Grid Economics, Planning and Business Models for Smart Electric Mobility

Lead Research Organisation: Imperial College London
Department Name: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Abstract

The project will provide strategic insights regarding the integration of the transport sector into future low carbon electricity grids, and is inspired by limitations in current grid investment, operation and control practices as well as regulation and market operation, which may prevent an economically and environmentally effective transition to electric mobility. Although various individual aspects of the operation of electricity systems within an integrated transport sector have received some research attention, integrated planning of the grid, EV charging infrastructure and ICT (information and communication technologies) infrastructure design have not been addressed yet. In this proposal we propose to tackle these challenges in an integrated manner.

At the heart of our proposal is a whole systems approach. It recognises the need to consider: EV demand and flexibility, electricity network operation and design, charging infrastructure operation and investment, ICT requirements and business models for electric mobility. This is essential when considering constraints imposed by the network on EV charging, and in return the requirements imposed by EVs on the system design and operation. This research will place emphasis on future energy scenarios relevant to the UK and China, but the tools, methods and technologies we develop will have wider applications. Specifically, a number of infrastructure planning related challenges for the massive rollout of EV have yet to be comprehensively investigated. First, traditional models of the travel of vehicles are based on the statistical prediction of aggregate-level travel demand without capturing the behavioural characterisation of users' driving requirements and preferences. Hence, this project will investigate new alternative activity-based travel demand models capturing in a bottom-up approach the behavioural basis of individual users' decisions regarding participation in activities yielding driving needs, behavioural aspects related to EV adoption and alternative EV charging strategies, as well as the characteristics of EV and the charging infrastructure. Unlike the existing models that analyse the EV impacts on isolated sectors of the power system, this project will assess economic effects on generation, transmission and distribution sectors simultaneously and subsequently reveal trade-offs between the cost and benefit streams of different EV charging strategies for different actors in the electricity chain. Furthermore, the closely related problem of EV charging infrastructure and ICT infrastructure planning -which has a central role in the massive EV rollout- has been almost completely neglected. This research project will examine novel risk-constrained stochastic optimization approaches in order to address the challenge of strategically investing in EV recharging and ICT infrastructures ahead of need, and will analytically investigate the interdependence between the power systems and EV enabling infrastructure planning. This project will also investigate alternative business models for the EV market integration and will propose a framework providing the opportunity for EVs to simultaneously support more efficient system operation and investment in assets across the entire electricity system chain. This research will formulate a new decentralised, market-based planning mechanism appropriate for deregulated power system environment and enable the investigation of the impact of alternative market designs and arrangements on the cost effectiveness of EV integration. Finally, a set of comprehensive use cases employing tools and methodologies developed in the project will be employed to understand the role and the importance of electric mobility in future UK and China low carbon systems and produce a suitable commercial and regulatory framework and a set of policy recommendations on ways of supporting the optimal deployment of EV infrastructure.

Planned Impact

In order to ensure the impact is realised the project has been developed in close collaboration with stakeholders from industry and academia in both the UK and China. The project will be supported by our Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) which represents the main potential beneficiaries and are in an exceptional position to support the research, maximise dissemination opportunities and enable impact. The IAB will be invited to attend the consortium meetings to review and steer the research work. As the members of the IAB, UK National Grid and China State Grid, are keen to understand the potential benefit of smart charging of EVs in supporting integration of renewables, including the scope and value of V2G applications. This project will also inform distribution network companies (including the members of our IAB, UK Power Networks, Utility Partnership Limited, WPD) about the options for adaptation and evolution of distribution networks needed to facilitate a cost effective integration of electric mobility. Furthermore, this research will inform industry and policy makers about the options for design of recharging infrastructure and requirements for ICT. Furthermore, novel business model to be investigated that will enable all actors involved to be considered: car owners, charging stations owners, car park operators, suppliers and aggregators, system operators, transmission and distribution companies, ICT service providers, and their revenues and costs will be examined. Together with the designs of market and policy frameworks, this research will be of direct interest to the regulators and the governments in both UK and China. By contribute to lifting of constraints on connection of EVs through integrated planning, this project contribute to more cost effective integration of EV and reduction of CO2 emissions thus will benefit the society at large.

We have strong links with the relevant policy-making bodies, both regionally and nationally. Strbac has recently analysed DECC pathways to low carbon future and Jenkins is directly involved with Ofgem / DECC group on Smart Grids. Our project will be specifically developing case studies showing how EVs will impact the development of UK electricity system, which should be of great relevance to policy-makers and will be disseminated through focussed meetings and workshops. In addition we will produce a roadmap for the electric mobility and an analysis of policy options that would appropriately support the deployment of EV in the UK.

We will also establish a cohort of PhD students and researchers in this field elecrtic mobility with interst in grid economics, planning and business models that will facilitate interactions between academia, industry, regulators and policy makers, both within the UK and China and, importantly, between the UK and China.
 
Description The key findings of this project can be summaried as following:
1. This project investigated and developed a novel whole-electricity system economic assessment methodology, which enabled, for the first time, assessment of the economic impacts of EV deployment on the distribution, transmission and generation infrastructures.
2. The conflicts and synergies between different time scales and different electricity system sectors under different EV management strategies and business models were investigated. The whole-system assessment approach revealed the trade-offs between the EV cost and benefit for different sectors of the power system, which enabled the development of novel business models.
3. The competiveness of EV based services against other technologies (including dynamic voltage control, flexible generation, and other demand side response options) were assessed.
4. Alternative activity-based travel demand models were investigated and the interactions between demand for travel and alternative charging strategies were identified.
5.Combined with activity-based travel demand models, this project also analysed for the first time the impact of the technical characteristics associated with the operational properties and design of EVs, batteries and charging stations, as well as behavioural aspects related to the adoption and charging of EV on the temporal and spatial properties of EV demand.
6. A novel risk-constrained multi-objective stochastic optimization approach was proposed to address the challenges of EV recharging and ICT infrastructure planning.
7. The interdependence between the electricity grid and EV enabling infrastructure planning was assessed.
8. The values of alternative charging strategies and EV flexibility in supporting electricity system operation and investment including ancillary services provision by EV such as V2G and V2H concepts were investigated.
9. The commercial, regulatory and policy frameworks for mass introduction of Smart Grid-integrated EVs were investigated.
10. This project analysed alternative business models for the EV market integration providing the opportunity for EV to simultaneously support more efficient system operation and investment in assets across the entire electricity system chain.
11. This project explicitly identified the role of electric mobility in UK and China low carbon pathways.
Exploitation Route Given that our outputs suggest significant system-level benefits of smart charging, we provide a set of recommendations that could be used by policy makers, electricity industry and energy regulators to modify the current commercial and regulatory framework in order to incentivise smart charging and allow flexible EVs to access multiple markets (energy, ancillary services).
Our findings may also be useful for the electric vehicles industry to inform potential customers about the benefits of adopting smart charging schemes when considering the decision to buy an EV.
Our findings informed the follow up initiatives related to EVs in the UK.
Our analysis informed the Committee on Climate Change about the impact of EVs on the electricity infrastructure
Sectors Creative Economy

Energy

Environment

Government

Democracy and Justice

Transport

 
Description This project investigated and developed a novel whole-electricity system economic assessment methodology, which demonstrated, for the first time, the economic impacts of EV deployment on the distribution, transmission and generation infrastructures. The research outcome highlighted the significant challenges of large-scale deployment of EVs under business-as-usual case on the operation and planning of electricity system. Novel smart EV charging models based were also developed using actual EV charging data observed in the London area. The outputs of our models suggest that there is significant flexibility in terms of timing of EV charging, so that the required energy can be delivered to EVs during the night without any compromise with respect to user's driving requirements. This can provide significant value for the society by enabling a more efficient operation and planning of the distribution, transmission and generation systems. The substantial value of smart charging provides a strong and clear message to policy makers and regulators about the need to establish the commercial framework that would enable smart EV charging to materialise. The project provided a set of recommendations on the necessary changes in the regulatory framework that are required to incentivise smart charging, and also identified potential business cases for flexible EV resources that are capable of providing multiple services to the electricity system. The developed models and proposed commercial, regulatory and policy frameworks have informed UK Government Department for Transport and the Committee for Climate Change about the impact of electrification of the electricity infrastructure operation and investment as well as the policy and market design to facilitate the deployment of EVs. Furthermore, the collaboration with Chinese institutions enriched the research background and impact of this activity. The different backgrounds and expertise from both countries led to a complementary research contribution. This collaboration not only produced a significant number of high-profile joint publications and trained young researchers, but also allowed the research outputs to be shared to inform policy and market designs in both countries. Based on the outputs from this project, we have been approached by Chinese policy makers (e.g. National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China, industrial companies (e.g. State Grid Corporation of China) and research institutions (e.g. Tsinghua University) for further collaborations.
First Year Of Impact 2016
Sector Creative Economy,Energy,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport
Impact Types Economic

Policy & public services

 
Description A response to Ofgem's Call for Evidence for 'Future Supply Market Arrangements'
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
 
Description A response to the BEIS/Ofgem call for evidence on "A smart flexible energy system"
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
 
Description Committee Member of Future Charging Forum
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
 
Description Consulted the Committee on Climate Change on the implications of accelerated electrification of transport and heat for the GB electricity system
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact Our research was used to inform the CCC on the likely impacts of rapid electrification of transport and heat in the net zero context on both local electricity grids and the national power system.
URL https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/accelerated-electrification-and-the-gb-electricity-system/#:~:...
 
Description Dr Marko Aunedi appointed as the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council of the system costs study by the OECD NEA
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description ETIP SNET - ENERGY SECTOR INTERFACES
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description ETIP SNET - GRID PLANNING COORDINATION ACROSS SYSTEM OPERATORS
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Electricity Engineering Standards Review Independent Panel Terms of Reference
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact UK industrial strategy has articulated a grand challenge of clean growth: realising our decarbonisation objectives, including electrification of transport sector and maintaining reliable, secure and resilient electricity supplies at minimum cost. A key part of this is delivering an efficient electricity network within a whole electricity system, which maintains high levels of reliability and security of supply in Great Britain at least cost to consumers. In order to unlock benefits, BEIS and Ofgem launched an independent review of electricity system standards. The objective of the review is to consider how the planning and, where appropriate, operational and investment engineering standards should be updated in the face of our changing electricity system, whilst maintaining security of supply to consumers
URL https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8199...
 
Description European Technology & Innovation Platforms and Strategic Energy Technology Plan (2017)
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Invited lecture by Nicolò Daina on Demand Modelling In Emerging Electric Mobility markets for the Sustainable Energy Future MSc of Imperial College London
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.imperial.ac.uk/energy-futures-lab/our-msc/
 
Description Member of Inaugural National Grid Engineering Advisory Council, April 2021
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact Member of Advisory Council - influencing decisions and practice.
 
Description Member of Inaugural National Grid Engineering Advisory Council, April 2021
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact Member of Advisory Council - influencing decisions and practice.
 
Description Member of the Steering Committee of the Smart Grids EU Technology Platform
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Model and Reuslts Used in Low Carbon London Report to Inform Policy Development
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
 
Description Nicolò Daina partecipated to London Energy Plan transport power demand consultation workshop on Monday 20th July 2015, at London City Hall
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description OFGEM RII0-2 Challenge Group
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact Ofgem established the RIIO-2 Challenge Group with the objective to provide challenge to the energy network companies on their Business Plans for RIIO-2 and to Ofgem on their framework for RIIO-2, on behalf of existing and future consumers. Independent report was delivered to OFGEM.
URL https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/system/files/docs/2020/01/riio-2_challenge_group_independent_report_for_ofg...
 
Description Prof G Strbac has been a member of the Expert Panel of the European Technology & Innovation Platform (ETIP) and Smart Networks for Energy Transition (SNET) and specifically Working Group on Reliable, economic and efficient energy system, that included the concept of V2G
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The proposed topic is now on the EU agenda regarding the future research and demonstration project. The key contribution was related to providing fundamental guidance regarding the research / demonstration topics that should be included in the EU research calls.
 
Description Prof Goran Strbac appointed as Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact This will provide evidence to all governments related to the climate change mitigation, assessing methods for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. It is expected that work will be the core for the development of national and International policy frameworks to ensure cost effective reduction of carbon emissions at the global level.
 
Description Prof Goran Strbac appointed as a member of SAPEA - "Science Advice for Policy by European Academies" Working Group member of "A systemic approach to the energy transition in Europe"
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact Informing the EU about many possible pathways towards a carbon-neutral future - it is demonstrated that it can be achieved by 2050, but this requires urgent action. This is the central conclusion of SAPEA's evidence review report on the energy transition, and the corresponding Scientific Opinion of the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors.
 
Description Professor Goran Strbac appointed as a member of BEIS Advisory Panel of Alternative Energy Markets project.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact As a result of the reformed price signals driven by the Alternative Energy Market concept, this will incentivise and enable consumers to use energy in a more efficient, less carbon-intense way and for suppliers to develop products and services that support cost effective energy system decarbonisation. UK is the international leader in the development of Alternative Energy Market concepts. .
 
Description Professor Goran Strbac appointed as a member of the Joint EU Programme on Energy Systems Integration of the European Energy Research Alliance
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact The Joint Programme in Energy Systems Integration seeks to bring together research strengths across Europe to optimise EU energy system, in particular by benefiting from the synergies between heating, cooling, electricity, renewable energy and fuel pathways at all scales. The energy elements of the water and transport system are also included, as well as the data and control network that enables the optimisation. The Joint Programme in Energy Systems Integration is designed to develop the technical and economic framework that governments and industries will need to build the future efficient and sustainable European energy system. It is fully aligned with the recently published SET Plan Integrated Roadmap and potential impact include increased reliability and performance, minimisation of cost and environmental impacts and, in particular, increased penetration of renewable energy sources. This is informing the EU about the development of future energy research projects.
 
Description Provided expert review of International Renewable Energy Agency's policy brief on demand-side flexibility
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact Better understanding of the role of demand-side flexibility for the energy transition.
URL https://www.irena.org/publications/2019/Dec/Demand-side-flexibility-for-power-sector-transformation
 
Description Response to BEIS Call for Evidence on Vehicle-to-X
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Smart Systems Forum
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact BEIS and OFGEM developed plans to remove barriers, improve market and regulatory framework, catalyse innovation, and shape roles and responsibilities in the shift towards a smart, more flexible energy system which meets the needs of consumers and businesses now and in the future.
 
Description Welsh Government, National Assembly for Wales (Economy Infrastructure and Skills Committee, evidence for "EV charging in Wales"
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact This research provide evidence about the impact of electrification of the electricity infrastructure operation and investment, as well as the policy and market design to facilitate the deployment of EVs, which informed policy in Wales: https://senedd.wales/laid%20documents/cr-ld12782/cr-ld12782%20-e.pdf https://record.assembly.wales/Committee/5157
 
Description E-FLEX - Real-world Energy Flexibility through Electric Vehicle Energy Trading
Amount £3,648,736 (GBP)
Funding ID 104249 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2018 
End 02/2021
 
Description E-Flex
Amount £280,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 104249 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2018 
End 04/2021
 
Description Energy Revolution Research Consortium - Core - EnergyREV
Amount £9,063,173 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/S031863/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2018 
End 03/2023
 
Description Innovation in Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) Systems
Amount £25,037,480 (GBP)
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2018 
End 10/2021
 
Description MERLON
Amount € 4,000,000 (EUR)
Funding ID 824386 
Organisation European Commission H2020 
Sector Public
Country Belgium
Start 01/2019 
End 12/2022
 
Description Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and Sharing - 3M (Multi-times, Multi-scales, Multi-qualities)
Amount £1,000,000 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/N03466X/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2016 
End 05/2019
 
Description Peer-to-Peer SmarTest
Amount € 5,000,000 (EUR)
Funding ID 244102 
Organisation European Commission 
Department Horizon 2020
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 01/2015 
End 12/2017
 
Description The Active Building Centre
Amount £35,947,427 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/S016627/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2018 
End 03/2020
 
Description Western Power Distribution
Amount £100,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 6501 
Organisation Western Power Distribution 
Sector Private
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description Western Power Distribution
Amount £250,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 123434 
Organisation Western Power Distribution 
Sector Private
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description Western Power Distribution
Amount £50,000 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/H500103/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description Western Power Distribution
Amount £897,122 (GBP)
Funding ID 6351 
Organisation Western Power Distribution 
Sector Private
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description e4Future
Amount £5,220,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 104227 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2018 
End 04/2021
 
Title Advanced Stochastic Unit Commitment Model 
Description The model utilize a novel mixed integer linear programming formulation for stochastic unit commitment that optimizes system operation by simultaneously scheduling energy production, standing/spinning reserves and inertia-dependent fast frequency response in light of uncertainties associated with wind production and generation outages. Post-fault dynamic frequency requirements, (a) rate of change of frequency, (b) frequency nadir and (c) quasi-steady-state frequency are formulated as linear constraints by using the simplified model of system dynamics. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The proposed model allows to simultaneously optimize energy production, standing/spinning reserves and inertia-dependent fast frequency response. The inertia reduction effect, driven by high penetration of renewals, is directly considers for the first time in the stochastic unit commitment model. Therefore, the challenges on the primary frequency control and the opportunities for flexible resource (e.g. EVs) could be accurately quantified. 
URL http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7115982
 
Title Whole electricity system model 
Description This model takes into account spatial and temporal characteristics of the energy system 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Informing industry and government about the whole system value of distributed energy resources 
 
Title Data supporting 'Simulation of electric vehicle driver behaviour in road transport and electric power networks' 
Description The research considers an integrated simulation-based approach, modelling the EV and its interactions in both road transport and electric power systems. The main components of both systems have been considered, and the EV driver behaviour was modelled using a multi-agent simulation platform. Considering a fleet of 1000 EV agents, two behavioural profiles were studied (Unaware/Aware) to model EV driver behaviour. The two behavioural profiles represent the EV driver in different stages of EV adoption starting with Unaware EV drivers when the public acceptance of EVs is limited, and developing to Aware EV drivers as the electrification of road transport is promoted in an overall context. The EV agents were modelled to follow a realistic activity-based trip pattern, and the impact of EV driver behaviour was simulated on a road transport and electricity grid. It was found that the EV agents' behaviour has direct and indirect impact on both the road transport network and the electricity grid, affecting the traffic of the roads, the stress of the distribution network and the utilization of the charging infrastructure. 2 datasets are provided containing the input and output (result) data of the model presented in this publication. The file "input_data.xlsx" contains the data from the modelling of the EV agent characteristics, as described in the paper. Data regarding the power consumption, discharge characteristics, battery voltage, battery current, battery soc and charger power are presented in separate tabs. Power consumption (measured in kW) was calculated using the battery model described in the paper, and is split into 4 categories: P aerodynamics, P drivetrain, P tires and P ancillary. P aerodynamics are the vehicle power losses due to the outside air friction, P drivetrain are the vehicle power losses due to the operation of the motor, P tires are the vehicle losses due to the vehicle weight and the rolling drag, while P ancillary reflects all the other electrical load of the vehicle (lights etc). Each category is given as a function of vehicle speed (in km/hour). The Discharge Characteristics are the characteristic discharge curves calculated with the battery model described in the paper. The data include information about the terminal voltage of the battery (in Volts) as a function of the discharge level (in %) for 4 different discharge rates (0.2C, 0.5C, 1C and 2C). The battery voltage, battery current, battery soc and charger power show the calculated values of battery voltage (in Volts), battery current (in amperes), battery soc (in %) and charger power (in kW) as a function of time (in hours) for a full charging cycle using a Home and a Public Charger respectively. The above data were used as inputs to the multi-agent simulation model described in the paper. The file "output_data.xlsx" contains the result data from the multi-agent simulation model, as described in the paper. Data regarding the home charging demand, public charging demand and traffic distribution are presented in separate tabs. The Home charging demand data is the aggregated power demand (in MW) of the simulated network as a function of time (in minutes). Three cases are presented: the base case (without EV agents) and 2 simulation case studies (considering Home Chargers and 2 different types of EV agents). The Public charging demand data is the aggregated charging energy (in kWh) from Public Chargers in the different nodes of the simulated road network for two different simulation study cases (with different types of EV agents). The Traffic distribution data contain information about the average hourly density (in vehicles/hour) for every road of the simulated road network in two different simulation study cases (with different types of EV agents). The number of EVs on the road A1_2 are also provided (per minute) for two different simulation study cases (with different types of EV agents). 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
 
Description Capacity Built for China's Power Sector Reform 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Department Cambridge Judge Business School
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Develop annual UK/China Power Market training course, sharing the UK's 30 years reform experience to Chinese policy makers - National Energy Administration and senior managers from major energy companies, such as State Grid of China, Southern Powergrid. Bath is hosting the event, co-design the training program with Michael Pollitt at Cambridge University, invite leading UK experts, coordinate with British Embassy in Beijing, and engage with Chinese policy makers.
Collaborator Contribution Co-design the training program with Furong Li at University of Bath, invite leading UK experts, coordinate with British Embassy in Beijing, and engage with Ofgem.
Impact Led to continued support from Chinese Policy Makers, and new engagement with Guangdong Powergrid with UK experts.
Start Year 2020
 
Description DC Equipment Donation from Western Power Distribution to the University of Bath 
Organisation Western Power Distribution
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution University of Bath developed a number of innovations for Western Power Distribution's smart grid demonstration project - Solar Bristol. This includes: i) local dc grid design, ii) smart tariffs, iii) local energy management systems. The demonstration was to trial if and how to use consumer resources to allow high density PV generation to be connected to the existing system whilst support grid constraints. These innovations have been deconstruction have been implemented over 26 homes, 4 schools and data centre, involving each premise PV panels, energy storage and integrated energy management systems.
Collaborator Contribution Western Power Distribution (WPD) has provided in-depth practical knowledge concerning their low voltage networks, challenges from integration renewables and data sets concerning customers and networks. Upon the completion of Solar Bristol project, WPD has donated the demonstration equipment to the University of Bath in December 2016 for education and research purposes. They provide continued support to Bath research and teaching in community energy with the view to develop the University of Bath capability in research, development and testing.
Impact The DC laboratory provides an in-house facility for teaching and research from 2017. There are 2 research assistants and 2 undergraduates using the facilities for their research, this is expected to grow very substantially as we develop further the laboratory capability for future undergraduate teaching and postgraduate research.
Start Year 2016
 
Description Interaction with wholeSEM project 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Department Department of Engineering
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Informed on the value and benefit of energy storage.
Collaborator Contribution Assisted in the development of models to quantify the value of flexibility in low carbon electricity systems.
Impact Input into whole systems model
Start Year 2016
 
Description International EV Policy Council 
Organisation University of California, Davis
Department The Institute of Transportation Studies
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The council meets in workshops where they bring together their research findings to build an in-depth understanding of global EV market developments. This research is assimilated into systematic literature reviews that contain this research and research from other academics around the world. Once all empirical evidence on an area has been gathered the council develop policy guides that are backed up by a large body of empirical evidence
Collaborator Contribution The council meets in workshops where they bring together their research findings to build an in-depth understanding of global EV market developments. This research is assimilated into systematic literature reviews that contain this research and research from other academics around the world. Once all empirical evidence on an area has been gathered the council develop policy guides that are backed up by a large body of empirical evidence
Impact Policy guides: See: https://phev.ucdavis.edu/international-ev-policy-council-policy-briefs/
Start Year 2017
 
Title Battery monitoring in electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles and other applications 
Description A method for monitoring the condition of at least one cell of a battery, used in an electric or hybrid electric vehicle. The battery is connected to a power converter to supply electrical power to an electrical load. The method includes the steps of: controlling the power converter to vary the input impedance of the power converter to draw a varying current from the cell; sensing the voltage across the cell and the current drawn in response to varying the impedance of the power converter; calculating from the sensed voltage and current the complex impedance of the cell; and comparing the calculated complex impedance with information indicative of a correlation between (i) the complex impedance and (ii) information indicative of the condition of the cell, to give an indication of the condition of the cell. The varying current may be actively varied or passively varied. 
IP Reference US20130229156 
Protection Patent application published
Year Protection Granted
Licensed No
Impact unknown
 
Title Home Area Energy Management System Considering Uncertainties 
Description This is the first software that can deal with natural volatilities existing in consumer homes, many conversion efficiencies cross subsystems, such as DC/DC conversion, DC/AC conversation. This is achieved by substantially simplifying the management problem by converting all efficiency issues into the impact to the main's supply. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2015 
Impact The software has been used by Western Power Distribution on its Smart Grid Demonstration Project - Solar Bristol, managing energy flows. 
 
Title Integrated whole-energy system (IWES) model 
Description Uniqueness of the model is in very granular spatial and temporal resolution while considering multi-energy vectors including electricity, heat, transport. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact Informing Government about the cost effectiveness of alternative decarbonisation pathways 
 
Title Network Charging Software 
Description The software combines technical modelling of power system and economic appraisal in the Excel platform, able to quantify the long-term network investment cost from connecting a generator or demand at each node in the system. Using the traditional approach, the process is an iterative method between technical modelling and economic appraisal and requires operates to transfer data from modelling to economic analyses. Not only it takes nearly 100 times of Bath platform, it is prone to human errors. The software development is supported by the University of Bath IAA fund and WPD's cash support. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2007 
Impact The software has been validated with local utility, Western Power Distribution, with their power system engineers and charging manager, showed confirming results and with substantially reduced time (from 1 months effort down to 20 minutes). UK Power Network and Northern Powergrid expressed strong interests to adopt the software. This has now on pause as the charging methodology is on major reform and more recently, the charging reform on the distribution system is undergoing further reform to be consistent with that of the transmission system. The industry's view is once this is completed, then it would be a good time to consider upgrading the software to take into account of the new charging standards. 
 
Description 17th session of the Group of Experts on Cleaner Electricity Systems, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct 2021 
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 This meeting was manilt on the following topics:
Financing decarbonization of energy system in the UNECE region
Potential of hydrogen to contribute to sustainable development
Digitalizing energy systems
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 2017 IEEE PowerTech 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation on the new methodology for quantifying the security contribution of energy storage and demand side response
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description 30th Session of the Committee on Sustainable Energy, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, Sep 2021 
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 The 30th session featured endorsement of the strategic review of the sustainable energy subprogramme, affirmation of the context and continuing work of the Pathways to Sustainable Energy Programme, and a discussion of UNECE member country commitments to energy in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 8th session of the Group of Experts on Renewable Energy, Oct 2021 
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 This meeting was mainly on the folllwoing topics:
Tracking progress and exchange of experiences on how to increase the uptake of renewable energy
Cross-cutting and inter-sectoral cooperation to integrate renewable energy into energy systems
Financing decarbonization of energy system in the UNECE region
Potential of hydrogen to contribute to sustainable development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description ? Invited Speech entitled "Coordinated Operation of Multi Energies" in IEEE PES General Meeting 2018 in the Panel "Energy Internet: Concept and Key Technologies", Portland, the US, 7th Aug 2018. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Invited Speech entitled "Coordinated Operation of Multi Energies" in IEEE PES General Meeting 2018 in the Panel "Energy Internet: Concept and Key Technologies", Portland, the US, 7th Aug 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ? Keynote Speech entitled "Future Energy Supply Networks" in IEEE 2nd International Electrical and Energy Conference (CIEEC2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact IEEE 2nd International Electrical and Energy Conference (CIEEC2018), Beijing, China, 4th - 7th Nov, 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description A panel presentation in IEEE PES GM 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof Goran Strbac gave a panel presentation in 2018 IEEE PES General Meeting in Portland.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description A presentation in Birmingham University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact I gave a talk on"Ancillary service requirement and optimization in the future low carbon system" in Birmingham University, UK. The talk was well attended by postgraduates, researchers and policy makers from both UK and China.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description A presentation in ESIG 2019 Spring Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Dr Danny Pudjianto gave a talk in the public event on the decarbonisation of UK energy sector.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description A presentation in HangDian University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I gave a talk on "Operation of the future low carbon power systems" at Hangdian University, China. A mix of people attended the talk, including undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers. Discussion is ongoing for further activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description A presentation to a delegation of national and provincial representatives from China 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I gave a talk on the UK energy transition to a delegation of national and provincial representatives from China, which was organised by UKERC. The delegation is made up of energy infrastructure, transport and planning experts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description A talk at Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof Goran Strbac and myself were invited to Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission to give a talk on the development of Energy Storage in UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description An invited talk in Workshop on nexus of smart energy, intelligent manufacturing and transportation systems 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof Goran Strbac gave a talk on "Whole-System approach to cost effective decarbonisation of Industrial, Transport, Heat and Electricity Sectors". The talk stimulate discussions on the need of whole-system approach in the energy sector assessment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Annual meeting with BEIS/Ofgem for updating on engineering standards since the expert recommendations published in December 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Annual meeting with BEIS/Ofgem for updating on engineering standards since the expert recommendations published in December 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Beijing University of Science and Technology 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact J Wu gave a key note speech
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Benefits of Smart Grids in Future Low-carbon Electricity Systems, Berlin, European Institute of Innovation and Technology - Smart Energy Summer School,August 2013. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation of Benefits of Smart Grids in Future Low-carbon Electricity Systems and discussion afterwards

Higher interest in the topic
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description CIRED Conference - Flexibility from distributed energy resources: generation, storage and responsive demand 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presenting modelling related to importance of flexibility and smart operation in future low carbon energy systems
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description CSA Catapult Visit/Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Meeting to develop research collaboration with the CSA Catapult
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Chair of Panel "Applied Energy Global UNiLAB of Multi-Energy Microgrids" in 10th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE), Hong Kong, 24 Aug, 2018. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Chair of Panel "Applied Energy Global UNiLAB of Multi-Energy Microgrids" in 10th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE), Hong Kong, 24 Aug, 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Chaired a tutorial session "Network charges for smart distribution networks" at International Conference for Electricity Distribution 
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 Furong Li chaired a tutorial session "Network charges for smart distribution networks" at International Conference for Electricity Distribution on 20th September 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description City of Stockholm e-mobility conference, February 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presented on the impact of large-scale rollout of EVs to an audience of about 60 people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Conference on Energy Storage 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Setting out the role and value of energy storage in future low carbon energy system
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Discussion with Research Fellow Brian Tam on Parliament Post development in Electricity Market Reform 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discussed the limitations with the current market arrangements and possible options to reform. Emphasis is placed on market split and network pricing in enabling renewables to reach millions of homes, vehicles and heat pumps.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-launches-biggest-electricity-market-reform-in-a-generation
 
Description Dr Marko Aunedi interviewed for Imperial Stories 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Marko Aunedi gave an interview to feed into an article for 'Imperial Stories' on the future of the UK's energy mix. 'Imperial Stories' include features and opinion from the Imperial College community, from world-leading experts. The article's aim is to inform the public on the future of energy, provide a voice to Imperial researchers and share recommendations with policymakers, as well as raising the visibility of IDLES research on net zero energy mix.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.imperial.ac.uk/be-inspired/stories/
 
Description ENC workshop: Strategic Plan 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Strategic Plan workshop for the Electricity Network Commissioner's Consult and Review Group.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description EPSRC Engineering Heads of Department Meeting_ Wed 16th Nov 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact To discuss UKRI Strategic plan
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description EPSRC Workshop - Leveraging LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) for achieving Net Zero in the Built Environment: Challenges and Directions for Future Research". 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Wu participated in this workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Eighth session of the Group of Experts on Energy Efficiency, United Nationa, Geneva, Switzerland, Sep 2021 
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 Featuring formal segment, plenary sessions, and expert dialogue on action agenda to improve energy efficiency in industry and in buildings, including through digitalization.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Electricity Network Commissioner: Consult and Review Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Energy Systems Catapult (ESC) was appointed by BEIS to support the Electricity Networks Commissioner in developing recommendations that will accelerate delivery of electricity transmission network infrastructure. The project will Mapped out the end-to-end process for transmission infrastructure deployment, Validated the process map with stakeholders, Identified the key themes and issues that lead to the current lengthy timescales.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-electricity-networks-commissioner-appointed-to-help-ensure-ho...
 
Description Electromobility conference Latvia, February 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation to inform the discussion on the impact of EU-wide rollout of electric vehicles on the electricity grid.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Enabling Technologies for Microgrids 
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 Professor Furong Li led the Bath team in sharing the UK experience and knowledge in developing enabling technologies for developing mini-grids for remote Kenya communities, co-hosted between University of Bath and Strathmore University in Kenya. The workshop disseminated the design, implementation of energy and digital technologies, energy management systems, and demonstration the integrated software and hardware at the laboratory scale. The workshop received extremely positive response from over 150 attendees from Kenya, Uganda, commenting the workshop exceeded all their expectations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Engineering Advisory Council Meeting with National Grid ESO 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Provide expert assessment, views and advices on the low carbon development in system operation, addressing stability, visibility, controllability and investments. Quarterly meetings held with National Grid ESO's chief engineers and innovators on a range of ESO planned activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023
 
Description European Control Conference 2022 in London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Wu gave a talk gave in the workshop "Machine learning in smart energy systems
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Flintshire LVPN 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting with Gethin Well from Welsh Government to discuss collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Give a speech 'Challenges for Future Development of Power Sector' at State Grid Energy Research Institute 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Give a speech at State Grid Energy Research Institute China and inform the potential market development and business case for state grid china.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Give a talk in Beihang University, China 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I was invited to give a talk on "Operation and planning of the future low carbon energy systems" in Beihang University, China
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Give a talk in China Electric Power Research Institute 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Goran Strbac and Dr Fei Teng were invited to CEPRI to give a talk on the Electricity Market Design and Energy Storage. We also held a discussion with the researchers regarding the electricity market design experience for China.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Give speech 'Introduction of EU (UK) Reform of Electricity Market and their experiences to China' at International Workshop on Electricity Market 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact More than 100 attendants showed in this event and exchanged the vision on the market development all over the world.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Give speech 'Role and value of energy storage in the future low carbon energy systems' at NDRC Energy Research Institute, China 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Give a speech at NDRC Energy Research Institute, China regarding the role and value of energy storage in the future low carbon energy systems and inform the development of electricity market to support the application of energy storage.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Give speech 'Role and value of flexibility in the future low carbon energy systems' at 7th China International Conference on Electricity Distribution 
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 Give a speech at 7th China International Conference on Electricity Distribution regarding 'Role and value of flexibility in the future low carbon energy systems' and inform the potential development of electricity market in China.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Global Power System Transformation - Training Course, hosted by Department of Energy, USA 
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 Furong Li delivered 4 lectures on network planning and pricing as part of Global Power System Transformation's education agenda, present the material whilst encouraging female researchers and students undertaking power engineering courses.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023
URL https://globalpst.org/women-in-power-system-transformation-and-the-global-power-system-transformatio...
 
Description H2FC Supergen Hub Final Assembly Event 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Gave a talk on behalf of HiACT
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Hohai University presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Wu gave a talk to disseminate our research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Hosted a COP26 panel discussion as part of EPSRC Hub for Energy Networks' COP activities, with panellists from Ofgem, National Grid and Cambridge. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact A panel discussion on the 28th June 2021 as part of EPSRC Hub for Energy Networks' COP activities, with panellists from Ofgem, National Grid and Cambridge. A policy paper 'Driving Increased Utilization of New Renewables with Targeted Market Reform' was generated from the panel discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description ICAE Panel discussion. Speaker. Women in Applied Energy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Wu gave a talk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://applied-energy.org/icae2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ICAE-2022-Program-Book-V2_2022-08-09....
 
Description IEEE PES General Meeting 
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 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://pes-gm.org/2020/
 
Description IEEE Power and Energy Society - General Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Setting out Market design requirements for Energy Storage and flexible demand
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description IET Wiley virtual event on Carbon Emissions: Pathway Energy Systems of Grid Development under Carbon Neutrality 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Jianzhong Wu gave a presentation on Scenarios of the UK Energy System Transition
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2948361741370996236?source=SocialMedia&utm_source=twitter&...
 
Description INCOSE Energy Systems Interest Group Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Community Engagement
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Impact of High Penetrations of Electric Vehicles on the Electricity System, Croatian Committee of CIRED - Seminar on the impact of electro-mobility on distribution grid and power system, Zagreb, November 2012. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation of Impact of High Penetrations of Electric Vehicles on the Electricity System and discussion afterwards

Higher interest in the topic
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description Impact of mass EV rollout on EU electricity system, Eurelectric Brussels, September 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation of Impact of mass EV rollout on EU electricity system

Higher interest in the topic
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Impact of mass EV rollout on EU electricity system, International Energy Agency Task 19 - Expert workshop on LCA Aspects of Electricity Production, Distribution and Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles, Barcelona, October 2014. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presentation on Impact of mass EV rollout and opportunities for smart charging and G2V

Higher interest in the topic
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description International EV Policy Council 
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 International EV Policy Council

Co-ordinated by the Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center, UC Davis

The International EV Policy Council is a group of 25 experts from around the world committed to developing effective policies to promote EV market growth. The experts are all researchers and academics working at universities, laboratories, institutes, and research centres that focus on gathering empirical evidence on battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The council meets in workshops where they bring together their research findings to build an in-depth understanding of global EV market developments. This research is assimilated into systematic literature reviews that contain this research and research from other academics around the world. Once all empirical evidence on an area has been gathered the council develop policy guides that are backed up by a large body of empirical evidence. This means that the project will provide policy makers with the most holistic and robust policy guides to date allowing them to make informed policy decisions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017,2018
URL https://phev.ucdavis.edu/international-ev-policy-council/
 
Description International Institute for Energy Systems Integration - annual workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation on the role and value of energy storage in supporting cost effective transition to low carbon energy systems
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Invited Speaker at Cadent 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Giving a talk on Cost Effective Decarbonisation of the GB Energy System, in Cadent Gas company
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Invited Speaker at ETH Zurch, Switzerland, March 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Highly skilled experts on multi-vector energy systems were gathered, and I Presented my talk on Coordinated Operation and Planning Strategies for Gas and Electricity Systems in Presence of Flexibilities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited Speaker at Power-Energy Summit 2019, Dubai, UAE, Feb 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact As an invited speaker I presneted the reserach on "Coordinated Strategies in Supporting Cost Effective Transition to Sustainable Lower Carbon Energy System"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited Speech entitled "Future Energy Supply Networks" to the National Assembly for Wales Cross Party Group on Sustainable Energy, Cardiff, UK, 13th June, 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Invited Speech entitled "Future Energy Supply Networks" to the National Assembly for Wales Cross Party Group on Sustainable Energy, Cardiff, UK, 13th June, 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Invited Speech entitled "Integration of the Networks" in the Wales Energy Conference 2018, Cardiff, UK, 16th May, 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Invited Speech entitled "Integration of the Networks" in the Wales Energy Conference 2018, Cardiff, UK, 16th May, 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Invited Speech entitled "Multi-Vector Innovation" in Utility Week Live, Birmingham, UK, 22nd May, 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Invited Speech entitled "Multi-Vector Innovation" in Utility Week Live, Birmingham, UK, 22nd May, 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Invited Speech entitled "Smart Local Energy Systems" in IEEE 2018 International Conference on Power System Technology (PowerCon 2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Invited Speech entitled "Smart Local Energy Systems" in IEEE 2018 International Conference on Power System Technology (PowerCon 2018), Guangzhou, China, 6th - 8th Nov, 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Invited lecture at the City University of London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited lecture on "Bi-level optimisation and game-theoretic approaches for modelling low-carbon deregulated electricity markets", at the City University of London, London, U.K.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Invited lecture at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact "Bi-level optimisation and game-theoretic approaches for modelling low-carbon deregulated electricity markets", invited lecture at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, U.K.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited presentation - Synergistic approach of multi-energy models (SOC&RDIC workshop on Innovation uptake for System Operation", ENTSO-E, Nov'19 Brussels 
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 A workshop to identify the key emerging technological advances that can support how transmission can be operated more securely and economically in future considering the changes expected in generation system and the increased presence of embedded energy resources at distribution systems.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited presentation at Future Mobility Conference, Dubai, November 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Gave a presentation on "Smart Large-Scale Integration of EV into European Power Systems" to a varied audience, and participated in a panel debate afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Invited presentation at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Investigating the Role and Value of Flexible Technologies in Low-Carbon Deregulated Electricity Markets", invited presentation at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, U.S.A., 5th November 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Invited presentation at the Global Summit and Expo on Power & Energy Engineering 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "A new modeling framework for investigating the role of flexible demand in electricity markets", invited presentation at the Global Summit and Expo on Power & Energy Engineering, Dubai, U.A.E.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited presentation at the Supergen Energy Networks Hub Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact "Modelling low-carbon deregulated electricity markets", invited presentation at the Supergen Energy Networks Hub Workshop, London, U.K.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited presentation at the Workshop on Mean-Field Games, Energy and Environment in The Alan Turing Institute 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation on the "Role of flexible demand technologies in modern electricity markets: A game-theoretic perspective", invited presentation at the Workshop on Mean-Field Games, Energy and Environment, The Alan Turing Institute, London, U.K.,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Jianzhong Wu met with Welsh Government and Costain to discuss the potential cooperation between the 'Local Virtual Private Networks (LVPN)' development in Flintshire (North Wales) and the 'Resilience as a Service (RAAS)' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Jianzhong Wu attended and presented at a meeting with Welsh Government and Costain to discuss the potential cooperation between the 'Local Virtual Private Networks (LVPN)' development in Flintshire (North Wales) and the 'Resilience as a Service (RAAS)' which is an NIC project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Keynote Speaker at India's 21st National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2020) December 17-19, 2020, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Keynote Speaker at India's 21st National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2020)
December 17-19, 2020, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Keynote Speech entitled "Decarbonisation of Heat Supply Using a Multi-Energy Approach" in the Applied Energy Symposium 2019: Low Carbon Cities and Urban Energy Systems, Xiamen, China, 16-18 October, 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The event consisted of two-day symposium and one-day lab/site tours for sharing the most recent progress of research and developments in urban energy systems. CUE2019 was held on October 16-18, 2019 in the city of Xiamen, China. Prof. Jianzhong Wu from Cardiff University was invited to give a keynote speech entitled "Decarbonisation of Heat Supply Using a Multi-Energy Approach".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Keynote Speech entitled "Decarbonisation of Heat/Cooling Supply Systems Using a Multi-Energy Approach" in the 3rd International symposium on smart grid methods, tools and technologies, Jinan, China, 16-19 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 The aim of this symposium was to explore the engineering and applications of smart grid and to further stimulate the international collaborations in this field. The organisation committee comprises The University of Manchester (UK) and Shandong University. We are bringing together the leading scientists from around 10 countries in North America, Europe and Asia. Prof Jianzhong Wu from Cardiff University gave a keynote speech entitled "Decarbonisation of Heat/Cooling Supply Systems Using a Multi-Energy Approach".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.intesgmt.sdu.edu.cn/index.htm
 
Description Keynote Speech entitled "Energy Infrastructure and Multi-vector Energy Systems" in the National Conference on Water Energy Nexus, Dead Sea, Jordan 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The National Conference on "Water Energy Nexus" was held by the University of Jordan under the patronage of the Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, H.E. Dr. Omar Al-Razzaz, during November 4-5, 2019 in King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre-Hilton, Dead Sea-Jordan.

The purpose of the Conference was to strengthen the dialogue between water and energy sectors in Jordan and facilitate the exchange of international and regional knowledge, experiences and best practices in the context of the water-energy nexus, particularly aspects related to renewable energy (RE), energy efficiency (EE) and Climate Change.

The conference was attended by high-ranking officials including the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, the Minister of Water and Irrigation, President of the university of Jordan, the senator Prof. Rida Khawaldeh, and the Parliament council member; Eng. Jamal Qamoh. General secretaries from the ministries, and deans of different faculties were also present in the conference, In addition to a representative to the German Embassy-Amman.

The 129 workshop registered participants represented more than 35 entities, including governments, Parliament council, Senate council, universities, companies, funding agencies, associations, media and non-governmental organisations.

Many press releases (news release in UJ website and official media agencies, newspapers, media release in TV and Radio, and a recorded video of the opening ceremony) for the final conference were published, before the conference to attract participants, during the conference, and after the conference to disseminate the information and conclusions.

A Keynote speech entitled "Energy Infrastructure and Multi-vector Energy Systems" was given by Prof Jianzhong Wu from Cardiff University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://sites.ju.edu.jo/en/egreen/Lists/Events/Disp_Form.aspx?ID=74
 
Description Keynote Speech entitled "Green Energy and Energy Sharing" in the 180th XiaoGuWei Forum, Guangzhou, China, 23rd June, 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Prof Jianzhong Wu from Cardiff University was invited to give a keynote speech entitled "Green Energy and Energy Sharing" in the 180th XiaoGuWei Forum, Guangzhou, China, 23rd June, 2019 to the general public.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Keynote Speech entitled "Local Peer to Peer Energy Balancing and Sharing" in the Annual Conference of the China Electrotechnical Society, Guangzhou, China, 21st June, 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Prof Jianzhong Wu at Cardiff University gave a keynote speech entitled "Local Peer to Peer Energy Balancing and Sharing" in the Annual Conference of the China Electrotechnical Society, Guangzhou, China, 21st June, 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Keynote Speech entitled "Low-Carbon Local Energy Systems" on 22nd Oct 2018 in Global Engineering Conference (GEC), 22nd - 26th Oct 2018 in London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Keynote Speech entitled "Low-Carbon Local Energy Systems" on 22nd Oct 2018 in Global Engineering Conference (GEC), 22nd - 26th Oct 2018 in London. GEC is part of our ICE 200 bicentenary programme, the 50th anniversary of WFEO and the UK Government's Year of Engineering. GEC brought together more than 2000 engineers from around the world to London to share ideas of how to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Keynote Speech entitled "Smart Local Energy Systems" in the Workshop on Nexus of Smart Energy, Intelligent Manufacturing and Transportation Systems, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Workshop on Nexus of Smart Energy, Intelligent Manufacturing and Transportation Systems, Leeds, UK, 24-25 Jan 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Keynote Speech entitled "State-of-the-art analysis and perspectives for peer-to-peer energy trading" in the 18th Annual Power Symposium 2019 Power & Energy Section, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Hong Kong, 14th June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof. Jianzhong Wu from Cardiff University gave a keynote speech entitled "State-of-the-art analysis and perspectives for peer-to-peer energy trading" in the 18th Annual Power Symposium 2019 Power & Energy Section, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Hong Kong, 14th June 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Keynote Speech in CSEE-IET jointed online Workshop on Energy Internet, 21 July, 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Keynote Speech entitled "Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and Local Balancing" in CSEE-IET jointed online Workshop on Energy Internet, 21 July, 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Keynote conference presentation 21st National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The 21st National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2020), technically co-sponsored by IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), IEEE Gujarat Section, and Power & Energy Society (PES) Gujarat Chapter, was held online during December 17-19, 2020 at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The theme of NPSC 2020 was: "Sustainable Energy and Resilient Future Grid". It focused on modern power systems, electricity markets, smart grid, renewable energy, distributed generation, power electronics, electrical machines, system integration, and operational challenges. The conference featured 14 Keynote talks, Two dedicated industry-academia panel sessions, Four tutorial sessions, and 132 technical paper presentations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://events.iitgn.ac.in/2020/npsc2020/index.php
 
Description Keynote in Beihai 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Keynote Speech entitled "Robust Analysis of Smart Distribution Networks" in 2nd International symposium on smart grid methods, tools and technologies, Weihai, China, 4-7 July, 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Keynote on VESS in Beijing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Keynote Speech entitled "Virtual Energy Storage Systems for Power System Frequency Response" in 2017 China International Electrical and Energy Conference, Beijing, China, 26th Oct, 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Keynote talk to Nanjing Normal Univerity workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Wu gave a presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Ktrakow Universoty of Technology KUT Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Wu invited to give a talk to dessiminate our research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Launch Net 0 Go 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Wu the Ambassador of Cardiff Energy Research. GW4 activity
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.netzerogo.org.uk/s/
 
Description Meeting with Celsa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Collaboration meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Meeting with Eric Brown - Grid Scientific 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact A meeting to discuss research collaboration with the Energy Systems Catapult
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Meeting with Phil Hourahine to discuss the collaboration with South Wales Engineers Institute 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact regional research collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Member of IEA Wind Task 25 as UK representative 
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 The participants collect and share information on the experience gained and the studies conducted up to and during the task. The case studies address different aspects of power system operation and design: reserve requirements, balancing and generation efficiency, capacity credit of wind power, efficient use of existing transmission capacity and requirements for new network investments, bottlenecks, cross-border trade and system stability issues. The main emphasis is on the technical operation. Costs are assessed when necessary as a basis for comparison. Also technology that supports enhanced penetration are being addressed: wind farm controls and operating procedures; dynamic line ratings; storage; demand side management (DSM), etc.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Member of IEEE PES SES Demand Response Working Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This working group will identify emerging demand response technologies, develop methods performance evaluation and cost benefits studies, and investigate different market schemes that can provide economic incentives to DR programs. The goal of the working group is to identify the criterions for evaluating demand response technologies and build business models for DR as energy and ancillary service market products. The WG will work on developing a white paper that summarizes the ongoing research and applications of different DR technologies and host panels and tutorials to disseminate the results.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Nexperia Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Collaboration meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Northern Power Grid Technology Day 
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 Professor Wu participated in this workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Northern Powergrid - Strategic Technology Day 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Inform industrial development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Northern Powergrid 2nd Science and Technology Advisory Panel Meeting (NPg) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Inform industrial development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description PH- Collaboration - our new project HI-ACT, Meeting with colleagues at Monash.edu 
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 For research collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Panel participation at European Utility Week 
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 Marko Aunedi participated in a panel debate titled "Future-proofing the Transmission and Distribution Networks" within the European Utility Week in Paris, 12-14 November 2019. Five panelists represented the research, industry, policy, regulatory and NGO sectors and discussed how to manage network development in an increasingly uncertain environment. The session reached a broad audience and was also recorded for wider access.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Participate in ETP on Smart grids - General Assembly 
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 Gave Keynote speech on "The need for a fundamental review of electricity networks reliability standards"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Participate in Smart Power Alliance 
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 Gave talk on "Paradigm shift to smart, low carbon energy future: Opportunities and Challenges"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Participate in Workshop of International Institute for Energy System Integration 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Gave talk on "Flexibility in Energy System Models"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Participating in an IAEA Consultancy Meeting 
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 Marko Aunedi participated in International Atomic Energy Agency's 3-day expert meeting on the Role of Nuclear Energy in Energy systems with Increased Shares of Variable Renewable Energy Sources in Vienna in May 2019. Marko delivered a presentation on the role of flexibility in cost-efficient transition to low-carbon systems.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Participation in a roundtable discussion on the power sector - Dr Marko Aunedi 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Dr Marko Aunedi took part in the roundtable discussion on the future of the UK power sector, organised by the National Infrastructure Commission and involving 20 participants from government, energy industry and research organisations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Pathways to Net-Zero: Decarbonising the Gas Networks in Great Britain attended by Professor Furong Li 
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 Wales & West Utilities & Energy Networks Association launch report 'Pathways to Net-Zero: Decarbonising the Gas Networks in GB Wales & West Utilities and Energy Networks Association (ENA) have launched a report which sets out a detailed plan to deliver a zero-carbon gas grid and the actions that need to take place to achieve it
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.wwutilities.co.uk/news-and-events/wales-west-utilities-energy-networks-association-launc...
 
Description Paticipation in EERA Joint Programme in Energy Systems Integration 
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 EERA ESI event held in Copenhagen in November 2016 was attended by 50+ energy system researchers from across Europe. The programme included several presentations by Imperial team members.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Presentation and discussion of our work on distribution network planning to policymakers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact PowerPoint presentation and discussion of our work on distribution network planning to Committee for Climate Change.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation in a workshop on flexibility in South Korea 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Marko Aunedi gave a presentation in a workshop on flexibility organised in Seoul, Korea in November 2019, to an audience of around 40. The presentation covered the decarbonisation challenges in the UK energy system and the role of flexibility, including the presentation on the August 2019 blackout in the GB grid.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation on cross-vector modelling of low-carbon energy systems in EERA Energy Systems Integration 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 Marko Aunedi participated in the EERA ESI modelling workshop in Delft, Netherlands in May 2019 among ~30 participants from other research organisations around Europe. He presented Imperial's research on cross-vector modelling of low-carbon energy systems.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation on whole-system benefits of smart EV fleets in the UK in EERA Energy Systems Integration technical 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 Marko Aunedi presented preliminary outcomes of Imperial's research on whole-system benefits of smart EV fleets to an audience of ~30 in EERA ESI workshop in Stavanger, Norway in September 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Prof G Strbac joined IEEE P2030 Smart Grid Interoperability Working Group 
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 Focus of this working group is on the development of standards of future Smart Grid Interoperability
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Professor Furong Li delivered one of the three workshops with University of Cambridge in the 28th September, 'Market Reform and Low Carbon Transition' as part of the UK/China Energy High-level Dialogue, on behalf of British Embassy in Beijing and Chinese Embassy in London. 
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 Furong Li delivered one of the three workshops with University of Cambridge in the 28th September, 'Market Reform and Low Carbon Transition' as part of the UK/China Energy High-level Dialogue, on behalf of British Embassy in Beijing and Chinese Embassy in London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Professor Furong Li gave an invited talk at Women in Power Global Summit on Nov 17, 2021 on 'From Smart Data to Smart Customers and Smart Cities'. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Li gave an invited talk at Women in Power Global Summit on Nov 17, 2021 on 'From Smart Data to Smart Customers and Smart Cities'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Professor Furong Li was a panelist for EPSRC Supergen Hub for Energy Network COP26 workshop in 3rd September 2021 
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 Professor Furong Li was a panelist for EPSRC Supergen Hub for Energy Network COP26 workshop in 3rd September 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Runners up in 2015 Low Carbon Champions Award for best publication 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 5 publications on electric vehicles produced jointly with UK Power Networks nominated for Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership's (LowCVP) Low Carbon Publication or Report of the Year. In a tight competition our reports were ranked as second best.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.lowcvp.org.uk/initiatives/lowcarbonchampions/2015-Awards.htm
 
Description SGN Proposal Workshop - Cardiff/Sitigrid 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Gas Distribution Networks. Collaboration meeting between academia and industry
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description SPEN Net Zero collaboration meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact to inform industrial development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Science and Tech Advisory Panel (STAP) Npowergrid 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Introductory meeting ahead of the panel
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Science in the City talk to employees of Bank of America Merrill Lynch 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact About 30 employees of BAML attended the talk given by Marko Aunedi on the role of smart energy technologies in a low carbon future. The presentation included recent research from Imperial team, sparking a number of questions and interest for follow-up activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Science in the City talk to employees of Eden Tree Investment 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact About 20 employees of Eden Tree Investment (a company focusing on ethical green investment) attended the talk given by Marko Aunedi on the role of smart grids and flexible solutions in a low-carbon energy evolution. The presentation described the recent research from Imperial team, and was followed a number of questions and interest for follow-up activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Science in the City talk to employees of Hermes Investment 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact About 10 employees of Hermes Investment attended the talk given by Marko Aunedi on the role of smart energy technologies in a low carbon future. The talk presented the recent research in low-carbon energy systems, initiating a number of questions and a debate.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Scottish Power Energy Networks Challenge Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact industrial engagement
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Scottish Power Energy Networks Challenge Group Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Inform industrial development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Session Chair of the CSEE JPES Forum on Architecture & Model of Sustainable Power & Energy Systems, Mälardalen University, Sweden, 14th Aug 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 Prof. Jianzhong Wu from Cardiff University was the Session Chair of the CSEE JPES Forum on Architecture & Model of Sustainable Power & Energy Systems, Mälardalen University, Sweden, 14th Aug 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Strategic partnership on power electronics (CSA Catapult and Cardiff University) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Collaboration Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Talk at University of Macau Conference. Smart Energy. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Wu gave a presentation. "Peer to peer energy trading to facilitate the net zero transition"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Tata Steele visit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Collaboration Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description The road to 2040: Driving Franco-British collaboration in low carbon vehicles 
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 Contribution to workshop at UK Embassy in Paris on 15 Nov 2017 about pathways to low emission vehicles and transportation electrification
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description UK - China Future Energy workshop in Birmingham 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I gave a presentation on "Ancillary service requirement and optimisation in the future low carbon system" and the message was well received by the audiences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description UNiLAB Panel 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Chair of Panel "UNiLAB of Distributed Energy and Microgrids" in International Symposium of Renewable Energy Integration through Mini/Microgrids (REM), Cardiff, UK, 19th Oct, 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description UNiLAB panel in Beijing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Chair of Round Table "Applied Energy UNiLAB" in 2017 China International Electrical and Energy Conference, Beijing, China, 26th Oct, 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Urban Innovation in Brazil Partnership Building Visit 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited by the InnovateUK and Scottish Power Energy Networks, joined the "Urban Innovation in Brazil Partnership Building Visit" organized by Newton Fund and KTN, and as one of the 14 UK delegated, visited Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte during 21st - 27th Jan 17
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Vehicle to Grid Scoping Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Awareness of the challenges in V2G market and identification of synergies between academic instutions, industry and government
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vehicle-to-grid-scoping-workshop-london-tickets-30348766979?utm_campa...
 
Description Visit to University of Illinois and University of Wyoming 
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 For research collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Welsh Future Energy Grid for Net Zero - Expert engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Acting as expert advisry capacity for project development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Workshop at 2017 the Annual meeting of The Transportation Reseach Board of National Academies 
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 Objective :To share information and generate discussion between industry and academia regarding the future of grid connected vehicles

Outcomes: awareness of the challenges regarding the future of grid connected vehicles
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://sustainabletransport.ca/2017/01/31/visions-of-grid-connected-vehicles-what-is-the-goal-and-h...
 
Description Workshop on Modelling of Integrated Multi-Energy Networks - Current Practices and Innovation Gaps, London, 5th April, 2019. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact With an excellent line-up of invited participants from government, industry and academia, this one-day workshop was aimed at sharing current best practices in multi-energy system modelling and discussing how to address the barriers and identifying the innovation gaps.
This invitation-only workshop was jointly organised by INCOSE UK Energy Systems Interest Group and the EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub (https://www.ncl.ac.uk/supergenenhub/), with support from Energy Systems Catapult (https://es.catapult.org.uk/) and the UK Energy Research Centre (http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/). Prof Jianzhong Wu from Cardiff University was the Chairman of this workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Workshop on nexus of smart energy, intelligent manufacturing and transportation systems 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Setting research agenda for future intelligent manufacturing and transportation systems
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Workshop-Attaining Carbon Neutrality: The Role of Hydrogen, United Nations, Switzerland, March 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discuss recent commitments and progress towards carbon neutrality via hydrogen
Understand technical, economic, and public relations challenges to a meaningful decarbonisation
Identify where and how UNECE can help member States to accelerate the transition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Workshops for net zero review with BEIS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discuss with policy makers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description a presentation to Department for International Trade at Imperial 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I gave a talk on Energy Storage to a delegation from Department for International Trade.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018