecture given for the IEEE Power and Energy Society Day, India, April 2021 (delivered online), sparking several questions and interest in the audience re the deployment of microgrids in rural areas |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Prof Mancarella, Invited plenary presentation "The Fragile Grid: Security and Resilience Challenges in Low-Carbon Power Systems", 8th Annual IEA-EPRI Workshop, October 2021 (delivered online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited plenary presentation "The Fragile Grid: Security and Resilience Challenges in Low-Carbon Power Systems", 8th Annual IEA-EPRI Workshop, October 2021 (delivered online) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Prof Mancarella, Keynote: "Flexibility and resilience from multi-energy systems", 16th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 14th October 2021 (delivered online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Keynote at the 16th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 14th October 2021 (delivered online) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.dubrovnik2021.sdewes.org/ |
| Description | Prof Mancarella, Keynote: "Flexibility and resilience in integrated energy systems", MEM's 26th Energy Congress, Colombia, 27th October 2021 (delivered online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Keynote at the MEM's 26th Energy Congress, Colombia, 27th October 2021 (delivered online) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sarawak Energy Workshop (4 March 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The TERSE project team has conducted a workshop for Sarawak Energy Berhad. Work progress was presented by the WP lead from The University of Manchester, Newcastle University and Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, followed by detailed discussion. More importantly, Sarawak Energy has shown strong interest on the models and tools that the project team have developed. In addition, the workshop was attended by representatives from the Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Site visit to remote villages in Sarawak (15 -21 October 2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The team travelled to the long houses of 7 villages including: Rh Taboh; Rh Serit; Rh Sa; Long Pilah; Long Silat; Uma Bawang; and Long Ikang. During this time the team spoke with 70 villagers and lived with Sarawak Alternative Rural Electrification Scheme (SARES) for 6 days. The team were able to collected data from villages at point 0, so those who had not yet been electrified, those in year 1 of electrification and those in year 2. This provides some insights into electrification of rural communities over time. In addition the team spoke to representatives from the Ministry of Utilities and from Sarawak Energy which provided a policy and implementation perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Speaker for Workshop on Off-Grid Electrification Option for Remote Regions in APEC Economies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Key findings about electrification practices were presented to more than 40 attendees. The limitations of current fit-and-forget approaches were highlighted, as motivation for integrating sustainable and resilient planning under uncertainty considering the role of communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.apec.org/docs/default-source/publications/2019/3/off-grid-electrification-option-for-rem... |
| Description | Tutorial "Decision making under uncertainty: flexibility, resilience, and multi-energy system applications", IEEE Power Tech 2019, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Mancarella delivered the tutorial: "Decision making under uncertainty: flexibility, resilience, and multi-energy system applications", IEEE Power Tech 2019, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, June 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Tutorial "Flexibility from distributed energy resources", 2020 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), Hobart, Tasmania, 25th November 2020 - Prof Mancarella |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mancarella gave a Tutorial on "Flexibility from distributed energy resources" at the 2020 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), Hobart, Tasmania, on 25th November 2020. The main purpose was to disseminate the work carried out in the Cigre Working group C6.C2/34 that Prof Mancarella chair, which was successfully achieved |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.aupec2020.org/tutorials/ |
| Description | Tutorial "Reliability and resilience in low-carbon, low-inertia power systems", 9th IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, Perth, Australia, December 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Mancarella delivered the tutorial: "Reliability and resilience in low-carbon, low-inertia power systems", 9th IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, Perth, Australia, December 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UTM Engineering Distinguished Lecture "Community energy systems, microgrids, and the energy quadrilemma", Malaysia, 18th January 2021, Prof Mancarella |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this public talk at UTM, Malaysia, Prof Mancarella presented his research about the role of Community energy systems and microgrids in the context of the energy quadrilemma that includes active participation of end-users. The talk was followed by several interactions, including on LinkedIn, to define the relatively new concept of "quadrilemma" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxfXw_g312Y |
| Description | Workshop "Planning low-carbon electricity systems under uncertainty considering operational flexibility and smart grid technologies", within the Isaac Newton Institute "The mathematics of energy systems", Cambridge University, UK, 15-17 April 2019 - workshop co-organizer and chair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Mancarella co-organized and chaired the workshop: "Planning low-carbon electricity systems under uncertainty considering operational flexibility and smart grid technologies", within the Isaac Newton Institute "The mathematics of energy systems", Cambridge University, UK, 15-17 April 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop with SEB, Kuching, March 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with Sarawak Energy in Kuching, Malaysia, to discuss TERSE project results and explore new funding opportunities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |