High Energy And Power Density (HEAPD) Solutions to Large Energy Deficits
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bath
Department Name: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Abstract
Many countries around the world face an uncertain future over the next few decades as they move to greater electricity use and at the same time look to more intermittent low-carbon generation. India, which suffered numerous serious blackouts recently is already operating near the limits of its generation and network capacity and so provides an ideal case study for testing innovative solutions that can make power networks more resilient. The research outputs from this project will provide foresights into the development of low-carbon smart grids in India and the UK.
Local Direct Current (DC) grids, supported by local storage and local renewables in residential and commercial buildings, are identified by RCUK and DST as the key enablers for demand reduction and demand flexibility (demand response). Compared with local AC grids, they have highly desirable features to provide a game-changing solution to meeting the UK and India's rising demand in a sustainable way. This is because at least 30% of our demand (mobile phones, computers, consumer electronics) is fundamentally DC consumptions [1], local DC grids can achieve 40% demand reduction by removing lossy DC to AC conversion and directly feed these demand with local renewables and local storage [2]. This electrical conversion saving is set to rise substantially when the use of electrical vehicles (EVs) -vehicle charging and discharging are inherently DC- and efficient DC lighting becomes widespread. Lighting is currently responsible for 19% of our domestic consumption [1], the EV use will increase our traditional consumption by more than 40% by year 2050 [3]. Secondly, when backed up by local energy storage and renewables, local DC grids can substantially increase demand flexibility, thus enabling users and grid operators to take greater advantage of intermittent renewables. Finally, when main grid supply experiences supply interruptions, local DC grids have less technical issues to be disconnected from the main grid and re-connected back to the grid, thus ideal for provide support to security of supply.
There are a number of smart grid demonstration projects around the world to test the viability, efficiency and economics of a local DC grid. This includes the UK's first DC network at the University of Bath, which has led to a subsequent larger DC grids demonstration project across 10 schools, 1 office and 30 homes. These demonstration projects are primarily focused on balancing energy supply and demand and energy security at the local community level. Such demonstrators are supported by expensive energy storage solutions such as batteries, which make for a weak business case that limits the scale and speed of their uptake. In response to the RCUK-DST June 2012 workshop this proposal will address the research challenge of DC Networks in smart energy grids in the UK and India. We will look at how they can be used in residential and commercial buildings in practical and economically viable ways to make better use of local community renewable energy supplies especially when central generation is over-stretched or broken.
This consortium of Indian and UK experts in Energy Networks will take the timely step of investigating how DC networks, can increase the efficiency of renewable energy-storage systems deployed at a community level to benefit the resilience of the National Grid. The research outcomes will deliver cheaper and securer solutions to complement the traditional risk-prevention techniques used by grid operators, which will have difficulties coping with the added risks of introducing low-carbon, low-inertia, low-availability generation technologies.
References:
1. DECC, "Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics (DUKES)".
2. "Direct-Current Voltage (DC) in Households", Peter Vaessen, KEMA, 2005.
3. DECC, "Demand Side Response: Conflict Between Supply and Network Driven Optimisation", Poyry/Bath, August 2011 .
Local Direct Current (DC) grids, supported by local storage and local renewables in residential and commercial buildings, are identified by RCUK and DST as the key enablers for demand reduction and demand flexibility (demand response). Compared with local AC grids, they have highly desirable features to provide a game-changing solution to meeting the UK and India's rising demand in a sustainable way. This is because at least 30% of our demand (mobile phones, computers, consumer electronics) is fundamentally DC consumptions [1], local DC grids can achieve 40% demand reduction by removing lossy DC to AC conversion and directly feed these demand with local renewables and local storage [2]. This electrical conversion saving is set to rise substantially when the use of electrical vehicles (EVs) -vehicle charging and discharging are inherently DC- and efficient DC lighting becomes widespread. Lighting is currently responsible for 19% of our domestic consumption [1], the EV use will increase our traditional consumption by more than 40% by year 2050 [3]. Secondly, when backed up by local energy storage and renewables, local DC grids can substantially increase demand flexibility, thus enabling users and grid operators to take greater advantage of intermittent renewables. Finally, when main grid supply experiences supply interruptions, local DC grids have less technical issues to be disconnected from the main grid and re-connected back to the grid, thus ideal for provide support to security of supply.
There are a number of smart grid demonstration projects around the world to test the viability, efficiency and economics of a local DC grid. This includes the UK's first DC network at the University of Bath, which has led to a subsequent larger DC grids demonstration project across 10 schools, 1 office and 30 homes. These demonstration projects are primarily focused on balancing energy supply and demand and energy security at the local community level. Such demonstrators are supported by expensive energy storage solutions such as batteries, which make for a weak business case that limits the scale and speed of their uptake. In response to the RCUK-DST June 2012 workshop this proposal will address the research challenge of DC Networks in smart energy grids in the UK and India. We will look at how they can be used in residential and commercial buildings in practical and economically viable ways to make better use of local community renewable energy supplies especially when central generation is over-stretched or broken.
This consortium of Indian and UK experts in Energy Networks will take the timely step of investigating how DC networks, can increase the efficiency of renewable energy-storage systems deployed at a community level to benefit the resilience of the National Grid. The research outcomes will deliver cheaper and securer solutions to complement the traditional risk-prevention techniques used by grid operators, which will have difficulties coping with the added risks of introducing low-carbon, low-inertia, low-availability generation technologies.
References:
1. DECC, "Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics (DUKES)".
2. "Direct-Current Voltage (DC) in Households", Peter Vaessen, KEMA, 2005.
3. DECC, "Demand Side Response: Conflict Between Supply and Network Driven Optimisation", Poyry/Bath, August 2011 .
Planned Impact
The HEAPD project will provide a strategic direction for the future of smart electricity grids and smart consumers in the 2030-2050 timeframe and deliver tools and technologies of alternative Direct Current (DC) transition pathways to a low carbon future. The potential beneficiaries, initially in the UK and India will be utility companies, energy suppliers, manufacturers (of control systems and hardware for smartgrids), academia (power electronics, energy networks, ICT,) policy makers (governments and energy supply regulators and planners) and society.
By understanding the benefits of local DC grids and storage requirements on the national supply infrastructure, this bi-lateral project will produce results relevant to India and the UK. The immediate outcome of this project will be to provide theoretical support to existing demonstration DC projects and provide guidance for the design of future systems with the challenges of decarbonisation and security of supply. In the longer term, the project aims to have a significant impact on the flexibility of the electricity network and its consumers, who through the new design, management and economic models will be able to play a vital role in ensuring local renewable energy and storage solutions benefit both the local and national systems. Our ambition is to place the UK and India in an internationally leading position in this important field and provide a secure platform for future joint projects.
More specifically, the research outcomes will inform:
1) The design, management, control and protection of local DC grids that can address large energy deficits introduced by low carbon developments, providing a robust regional defence system to large-scale supply interruptions.
2) The magnitude of benefits from introducing local DC grids and the impact on the development of smart transmission and distribution system, consumer energy usage habits (demand reduction and demand response) and the local DC grids' business case.
3) The required innovation in tariff structure (smart tariffs and smart contracts) and social interventions such that consumers can be pursued to defer their energy use to times of higher availability and lower demand when the system is under severe stress.
Society and policy
The above technical outcomes will contribute towards us having an energy infrastructure that is fit for purpose for the UK's and India's low carbon future and therefore society. As both countries increasingly rely on low carbon energy generation which have less resilience to peak loads and weather variations, solutions such as the one proposed will benefit society by helping to ensure the lights stay on.
This research will inform regulators, policy makers and government about the paradigm shift required in the design, operation, control, management and protection of local grids and their implications to our future low carbon systems. But also inform the tariff and cost structures which will enable these technical changes to be economically viable.
This work enables communities in India and the UK to utilise their renewables generation to a greater advantage, benefit the local consumers as well as wider systems especially when the central generation and infrastructure system is over-stretched or broken. This work could also help the UK and Indian understand how DC networks present cheaper and secure alternative to meeting rising demand in a sustainable way.
By understanding the benefits of local DC grids and storage requirements on the national supply infrastructure, this bi-lateral project will produce results relevant to India and the UK. The immediate outcome of this project will be to provide theoretical support to existing demonstration DC projects and provide guidance for the design of future systems with the challenges of decarbonisation and security of supply. In the longer term, the project aims to have a significant impact on the flexibility of the electricity network and its consumers, who through the new design, management and economic models will be able to play a vital role in ensuring local renewable energy and storage solutions benefit both the local and national systems. Our ambition is to place the UK and India in an internationally leading position in this important field and provide a secure platform for future joint projects.
More specifically, the research outcomes will inform:
1) The design, management, control and protection of local DC grids that can address large energy deficits introduced by low carbon developments, providing a robust regional defence system to large-scale supply interruptions.
2) The magnitude of benefits from introducing local DC grids and the impact on the development of smart transmission and distribution system, consumer energy usage habits (demand reduction and demand response) and the local DC grids' business case.
3) The required innovation in tariff structure (smart tariffs and smart contracts) and social interventions such that consumers can be pursued to defer their energy use to times of higher availability and lower demand when the system is under severe stress.
Society and policy
The above technical outcomes will contribute towards us having an energy infrastructure that is fit for purpose for the UK's and India's low carbon future and therefore society. As both countries increasingly rely on low carbon energy generation which have less resilience to peak loads and weather variations, solutions such as the one proposed will benefit society by helping to ensure the lights stay on.
This research will inform regulators, policy makers and government about the paradigm shift required in the design, operation, control, management and protection of local grids and their implications to our future low carbon systems. But also inform the tariff and cost structures which will enable these technical changes to be economically viable.
This work enables communities in India and the UK to utilise their renewables generation to a greater advantage, benefit the local consumers as well as wider systems especially when the central generation and infrastructure system is over-stretched or broken. This work could also help the UK and Indian understand how DC networks present cheaper and secure alternative to meeting rising demand in a sustainable way.
Organisations
- University of Bath (Lead Research Organisation)
- Edinburgh University Of The Third Age (Collaboration)
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Collaboration)
- Energy Systems Catapult Ltd (Collaboration)
- WESTERN POWER DISTRIBUTION (Collaboration)
- Northern Powergrid (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- NATIONAL GRID ESO (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- Arup Group (Collaboration)
- Western Power Distribution (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- National Grid (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Qi Q
(2018)
Impacts of a medium voltage direct current link on the performance of electrical distribution networks
in Applied Energy
Long C
(2016)
Optimal operation of soft open points in medium voltage electrical distribution networks with distributed generation
in Applied Energy
Qi Q
(2017)
Multi-objective operation optimization of an electrical distribution network with soft open point
in Applied Energy
Cao W
(2016)
Benefits analysis of Soft Open Points for electrical distribution network operation
in Applied Energy
Gu C
(2017)
Dynamic pricing for responsive demand to increase distribution network efficiency
in Applied Energy
Cao W
(2016)
Operating principle of Soft Open Points for electrical distribution network operation
in Applied Energy
Yan X
(2018)
Network pricing for customer-operated energy storage in distribution networks
in Applied Energy
Aithal A
(2018)
Performance of an electrical distribution network with Soft Open Point during a grid side AC fault
in Applied Energy
Sharma A
(2017)
A novel hierarchical contribution factor based model for distribution use-of-system charges
in Applied Energy
Li R
(2016)
A novel time-of-use tariff design based on Gaussian Mixture Model
in Applied Energy
| Description | We have five key findings from our research to date: 1) home area energy management in volume can substitute major infrastructure development; 2) how much it can substitute is dependent on the efficiency of energy conversion, the price difference in energy over various time periods; 3) home area energy management cannot be one-size fit all, differing consumers have differing energy behaviour, consumer energy segmentation is critical for further development 4). community energy management system needs to integrate with real-time control to ensure the feasibility of the management schemes and security of the supply 5). Macro and micro energy system interactions during normal and contingent conditions |
| Exploitation Route | The initial findings have bee used by Western Power Distribution in their Smart Grid Demonstration project - Solar Bristol, with three separate strategies for three types of homes in the city of Bristol. |
| Sectors | Energy |
| URL | http://heapdproject.com/ |
| Description | The key findings have been used by Western Power Distribution for their Smart Grid Demonstration, illustrating the efficiency from alternative local DC design and local energy management system. The key findings may have informed the development of home energy solutions for a number of manufacturers, such as Moxia. The key findings have been used to inform future industrial structure for Northern Powergrid, as the balance and coordination between macro and micro systems when the volume of distributed energy resources increase at differing degrees - 'Future Industrial Structure of the Distribution Sector', 2019 - https://www.northernpowergrid.com/asset/0/document/5412.pdf Enable members of the consortium to be appointed by the government and Ofgem as independent experts (8 in total) to undertake a fundamental review to electricity engineering standards? The review includes analyses and recommendations around : i) the extent to which engineering standards in electricity are or will be blockers to an effective and affordable energy transition, and ii) what if anything needs to change. The review was published in December 2020, and the government delivered its responses to recommendations in April 2021. For more detail, follow this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electrical-engineering-standards-independent-review The knowledge developed enabled members of the consortium to undertake high-level engagements with policy makers and senior managements of major energy companies in China, helping China build capacity for power sector reform with the aim of improving efficiency and accelerating decarbonisation. Further knowledge transfer goes to Kenya by working with local Kenya university and energy company- Strathmore University and Powerhive to deliver low cost, low carbon supply to remote rural community, and to the UK by working with local micro-grid operators, such as CEPRO. |
| Sector | Energy |
| Impact Types | Societal,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 | Furong Li - Monthly meeting at Ofgem DE2, Overarching framework working group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Challenging the emerging thinking and development of DE2 for electricity distribution. |
| Description | Furong Li - Monthly meeting on BEIS/Ofgem, Electricity Engineering Standard Review. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Recommendations of changes to engineering standards to take advantage of low carbon transition and to ensure a secure and resilient system |
| Description | IEEE |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Chris Dent has the following roles within IEEE Power and Energy Society: - Vice Chair, Reliability, Risk and Probability Applications Subcommittee - Chair, LOLEWG (which shares experience between practical adequacy studies) - Chair, Task Force on Capacity Value of Solar Power - Chair, Working Group on Review of IEEE Standard 859 (transmission reliability data collection terminology) These contribute to development of industrial and academic knowledge and practice worldwide in the field of power system reliability analysis |
| 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 | Energy Revolution Research Consortium - Core - EnergyREV |
| Amount | £7,966,339 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S031863/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Joint UK-India Clean Energy Centre (JUICE) |
| Amount | £5,094,437 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P003605/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | MISTRAL: Multi-scale Infrastructure Systems Analytics |
| Amount | £5,374,638 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N017064/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2016 |
| End | 08/2020 |
| 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 | 06/2016 |
| 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 | Power Market Reform Capacity Building to Accelerate China's Low Carbon Transition - China Energy and Low Carbon Economy Programme (CELCEP) |
| Amount | £273,931 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CGF-R1-FPP193 |
| Organisation | Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Roadmap to Accelerate China's Development in Rule-based Power Markets - China Energy and Low Carbon Economy Programme (CELCEP) |
| Amount | £623,590 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CGF-R1-FPP206 |
| Organisation | Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Supergen Energy Networks hub 2018 |
| Amount | £5,100,772 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S00078X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| 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 | 09/2018 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| 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 | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 6501 |
| Organisation | Western Power Distribution |
| Sector | Private |
| 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 | Western Power Distribution |
| Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 123434 |
| Organisation | Western Power Distribution |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Title | Cloud-based Local Energy Management and Trading System with Hardware-in-the-Loop Implementation |
| Description | A digital platform for local energy trading and energy management system was architectured for our smart grid lab, where there are multiple home energy systems with PVs, batteries, DC and AC loads, inverters and converters. It was implemented in the cloud, meaning all the data management, energy and energy price forecasting, matching of local energy trading peers, and optimisation for energy management system take place in a remote server. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This development of this research explores the feasibility of local energy trading by introducing local energy markets. By combining the trading platform with energy management systems and implementing it in an environment with hardware-in-the-loop, the research provides a preliminary yet practical solution to improve the local consumption of renewable energy and to reduce energy bills for consumers. |
| Title | Coordination and optimisation for multi-type frequency response services in low inertia systems |
| Description | A unified framework to identify the system overall stability needs and coordinate and optimise the diversified multi-type frequency response services. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This can be used for the portfolio optimisation for frequency response service combinations and design for the frequency response market. |
| Title | High fidelity modelling of heat, power and transport for city of Bath |
| Description | This tool for the first time models time varying energy usage patterns of heat, power and transport across 435 distribution substations across Bath. Instead of traditional modelling tool requires consistent and complete data format, this tool allows diversity in data availability and quality, using a microservice architecture to link models across differing sector, each has differing pace of development. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This had led to our appointment to undertake BEIS commissioned feasibility study for the energy system digital spine. The tool shows alternative way to increase data/knowledge interoperability, allow parties to use, improve and extend to accelerate innovation. This is particularly for small energy players who do not normally have the capacity and knowledge to engage. An open source tool with a user friendly interface will help innovators to test, integrate their innovations for real world applications. |
| URL | https://lv-app.net-zero-energy-systems.org/bathLV |
| Title | Quantification of the demand side inertia contribution based on past frequency deviation events |
| Description | The quantification of the demand side inertia contribution is achieved by analysing past frequency outage events and isolating the generation contribution from the total system inertia and considering the power/frequency ratio as an indicator of the additional inertia contribution from the spinning reserve. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This method provides an estimation of the power system inertia availability from the demand side which could provide inputs for further frequency stability analysis. |
| Title | Reduced Indian power network to validate DC microgrid topologies and concepts |
| Description | Implementing control techniques and energy management schemes within the DC microgrid: - Presence of power electronics devices in DC microgrid limits the current up to certain extent during a fault. Therefore, current based protection technique may fail for fault detection and subsequent protection decision actions. A work is being carried out to detect a fault and isolation of faulted section using the current and voltage pattern during transient period. - For quick maintenance and reduction of power outage duration, the correct faulted section identification is needed. Using the voltage and current information from consumers' end energy meter, the faulted section identification work is being carried out. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Plug in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) are the upcoming green transportation alternative and their interaction with the modern active distribution networks is crucial. The Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) control has to ensure that the EVs contribute to support the grid, maintaining a particular amount of State of Charge (SOC) for future usage. The overcharging/undercharging can be compromised by participating in supporting the grid, gaining economic benefits. |
| Title | Deep Transfer Learning for Load Forecasting |
| Description | The deep transfer learning algorithm is proposed for load forecasting in data-scarce scenarios. A well-designed deep model is firstly trained on a large, different, yet similar data set. Then part of the trained model is then used to construct the final model that will be used for the actual load forecasting, where there is only a small data set for training. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Deep learning models are increasingly adopted for load/energy forecasting. They are particularly powerful when there are a large amount of demand/load data, which is not always the case. By adopting the deep transfer learning model, the required amount of data and the computational power will be substantially reduced. At the same time, the forecasting performance will normally improve. |
| Title | Home Area Energy Management Analytics |
| Description | Home energy usage data are collected from 26 homes 4 schools in Bristol over the period of 2 years, from 2013-2015. The Factor Analyses models developed can detect typical patterns from the highly volatile domestic homes and schools, separating the natural variations from the effects from energy management system. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The work has been reported to the local utility companies, Western Power Distribution, used for their Smart Grid demonstration project, Solar Bristol. It has informed the minimum number of home area energy management required to have meaningful effects at the network level. |
| Title | Multi-objective Operation Optimization of an Electrical Distribution Network with Soft Open Point |
| Description | Soft Open Point (SOP) is a distribution-level power electronic device with the capability of real-time and accurate active and reactive power flow control. With the increasing amount of distributed generation (DG) integrated into electrical distribution networks, various operational problems, such as excessive power losses, over-voltage and thermal overloading issues become gradually remarkable. Using SOP is an innovative approach for power flow and voltage controls, as well as to accommodate large DG penetrations. The performance evaluation model of SOP in multi-objective operation optimization of a distribution network is developed in MATLAB, and applied to a modified 69-bus benchmark test system. This dataset contains details of the test network (topology, load, locations of SOP and DG, etc). It also contains the Pareto optimal solutions of the network operation, and the corresponding SOP optimal set-points, with DG penetration increases from 0 to 200% in the network. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Optimal operation of soft open points in medium voltage electrical distribution networks with distributed generation |
| Description | A soft open point (SOP) is a power electronic device, usually using back-to-back voltage source converters (VSCs), installed at a previously normally open point of a distribution network. Due to its flexible and accurate control of power flows, an SOP is versatile, and increasingly being considered to mitigate voltage and thermal constraints in medium voltage (MV) networks with high penetrations of distributed generation (DG). A Jacobian matrix - based sensitivity method was used to define the operating region of an SOP when the grids/feeders at the two terminals of the SOP have various load and generation conditions, and the SOP operating region was visualized in a graphical manner. The exact operating set-points were determined by adopting a non-linear optimization considering separately different objectives. The methodology was demonstrated on an 11 kV network, considering three optimization objectives with different DG penetrations and different network observabilities. Results showed that the use of an SOP significantly increases the network's DG hosting capacity. The objective for voltage profile improvement increased the headroom of the voltage limits by the largest margin, at the expense of increased energy losses. In contrast the objectives to achieve line utilization balancing and energy loss minimization showed the most improvement in circuit utilization and in limiting energy losses. The work helps electricity network operators to visualize an SOP's operation status, and provides high level decision support, e.g. selecting control schemes and restraining SOP operational boundaries. The dataset provides details of the normalised load profiles including residential, commercial and industrial; normalised DG profiles including PV and wind; These data were used to the example MV distribution network using the proposed method. The data was provided in a .csv format. Research results based upon these data are published at http://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.10.031(external link) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Performance of an Electrical Distribution Network with Soft Open Point during a Grid Side Fault |
| Description | Soft Open point (SOP) is a power electronic device installed in place of normally open points in electrical system. Simulations are carried out on an 11kV UK generic distribution network model with SOP developed in PSCAD/EMTDC. This data sets collects the simulated values of the symmetrical components of voltages and current measured at the grid connection point of the SOP. The measurements are for the network under a line-to-ground, a line-to-line and a three-phase fault. The calculation of the Fault-Index values used for fault detection is collated for all cases. The data set also includes the range of SOP set points to achieve various case studies and the corresponding network measurements. The link to the United Kingdom Generic Distribution System (UKGDS) is provided. UKGDS is a collection of power system network models that are representative of UK distribution networks. |
| 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 | Consultancy on GB Electricity Capacity market |
| Organisation | National Grid ESO |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Ongoing consultancy on modelling methodology to support the GB Electricity Capacity Market. Value of order of £10k per year. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Implemented methods arising from our research in practical studies. |
| Impact | Contribution is described in NGESO's annual Electricity Capacity Report at https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/CM/Capacity.aspx |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| 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 | Feasibility Study of Energy System Digital Spine |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Providing academic rigour and assessment to the need case of a national digital infrastructure, the scope and cost to deliver, and the potential benefits to a smart, flexible energy system |
| Collaborator Contribution | Commission the project (BEIS), lead the project (ARUP), and co-develop (Energy System Catapult) to scope the project, initial definition of the digital spine, and possible delivery options |
| Impact | This collaboration is multidisciplinary, involving engineering (electrical, mechanical, chemical and civil), science (mathematics, computer science), social science and policy research. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Feasibility Study of Energy System Digital Spine |
| Organisation | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Providing academic rigour and assessment to the need case of a national digital infrastructure, the scope and cost to deliver, and the potential benefits to a smart, flexible energy system |
| Collaborator Contribution | Commission the project (BEIS), lead the project (ARUP), and co-develop (Energy System Catapult) to scope the project, initial definition of the digital spine, and possible delivery options |
| Impact | This collaboration is multidisciplinary, involving engineering (electrical, mechanical, chemical and civil), science (mathematics, computer science), social science and policy research. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Feasibility Study of Energy System Digital Spine |
| Organisation | Energy Systems Catapult Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Providing academic rigour and assessment to the need case of a national digital infrastructure, the scope and cost to deliver, and the potential benefits to a smart, flexible energy system |
| Collaborator Contribution | Commission the project (BEIS), lead the project (ARUP), and co-develop (Energy System Catapult) to scope the project, initial definition of the digital spine, and possible delivery options |
| Impact | This collaboration is multidisciplinary, involving engineering (electrical, mechanical, chemical and civil), science (mathematics, computer science), social science and policy research. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | RELIABLE, EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURES FOR A LOCAL INTELLIGENT ENERGY NETWORK TRANSITION (RESILIENT) |
| Organisation | Edinburgh University Of The Third Age |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Develop energy management system for micrograms in Kenya and UK to increase flexible demand and their alignment with local renewable energy, contrasting the effects between the two countries |
| Collaborator Contribution | Model microgids in Kenya and UK to provide physical information to increase flexible demand and their alignment with local renewable energy, contrasting the effects between the two countries |
| Impact | At early stage of the project |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | The Future Structure of Distribution Systems |
| Organisation | Northern Powergrid |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Develop quantitative evidence back up by laboratory demonstration for introducing different markets to the distribution system, inform how the industry should move from the present passive industry structure that largely address the problem through investment to an active structure with substantially increased operating efficiency. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide practical guidance on the key issues, keep us updated with concurrent industry development, such as industry-led Open Network and Future Power System Architecture. They will critically review our development, and identify early opportunities for achieving major impacts. |
| Impact | 1. W. Kong, K. Ma, F. Li, E. Thompson and L. Sidebotham, "Impact Assessment Criteria of Distribution System Architecture", The 25th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution (CIRED), Madrid, 2019. 2. W. Kong, K. Ma, F. Li and L. Sidebotham, "Future Distribution System Architecture in the UK," 2018 International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON), Guangzhou, 2018. 3. W. Kong, K. Ma, F. Li and L. Sidebotham, "System Architecture for Customer-Led Distribution System," 2018 15th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Lodz, 2018, pp. 1-5. 4. "Assessment of Relative Efficiency of Differing Energy Markets for Community Energy", abstract accepted by CIRED 2018. 5. '' Future Industrial Structure of Distribution Sector'', Report for CLDS project, Professor Furong Li, Wangwei Kong, Dr. Kang Ma, Professor Edmund Thompson, 2019. 6. '' Electricity Market Structure, Energy Market Design and DSO Implication'', Report for CLDS project, Professor Furong Li, Dr Zhong Zhang, Lanqing Shan, Xinhe Yang, Wangwei Kong, 2019. 7. ''Mapping of DSO Projects'', Report for CLDS project, Professor Furong Li, Wangwei Kong, Xinhe Yang, Chi Zhang, Dr. Ran Li, 2019. 8. ''Benefit Assessment from Introducing Local Energy Markets '', Report for CLDS project, Professor Furong Li, Dr Chenghong Gu, Can Tang, Haiwen Qin, Dr Zhong Zhang, 2019. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | A conceptual design for a soft open point using power electronic switching |
| Description | Four software models of feeder automation scheme were implemented using combinations of reclosers and sectionalisers (used with fault passage indicators). • Scheme 1 incorporates 3 reclosers + tie switch with no communication between device. • Scheme 1 incorporates 3 reclosers + tie switch (with basic communication between device) • Scheme 2 incorporates 2 reclosers + 1 sectionalizer + tie switch(with basic communication between device) • Scheme 2 incorporates 1 reclosers + 2 sectionalizer + tie switch(with basic communication between device) |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | A conceptual design for a soft open point has been produced, using power electronic switching. It is able to independently control the transfer active and reactive power through its terminals. Also started to analyse/compare, with software model, the expected network operation and operation with the soft open point. |
| 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 | Hybrid AC-DC microgrid and its Energy management, Control, Protection, Economics. |
| Description | Development of reduced Indian power network to validate DC microgrid topologies and concepts. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Implementation of control techniques and energy management schemes within DC microgrids. |
| 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. |
| Company Name | REVENERGY LIMITED |
| Description | Hightech company focused on delivering services in low carbon energy services for power, heat and transport, particularly in the area of load modelling, energy trading, power system stability and resilience. |
| Year Established | 2018 |
| Impact | Still at the developing stage. |
| 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 | 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 | Applied Energy UNiLAB |
| 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 | Applied Energy Global UNiLAB of Multi-Energy Microgrid is an international virtual lab of collective intelligence, in order to enhance international collaboration for scientific excellence and demonstrate innovative technologies in Multi-Energy Microgrids. It is a joint initiative by the Applied Energy UNiLAB of Distributed Energy & Microgrid (DEM) and the UNiLAB of Synergies between Energy Networks. Multi-energy Microgrids are able to make a good use of local distributed energy resources, especially renewable energy, optimize the synergies between different energy systems (e.g. electricity, gas, heating and cooling systems), enable the applications of novel techniques (e.g. Peer to Peer energy sharing or trading) and provide services to other Microgrids or to the bulk energy networks. Multi-energy Microgrids have the potential to change the paradigm of the whole energy system. Prof. Jianzhong Wu is one of the Co-Directors of this UNiLAB and disseminated the research output of the IOSM project, HubNEt and the OPEN project through this UNilAB. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| 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 | Blog article on energy modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Blog article on good modelling practice, as part of a University of Edinburgh series relating to the Scottish Government's energy strategy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/global-environment-society-academy/2017/05/22/energy-systems-modelling-mod... |
| Description | CIRED 2021 Organization Committee 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 | Prof. Furong Li participated in CIRED 2021 Organization Committee Meeting to Identify key themes and key organizational plans |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | Chair of a panel on multi-vector in ICAE17 |
| 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 "Synergies between Energy Networks" in 9th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE), Cardiff, UK, 22 Aug, 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | Chaired a tutorial session "Network charges for smart distribution networks" at International Conference for Electricity Distribution in the 20th September 2021. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| 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 in the 20th September 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Chris Dent and Amy Wilson presentations on capacity markets and uncertainty quantification at the Isaac Newton Institute Mathematics of Energy Systems programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentations to mixed audience of researchers, industry and policy - part of origin of subsequent consultancy work on decision support for energy network planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Chris Dent tutorial talk at N American Electricity Reliability Corporation Probabilistic Analysis Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at major N American workshop on resource adequacy assessment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | ENC 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This role of the meeting is initially looking at accelerating deployment on electricity transmission network infrastructure. There is a potential for further work looking at distribution, but that is to be determined. The current role will be supported by Energy Systems Catapult (ESC), will also link to other Industry Champions and consider links to the Future System Operator |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Inaugural UK- China Training course on Power Markets |
| 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 | Second UK-China Training Course in Power Markets - deepening power sector deregulation in China |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Industry workshop linked to Isaac Newton Institute proposal |
| 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 | Co-organised industry scoping session associated with a proposal for an Energy Systems programme at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2017 |
| URL | https://iaciac.github.io/lobanet/events/ |
| Description | Initial meeting of industry advisory group for SMART-SAFE project |
| 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 | Meeting of industry advisory panel for SMART-SAFE project (Hubnet flex funding project), and side meetings with companies who could not attend. Organisations represented were BEIS, National Grid, Ofgem, EDF (UK and France), LCP, Baringa. Links t HEAPD project also as this is funding closely linked work on resource adequacy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| 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 presentations in 2020-21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentations to - International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems - Energy Regulators Regional Association - Cambridge Society of Edinburgh - European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentations to UK industrial mathematics community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chris Dent has given invited presentations at: - Turing Gateway to Mathematics event on "Maths and Public Policy - Cities & Infrastructure", see http://www.turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk/mpci_mar2015-programme - KTN Industrial Mathematics community event, to stimulate interest in links between the mathematical sciences community and energy systems applications - KTN "Mathematics in Energy Systems" workshop, see https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/energy-catalyst-brokerage-event-london-tickets-19192257559?aff=erelexporg This outreach activity drew together experience from a number of different EPSRC projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| 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 in an international conference in Shenyang |
| 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 "Synergies between Multi-Energy Networks" in the 33rd Annual Conference of Electric Power and Automation, Shenyang, China, 14th Oct 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote speech at CSGRES 2019Â (IFAC Workshop on Control of Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Systems) |
| 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 at CSGRES 2019 (IFAC Workshop on Control of Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Systems) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | Mentor for India - UK Advanced Training School, sponsored by Science Education Research Board (SERB), Indian Government and the British Council. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The IUATS is designed to provide an effective positive impact in Indian society and economy. Post-doctoral, early career researchers, leading researchers and senior researchers will received a massive positive academic impact because participants receive a top quality training on a holistic approach on optimal design and control of Smart community, allowing them to acquire exploitable knowledge to cope in optimal way with majority of societal challenges related to improving the lives of rural communities by economic development and social welfare. This has led to a number of follow up bilateral visits and grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | Participate in the workshop: Dutch Research Council - Panel assessment for Energy System Integration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Furong Li participated in the workshop entitled 'Dutch Research Council - Panel assessment for Energy System Integration' on 26 February 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Participate in the workshop: Pathways to Net-Zero: Decarbonising the Gas Networks in Great Britain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Furong Li participated in the workshop entitled 'Pathways to Net-Zero: Decarbonising the Gas Networks in Great Britain' host in Cardiff on 16 January 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Security of supply presentations by Amy Wilson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations on IEEE PES GM panel and IEEE LOLEWG (Portland, Oregon) Presentation at Royal Statistical Society Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Seminar and research discussions at NREL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and research discussions at National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Denver, CO, developing common interests in resource adequacy assessment and energy system modelling. Particular topics under energy system modelling are the incorporation of operational constraints into planning models, and uncertainty quantification in plannign models, linking to the Future Conventional Power project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar at Ofgem on capacity markets and decision support, by Chris Dent, Amy Wilson and Stan Zachary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Seminar at energy regulator. Part of series of events leading to consultancy on decision support for network planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | Tutorial at MNIT Jaipur and seminar at IIT Delhi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave tutorial on reliability analysis the day before HEAPD project workshop at MNIT Jaipur, and seminar on same subject at IIT Delhi the day after the HEAPD workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | UKERC/NIC session on flexibility analysis |
| 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 | Inform policy making |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 | 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 | Visit to industry colleagues in California to broaden impact links |
| 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 | Visit to colleagues in California, including CA Independent System Operator, Public Utilities Commission, Stanford Research International, Electric Power Research Institute. Aim is to broaden impact of EPSRC work on uncertainty quantification in complex computer models, including discussion of future collaboration and industry projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 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 | 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 |