HubNet: Research Leadership and Networking for Energy Networks (Extension)
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract
The pace of increase in renewable energy use in UK electricity is impressive with 19% of electricity sourced from renewables in 2014 (DUKES 2015) and half of that being produced by wind turbines. Use of large quantities of variable generation sources has already caused changes to the way electricity networks are designed and operated but as penetration pushes onward to 30% and thence to 50%, it becomes significantly more challenging to maintain the stability and availability that people have come to expect. It is widely said that the resolution of this problem is offered by a smart grid but despite much discussion of smart grids there is still a lack for detailed specification of the intelligent and automated functions required to operate network of the future..An example smart grid feature is that, to a much greater extent than today, demand needs to be influenced to follow available generation. With the advent of half-hourly resolution of electricity bills, facilitated by smart meters, there is a mechanism in place to reward customers who make their consumption flexible and responsive to changes in electricity availability and price. In this example of "smart" technology there are very many questions over how exactly this might work, how people would engage with this technology and how coordination of millions of individual actions will add up to stable operation of the grid.
We set out to answer two broad questions. First, how exactly should new computational techniques help mange the future grid? Specifically how can we use decentralised control to perform demand-supply balancing (and voltage control, etc.) at a local level and facilitate coordination and collaboration between decentralised controllers. Also, as part of that, how do advances in data analytics help gain useful control information from the masses of data being produced in the system. Second, in this more complex system, how do we analyse the risk of a system failure and design in resilience to mitigate risk. Traditionally we have had good models of the probability of the failure of, say, a transformer. How can we analyse and design for the highly variable behaviour of customers' responses to short term electricity prices and the short term fluctuation of PV and wind energy. New design principles are needed to ensure continued high reliability of supply. Being smart about the use of decentralised control and the harnessing of newly available data is crucial to ensuring we provide an electricity system able to incorporate large amounts of renewable energy without burdening us with undue cost or degrading performance.
Alongside these specific technical ambitions, HubNet maintains its role in bringing together the many academic groups who can contribute, not just electrical power engineering but also computational sciences, energy economics and behavioural modelling. Further, our role is to be the conduit for the academic community to converse with the network operators and equipment vendors so as to keep our research relevant to the sector's major challenges and provide a route to demonstrate and deploy our findings. We will continue to help identify the key research questions for the community to address and we will continue to use our findings as evidence to support energy policy and regulation.
We set out to answer two broad questions. First, how exactly should new computational techniques help mange the future grid? Specifically how can we use decentralised control to perform demand-supply balancing (and voltage control, etc.) at a local level and facilitate coordination and collaboration between decentralised controllers. Also, as part of that, how do advances in data analytics help gain useful control information from the masses of data being produced in the system. Second, in this more complex system, how do we analyse the risk of a system failure and design in resilience to mitigate risk. Traditionally we have had good models of the probability of the failure of, say, a transformer. How can we analyse and design for the highly variable behaviour of customers' responses to short term electricity prices and the short term fluctuation of PV and wind energy. New design principles are needed to ensure continued high reliability of supply. Being smart about the use of decentralised control and the harnessing of newly available data is crucial to ensuring we provide an electricity system able to incorporate large amounts of renewable energy without burdening us with undue cost or degrading performance.
Alongside these specific technical ambitions, HubNet maintains its role in bringing together the many academic groups who can contribute, not just electrical power engineering but also computational sciences, energy economics and behavioural modelling. Further, our role is to be the conduit for the academic community to converse with the network operators and equipment vendors so as to keep our research relevant to the sector's major challenges and provide a route to demonstrate and deploy our findings. We will continue to help identify the key research questions for the community to address and we will continue to use our findings as evidence to support energy policy and regulation.
Planned Impact
We anticipate creating impact under the following headings
1. With the Technical Community
Following the pattern of the existing HubNet consortium, we will use position papers to elaborate what we collectively see as the research questions in key topic areas. In this extension to HubNet we will base the formulation of those positions on the outcomes of a number of 1-day research colloquia. The existing position papers have been very widely read, the first 9 having been downloaded 5,000 times in total.
The continuation of the Smart Grid Symposium will also ensure we have a single place each year where our disparate technologies are reviewed together, and our researchers are exposed to the whole cross-disciplinary community.
Our international academic impact will naturally arise through publications in leading journals and international conferences. Moreover our continued interaction with other research programs, such as RCUK's Energy Programme's joint projects Indian, Chinese and, shortly, Korea.
2. Research Translation and Innovation
HubNet universities, and their research programmes have been a significant source of analytical support to projects supported by the Low Carbon Network Fund and the new NIC/NIA funds. These activities have been the main conduit for creating industrial impact from HubNet's academic work. We will work with the ENA and exhibit at the LCNI conference to ensure this continues to be the case.
We will continue to contribute to the DECC/Ofgem Smart Grid Forum and the IET/DECC Future Power System Architect project to influence the sector's collective view on innovation. We will also continue to contribute to standards bodies, notably Cigre Technical Brouchures.
3. Wider Public Impact
We will use the HubNet website to continue to have a broader presence. Many HubNet academics contribute interviews of new and science output in broadcast and print media.
1. With the Technical Community
Following the pattern of the existing HubNet consortium, we will use position papers to elaborate what we collectively see as the research questions in key topic areas. In this extension to HubNet we will base the formulation of those positions on the outcomes of a number of 1-day research colloquia. The existing position papers have been very widely read, the first 9 having been downloaded 5,000 times in total.
The continuation of the Smart Grid Symposium will also ensure we have a single place each year where our disparate technologies are reviewed together, and our researchers are exposed to the whole cross-disciplinary community.
Our international academic impact will naturally arise through publications in leading journals and international conferences. Moreover our continued interaction with other research programs, such as RCUK's Energy Programme's joint projects Indian, Chinese and, shortly, Korea.
2. Research Translation and Innovation
HubNet universities, and their research programmes have been a significant source of analytical support to projects supported by the Low Carbon Network Fund and the new NIC/NIA funds. These activities have been the main conduit for creating industrial impact from HubNet's academic work. We will work with the ENA and exhibit at the LCNI conference to ensure this continues to be the case.
We will continue to contribute to the DECC/Ofgem Smart Grid Forum and the IET/DECC Future Power System Architect project to influence the sector's collective view on innovation. We will also continue to contribute to standards bodies, notably Cigre Technical Brouchures.
3. Wider Public Impact
We will use the HubNet website to continue to have a broader presence. Many HubNet academics contribute interviews of new and science output in broadcast and print media.
Organisations
Publications
Abogaleela M
(2020)
Contribution of emergency demand response and emergency loading of overhead lines in network resilience enhancements
in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
Abogaleela M
(2019)
Network reliability framework integrating demand response and flexible OHL ratings
in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
Ameli H
(2020)
Coordinated Operation of Gas and Electricity Systems for Flexibility Study
in Frontiers in Energy Research
Borozan S
(2022)
Strategic network expansion planning with electric vehicle smart charging concepts as investment options
in Advances in Applied Energy
Cuffe P
(2018)
Data Visualization: The Signal and the Noise
in IEEE Potentials
De Paola A
(2017)
Price-Based Schemes for Distributed Coordination of Flexible Demand in the Electricity Market
in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Dent, CJ
(2016)
What is an electricity blackout?
Falugi P
(2018)
Planning With Multiple Transmission and Storage Investment Options Under Uncertainty: A Nested Decomposition Approach
in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Giannelos S
(2018)
Option Value of Demand-Side Response Schemes Under Decision-Dependent Uncertainty
in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
| Description | HubNet (Extension) was a collection of sub-projects that are the result of a call and proposal process. We list here findings for the sub-projects.SMART-SAFE, Sequential modelling, analysis and reporting toolkit for system adequacy and flexibility: Trials of models have been carried out, with the most promising one selected from amongst various possible autoregressive options. A stochastic scheduling model has been created that minimises whole system costs by balancing security of supply against energy and provision of ancillary services. Distributed Management of Flexible Demand in Dynamic Electricity Markets: The focus is on understanding how dynamic pricing algorithms can be used to manage flexible demand. The innovation achieved here moves beyond managing in fixed-time windows with full knowledge, to rolling windows and partial information that becomes available only in real time. An algorithm has been invented with guaranteed convergence under fairly general and realistic assumptions on electricity costs and pricing. Risk assessment and costing of instability of uncertain power systems: A list of stability indicators and documented validation of their theoretical and practical robustness has been generated. Power system stability risk analysis is still an emerging topic so the system indicators that can be reliably simulated in a probabilistic manner for all aspects of power system stability must be identified and thoroughly validated. Robust system planning under high-dimensional uncertainty. We have developed a radically different planning model embedding stochastic unit commitment within a stochastic planning framework and optimizing investment in generation, networks and smart technologies in an integrated fashion. In order to solve such large-scale model decomposition, convexification techniques are currently under investigation. The obtained preliminary results are promising. Blockchain based smart contracts for peer to peer energy trading using the GB smart metering system: A demonstration of blockchain contracts for energy has been formed and demonstrated live at "Smart Distribution Networks: Technologies and Business models" workshop, London, April 2017. Life extension of MV cables through system voltage reduction: In situ measurements are currently being undertaken on live Scottish Power distribution circuits. This project seeks to extend the life of MV cables through changes to the operation of the network. A key ageing mechanism of cables is partial discharge (PD), driven by the electric field experienced by an insulation defect. It is hypothesised that, in particular situations, a reduction of the system voltage will reduce the electric field and hence PD, which will correspondingly extend the service life of the cable. Microgrids for Resilience and Power Quality: To aid efficient system stability studies, a method of model order reduction has been created and verified for microgrids, recognising that in microgrids with the dynamic modes are less distinct and separate than in conventional systems. A set of innovative power converter options have been created for interfacing medium voltage micro-grids with embedded storage. The basic concept has been proven and a more detailed study has been initiated as a PhD project in the CDT on Future Power Networks. Prof Green has joined a CIRED work group on micro girds to aid dissemination of our findings. DC Cables and Power Quality: Preliminary work on the impact AC distortion (harmonics) superimposed on DC voltage has on ageing of solid polymeric insulation has been carried out. Electrical tree initiation, acceleration and breakdown times in the frequency range of 50 to 450 Hz have been carried out. The results show a clear trend in decreasing tree initiation and breakdown times with increasing frequency which is an indicator of lifetime reduction of insulation system. The knowledge from the analysed data collected from the study will be used as base line understanding of insulation ageing in the material under study (epoxy resin). The findings here led Univeristy of Manchester to partner with Imperial College London and Univerisity of Stathclyde to propose a full research programme on the trade-offs and co-design of insulation systems and power converters with regard to DC power quality. The proposal was submitted in early 2019 and a fund decision is awaited. Decentralised Control and Distributed Intelligence: The use of multi-agent tools and methodologies in power system networks is being explored through a direct collaboration with New York University on a multi-agent implementation of their epsilon decomposition distributed voltage regulation concept. |
| Exploitation Route | Each sub-project has been required to produce a plan for creating impact and those plans will be actioned in the closing months of the project. |
| Sectors | Energy |
| Description | Cired Working Group on "Technical Requirements for the Operation of Microgrids in both Interconnected and lslanded Modes" |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | The working group will publish a report setting out technical requirements as a recommended practice for designers and operators of microgrid equipment. |
| URL | http://www.cired.net/cired-working-groups/microgrids-in-interconnected-and-islanded-modes-wg-2018-3 |
| Description | ETIP SNET - ENERGY SECTOR INTERFACES |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | ETIP SNET - GRID PLANNING COORDINATION ACROSS SYSTEM OPERATORS |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | European Technology & Innovation Platforms and Strategic Energy Technology Plan (2017) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Member of Ofgem RIIO2 Challenging Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Professor Goran Strbac appointed as a member of the Open Networks Challenge Group of Energy Networks Association |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Given the objectives of Ofgem and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Challenge Group provides challenge on policy and regulatory progresses to ensure that the programme remains ambitious in delivery and implementation of key proposals related to development of framework for flexibility. The Challenge Group is giving stakeholders an increased role in challenging and shaping flexibility proposals and ensuring that the programme is sufficiently ambitious in its scope and is delivering change at pace. |
| Description | Smart Systems Forum |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | BEIS and OFGEM developed plans to remove barriers, improve market and regulatory framework, catalyse innovation, and shape roles and responsibilities in the shift towards a smart, more flexible energy system which meets the needs of consumers and businesses now and in the future. |
| Description | Alan Turing Institute Partnership Project Scheme |
| Amount | £403,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 10/2018 |
| Description | Alan Turing Institute Strategic Priorities Fund |
| Amount | £64,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Centre for Digital Built Britain Research Network |
| Amount | £46,990 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Digital Built Britain |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| 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 | Innovation in Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) Systems |
| Amount | £25,037,480 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | 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 |
| Title | Integrated model |
| Description | We have developed a novel stochastic integrated model for long term system planning to identify the optimal investment portfolio across several types of generation and transmission asset, including flexible technologies such as energy storage. The model captures uncertainty in the form of a multi-stage scenario tree of arbitrary shape describing the possible evolution paths of certain system state variables i.e. future demand growth and storage investment cost. Our model includes important features: multiple investment options, a large number of scenarios, the ability to model construction times of different assets through non-sequential state equations, generation and storage retirement, a detailed description of inter-temporal constraints related to conventional generation units. Finally, the model incorporates user-defined constraints on carbon emissions. The resulting model is a large scale mixed-integer linear (MILP) problem and computationally extremely demanding. The use of discrete variables to describe the commitment of conventional generation units can result critical for the solution of even small size problems. However the problem has been made tractable through a cascade of decomposed problems based on state-of-the-art decomposition and tight relaxation schemes. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The modelling of several investment options, different sources of uncertainty combined with a detailed model of generation assets can considerably affect the resulting optimal investment mix highlighting the importance of flexibility in a decarbonised system. |
| Title | Rolling horizon distributed management algorithm for dynamic demand response |
| Description | We developed an algorithm for optimal allocation of flexible demand within a dynamic electricity market which is able to operate in a rolling-horizon set-up. This means that predicted allocations over a time-window (say of 24 hours), are renegotiated at each sampling interval (for instance every 15 minutes) and not assumed to be deployed entirely.The algorithm is remarkable in that, under suitable assumptions, is proved to converge (rather quickly) to the optimum allocation, even in this receding horizon set-up. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The research is still unpublished. We are carrying out case studies and submitting it to several journal and converence venues. |
| Description | CFD - Modelling of OHL conductors |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Dr Kopsidas and Mr Rahman have developed the modelling of multi-physics on Finite-Element-Analysis of overhead line conductors to quantify the error on existing thermal rating of bare conductor standards. This work has focused on identifying the thermal loading of the bare conductor. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Rolfo and colleagues in Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Warrington, have further evaluated the work using an open source Finite Element Analysis tool to capture the Effects of large scale 3-D structures on the flow around a heated cylinder at low Reynolds number. This was the validation of CFD modelling results to verify that the team in Manchester produces accurate results when more physics are included in their models. |
| Impact | A paper has been submitted in a conference : DLES11 - ERCOFTAC Workshop on Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation and it has been invited for submission in special issue (15 papers out of 122). Invited paper is still under review on the Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (FTaC) journal. The work is multi-disciplinary as it involves Fluid Mechanics (Mechanical Engineering) and Electro-thermal joule heating (Electrical Engineering) as well as computational skills. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Comparative analysis of HVDC and MVDC converters for fault management |
| Organisation | University of Leuven |
| Department | Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Prof Green and Dr Judge have detail models and control designs that describe how families of multi-live power converters behave when network faults (short-ciruicts) are present at the DC- or AC-side terminals. This expertise has been used in the collaboration to explore how to categorise power converter designs (of which there are many) in terms of their ability to survive and management different types of fault with or without DC circuit-breakers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof van Herten's team at KU Leuven have system level models showing the impact of power converter behaviour on stability and fault recovery and AC and DC networks. During the collaboration the expertise of the two groups has been combined to create a classification and description of the various approaches available in the literature. Dr Leterme was seconded from KUL to Imperial for 6 months an carried out a detailed study of the accuracy for fault models, verified against experimental results obtained using Imperial's equipment. This is presently (Feb 2019) being written up for publication |
| Impact | Two IEEE journal papers we written jointly and published |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| 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 | NG - Overhead Line testing |
| Organisation | National Grid UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dr Kopsidas modelling on Overhead line conductor ageing has been able to capture accelerated ageing due to thermal and tension loading. The work is further developed to capture the mechanical fatigue due to the vibration and other electro-mechanical stresses. |
| Collaborator Contribution | National Grid funded a test rig for conductors that can be used to quantify the ageing (experimentally) under electro-mechanical stresses. |
| Impact | A paper is under development. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SP - Wind cable loading |
| Organisation | Scottish Power Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dr Kopsidas and Mr Liu have developed a detailed modelling of cable operation and ageing that quantifies the ageing of network cables as a result of loading under uncertainties. This modelling approach has been shared and used during this collaboration in a real system with data that provided by SPEN to evaluate any benefits that can be generated on increasing wind integration via relaxing the cable rating constraints. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Scottish Power Energy Networks team (Geoff Murphy, David Ruthven) and WSP (Ali Kazerooni) provided the real case application data of a wind farm cable installation. Further details of the wind farm are described by NIA_SPEN0003: Enhanced Real-Time Cable Temperature Monitoring project. The provided data are used to assess the value of the methodology on identifying potential risk of cable ageing and benefits from increased wind integration on the cable tie. |
| Impact | An academic journal paper is under review in special issue for increasing wind integration (IEEE Trans in Power systems) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Strbac - National Grid |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team has brought new system theory insights to tackle some fundamental challenges in multi-stage stochastic Mixed Integer Linear Programming problems. The problem structure has been investigated and new modelling approaches have been proposed to deal with complex decision-making models under endogenous and exogenous uncertainties. The proposed approach applies to a very large class of problems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Goran Strbac's extensive experience with long-term scenario definition and large-scale studies, that have informed policy decisions at the UK and European level, has contributed in ensuring that the proposed methodological and technical contribution is suitable to be used in informing the debate on optimal planning under uncertainty. |
| Impact | The present collaboration is multi-disciplinary since Falugi's background is in control systems, Konstantelos' background is in power systems, Vinter is an expert in optimal control theory and our collaborator Goran Strbac has an extensive experience in economics, long term scenario definition and large case studies. The collaboration has resulted in a publication with DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2017.2774367 and in the participation of Ioannis Konstantelos in the IEEE PES Task Force on Energy Storage and in IEEE PES General Meeting 2017 in Chicago. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Title | Integrated whole-energy system (IWES) model |
| Description | Uniqueness of the model is in very granular spatial and temporal resolution while considering multi-energy vectors including electricity, heat, transport. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Informing Government about the cost effectiveness of alternative decarbonisation pathways |
| 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 | AMPS panel session 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ioannis Konstantelos participated in the AMPS panel session 'Decision Support Methods for Capital Planning Under Uncertainty' in IEEE PES General Meeting 2017 in Chicago where he gave the talk 'Efficient computation methods for large-scale stochastic planning problems'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | CIGRE WG B2.58 Liaison Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Konstantinos Kopsidas and Tim Kavanagh on the area of Conductor design complexities and materials effect towards improving Reliability. The title topic "Quantifying HTLS conductor vibration Response - Practical challenges and modeling assumptions". The presentation discussed industrial experience (ESB) on Gap conductor and concerns on modelling leading to ways of improvement and additional experimentation. The complete event was 2 days, and the main focus of the working group was to identify methods for improving standard testing practices for new conductor technologies (HTLS). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Cardiff team held a meeting with Welsh Government, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council and AECOM to discuss local energy system options for Blaenau Gwent, in particular for low carbon heat supply. |
| 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 | Cardiff team (Jianzhong Wu, Meysam Qadrdan, Muditha Abeysekera) held a meeting with Welsh Government (Eleanor Knight), Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council (Amy Taylor and Bridget Powel) and AECOM (Stephen Ward) to discuss local energy system options for Blaenau Gwent, in particular for low carbon heat supply on 4th April 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | 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 | Conference on Energy Storage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Setting out the role and value of energy storage in future low carbon energy system |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Contribution to Wellcome Collection Exhibition - Electricity the Spark of Life |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to Wellcome Collection Exhibition - Electricity the Spark of Life. I was involved during the initial planning of the exhibition and also interviewed as part of the exhibition - explaining current issues facing power systems. This is part of a touring exhibition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| 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 HubNet Risk Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk by Ioannis Konstantelos on "Planning future energy systems under uncertainty" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | 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 | GO Science masterclass |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited "Masterclass" by Chris Dent on modelling in public policy to the Government Office of Science Data Science Stream |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Hubnet Colloquium on Power Cables and Cable Integrity |
| 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 | Hubnet Colloquium held at the University of Starthclyde on 7th December 2016 - to understand present HVAC and HVDC cable technologies, problems and future trends and challenges. Future research directions were also debated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://hubnet.org.uk/events/power_cables_and_cable_integrity |
| 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 | ICMS Energy Systems Workshop |
| 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 | Scoping workshop on mathematical science research needs in management of energy systems. Linked to Isaac Newton Institute programme on Mathematics of Energy Systems in 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.icms.org.uk/energynetworks.php |
| Description | IEEE HVDC and FACTS Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Input and steering into IEEE HVDC & FACTS Working Group, including development of technical brochures and position papers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | IEEE PES Task Force on Energy Storage |
| 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 | Ioannis Konstantelos is participating on the IEEE PES Task Force on Energy Storage lead by Ramteen Sioshansi (Ohio State University). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IET Wiley virtual event on Carbon Emissions: Pathway Energy Systems of Grid Development under Carbon Neutrality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Jianzhong Wu gave a presentation on Scenarios of the UK Energy System Transition |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2948361741370996236?source=SocialMedia&utm_source=twitter&... |
| Description | INCOSE Energy Systems Interest Group Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Community Engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Industrial Engagement |
| 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 | Further input from two industrialists into key aspects of the future direction of the project. Provided information and insights for future result impact within their industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Engagement |
| 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 | Input to project update from three Industrial experts within the electrical power industry resuting in provision of infration and test samples related to the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| 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 Speech in 2020 IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference (iSPEC 2020) in the Panel "Towards supply-demand balance in new energy dominated power systems", on 23 Nov 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited Speech entitled "Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading" in 2020 IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference (iSPEC 2020) in the Panel "Towards supply-demand balance in new energy dominated power systems", on 23 Nov 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | Jianzhong Wu met with Welsh Government and Costain to discuss the potential cooperation between the 'Local Virtual Private Networks (LVPN)' development in Flintshire (North Wales) and the 'Resilience as a Service (RAAS)' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jianzhong Wu attended and presented at a meeting with Welsh Government and Costain to discuss the potential cooperation between the 'Local Virtual Private Networks (LVPN)' development in Flintshire (North Wales) and the 'Resilience as a Service (RAAS)' which is an NIC project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | KTN Energy Study Group, Edinburgh, December 2018 |
| 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 | Brainstorming session between mathematical scientists and five industry/government challenges |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2018 |
| URL | http://www.icms.org.uk/KTN_Energy_SG.php |
| 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 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 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 | Knowledge Transfer Meeting with National Grid |
| 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 | This was a National Grid Electricity Transmission's 2019 Innovation Event, introduced by David Wright, Director of Electricity Transmission at National Grid and Group Chief Engineer (Electricity). The event was focusing on industrial and academic collaboration dialogue towards future technologies and innovation within the power transmission area (Asset Management and Network Optimisation were some examples). The participants, academics and industrialists discussed main research areas and innovations as well as future challenges and how those could potentially be addressed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-grid-electricity-transmission-innovation-event-tickets-53193... |
| Description | Knowledge Transfer Meeting with National Grid |
| 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 | Knowledge transfer visit to National Grid in Warwick on 30 November to discuss numerous projects and opportunities for future collaborative work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Launch Net 0 Go |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Wu the Ambassador of Cardiff Energy Research. GW4 activity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.netzerogo.org.uk/s/ |
| Description | Meeting with Celsa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Eric Brown - Grid Scientific |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A meeting to discuss research collaboration with the Energy Systems Catapult |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Phil Hourahine to discuss the collaboration with South Wales Engineers Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | regional research collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Member of IEEE Task Force on Power System Resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Member of IEEE Task Force on Power System Resilience - newly formed in July 2017. Impact will come with future technical guidance and task force outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | Modelling in public policy: Exploring research requirements to support the use of modelling evidence in energy policy development |
| 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 | The event explored how techno-economic models of low carbon energy system are used to support policy decisions, and how this process can be improved. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Muditha Abeysekera met with NHS partners to establish a collaborative partnership to study the energy supply system at the hospital site. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Muditha Abeysekera met with NHS partners at Rotheram NHS trust on October 7th 2020 to establish a collaborative partnership to study the energy supply system at the hospital site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | Participate in Smart Power Alliance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk on "Paradigm shift to smart, low carbon energy future: Opportunities and Challenges" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Participate in Workshop RTE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk on "System Flexibility Benefits " and inform the debate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Participate in Workshop on Mathematics and Economics of Energy Markets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk on "Paradigm shift to low carbon energy future: Challenges for Economists and Mathematicians" and inform the debate in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation / Visit (University of Cyprus) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Konstantinos Kopsidas gave a talk on network operation under uncertainties (with focus on cable failures) to the Electrical Department in Cyprus University and Visitors from Electricity Authority of Cyprus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Risk Day Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Started the EPSRC HubNet Risk Day series (continuing the legacy of the discontinued Durham Risk Day series) in order provide a networking and interactive opportunity for post-graduate researchers working on risk and uncertainty in the power and energy sector. The event attracted more than 50 international attendees including attendees from the UK, Denmark, France, Belgium, Greece and the USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.riskday.co.uk |
| Description | Risk day workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Planning megagrids and microgrids under uncertainty, Manchester, 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 Smart Grid Symposium 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk at Smart Grid Symposium 2016 about the reliability and cyber-security of future, smart, low carbon electrical networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.hubnet.org.uk/filebyid/807/SGS2016Agenda.pdf |
| 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 | Talk in Mean-Field Game Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The workshop "Mean-field games, energy and environment" brought together leading experts in the field of Mean-field games and their applications, as well as researchers in other fields with an interest in MFG. Mean-field games have grown to be a powerful toolbox for high-dimensional distributed optimisation problems. In recent years they have found applications in a variety of domains, from optimisation of energy production and storage to the modelling of climate change negotiations. The workshop covered the basic theory of MFG and its applications to optimisation problems arising in the energy industry and the environmental sciences. A number of talks will be given by engineers working on distributed optimisation problems where MFG could be applied. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/mean-field-games-energy-environment-agenda/ |
| 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 day on Energy System Planning Under Uncertainty |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Tutorial day for academics and practitioners. Around 40 delegates including speakers. Aim was to translate methods from mathematical science to application disciplines. Slides and videos of talks available on website, see URL. Sponsored by Hubnet and CESI. Other grants listed indicate source of methodology presented in one or more talks, or payment of travel for a speaker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://icms.org.uk/workshops/energytutorialday |
| 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 in public policy" |
| 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 | Scoping workshop on research needs in modelling to support public policy, report at http://hubnet.org.uk/filebyid/1130/Modelling_in_Public_Policy.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Workshop on Modelling of Integrated Multi-Energy Networks - Current Practices and Innovation Gaps, London, 5th April, 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | With an excellent line-up of invited participants from government, industry and academia, this one-day workshop was aimed at sharing current best practices in multi-energy system modelling and discussing how to address the barriers and identifying the innovation gaps. This invitation-only workshop was jointly organised by INCOSE UK Energy Systems Interest Group and the EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub (https://www.ncl.ac.uk/supergenenhub/), with support from Energy Systems Catapult (https://es.catapult.org.uk/) and the UK Energy Research Centre (http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/). Prof Jianzhong Wu from Cardiff University was the Chairman of this workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop on nexus of smart energy, intelligent manufacturing and transportation systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Setting research agenda for future intelligent manufacturing and transportation systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | keynote speech at Energetika 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Key note speech at the conference talking about challenges and solutions to control of future power networks with RES and storage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | keynote speech at IEEE MELECON 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Key note speech at the conference talking about challenges and solutions to control of future power networks with RES and storage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | keynote speech at IET/IEEE Medpower 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Key note speech at the conference talking about challenges and solutions to control of future power networks with RES and storage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | visit (University of Edinburgh) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ioannis Konstantelos gave a talk on large-scale planning under uncertainty to the Department of Mathematics in University of Edinburgh on 12 February 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |