Webinars
Webinars
The events supported by the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration include webinars on a range of topics. Recordings of the webinars are available to download following the event.
Smart Charging Webinars
This series of webinars provides an introduction to vehicle to grid (V2G) and smart charging projects and topics, with invited guest speakers from institutions in the UK and overseas. View the webinar playlist here. More information on discussions held in our previous webinars on communications protocols are now published in Energy Informatics.
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Smart Charging and V2G Webinar: Caltech and Idaho National Laboratory
Smart Charging and V2G Webinar: Caltech and Idaho National LaboratoryThe first in the series of V2G Webinars provided an introduction to ongoing Smart charging and V2G projects in the US and UK, followed by a Q&A session.
Agenda
Introduction to the e4future project (UK)
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute
Download the presentation here: Introduction to the e4future project webinar slides (PDF: 0.6MB)
Charging Control strategy for electric vehicles (US)
Don Scoffield, Idaho National Laboratory
Download the presentation here: Charging control strategy for EVs webinar slides (PDF: 0.48MB)
The Adaptive Charging Network project (US)
Zachary Lee, Caltech
Download the presentation here: Adaptive Charging Network webinar slides (PDF: 4MB)
Recording of the event
Meet OCPP. Robert de Leeuw. Open Communication Protocols for Electric Vehicles Smart Charging
Meet OCPP. Robert de Leeuw. Open Communication Protocols for Electric Vehicles Smart ChargingThis webinar introduced Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP), one of the most widely used open protocols to communicate with EV chargers.
Agenda
Overview of communication protocols for EV charging and where OCPP fits
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Download the presentation here:Smart Charging and V2G Webinar Slides (PDF 0.4 MB)
Introduction to OCPP
Robert de Leeuw, ihomer and Open Charge Alliance
- What is OCPP?
- Why OCPP?
- OCA organisation
- OCPP Basics
- OCPP 1.5/1.6/2.0
- OCPP security
OCPP Smart Charging
Robert de Leeuw
- Support use cases (possibilities)
- Different profile (TxProfile, TxDefaultProfile, ChargePointMaxProfile)
- Difference OCPP 1.6/2.0
Download the presentation here: OCPP_Smart_Charging_Webinar_Slides (PDF 0.6 MB)
Recording of the event
Meet OpenADR. Rolf Bienert and guests. Open Communication Protocols for Electric Vehicles Smart Charging
Meet OpenADR. Rolf Bienert and guests. Open Communication Protocols for Electric Vehicles Smart ChargingThis webinar investigated how utilities are using the OpenADR standard to better manage electric vehicle programmes.
The rapid growth of electric vehicles (EVs) is driving the build-out of public charging infrastructure worldwide. While better batteries and faster charging options will drive accelerated adoption, utilities are falling behind by slowly rolling out charging stations with limited programs to support EVs on the distribution network.
The webinar explains how utilities are using the OpenADR standard to better manage EV programs, while capturing more revenue. topics covered included:
- Brief overview of OpenADR and how it can support demand side management and EVSE
- Security aspects to take into account
- Case study of how a progressive utility is conducting their demand & pricing based program for EV charging
Agenda
Overview of communication protocols for EV charging and where Open ADR fits
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Download the presentation here: Electric vehicles and demand response using OpenADR webinar slides (PDF 0.3 MB)
Invited speakers and Q&A session
- Rolf Bienert, Managing Director, OpenADR Alliance
- Download the presentation here: OpenADR - Electric Vehicles and Demand Response webinar slides (PDF: 0.52 MB)
Real World use cases using OpenADR
- Carl Besaw, Southern California Edison
- Download the presentation here: Southern California Edison's Charge Ready Demand Response Pilot webinar slides (PDF: 0.44 MB)
- Clay Collier, Chargepoint
- Download the presentation here: OpenADR - The electric revolution is here webinar slides (PDF: 1.2 MB)
Recording of the event
Open Communication Protocols for Smart Charging: real world demonstrators - GreenFlux and Carbon Co-op
Open Communication Protocols for Smart Charging: real world demonstrators - GreenFlux and Carbon Co-opAbout this event
Hosted by Newcastle University in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute, CESI and Supergen Energy Networks, the Smart Charging webinar series continues with Open Communication Protocols for Smart Charging: real world demonstrators.
Agenda
Introduction to the Smart Charging Webinar Series
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and The Alan Turing Institute
Download the presentation here: Introduction to the Smart Charging webinar slides (PDF: 0.14 MB)
Smart Charging Solution in Electric Nation project
Lennart Verheijen, GreenFlux, NL
Download the presentation here: Greenflux Smart Charging webinar slides (PDF: 2.72 MB)
OpenDSR (BEIS) project
Ben Aylott, Carbon Co-op, UK
Download the presentation here: Using OpenADR and OCPP together to enable smart EV charging in UK homes webinar slides (PDF: 2.6 MB)
Recording of the event
View the video of the webinar.
Bios and talk descriptions
Talk 1: Lennart Verheijen
Lennart Verheijen worked within the Dutch grid operator Enexis for 6 years on the topic of smart grids, flexibility and specifically the integration of electric vehicles into the distribution grid. Five years ago he changed to the commercial sector and started at GreenFlux, a company that provides white label platform solutions for charge point operators and e-Mobility Service Providers. Lennart Verheijen is the manager of the product development and innovation department and ultimately responsible for all subsidized and commercial innovation projects, which are quite often related to smart charging.
Mr. Verheijen was responsible for the creation of the Open Smart Charging Protocol version 1.0 in 2013 and involved in the current development of the 2.0 version of this protocol. Also was he actively involved in the smart charging incorporation in OCPP 1.6 in 2015. He has been project leader of nearly 20 smart grid/smart charging projects, the Electric Nation project being the largest so far.
Lennart Verheijen will present the outline and findings of the Electric Nation project. This three year project, consisting of 700 EV-drivers and chargers at peoples homes, spread out over all of England, is the largest smart charging project in the world so far. Three different smart charging regimes were tested, yielding very large amounts of data and unique insights in customer perception and acceptance of smart charging. In this project, GreenFlux served as the technology provider. For a preview, see also http://www.electricnation.org.uk/.
Talk 2: Ben Aylott
Ben Aylott is an Energy Systems Engineer at Carbon Co-op with 5 years experience in designing and implementing demand side response and smart energy systems. He is the project lead for OpenDSR, a UK government (BEIS) funded project awarded under the Domestic Demand Side Response Competition, which is developing and testing a standards based and open source system for DSR for use in homes and small businesses with close integration with the new UK smart metering system.
Ben Aylott will present an overview of the design and development of the OpenADR and OCPP-based system for demand side response and smart electric vehicle charging in the OpenDSR project. This will consider some of the challenges of using these protocols in the context of home and building energy management system use cases in the UK.
Open Communication Protocols for Smart Charging: real world demonstrators - Allego
Open Communication Protocols for Smart Charging: real world demonstrators - AllegoAbout this event
Hosted by Newcastle University in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute, CESI and Supergen Energy Networks, the Smart Charging webinar series continues with Open Communication Protocols for Smart Charging: real world demonstrators - Allego.
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and The Alan Turing Institute
Download the presentation here: Introduction to the Smart Charging webinar slides (0.2MB)
Keynote speaker
Mereille Klein Koerkamp, Programme Manager R&D, Allego
Download the presentation here: Open communication protocols for Smart Charging Demonstrators: real world demonstrators - Allego Webinar slides (1.9MB)
More information about this talk
Mereille Klein Koerkamp is almost 10 years working in the world of E-mobility at Allego and its predecessors. Within Allego, Mereille is responsible for the Allego cloud based smart charging solution. By applying a cloud based solution Allego is able to combine EV-driver needs with requests for flexibility, for instance by grid operators.
Mereille will explain the Allego smart charging solution and which protocols are used for sharing information.
Recording of the event
Meet ISO 15118. Dr Marc Mültin. Open Communication Protocols for Electric Vehicles Smart Charging
Meet ISO 15118. Dr Marc Mültin. Open Communication Protocols for Electric Vehicles Smart ChargingAbout this event
Hosted by Newcastle University in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute, CESI and Supergen Energy Networks, the Smart Charging webinar series continues with Communication Protocols for Electric Vehicles charging: Meet ISO 15118
Agenda
EV policy development in the UK +Landscape of e-mobility protocols
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Download the presentation here: Meet ISO 15118 in the context of smart charging webinar slides (PDF: 0.59MB)
Keynote speaker
Dr Mark Mültin, V2G Clarity
Download the presentation here: Communication Protocols for Vehicle Charging - Meet ISO 15118-20 Webinar slides (PDF: 3.16MB)
More information about this talk
Dr Marc Mültin is a recognised emobility expert, co-authoring ISO 15118 and related international standards. He also developed the widely used open-source implementation of ISO 15118 called RISE V2G. Marc’s mission is to help bring convenient, secure, and user-friendly electric vehicle charging to a global audience. In this webinar, Marc introduces us to ISO 15118 in the context of smart charging.
Topics discussed include:
- ISO 15118 as a key communication protocol for the EV ecosystem.
- How does it enable smart charging?
- How does ISO 15118-20 enable bidirectional charging;
- Some of the cyber-security provisions in place;
- Some information on the resources available (Knowledge Base, Blog)
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A sufficient and intelligent charging infrastructure - examples from Denmark
A sufficient and intelligent charging infrastructure - examples from DenmarkAbout this event
Hosted by Newcastle University in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute, CESI and Supergen Energy Networks, the Smart Charging webinar series continues with A sufficient and intelligent charging infrastructure - examples from Denmark.
Denmark has set an ambitious target for low-emission cars in 2030 - this includes a ban on fossil fuel vehicles from 2030 and a target of 1 million green cars the same year. One of the key challenges is the charging infrastructure that connects and interfaces the electric vehicles with the power system. It is important to develop a charging infrastructure which is both sufficient (in numbers and geographical concentration) and intelligent (allows controlled charging) to support and integrate electrical vehicles.
The talk will describe an analysis of the number of charging points needed in Denmark - and describe how intelligent (V2G enabled) charging infrastructure has been utilized in a Danish pilot project for frequency regulation.
Agenda
Introduction to the Smart Charging Webinar Series
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Download the presentation here: Introduction to the sufficient & intelligent charging infrastructure webinar slides (PDF 0.46MB)
Keynote speaker
Dr Peter Bach Andersen, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
Download the presentation here: A sufficient and intelligent charging infrastructure examples from Denmark webinar slides (PDF 2.14 MB)
Speaker Bio
Peter Bach Andersen, PhD, works as senior scientific researcher at the Centre for Electric Power and Energy, part of the Technical University Of Denmark (DTU). His main area of research is on how grid integrated electric vehicles may support a stable, economic power system based on renewable energy.
Peter has acted as principle investigator in two national projects – most recently the Parker Project in collaboration with vehicle manufacturers. He is also a board member of the Danish EV Alliance (Trade organization) and the advisory board of Copenhagen electric (The Capital Region of Denmark) as to support national R&D efforts in this area.
Video of the event
Integrating Plug-in Electric Vehicles with the Grid in California
Integrating Plug-in Electric Vehicles with the Grid in CaliforniaAbout this event
Hosted by Newcastle University in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute, CESI and Supergen Energy Networks, the Smart Charging webinar series continues with Integrating Plug in Electric Vehicles with the Grid in California.
California is working toward the deployment of 5 million Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2030, a critical measure necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. In addition, California has set targets to serve the state with 100% clean energy and achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.
The California Energy Commission is responsible for assessing the demand for electric vehicle charging infrastructure to support these goals, and quantified that 250,000 chargers at multi-unit dwellings, workplaces, and destinations are needed to serve the near-term growth of light-duty electric vehicles in 2025. Efficiently integrating the charging and discharging of all types of electric transportation is critical for the success of these simultaneous power system and transportation network decarbonization efforts.
This webinar will describe the charging infrastructure technology research, modeling, policy, and incentive designs that the Energy Commission is undertaking to transform the market toward seamless vehicle-grid integration.
Agenda
Introduction to the Smart Charging Webinar Series
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Download the presentation here: Introduction to integrating PEVs with the Grid in California webinar slides (PDF 0.42 MB)
Keynote speaker
Noel Crisostomo, California Energy Commission
Download the presentation here: Integrating PEVs with the grid in California webinar slides(PDF 1.15 MB)
Speaker Bio
Previously, Noel was lead utilities regulatory analyst at the California Public Utilities Commission, where he managed investor-owned utility design of electric vehicle programs in dynamic rates, charging infrastructure, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, and demonstrations leveraging electric vehicles as grid resources. Noel also has experience from Rocky Mountain Institute, San Diego Gas & Electric, and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in energy science and policy from the Earth Systems Program at Stanford University.
Video of the event
Meet IEC 63110. Paul Bertrand. Communication Protocols for Electric Vehicles Smart Charging
Meet IEC 63110. Paul Bertrand. Communication Protocols for Electric Vehicles Smart ChargingHosted by Newcastle University in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute, CESI and Supergen Energy Networks, the Smart Charging webinar series continues with Communication Protocols for Electric Vehicles charging: Meet IEC 63110.
Agenda
Introduction to communication protocols for smart charging
Dr. Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and The Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker
Paul Bertrand, SmartFuture
Download the presentation here: Communication protocols for Smart Charging. Meet IEC 63110. Paul Bertrand SmartFuture Webinar Slides (PDF: 2.29MB)
Keynote Bio
Paul Bertrand is a French experimented engineer who has been involved throughout his career in innovation and technology. For the last 20 years, Paul has been working on smart grid development programs and he is contributing to the expanding e-mobility sector by participating in IEC and ISO working groups. Paul is the IEC convener for JWG1 (ISO 15118) and JWG11(IEC 63110).
Topics discussed will include:
- A perspective of e-mobility standards landscape
- Zoom on IEC 63110: management of charging-discharging infrastructure
- IEC 63110 organisation, members and documents; Communication architecture; Actors and roles; Object model.
- Requirements: Cybersecurity; Protocol; Smart Grid Integration – DER - Grid codes – relations with DSO
- Smart Charging: the IEC 63110 foundation
- Use cases description
- Compliance and certification. Examples on smart grid standards like IEC 61850.
- Interconnections with other standards, for example, Interoperability with ISO 15118-2, 15118-20, CHAdeMO, IEC 61851, WPT and other standards.
- Information sharing with other e-mobility actors like OEM, Flexibility Aggregators
- Adoption drivers for IEC 63110: legislation and industrial adoption versus proprietary protocols
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Meet IEEE 2030.5 Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP2) - Gordon Lum
Meet IEEE 2030.5 Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP2) - Gordon LumHosted by Newcastle University in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute, CESI and Supergen Energy Networks, the Smart Charging webinar series continues with IEEE 2030.5 Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP2).
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and The Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker
Gordon Lum, Kitu Systems
Keynote Bio
Gordon Lum is:
- Currently CTO of Kitu Systems, a software company providing Smart Energy communications solutions. Have been with the company since 2011.
- Technical editor for the Common Smart Inverter Profile (CSIP) – the guide for using IEEE 2030.5 meet California Rule 21 requirements
- Member of technical workgroup that developed the IEEE 2030.5-2018 specification
- Member of SunSpec Alliance workgroup that developed the CSIP Test Procedure used for California Rule 21 certification.
- Technical lead for SAE J2931/7 (Security for PEV Communications)
- Technical lead for SAE J2847/3 (Communication for Plug-in Vehicles as a Distributed Energy Resource)Participating in SAE J3072 (Interconnection Requirements for Onboard, Utility-Interactive Inverter Systems)
- Member of many Cybersecurity workgroups
- Before working in the Smart Energy space, worked in digital satellite and cable communications systems.
- BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MSEE from the University of California San Diego (UCSD)
Topics discussed include:
1. Purpose and History of IEEE 2030.
2. Architecture of the Protocol
- High Level Features (OSI model, Client/Server mode, RESTful, etc.)
- High Level Functions (DER, DR, Flow Reservation, Pricing, Metering, etc.)
- Key Concepts (Events, Groups, Typical Operation, etc.)
- Cybersecurity and PKI (Cipher suite, Security strength, certificates, etc.)
3. Field Deployed Use Cases
- Using IEEE 2030.5 to meet California Rule 21 (Smart Inverter) requirements. All inverters for residential use in California must comply by March 22, 2020.
- Using IEEE 2030.4 for managing and optimizing Electric Vehicle charging. Current trial in upstate New York in collaboration with Cornell University for optimization residential EV charging.
- Future uses of IEEE 2030.5 (SAE specifications, etc.)
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Smart Charging Webinar: Quebec EV and smart charging activities
Smart Charging Webinar: Quebec EV and smart charging activitiesIn this Smart Charging webinar we discuss Quebec's EV and smart charging activities.
About this event
Agenda
Introduction: Dr. Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Talk 1: Overview of the Quebec Energy System - Jean-Luc Dupré and Jean-Pierre Croteau, Hydro-Quebec
Download the slides: Hydro Quebec - An overview (PDF 2.28MB)
Talk 2: Smart Peak Shaving Charge Manager for an Electric School Bus Fleet - Guillaume Fournier, Innovative Vehicle Institute
Download the slides: Smart Peak Shaving Charge Manager for an Electric School Bus Fleet (PDF 2.62MB)
Topics for discussion
Talk 1: Overview of the Quebec Energy System - Jean-Luc Dupré and Jean-Pierre Croteau, Hydro-Quebec
- Quebec's energy system
- Particularities of Quebec's power consumption: electric heating systems
- Demand profiles and rates
- EVs in Quebec and the charging network
- Some of Hydro-Quebec's electric mobility projects
Talk 2: Smart Peak Shaving Charge Manager for an Electric School Bus Fleet - Guillaume Fournier, the Innovative Vehicle Institute
- Quick presentation of the Innovative Vehicle Institute (IVI)
- Project partners, sponsors and other actors
- Project goal: suppress spurious peak power demands on the grid
- Target customers
- Problem description
- Proposed solution: intelligent peak shaving charge manager
- Difference between our solution and current load sharing offerings
- Implementation challenges
- Lessons learned so far
- What’s next?
Speaker Bios
Jean-Pierre Croteau, Hydro-Quebec
Jean-Pierre holds a mechanical engineering degree and an MBA from McGill University. He has been working in product management for the last ten years in the technology and energy sectors, for both large and small organizations. His passion for electric mobility dates back to his college days when he was introduced to the concept as part of the electric snowmobile team. He currently leads the residential market product management team at Hilo, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hydro-Quebec, the largest electric utility in Canada.
Jean-Luc Dupré, Hydro-Quebec
Mr. Dupré is a graduate of l’École d’ingénieurs SUPÉLEC in France. He launched his career with the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) in the signalization research and railway electrification sectors. In Québec, since 2001, he was a public transit consultant and then joined Hydro-Québec in 2011. In his current role with the company’s Direction – Électrification des transports, he is involved in public transit electrification projects and in the development of the Electric Circuit, the most extensive public charging network in Québec. He is now the responsible for the deployment and the operation of charging stations in the province of Québec.
Guillaume Fournier, Innovative Vehicle Institute
Guillaume is an engineer graduated from ÉTS in Electrical Engineering and has 20 years of experience in design. His career has led him to develop multidisciplinary skills in embedded systems, Linux, PC and FPGA programming, communication protocols and project management. Since joining the institute in May 2017, he has designed BMS for lithium batteries, put together electric vehicles, retro-engineered vehicular systems and managed large-scale projects related to smart charging.
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Smart Charging Webinar: AI for EV Charging
Smart Charging Webinar: AI for EV ChargingIn this smart charging webinar we will discuss realistic charging session models & reinforcement learning based control.
About this event
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker:
Prof. Dr. Ir. Chris Develder, Ghent University INTEC-imec
Topics for discussion
Challenges that our modern power grid is facing include the increasing penetration of distributed renewable energy sources (DRES), as well as the electrification of transportation (i.e., electric vehicles). Part of the smart grid solution lies in demand response (DR) approaches to try and match the available production by adapting the flexibility in power consumption, e.g., shift consumption in time.
This presentation will highlight research on electric vehicle (EV) charging that pertains to "knowing" the resulting power consumption, as a necessary condition for "controlling" it. For the "knowing" part, we will present results from data analytics on clustering and modeling user behavior in electric vehicle (EV) charging, in terms of total power consumption and the flexible portion thereof. We will introduce our recent models for generation of synthetic EV charging session data reflecting behavior from a large-scale real-world dataset. For the "controlling part", we will present our reinforcement learning (RL) approach to jointly control a whole set of EV charging stations at once.
Speaker bio
Chris Develder is an associate professor with the research group IDLab in the Department of Information Technology (INTEC) at Ghent University - imec, Ghent, Belgium. He received the MSc degree in computer science engineering and a PhD in electrical engineering from Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium), in July 1999 and December 2003 respectively (as a fellow of FWO). He has stayed as a research visitor at UC Davis, CA, USA (Jul.-Oct. 2007) and at Columbia University, NY, USA (Jan. 2013 - Jun. 2015). Chris currently leads two research teams within IDLab, (1) the AI for smart grids team (AI4SG) working on data analytics and machine learning for smart grids, and (2) the text-to-knowledge team (T2K) working on natural language processing (mostly information extraction using machine learning). Together with his teams, Chris has published well over 200 papers in international journals and conferences.
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Smart Charging Webinar - DiNeMo: The Distribution Network Models Platform
Smart Charging Webinar - DiNeMo: The Distribution Network Models PlatformIn this webinar we will discuss DiNeMo, a distribution network models web platform for the energy sector.
About this event
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker
Giuseppe Prettico, DiNeMo
Topics for discussion
Cities are close to facing an unprecedented transition towards a smarter and cleaner energy system. Access to real data is fundamental to build energy models useful to support this transition. For several security reasons, network data is usually not available to researchers, startups and other stakeholders.
DiNeMo is a web platform that helps tackle this barrier by providing electricity network models of a chosen area of a city based on real data provided by network operators.
The platform is also bound to become the virtual place where diverse users, with different roles, will collaborate with the aim of building reliable models to be used in order to design and develop the smart cities of tomorrow.
A newer version of the DiNeMo platform will be launched in the next month: a preview will be shown and discussed in this talk.
Speaker bio
Giuseppe Prettico holds a Ph.D. in Physics (The Institute of Photonic Science, ICFO) and a Master in Energy Efficiency and Energy Markets (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya). He received his Laurea in Systems Engineering and his Laurea Magistrale in Science for Engineering (La Sapienza University, Rome). He joined in 2013 the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Directorate of Energy, Transport and Climate, as a Scientific Officer. Since then he has been involved in several EU projects. His research interests include Distribution System Operation, Electric Vehicles' integration, Smart Cities design, Smart Grids deployment, Power and Transmission System Analysis and Electricity Markets Regulation. In the last years he has been involving in the design and building of the DiNeMo (Distribution Network Models) digital platform.
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Smart Charging Webinar-Local Flexibility Markets: Developments & Regulation
Smart Charging Webinar-Local Flexibility Markets: Developments & RegulationDate: Thursday 8 October
Time: 11:00-12:00 BST
In this webinar we will discuss new developments and regulation for local flexibility markets.
About this event
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker
Dr Karim L Anaya, Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge
Topics for discussion
This presentation summarises the key findings of a series of studies written by the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) from University of Cambridge, about local flexibility markets as part of Project MERLIN.
There is a common interest in the use of flexibility by distribution utilities (as an alternative to traditional solutions) across the seven jurisdictions that are part of these studies. Distribution utilities are exploring different ways to contract flexibility services via markets, many of them are still under trials with different types of services/products for congestion management. Regulation can help to accelerate the deployment of local flexibility markets and to unlock the value of flexibility.
A set of regulatory topics were identified in the evaluation of the Use Cases (in the seven jurisdictions) and complemented by an additional literature review. The level of progress and preferences for key regulatory changes that promote local flexibility markets differ across jurisdictions.
Speaker bio
Dr Karim L Anaya is a Senior Research Associate at the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG), University of Cambridge. She holds a doctoral degree in Energy Economics and master’s degree in Technology Policy from University of Cambridge, Judge Business School.
Karim has over fifteen years’ experience working in the public utility regulatory arena with a focus on energy, telecommunications and water. She has advised different organisations and companies such as United Nations, World Bank, CERRE, public utilities regulators, distribution network operators and system operators. Her most recent work relates to future electricity network regulation, local electricity markets, economics of distributed energy resources and smart energy platforms, productivity and efficiency analysis of utility networks. She has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.
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Smart Charging Webinar - Modern cryptography in the context of electric vehicles
Smart Charging Webinar - Modern cryptography in the context of electric vehiclesIn this smart charging webinar, we discuss modern cryptography in the context of electric vehicles.
About this event
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Keynote talk
- Nadim Kobeissi, Symbolic Software
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Smart Charging Webinar: Meet EEBUS, EV charging and more. EEBUS Initiative and Audi AG
Smart Charging Webinar: Meet EEBUS, EV charging and more. EEBUS Initiative and Audi AGIn this webinar, we will discuss EEBus communication protocol, with talks by Dr Maren Fiege of EEBUS Initiative e.V and Gerhard Paris from Audi AG.
About this event
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Keynote talks
- Dr Maren Fiege, EEBUS Initiative e.V
- Gerhard Paris, Audi AG
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Smart charging webinar - Standards-based approaches for distributed energy resources
Smart charging webinar - Standards-based approaches for distributed energy resourcesHosted by Newcastle University in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute, CESI, Supergen Energy Networks, Carbon Co-op and Open ADR Alliance, the Smart Charging webinar series continues with a workshop on standards-based approaches for distributed energy resources.
About this event
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University & the Alan Turing Institute
Part 1: UK Standards development and flexibility trials
Speakers:
- Dr Nina Klein, BEIS
- Ben Aylott, Carbon Co-op
- Farina Farrier, Energy Networks Association
- Ben Godfrey, WPD
Part 2: OpenADR protocol standard and the trend toward standards-based utility integration for distributed energy resources
Speakers:
- Rolf Bienert, OpenADR Alliance
- Walt Johnson, US Electric Power Research Institute
- Stan Janssen, Elaad-NL
Part 3: Interactive Discussion - Options and Challenges for flexibility using standards-based approaches
The panel discusses how the delivery of local markets for flexibility services can make the customer experience of providing flexibility services to the grid as seamless as possible. What’s the role of standards in meeting this goal? What is the interplay of technology solutions and customer-facing programs?
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Smart charging webinar: Making EVs a grid asset - an Australian case study
Smart charging webinar: Making EVs a grid asset - an Australian case studyOur next Smart Charging Webinar introduces the Australian power system, and describes how vehicles are being integrated into it with V2G.
About the event
Programme
Introduction: Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Presentations: Laura Jones and Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Australian National University
Followed by Q&A
Topics for discussion
Like most power systems worldwide, Australia is in transition. Old fossil-fuelled generation is being replaced with renewable. In Australia distributed resources (such as solar PV) form a large part of this transition. This transition leads to a future where energy is cheap, but flexibility is expensive.
V2G promises to be a cheap, mobile source of flexibility. The Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) project is demonstrating this. It will demonstrate frequency control services from a 51-vehicle fleet in the Australian Capital territory.
This talk will describe early findings from the trial. It will introduce the Australian power system, and describe how vehicles are being integrated into it.
Speaker Bios
Laura Jones, Senior Analyst, The Battery Storage and Grid Integration Team, ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science
Laura is an experienced innovator and engineer with a demonstrated history of working across multiple industries and has been central to delivering on large customer-focused projects such as Bruny Island Battery Trial. She has had a diverse work history spanning field testing, power system analysis, planning, innovation, and most recently economics & business models and currently works as an economist on a Vehicle to Grid/grid services demonstration project.
Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Researcher, Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) project at ANU
Kat is an interdisciplinary researcher based in Melbourne working on the social science work stream of the Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) project at ANU. She has a PhD in architectural science from the University of Queensland which spawned from work as a sustainability consultant in the building and construction industry. Kat’s policy experience includes reforming the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target scheme and working towards better energy efficiency standards for housing. More recently, she was responsible for delivering the national Chargefox ultra-rapid EV charging network.
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Smart Charging Webinar: KNX & Energy Management - integrating e-mobility & smart home solutions
Smart Charging Webinar: KNX & Energy Management - integrating e-mobility & smart home solutionsAbout the Event
Programme
Introduction: Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Presentations: Casto Cañavate and Joost Demarest, KNX Association
Followed by Q&A
Topics for Discussion
This presentation explains how KNX bridges the gap between smart homes/buildings and e-mobility by offering the possibility to charge EVs in the best possible conditions according to the needs of energy by the users of the building and home in real time.
• We will provide a brief summary of the current status of the EV market in Europe.
• Then, we will explain how the technology changed from the old days where home and building solutions were only part of the inside of a house or building. Over time, KNX have adopted IoT as enabler to integrate additional applications into a smart home/building project. This is so-called Services with KNX, where it is now possible to integrate such new applications such as the charging control of EV.
• To finish, we will explain how this is technically possible as well as represent the technical solutions.
Speaker Bios
Casto Cañavate, Marketing Team Leader at KNX Association
Since 2002 Casto Cañavate had a clear passion on the so-called HBES (Home & Building Electronic Systems) at that time. With this in mind, Casto graduated with a Masters Degree in Home & Building Control in 2006. During a year Casto was acquiring experience on the projects and on-site. However, since he wanted to contribute more to the future of Home and Building control, he joined the KNX Association in 2007 in order to support the activities of the association supporting in the beginning the marketing department with marketing activities around the world; as well as the training department by training KNX tutors in numerous countries.
Currently, Casto Cañavate is the Team Leader of the Marketing Department at KNX Association which covers a wide range of activities such as the support in the creation of the marketing strategy in coordination with the top management of the company, the implementation plan into the global MarCom activities and the responsibility to communicate and implement the KNX mission in the different nations where it is officially represented.
Joost Demarest, CTO at KNX Association
Since 1992, Joost has been responsible for Certification of Home and Building Control Equipment on the basis of the EIB protocol, since 2001 on the basis of the KNX technology.
Joost is Secretary of the KNX Technical Board, KNX Certification Group and KNX Executive Board; as well as a member of the KNX Working Group Interworking.
Since June 2006, he has been CTO/CFO of KNX Association.
Joost is a member of the following international standardization committees:
- CENELEC TC205 ‘Home and Building Electronic Systems’: as representative from the CENELEC Cooperating partner KNX, as Belgian delegate
- CEN TC247 ‘Building Automation Control Systems’ – Belgian delegate
- ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 ‘Home Electronic Systems’ – Belgian delegate
- ISO TC205 ‘Building Automation’ – Belgian delegate
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Smart Charging Webinar: Electric Vehicles as Distributed Energy Resources
Smart Charging Webinar: Electric Vehicles as Distributed Energy ResourcesAbout the Event
Programme
Introduction: Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Presentations: Thomas Meier Sørensen, PowerLabDK
Followed by Q&A
Topics for Discussion
This webinar will explore what is needed for an EV to act as a Distributed Energy Resource seen from a grid perspective, with a focus on the standards needed.
Thomas will share findings from over a decade experience working on EV and grid projects, namely:
- BOSS – 1MWh grid connected battery.
- InsulaE – H2020 project on local DC grids and mobile battery EV chargers
- ACES/ACDC/CAR – Controlled EV charging on Bornholm and Japan
- COTEVOS – H2020 project on interoperability of EV’s in Europe.
- InsulaE – H2020 project on decarbonizing islands – and a local DC grid with a 350kW charger.
- Parker – EUDP project on controlled EV charging – including V2G, VGI and ancillary services
- Nicola – EUDP project on EV – onboard V2G charger, EV infrastructure.
Speaker Bio
Thomas Meier Sørensen, Project Officer, PowerLabDK
Thomas Meier Sørensen built the NEVIC EV test center at DTU Risø to test the interoperability of EV’s and charging infrastructure.
He is involved in several European projects and government funded projects focusing on large scale storage, local DC grids and interoperable and controlled EV charging infrastructure including vehicle to grid technologies. Thomas has been involved in international EV standardization efforts including Danish Standard, IEC, IEA and OCA with focus on VGI (Vehicle Grid Integration).
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Smart Charging Webinar: Li-ion Battery diagnosis and prognosis
Smart Charging Webinar: Li-ion Battery diagnosis and prognosisAbout the Event
Programme
Introduction: Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Presentations: Matthieu Dubarry, Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute
Followed by Q&A
Topics for Discussion
- Background on batteries and degradation
- Battery non-invasive characterization
- Electrochemical voltage spectroscopies
- Mechanistic modelling of intercalation batteries
- Training data for artificial intelligence
Speaker Bio
Matthieu Dubarry, Researcher, Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute
Matthieu Dubarry (PhD, Electrochemistry & Solid State Science, University of Nantes), has close to 20 years of experience in renewable energy, with an emphasis in the area of lithium ion batteries.
Following his PhD on the synthesis and characterization of materials for lithium batteries, Dr. Dubarry joined the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa as a post-doctoral fellow in 2005 to work on the analysis of the usage of a fleet of electric vehicles. He was later appointed a faculty position in 2010 with a focus on battery testing, modeling and simulation.
While working for HNEI, Dr. Dubarry pioneered the use of new techniques for the non-destructive analysis of the degradation of Li-ion cells and developed numerous software tools facilitating the prognosis of Li-ion battery degradation both at the single cell and the battery pack level. Current projects include the evaluation of grid scale Li-ion battery energy storage systems; the evaluation of the impact of vehicle-to-grid strategies on electric vehicle battery pack degradation; and the testing of emerging battery technologies for grid-connected and transportation applications.
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Smart Charging Webinar: EV charging in 2-150 kHz (Supraharmonics)
Smart Charging Webinar: EV charging in 2-150 kHz (Supraharmonics)About the Event
Programme
Introduction: Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Presentation: Jan Meyer, Technische Universität Dresden
Followed by Q&A
Topics for Discussion
- Background and definitions
- Typical sources and interferences
- Status of standardization
- Measurement aspects
Case Studies:
- Interaction of multiple on-board chargers in a central charging infrastructure
- Resonance amplifications due to a fast charging station.
Speaker Bio
Jan Meyer, Senior Lecturer and Leader of the Power Quality Research Team, Technische Universität Dresden
Jan Meyer received the Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical power engineering as well as the postdoctoral qualification in Power Quality from Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, in 1994, 2004 and 2018 respectively. He is currently with Technische Universität Dresden as Senior Lecturer and Leader of the Power Quality Research Team.
His research interests include network disturbances and their assessment, especially for distortion below and above 2 kHz, accuracy of Power Quality measurements as well as the analysis of big data amounts from Power Quality measurement campaigns. He is an active member of several national and international working groups on EMC standardization, several CIGRE working groups and the CIRED technical committee. He is a senior member of IEEE and vice chair of the German EMC committee UK767.1. Furthermore, he gives regular speeches on recent topics in the field of Power Quality and is organizer of seminars in the field of network disturbances and its assessment.
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Smart Charging Webinar: Chronicles of a Prosumer – Living by the Sun
Smart Charging Webinar: Chronicles of a Prosumer – Living by the SunAbstract:
Solar energy and electro-mobility are often advocated as one of the best possible combinations towards a sustainable, carbon-free and decentralized energy future. But is it always the case? How far can users cope with the whims of the weather?
This talk discusses hands-on experience of Mattia with electric vehicles, and demand response in general, in his quest to live by solar energy. The set-up in the house, where Mattia and his family test and experience first-hand energy technologies, is analyzed together with lessons learned from projects dealing with management of distributed energy resources, including smart charging of electric vehicles and battery degradation.
Economic implications on energy metering, self-consumption of locally produced energy and comparison between vehicle-to-grid strategies and stationary storage are included along with various technical perspectives.
Speaker Bio:
Mattia Marinelli, Associate Professor in Distributed Energy Resources Driven Electric Power Systems, Technical University of Denmark
Mattia Marinelli holds a master degree in electrical engineering (2007) and a PhD degree in power systems (2011) from the University of Genoa, Italy. Since 2012, he has been working at the Technical University of Denmark, where he is associate professor in distributed energy resources driven electric power systems. His research interests include power system integration studies, wind and solar data analysis, demand-side and electric vehicles management, and distributed energy resources modelling. He teaches two courses at master level on wind integration and distributed energy technologies.
Mattia is currently involved in four research projects: H2020 Insulae, where he is responsible for the demonstration activities on the island of Bornholm on technologies for energy decarbonization; Danish funded Topcharge, where a new innovative storage system for EV fast-charging buffering is being developed; EU Interreg CAR, where solutions for e-mobility are tested across the Baltic region; Danish funded ACDC, where he is leading the development of a new autonomous smart charging technology. A team of eight bright postdoc and PhD students support his research activities and educational efforts.
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Cyber Security Webinar Series
This series of webinars provides an introduction to vehicle to grid (V2G) and cybersecurity projects and topics, with invited guest speakers from institutions in the UK and overseas. View the webinar playlist here.
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Cyber Security: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for electric vehicles. Mike Nelson, DigiCert & Oscar Marcia, Eonti
Cyber Security: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for electric vehicles. Mike Nelson, DigiCert & Oscar Marcia, EontiCESI presents a series of talks on cybersecurity in collaboration with IEA HEV TCP Task 43 and Supergen Energy Networks Hub.
About this event
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speakers
Mike Nelson, VP of IoT Security at Digicert
Oscar Marcia, President and CEO, Eonti Inc.
Description
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a proven security solution for connected systems of all types. Over the last 20 years, DigiCert and Eonti have worked with many industries to create and implement security standards that include PKI for their complex ecosystems. In this webinar, Oscar and Mike share insights on the following:
- Highlight the complexities and cyber risks in the EV Charging station ecosystem
- What is PKI and why is it a security solution that works
- Review of emerging standards targeted at securing EV charging stations
- Discuss why this ecosystem not only needs guidance but also a strong governance model
Speaker Bios
Mike Nelson - VP of IoT Security, DigiCert
Mike Nelson is the VP of IoT Security at DigiCert, a leader in digital security. In this role, Mike oversees the company’s strategic IoT market development for critical infrastructure industries. Mike frequently consults with organizations, contributes to media reports, and speaks at industry conferences about how technology can be used to improve cybersecurity for connected systems. Before DigiCert, Mike spent his career in healthcare IT including time at the US Department of Health and Human Services, GE Healthcare, and Leavitt Partners. Mike’s passion for the industry stems from his personal experience as a type 1 diabetic and his use of connected technology in his treatment.
Oscar Marcia - President and CEO, Eonti Inc
Oscar Marcia is president and CEO of Eonti Inc., which provides industry-leading trust management services in critical infrastructure sectors, such as broadband communications, smart energy, global aviation, mobile devices, etc. Previously, Oscar was the VP of Security at CableLabs where he designed, implemented and managed the cable industry’s digital certificate issuance service, which issues certificates for all cable service devices such as cable modems, set top boxes and cable ready televisions manufacturers worldwide (500 million certificates issued). Oscar has over thirty years of experience in developing security architectures, identity management solutions and performing risk assessments of large scale distributed system and is a specialist in the area of Public Key Infrastructures (PKI). Oscar also worked as a Senior Manager, Security in Deloitte and Touche’s New York office running their PKI service.
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Cyber Security: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for smart charging. Baerte de Brey, Elaad and Stedin
Cyber Security: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for smart charging. Baerte de Brey, Elaad and StedinThe second in the series of talks on cyber security, presented by CESI and Supergen Energy Networks Hub in collaboration with IEA HEV TCP Task 43.
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Agenda
Introduction: Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker: Baerte de Brey, Elaad
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15:50-16:00 - Q&A
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Cyber Security: UK Cyber policy for energy smart appliances. Dr Nina Klein and James Morgan, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Cyber Security: UK Cyber policy for energy smart appliances. Dr Nina Klein and James Morgan, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)This is the third in the series of talks on cybersecurity, presented by CESI in collaboration with IEA HEV TCP Task 43 and the Supergen Energy Networks Hub.
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Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
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Keynote speakers
Dr Nina Klein; Energy Engineer, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
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James Morgan; Head of Smart Energy Cyber Security, BEIS
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Cyber Security: The cyber security of smart metering, and how it can be applied to EV charging. Daryl Flack, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Cyber Security: The cyber security of smart metering, and how it can be applied to EV charging. Daryl Flack, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)Join us for the fourth in the series of talks on cybersecurity, presented by CESI and Supergen Energy Networks Hub in collaboration with IEA HEV TCP Task 43.
About this Event
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
16:05-16:50 - Keynote speakers
Daryl Flack, Smart Metering Implementation Programme, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
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Cyber Security: Trust and Interoperability in Automotive. Andrew Tierney, Pen Test Partners.
Cyber Security: Trust and Interoperability in Automotive. Andrew Tierney, Pen Test Partners.This is the fifth in the series of talks on cyber security, presented by CESI and Supergen Energy Networks Hub in collaboration with IEA HEV TCP Task 43.
About this event
Agenda
Introduction
Dr. Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker
Andrew Tierney, Pen Test Partners
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Cyber security in the vehicular industry and staying ahead of cyber-threats. Dr Xavier Bellekens, University of Strathclyde
Cyber security in the vehicular industry and staying ahead of cyber-threats. Dr Xavier Bellekens, University of StrathclydeAbout this event
Introduction:
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker:
Dr Xavier Bellekens, Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow, University of Strathclyde
Speaker bio
Dr Xavier Bellekens, BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA, MBCS, MIEEE, is a Lecturer and Chancellors Fellow in the Institute for Signals, Sensors and Communications with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde.
His research is centred upon threat detection, threat mitigation and protection of critical infrastructures, ranging across domains from energy, to naval and vehicular.
Xavier is also the Education Cyber-Security Thematic Leader and the Bloockc hain Group Chair for IEEE UK and Ireland.
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Cyber Security: When IoT is in everything: Security in a world out of control. Dr. Ahmad Atamli; The University of Oxford.
Cyber Security: When IoT is in everything: Security in a world out of control. Dr. Ahmad Atamli; The University of Oxford.The sixth in the series of talks on cyber security, presented by Supergen in collaboration with IEA HEV TCP Task 43 and CESI.
About this event
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker
Dr Ahmad Atamli, Lecturer at the University of Oxford
Topics for discussion
- Why are IoT devices different in the context of security?
- IoT: Attacks and threats
- The security and privacy implications.
- Protecting users’ data
- Security challenges when designing IoT devices
- Security by design: Resiliency, availability, recoverability, Secure Remote Management
Speaker Bio
Ahmad Atamli is a Lecturer of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and the University of Southampton.
His research is concerned with mechanisms to assure platform integrity and confidentiality using trusted hardware.
His early career was at Mellanox Technologies, where as a Lead Engineer he developed high-performance hardware to accelerate and secure data centres.
His work produced innovations in communication protocols that led to several commercial hardware products. At Mellanox, he became a key member of the PCI SIG working group, which defines the PCI Express communication protocol used in most computing platforms.
Dr. Atamli obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford. As part of his doctoral research, he published new approaches to mitigating software vulnerabilities using Intel SGX hardware enclaves. In 2017, he was appointed as a Postdoctoral research Fellow in the Maru project at the Alan Turing Institute.
In this post, he contributed to providing a confidential-computing software enablement layer to the open-source community, allowing easy deployment for new applications using Intel SGX.
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CESI Webinar Series
This webinar series includes invited talks and panel discussions on a range of energy systems integration topics. View the CESI webinar playlist here.
CESI Panel discussion: How the UK will meet its net zero ambitions by 2050 by taking an energy systems integration approach
CESI Panel discussion: How the UK will meet its net zero ambitions by 2050 by taking an energy systems integration approachIn this 1-hour webinar chaired by CESI Director, Dr Sara Walker, the panel discussed the UK’s path to net zero by 2050. How has the UK’s energy system been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? Join our panel of energy experts from industry, policy and academia to discuss how an integrated energy system can help the UK achieve its net zero targets.
About this event
Programme
15:00-15:10 Introduction
Dr Sara Walker, Director, EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration; Director, Centre for Energy; Reader in Energy, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
15:10-15:25 Opening panel presentations
Dr Iliana Portugues, UK Head of Innovation, National Grid
Dr Haris Patsios, CESI Work Package Lead; Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
Dr Charlotte Adams, Commercial Manager – Mine Energy, The Coal Authority
15:25-15:55 Chaired panel discussion
Chair: Dr Sara Walker
Topics for discussion
Following recommendations in the 2019 report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the UK passed laws to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. This target will require the UK to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
Earlier this year, the CCC issued a follow up report to Parliament. In this, they highlighted the progress made in reducing emissions and set out actions needed to ensure a resilient transition to net zero in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report considered what changes would be needed in different sectors of the energy system, including changes in cost and consumer behaviour.
The EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration takes a whole system approach to investigate the value proposition of an integrated energy system. It aims to identify who gains and pays from such an approach, taking into account the resulting costs, greenhouse gas emissions and the resilience of this system.
In this webinar, the panel will discuss how an integrated energy system can help the UK achieve its net zero emissions targets by 2050. What changes to policy and infrastructure are needed to support a clean energy transition for the UK?
Chair and Panel Bios
Dr Sara Walker
Dr Sara Walker is Director of the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration and leads the Centre’s Work Package on Impact, Engagement and Management. She is a Reader in Energy, and Director of The Centre for Energy, in the School of Engineering, Newcastle University and is Deputy Director of the Supergen Energy Networks Hub.
Her research is on energy efficiency and renewable energy at the building scale. She is particularly interested in low-energy and low-carbon buildings, building-scale renewables, small scale energy storage, and electric vehicle charging/discharging load profiles. In her research, she aims to better understand the role of buildings as virtual power plants to support the decarbonisation of heating, cooling, electricity and transport in the UK.
Sara is also interested in concepts of resilience as they are used in other disciplines, and whether these concepts are transferable to the energy sector. Existing concepts of resilience and supply security may not be appropriate to the energy sector in 2050.
Dr Iliana Portugues
Dr Iliana Portugues currently heads up the corporate innovation team in the UK for as part of National Grid Partners, the innovation and investment team within National Grid Group. The remit spans across gas and electricity transmission as well as the non-regulated business which include renewables, metering and interconnectors both in the UK and USA.
Before this she held several leadership positions in the innovation and research space at National Grid Electricity Transmission, the University of Strathclyde and the Electric Power Research Institute, developing intellectual property, securing it, licensing it and commercialising it. Before she decided to focus on corporate innovation in the energy sector, she started and bootstrapped several businesses, start-ups from her academic work and others, in various industries, exporting across the world.
She is passionate about the decarbonisation of energy and the development of a sustainable and prosperous society. She also loves sports and the impact of psychology in it, both as a hobby and as an essential part of mental well-being and both professional and personal growth.
Her background provides her with unique insights into the development of technologies and driving their implementation into the energy sector, early-stage business growth and the development of companies for investment.
She graduated from the University of Bath with a MEng in Electronic and Communications Engineering, where she also obtained sponsorship from National Grid and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) for her PhD on developing a radiometric system to locate partial discharges, which she then commercialised. She is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Dr Haris Patsios
Dr Haris Patsios is a Senior Lecturer in Power Systems in the School of Engineering of Newcastle University. He has a significant experience in the design, modelling and control of power systems including renewables. His research focuses on the development of integrated models and control techniques for energy storage as well as decentralized control in future power networks, working closely with UK industry and academia.
Haris leads CESI’s Work Package on Validation and Demonstration, which makes use of our full-scale, multi-vector demonstrators to help us to understand the whole energy system in real world situations. He is a Co-Director and WP Leader for the Supergen Energy Storage Network. He is also a co-investigator of the £5m EPSRC project ‘Multi-scale ANalysis for Facilities for Energy Storage’ (EP/N032888/1) linking energy storage facilities across the UK.
Dr Charlotte Adams
Abandoned mines have huge potential to decarbonise heat demand. Dr Charlotte Adam’s current role as Commercial Manager for Mine Energy at The Coal Authority involves developing this potential for homes, businesses and Local Authorities across the UK. There are 23,000 abandoned coal mines in the UK which lie beneath around 25% of our built environment.
Charlotte is a hydrogeologist by training, gaining a PhD from Newcastle University. She has interests in water resource assessment, mine water treatment and geothermal energy. She has extensive academic and industrial experience, having worked at Newcastle and Durham Universities and also in the renewable energy industry.
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CESI Webinar: Digitalisation for Net Zero: How data platforms can support decision-making in an integrated energy system
CESI Webinar: Digitalisation for Net Zero: How data platforms can support decision-making in an integrated energy system- Date: Wednesday 18 November 2020
- Time: 14:00-15:00 (join from 13:45)
- Hosted via Zoom (dial-in details provided following registration)
About this event
In this webinar, we will hear talks giving examples of how data platforms can support decision making. Dr Muditha Abeysekera and Dr Sathsara Abeysinghe will discuss their CESI Flexible Fund projects to develop decision support tools for public-sector multi-energy systems. Andrew Smyth will give a talk on the Your Online Data Architecture platform, developed by Siemens for the Innovate UK Modernising Energy Data Access (MEDA) project. The webinar is chaired by CESI Work Package 6 Lead and Co-Investigator, Dr Haris Patsios.
Programme
14:00-14:05 Welcome and introduction
Dr Haris Patsios, Co-Investigator and Work Package 6 Lead, EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration; Senior Lecturer in Power Systems, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
14:05-14:45 Keynote talks
Decision support tool for the operation of public sector multi-energy systems
Dr Muditha Abeysekera, Lecturer in Energy Systems, School of Engineering, Cardiff University
A decision tool for real-time operation of public sector multi-energy systems
Dr Sathsara Abeysinghe, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Engineering Cardiff University
Siemens Your Online Data Architecture Platform
Andrew Smyth, Head of Customer Success - Software, Siemens
14:45-15:00 Question and answer session
Chair: Dr Haris Patsios
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CESI Webinar: Approaches to modelling a decentralised, integrated energy system
CESI Webinar: Approaches to modelling a decentralised, integrated energy system- Date: Wednesday 9 December 2020
- Time: 14:00-15:00 (join from 13:45)
- Hosted via Zoom (dial-in details provided following registration)
About this event
In this webinar, we will hear about different approaches to modelling an integrated energy system. Dr Merlinda Andoni and Dr Valentin Robu will discuss their CESI Flexible Fund project on Multi-Agent System Modelling Trials. Natalia Zografou-Barredo will give a talk on her investigation of multi-vector demonstrators as enablers for energy network modernisation. The webinar is chaired by CESI Co-Investigator, Dr David Jenkins.
Programme
14:00-14:05 Welcome and introduction
Dr David Jenkins, Co-Investigator, EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration; Associate Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University
14:05-14:45 Keynote talks
Implications of prosumer decision-making on local energy communities: agent-based approaches
Dr Merlinda Andoni, CESI Researcher and Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Smart Systems Group, Heriot-Watt University and
Dr Valentin Robu, CESI Co-Investigator and Associate Professor, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
MicroGrid Resilience-Oriented Scheduling: A Robust MISOCP Model
Natalia Zografou-Barredo, PhD Student, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
14:45-15:00 Question and answer session
Chair: Dr David Jenkins
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CESI Research Dissemination: Evaluating hydrogen and electric energy systems as decarbonisation options for transport
CESI Research Dissemination: Evaluating hydrogen and electric energy systems as decarbonisation options for transportAbout this event
The EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) in partnership with the EPSRC Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF) has been exploring the challenges on the national energy system level for providing a Net Zero Transport system in the UK.
This research, led by Dr Molly Haugen from the University of Cambridge, has involved analysis of the key issues in the near to long term future for energy pathways that can achieve stepwise reductions in GHG emissions. The multi-objective optimisation requirements across these complex networks were investigated and delivered on environmental, energy and economic priorities. This work has been carried out in association with the UK Department of Transport (DfT).
This seed research has provided
- Initial mapping of the future energy systems interactions with the future transport system
- A detailed literature review of research, evidence and policy in this area
- Identified and assessed the severity of the evidence gaps in the future energy system for transport
- An initial review of the use of existing demonstration facilities such as ReFLEX (Orkney) and InTEGReL (Gateshead) in bridging the investment risk barriers
This workshop in association with UKERC will disseminate some of these early findings and open the discussions on what more is needed to provide evidence to this important policy area for government and industry.
Panel and keynote speakers
- Keynote 1: Dr Molly Haugen, Lead Researcher, Boies Research Group, Dept Engineering, University of Cambridge
- Keynote 2: Professor Phil Blythe, Department of Transport, Chief Scientific Adviser
- Panel member: Dr Adam Boies, Co-Investigator, Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, Trinity College Cambridge
- Panel member: Professor David Flynn, CESI Associate Director, Smart Systems Group, Heriot-Watt University
- Panel member: Dr Sara Walker, CESI Director, Newcastle University
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CESI-DEI Webinar: CESI Case study on Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub
CESI-DEI Webinar: CESI Case study on Integrated Zero-Carbon HubIn this joint CESI-DEI webinar, Dr Yiji Lu will discuss the CESI case study: Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub, introducing the project’s ambitious scope and current insights on the project. The project explores the opportunity for hydrogen to deliver distributed heat, cooling and electricity for residential, industrial and commercial applications and provide hydrogen and electric charging services for transport utilising energy systems integration. The session will feature a panel discussion between the case study's co-investigators Dr Yiji Lu and Professor Simone Abram and will be chaired by Professor Tony Roskilly as case study principal investigator.
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About this event
Programme
13:00-13:10 Introduction
Professor Tony Roskilly, PI, CESI Case Study on Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub and CESI Associate Director; Director in the Durham Energy Institute and Chair of Energy Systems, Dept of Engineering, Durham University
13:10-13:35 Presentation
Dr Yiji Lu, Co-investigator, CESI Case Study on Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub and Fellow in the Durham Energy Institute and Associate Professor (Research), Dept of Engineering, Durham University
13:35-13:55 Panel Q&A Session:
Dr Yiji Lu
Professor Tony Roskilly
Professor Simone Abram, CESI Co-Investigator, Director in the Durham Energy Institute and Professor, Dept of Anthropology, Durham University
Topics for discussion
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) recent net-zero pathways envisioned a "hydrogen-enabled" future energy system. However, the potential of many key infrastructure components has not been investigated within an integrated real-world system. It should be recognised that hydrogen deployment provides more than an opportunity to decarbonise heat. Hydrogen provides great potential for the decarbonisation of transportation, the wider electrical energy system, energy storage and other energy services.
The EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration Case Study on Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub explores the opportunity for hydrogen, as the primary energy vector, to deliver distributed heat, cooling and electricity for residential, industrial and commercial applications and provide hydrogen and electric charging services for transport in an integrated, symbiotic system. The technology developed in the case study will contribute to existing CESI research, including gas infrastructure modelling, the blending of hydrogen and the InTEGReL Customer Energy Village (CEV) development.
InTEGReL is one of CESI’s full-scale multi-vector energy demonstrators. Led by Northern Gas Networks, in partnership with Northern Powergrid and Newcastle University, the facility is a new integrated energy facility based in Gateshead. CESI Director, Dr Sara Walker is academic lead for the facility.
In this webinar, we will present a summary of progress achieved to date in our investigation and evaluation of the distribution and storage of hydrogen, integration of Combined Cooling, Heating and Power (CCHP) and thermal storage and district heating, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (HFCV) and battery electric vehicle (BEV) charging infrastructure.
We will discuss the value and implications for different energy users the wider energy system and the policy changes which would be required to facilitate the use of hydrogen in this way.
Speaker and Panellist Bios
Dr Yiji Lu
Yiji is a Fellow in the Durham Energy Institute and an Assistant Professor (Research) in Durham University’s Department of Engineering. His research focuses on the technological development of low carbon energy systems, including research into Renewable and Clean Energy Conversion, Energy Storage and Cleaner/Alternative Fuels to tackle the Climate Change challenges.
Yiji contributes to CESI work packages 2 and 3 and is a co-investigator of the CESI-funded Case Study on Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub. He is the Principal Investigator/awardee from Royal Academy of Engineering under the Transforming Systems through Partnerships Scheme, which aims to study clean energy technologies in transport sector.
Yiji has an MPhil in Sustainability (2012) and PhD in Energy Systems (2016) from Newcastle University, being awarded a prestigious Outstanding Research Award towards his PhD project. Yiji is an Associate Editor of the Elsevier Journal 'Energy Reports' and is an editorial member of various energy-themed journals. He has recently guest-edited several journals, including 'Energy Storage', 'Hydrogen Economy' and 'Fuels of the Future'. He has published over 60 articles in high-quality international journals and peer-reviewed conferences, and one book chapter, with currently (July 2020) over 500 citations and an H-index of 14 (Google Scholar).
Professor Tony Roskily
Tony is a Director of Durham Energy Institute and Chair of Energy Systems in the Department of Engineering, Durham University. He has over 30 years’ experience in the design, control, and operational optimisation of energy systems. He manages a large and highly successful team of researchers who specialise in energy systems integration, decarbonising buildings, transport and industry, hydrogen and biofuels, and energy storage. Tony is an Associate Director of CESI, leading the Centre's Work Package 3 - Infrastructure and Storage.
Tony was formerly Director of the Sir Joseph Swan Centre for Energy Research and Director of Research at the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability. He also previously held a number of senior positions at Newcastle University including Dean of Research for the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering.
Professor Simone Abram
Simone is a Director of Durham Energy Institute, leading on Social Sciences and Health and a member of the Department of Anthropology at Durham University. She is a co-investigator of CESI’s core programme of research and is co-investigator of the CESI Case Study on an Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub.
She qualified in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Manchester University in 1988 and was awarded a DPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University in 1994. Since then, her research has brought together science studies and governance, through studies of tourism, urban development and land-use planning. Simone’s energy interests lie in relating different disciplinary perspectives on energy and society, including the governance of energy developments, recent transformations of energy markets, ethical questions in energy modelling, and the changing social and political significance of energies, particularly electricity.
Simone is a member of the European PERSON network for social sciences in energy research and co-convenes the European Energy Anthropology Network.
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Optimisation Group Webinars
This series of webinars provides presentations on energy systems optimisation, with invited guest speakers from institutions in the UK and overseas.
View the webinar playlist on YouTube here.
This group is led by Dr Natalia-Maria Zografou-Barredo and Dr Ilias Sarantakos. If you wish to sign up for future webinars, please fill in this form. If you have any questions, please contact the organisers using the emails below:
- Dr Natalia-Maria Zografou-Barredo, EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow, Newcastle University: natalia.zografou-barredo@newcastle.ac.uk
- Dr Ilias Sarantakos, Research Associate, Newcastle University: ilias.sarantakos@newcastle.ac.uk
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Dr Alessandra Parisio, Reader, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, UK
Dr Alessandra Parisio, Reader, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, UKSpeaker
Dr Alessandra Parisio, Reader, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, UK
Title
Optimisation-based control of flexible energy systems for more sustainable and efficient energy networks
Abstract: The growing deployment of distributed energy resources can result in significant environmental and economic benefits but, at the same time, in reduced total system inertia and controllability, hence in new challenges to the power grid operation. Within this context, flexibility (i.e., the ability to adjust to the time-varying grid conditions) plays a crucial role for the transition towards power systems that can efficiently accommodate high shares of renewable energy sources. Managing the flexibility in urban districts and in distribution networks requires control and optimisation tools not yet available. Furthermore, there are several multi-energy systems within a district (i.e., systems with interconnected electricity/heating/gas networks), which currently lack coordination, and which can be regarded as excellent flexibility providers. There is still a very limited understanding of the true impacts of the flexibility on the power system as well as of how to devise effective frameworks for coordinating an arbitrarily large number of flexibility sources. Filling this knowledge gap is essential for the transition to a more sustainable energy grid. In this talk, promising optimisation-based approaches to manage multi-energy systems and storage devices will be discussed.
Bio: Dr Alessandra Parisio (SM'18) is a Reader in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Manchester, UK, where she is/has been principal or co-investigator on research projects supported by EPSRC, Innovate UK, EC H2020 and industrial partners in the areas of building energy management and distributed control for flexibility service and grid support provision, totalling over £4 million as University of Manchester share. Dr Parisio is Co-chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Smart Buildings and has been in the program committees of several international conferences. She serves as editor of the Elsevier journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks (SEGAN), of the IEEE Transactions on Automation and Science Engineering and on Control of Network Systems. Dr Parisio received the IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award in January 2021 and the Energy and Buildings Best Paper Award for (for a ten-year period between 2008-2017) in January 2019. Her main research interests include the areas of energy management systems under uncertainty, model predictive control, stochastic constrained control and distributed optimisation for power systems.
Dr Thomas Morstyn, Lecturer in Power Electronics and Smart Grids, University of Edinburgh
Dr Thomas Morstyn, Lecturer in Power Electronics and Smart Grids, University of EdinburghSpeaker
Dr Thomas Morstyn, Lecturer in Power Electronics and Smart Grids, University of Edinburgh
Title
Opportunities for Quantum Computing within Power System Optimisation
Recording
Please see the recording here.
Abstract
Power systems are undergoing a fundamental transition due to the large-scale integration of renewable generation, coupled with the electrification of transportation and heating. The optimal deployment and coordination of these technologies is critical for achieving a low-cost transition to a reliable decarbonised power system. However, the computational complexity of these problems is pushing against the limits of even state-of-the-art high-performance computing facilities. Over the last 20 years, there has been significant progress in the development of quantum devices which offer a fundamentally new computing architecture compared with classical silicon-based computers. Motivated by recent advances, the talk will present initial work using quantum annealing for combinatorial power system optimisation and wider emerging opportunities.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Thomas Morstyn is Lecturer in Power Electronics and Smart Grids with the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He is leading work on several EPSRC projects including “Data-driven exploration of the carbon emissions impact of grid energy storage deployment and dispatch” and “EPSRC-SFI: Blockchain transactions in the electricity industry: beyond tokenised energy". He is also Deputy Champion of Energy Distribution and Infrastructure for the Scottish Energy Technology Partnership (ETP) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. His research interests include multi-agent control and market design for integrating distributed energy resources into power system operations.
Dr Panayiotis Moutis - Special Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University
Dr Panayiotis Moutis - Special Faculty at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySpeaker
Dr Panayiotis Moutis, Special Faculty with the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA
Title
Decision Trees for the global optimum of the AC OPF and inferring guaranteed costs with renewable energy
Recording
You can view the recording here.
Abstract
The AC Optimal Power Flow (OPF) is a problem that seeks to optimize the cost of using certain resources or the levels of some performance metrics. Due to the non-linear grid physics, it is a non-convex problem that cannot be solved efficiently in most of its meaningful instances. Relaxations cannot guarantee an AC OPF globally optimum solution for all grids or cases, while they also require lifting the problem to higher dimensions, requiring increased processing times. Among the non-linear, artificial intelligence and machine learning solvers, invariable challenges arise ranging from failure to converge to the global optimum to difficulties in modeling the problem for each solver. This talk proposes an AC OPF feasible space search. The space is sampled with random dispatches using power flows. The AC OPF infeasible samples are marked as False. The feasible AC OPF samples with cost greater than the median of all feasible samples are also marked False; the remaining are marked True. A heuristically inducted binary decision tree is trained with these samples and will tighten the constraints of the AC OPF variables towards the space of the feasible samples of cost less than the mentioned median. The recursive sampling and constraint tightening leads to convergence to the global optimum of the AC OPF instance based on Bayesian guarantees. Several benchmark instances from the PGLib and NESTA galleries are solved favorably with the proposed method compared to IPOPT and other relaxations and solvers. The time requirements arising from sampling the AC OPF space are discussed in terms of “hot starting” the method with statistically advantageous linear approximations. Lastly, because renewables are, most typically, zero cost assets and the method converges to the global optimum by the successive improvement of the median cost of AC OPF feasible samples, it is shown that the method can yield optimal dispatches for any level of renewable energy available.
Speaker Bio
Panayiotis (Panos) Moutis, PhD, has been Special Faculty with the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) since August 2018 (postdoc at Electrical & Computer Engineering – ECE, CMU, 2016-18). Panos researches data-driven optimization, control and planning of electrical grids with high shares of renewables. He has recently been working with the grid operator of Portugal, REN, the moonshot factory of Google, X, and the grid operator of NY, NYISO. Between 2018-20 he served as a Marie Curie Research Fellow with DEPsys, Switzerland, on distribution grid awareness. In 2014 he was awarded a fellowship by Arup, UK (through the University of Greenwich), to study microgrids for residential communities. During 2007-15, as part of Prof. Nikos Hatziargyriou’s research group he contributed to over a dozen R&D projects funded by the European Commission. Panos received both his diploma (2007) and his PhD (2015) degrees in ECE at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and has published more than 30 papers and contributed to 4 book chapters. He has over 10 years of industry experience on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, and serves as advisor and executive in energy start-ups. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee, co-lead of the Distribution Task Team at NASPI and of the Power & Energy Community of the Climate Change AI initiative, senior editor of IEEE & IET scientific journals, member of IEEE standards working groups, and chair of the IEEE Smart Grid Publications Committee. Personal Website for more information: https://panay1ot1s.com/
Optimising interdependent critical infrastructure resilience under the threat of pandemics and climate change
Optimising interdependent critical infrastructure resilience under the threat of pandemics and climate changeSpeaker
Dr Spyros Skarvelis-Kazakos, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex
Title
Optimising interdependent critical infrastructure resilience under the threat of pandemics and climate change
Recording
Abstract
Climate change, pandemics and other extreme events threaten the stability of our critical infrastructure. This lecture will explore how we think about infrastructure resilience, how different infrastructure systems depend on each other, as well as what can be done to mitigate or adapt to systemic threats and extreme events.
Speaker Bio
Dr Spyros Skarvelis-Kazakos joined Sussex in July 2015 and is now a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering. His research is mainly focused on infrastructure resilience, multi-vector energy systems and smart grids. He has led and participated in several multi-partner multidisciplinary projects on these topics, funded by the UK and EU public and private sector. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and an active member in several IEEE, CIGRE and Supergen Working Groups.
Strategic decision-making on low-carbon technology and network capacity investments using game theory
Strategic decision-making on low-carbon technology and network capacity investments using game theorySpeaker
Dr Merlinda Andoni, Research Associate at the University of Glasgow
Title
Strategic decision-making on low-carbon technology and network capacity investments using game theory
Recording
Abstract
Rapid adoption of renewable technologies has in many areas led to undesired curtailment. This means that not only renewable production is wasted, but often curtailment comes with high costs for renewable energy developers and energy end-users. A long-term solution to dealing with curtailment is increasing the network capacity. However, grid upgrades can be costly leading to a need for attracting private investment in network reinforcement. In this work, we design and evaluate a game-theoretic framework to study strategic interactions between private profit-maximising players that invest in network, renewable generation and storage capacity. Specifically, we study the case where grid capacity is developed by a private renewable investor, but line access is shared with competing renewable and storage investors, thus enabling them to export energy and access electricity demand. A practical demonstration of the underlying methodology is shown for a real-world grid reinforcement project in the UK. The methodology provides a realistic mechanism to analyse investor decision-making and investigate feasible tariffs that encourage distributed renewable investment, with sharing of grid access.
Speaker Bio
Merlinda Andoni is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow working for the UK’s National Centre for Energy Systems Integration CESI (£25M, EPSRC), a project that aims to unravel the energy network and understand future supply and demand and the DecarbonISation PAThways for Cooling and Heating - DISPATCH project.
Merlinda’s expertise and research achievements focus on the challenges associated with how we achieve a resilient, low-carbon and sustainable energy system. Her role in CESI relates to investigating the potential of blockchain technologies and multiagent systems modelling for local and decentralised energy networks and microgrids. In DISPATCH, Merlinda is working on local energy markets providing solutions for local energy trading and exchanges.
Merlinda holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Heriot-Watt University, an M.Sc. degree in Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation from Heriot-Watt University and a 5-year Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with a specialisation in Energy) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Merlinda has over 26 publications in top ranked Journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings, several white papers, research reports and thesis and 1313 citations (08/02/2022). Internationally, her research has informed the US congressional research office on blockchain technology for the energy sector.
Iterative LP-based Methods for the Multiperiod Optimal Electricity and Gas Flow Problem
Iterative LP-based Methods for the Multiperiod Optimal Electricity and Gas Flow ProblemSpeaker
Dr Sleiman Mhanna – The University of Melbourne, Australia
Recording:
You can listen to the recording on our Youtube Channel here.
Abstract
Despite major advancements in nonlinear programming (NLP) and convex relaxations, most electricity and gas system operators around the world still predominantly use some form of linear programming (LP) approximations to generate their operating and pricing schedules. This is largely due to LP technology's superior reliability and computational efficiency, especially in real-time market applications, security-constrained applications, and extensions involving integer variables. Against this background, this talk will introduce a novel algorithmic framework for the operation and design of electricity and gas systems, based on sequential linear programming (SLP), that simultaneously retains the exactness of NLP and the reliability and computational efficiency of LP.
Speaker Bio
Dr Sleiman Mhanna received his PhD in electrical engineering from The University of Sydney in 2016. For the subsequent three years he was a research fellow at the same institution working mainly on the CONSORT project funded by ARENA. During that time, his research consisted mainly of fast distributed optimisation methods targeting a wide spectrum of applications in power systems engineering. Part of his research also revolved around designing nonlinear pricing structures for load-side distribution network support. In 2019, he was offered a Senior Researcher position at The University of Melbourne to work on Future Fuels CRC’s Integrated Energy Systems project, which mainly consists of developing an integrated electricity-gas-hydrogen system (IEGHS) model to be used in analysing different case studies on the potential of different future fuel options and technologies to decarbonise the existing energy system. The need for solving the resulting complex integrated model accurately and efficiently lead him to develop novel sequential linearisation techniques and advanced heuristics for tackling discrete decision variables.
Grid Energy Management (GEM) Storage tools used for optimal valuation of energy storage
Grid Energy Management (GEM) Storage tools used for optimal valuation of energy storageSpeaker
Dr Angeliki (Kelly) Loukatou, Senior Research Engineer at EDF R&D UK Centre
Recording:
You can watch and listen to the webinar on our youtube channel here.
Abstract
As we move towards a Net-Zero future, the optimum balance between low carbon energy sources and flexible technologies (e.g. energy storage) in the UK energy system becomes of crucial importance for a cost-effective transition. GEM (Grid Energy Management) tools are a set of tools used to quantify optimal operation of energy storage units, when they are standalone or co-located with low carbon energy sources, such as solar or wind farms. The optimal operation is computed assuming multiple participation in electricity markets, such as wholesale, balancing and ancillary markets, as well as revenue stacking. The presentation will go into more detail on the markets and the economics assumed, as well as the mathematical mixed-integer linear programming model and its associated decision variables, objective function and constraints. Some case studies for various business units will also be discussed.
Speaker Bio
Angeliki LOUKATOU (Angeliki.Loukatou@edfenergy.com) joined EDF R&D UK Centre as a research engineer in June 2020. She specialises in optimal valuation of energy storage co-located with renewables and long-term electricity price forecasting. She also helps the Wholesale Market Optimisation team regarding workflow automation of their forecasting tools. Her previous role as a Modelling Analyst at Energy Systems Catapult involved projects in energy storage, power system economics and second-life batteries. She also holds a PhD in battery storage, which was completed in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Power Networks of The University of Manchester (UoM). Angeliki was promoted to senior research engineer during November 2021. She has a strong interest and appreciation of inclusion and diversity matters, aiming at promoting and sustaining women in energy across the power sector. Currently, she is the vice-chair of the IEEE PES UK&I Women in Power, the project manager of CIGRE Women Network, the digital lead of EDF Women’s Network and she also serves as a data science instructor at SisterAnalyst, since she is also interested in good coding and data practices.
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Developing Fast and Scalable Algorithms for the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition
Developing Fast and Scalable Algorithms for the ARPA-E Grid Optimization CompetitionSpeaker
Dr Constance Crozier, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Colorado, Boulder
Recording
A recording of this talk is available on YouTube here.
Registration
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Abstract
The ARPA-E Grid Optimization (GO) competition is a multi-billion U.S. government initiative to incentivize the development of smarter power system optimization. The first two challenges have focused on security constrained optimal power flow, with competitors having to build algorithms that will optimize unseen networks.
This talk will focus on the competition from the perspective of one of the top performing teams, Electric Stampede. First, an introduction to the GO competition problem formulation will be provided. Second, the aspects of the formulation that were most challenging from a computational perspective will be discussed. Third, an overview of the algorithm submitted by the Electric Stampede team will be provided. A reflection on the success and failures of both our approach and the competition format will conclude the talk.
Speaker Bio
Constance Crozier received M.Eng and D.Phil degrees in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford in 2016 and 2019 respectively. Her PhD investigated the impact that widespread vehicle electrification would have on power system operation. She then spent a year working at BEIS, advising on EV policy and developing software which models renewable electricity systems.
In September 2020 she joined the University of Colorado Boulder as a postdoctoral associate, and lead developer of the Electric Stampede team. The team was the highest scoring university-led team in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Challenge, receiving $140,000 prize money.
The Emergence of Hierarchical Multi-Tier Energy Market Structures and the Energy Transition
The Emergence of Hierarchical Multi-Tier Energy Market Structures and the Energy TransitionSpeaker
Dr. Alex Papalexopoulos Ph.D.
CEO and Founder of ECCO International, Inc., San Francisco, USA
CEO and Chairman of the Board, ZOME Energy Networks, Boston, USA
Recording
A recording of this talk is available on YouTube here.
Abstract
Over the last 10 years a combination of policy directives and technological advances has led to wholesale changes in the energy industry. The key objective of the decarbonization of the economy and the grid has resulted in a rapid and significant addition of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), such as Renewable Energy Sources (RES), Demand Response (DR), Storage, Electric Vehicles (EVs), into the grid in Front and Behind the Meter (BTM). At the same time the IoT revolution is emerging as a major market force that is expected to create massive flexible capacity which can be harnessed to solve grid problems and assist in the integration of RES into the grid. The addition of DERs into the energy mix is creating serious market and operational problems that require the restructuring of organized energy markets.
In this presentation I address mainly the organization of the wholesale and retail markets of the evolving energy landscape. I’ll present the emerging hierarchical market structure that consists of wholesale, retail, transactive models and markets BTM. It is envisioned that resources will be free to participate in all market structures at the same time to extract the maximum value to the grid and monetize their services. Further, I focus on the challenges of their participation in this hierarchical market architecture and the changes required to accommodate them in the next generation of wholesale energy markets to aid in the decarbonization of the energy system.
I’ll emphasize the implications of general economic principles of market design and the lessons learned from our experience in designing wholesale energy markets around the world over the last 20 years. These principles take into account the temporal and stochastic variability of the emerging demands and supplies, multiple technologies with varying sensitivities to capital and fuel costs, the massive increase of small assets and data, the emergence of the energy cloud and AI technologies and the dependence on a reliable and secure smart grid.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Alex Papalexopoulos (M’80–SM’85–F’01) is an international energy expert and an authority in energy market design and implementation. He is the CEO and founder of ECCO International, a specialized energy consulting and software company which provides consulting and software services worldwide to a wide range of clients such as Governments, Utilities, Independent System Operators and Transmission System Operators, Power Exchanges, Regulators, Marketers, Brokers and Software vendors. These services range from strategic planning, wholesale and retail energy market design and IT implementation, trading, market simulation and DER optimization studies, system operations and planning, and generation and transmission projects, Dr. Alex Papalexopoulos has designed some of the most complex energy markets in the world including North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe and Asia.
Dr. Alex Papalexopoulos is also CEO and Chairman of the Board of ZOME Energy Networks, a DER software optimization company which specializes in the research, development and commercialization of smart grid and demand response management technologies. The company is currently implementing Energy Management Programs for the mass residential and commercial market and has 14 patents. These Programs are based on Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and Blockchain technologies. In 2018 ZOME received several awards, such as the “20 Most Promising Utilities Technology Solution Providers, 2018” and the “Company of the Year” award from various energy magazines including CIO Review, Insights Success and CIO Insights. In 2019 ZOME received the top award in the “smart city” category at the Consumer Electronic Show. Next year ZOME will issue a cryptocurrency token to enable Pier-to-Pier transactions to enable the transition of the current energy systems to an transactive energy future.
Prior to forming ECCO International in 1998, Dr. Papalexopoulos was a director of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s Electric Industry Restructuring Group in San Francisco, California. He received the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He has published more than 150 papers in refereed scientific journals and conferences and has given numerous invited presentations in leading institutions in the U.S. and around the world. He has organized and trained various organizations in the area of energy market design and chaired numerous panels and special sessions in IEEE. He is the 1992 recipient of PG&E's Wall of Fame Award, the 1996 recipient of IEEE’s PES First Prize Paper Award and a Fellow of IEEE. In 2016 he was bestowed the award of the honorary Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Patras, Greece.
Integration of pumped hydro energy storage and wind energy generation: Structural analysis and algorithms
Integration of pumped hydro energy storage and wind energy generation: Structural analysis and algorithmsSpeaker
Dr. Ayse Selin Kocaman, Bilkent University
Time and Date
5 November 2021
12:00-13:00pm (GMT)
Registration
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Abstract
We study the energy generation and storage problem for a hybrid energy system that includes a wind farm and a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) facility with two connected reservoirs.
The operator takes different types of decisions: how much water to pump or release in the PHES facility, how much energy to generate in the wind farm, and how much energy to buy or sell. We model this problem as a Markov decision process (MDP) under uncertainty in streamflow rate, wind speed, and electricity price. We establish the optimality of a state-dependent threshold policy under positive prices: The state space of the problem can be partitioned into several disjoint domains, each associated with a different action type, such that it is optimal to bring the water level of the upper reservoir to a different state-dependent target level in each domain. Once the optimal amount of water that should be pumped or released is found, we can immediately derive the optimal amount of wind energy that should be generated.
Leveraging our structural results, we construct and test three heuristic solution methods for data-calibrated instances in which the price can also be negative: policy-approximation, profit-approximation, and problem-approximation methods. While the policy-approximation method provides virtually optimal solutions about four times faster than the standard dynamic programming algorithm, the problem-approximation method yields solutions instantaneously with an optimality gap of 3.35% on average. Our results imply that the existence of a natural inflow in the upper reservoir improves the profits by 19.9% on average. This talk is based on joint work with Emre Nadar, Ece Cigdem Karakoyun, Parinaz Toufani and Harun Avcı.
Speaker Bio
Ayse Selin Kocaman is an assistant professor in Industrial Engineering Department at Bilkent University. She received her M.Sc. degree in Operations Research and Ph.D. degree in Sustainable Energy, both from Columbia University. At Columbia University, she was a member of the Sustainable Engineering Lab.
Her research interests include energy infrastructure design and planning, optimization of electric power systems, sustainable energy resources and sustainable development. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Young Scientist (BAGEP) Award of the Science Academy of Turkey in 2021 and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) College of Sustainable Operations Ph.D. Proposal Award in 2011.
AI-driven Engineering Design for Energy System
AI-driven Engineering Design for Energy SystemSpeaker
Dr Leo Chen, Newcastle University
Recording
A recording of this talk is available on YouTube here.
Abstract
This talk introduces a quantitative model to examine the long-term relationship between annual electricity consumption and its major macroeconomic variables, including gross domestic product, electricity price, efficiency, economic structure, and carbon dioxide emission, using computational intelligence aided design (CIAD).
It develops a firefly algorithm with variable population (FAVP) to obtain the parameters of the electricity consumption model through optimising two proposed trend indices: moving mean of the average precision (mmAP) and moving mean of standard derivation (mmSTD). The model is validated with empirical electricity consumption data in China between 1980 and 2012, based on which the error of approximations between 1980 and 2009 is 15% and the error of predictions between 2010 and 2012 is [-8%,-5%].
The main contributions of this research are to develop: (1) a novel quantitative model that can accurately predict the social, economic and environmental coupled impacts on the annual electricity demands; (2) the conceptual CIAD framework; (3) FAVP algorithm; and (4) two new trend indices of mmAP and mmSTD.
The findings of this research can assist the decision makers in resolving the conflict between energy consumption growth and carbon emission reduction without dooming the economic prosperity in the long run.
Speaker Bio
Leo Chen (BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, FIET, FIMechE, FRSA, FHEA, SMIEEE) has been leading a few research grants in the areas of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, robotics & autonomous systems, digital manufacturing and industry 4.0.
He has published over 100+ academic papers in both high impact international academic journal and international conferences, 2 academic books, 20+ invited seminars and talks, 10+ authorised patents, and has been selected as a Publons' top 1% of reviewers in Computer Science and Engineering and Book manuscripts reviewer for Publishers, including: Springer, Elsevier, IEEE, Cambridge University Press, CRC Press.
He has been actively involved in both academic research and KTP projects as PI and CoI funded by EPSRC (UK), Horizon2020 (EU), Industrial funding bodies and as the member of EPSRC associate peer review college. Dr Chen has been the Programme Committee member or organiser for over 10+ international conferences, including IEEE/ASME/ACM/Springer conferences. Besides, he is an editorial board member of a high-impact journal, and he has been a guest editor for five special issues.
Links
[1] Quantitative modelling of electricity consumption using computational intelligence aided design
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652614000717
[2] Computational Intelligence Assisted Design - In Industrial Revolution 4.0
Models and Algorithms for Clearing Integrated T&D Markets with AC-OPF and Non-Convex Offers
Models and Algorithms for Clearing Integrated T&D Markets with AC-OPF and Non-Convex OffersSpeaker
Ilyès Mezghani, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Recording
A recording of this talk is available on YouTube here.
Abstract
With the proliferation of renewable energy resources, the electrical grid, particularly the distribution network, becomes increasingly relevant to model, since production and consumption are not split in two different regions of the network anymore.
Consequently, dispatch decisions and pricing, while maintaining feasibility and fairness among participants, are challenging features to ensure in this context. Also, the market allows for complex bid structures which makes the decision even more complicated.
This presentation provides a detailed modelling of the real-time market clearing problem which results in a mixed-integer non-linear problem. The clearing platform that we propose implements a method based on a mix of relaxations and exact solutions of the optimal power flow.
Speaker Bio
Ilyès Mezghani is currently finishing his PhD in Operations Research applied to electrical power systems and markets at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE/LIDAM), at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He received his bachelor's and master's from Genoble INP-Ensimag in France. He is working under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Papavasiliou.
Speaker's Group
The research group of Anthony Papavasiliou is performing research and developing an education program in computational and modelling methods for power systems and electricity markets analysis. A few topics of interest in the group are continuous intraday trading, Transmission-Distribution coordination, stochastic programming and market design among others.
Electricity demand forecasting for EV charging
Electricity demand forecasting for EV chargingIn December 2021, the Centre for Energy and CESI hosted a webinar, in which four speakers discussed the potential for electricity demand forecasting for EV charging.
Speakers
How Will EV Charging Impact Local Electricity Networks?
Dr Laurence Chittock is a Transport Modeller and EV specialist with PTV Group. Based on work from the Ofgem funded Charge project, his talk will explain how the modelling of transport systems is helping an electricity network operator understand the requirement for EV charging so they can prepare for the increase in demand.
An introduction to EVENT – the Electric VEhicle Network analysis Tool, a cloud based tool to model the impact of EVs and other low carbon technologies on distribution networks.
Dr Myriam Neaimeh is a Senior Research Associate at Newcastle University and Group Leader for the Data-Centric Engineering programme at the Turing.
The impact of driver behaviour on energy demand
Dr Colin Herron CBE is Managing Director for Zero Carbon Futures UK (ZCF)and Geoff Watson is the Technology Manager for ZCF.
Time and Date
Wednesday 15th December 2021
1.30-3pm (GMT)
Recording
Find the recording here on our YouTube channel.
Using Optimization to remove barriers for Machine Learning Applications in Power Systems
Using Optimization to remove barriers for Machine Learning Applications in Power SystemsSpeaker
Dr Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, DTU
Recording
A recording of this talk is available on YouTube here.
Abstract
In this talk, we introduce methods that remove the barrier for applying neural networks in real-life power systems, and unlock a series of new applications. More specifically, we introduce a framework for (i) verifying neural network behavior in power systems and (ii) obtain provable worst-case guarantees of their performance.
Up to this moment, neural networks have been applied in power systems as a black-box; this has presented a major barrier for their adoption in practice. Using a rigorous framework based on mixed integer linear programming, our methods can determine the range of inputs that neural networks classify as safe or unsafe; and, when it comes to regression neural networks, our methods allow to obtain provable worst-case guarantees of the neural network performance. Such methods have the potential to build the missing trust of power system operators on neural networks, and unlock a series of new applications in power systems and other safety-critical systems.
Speaker Bio
Spyros Chatzivasileiadis is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the Acting Group Leader of the Energy Analytics and Markets Group at the Center for Electric Power and Energy at DTU.
Before that he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. Spyros holds a PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2013) and a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece (2007).
He is currently working on machine learning applications for power systems, and on power system optimization, dynamics, and control of AC and HVDC grids. Spyros is the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant in 2020.
Centre For Energy Webinars
This webinar section includes webinars from the Centre for Energy which are relevant to CESI research and cover a range of energy topics.
Energy Systems Digitalisation Workshop
Energy Systems Digitalisation WorkshopIn November 2021, Dr Zoya Pourmirza and Professor Sara Walker led and chaired a successful workshop on topics related to digitalisation in energy systems.
Topics and speakers
- Digital Energy initiatives for energy sector in Australia, by Professor Ariel Liebman from Monash University, Australia
- The digitisation journey of energy sector in Denmark, by Dr Razgar Ebrahimi from Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Data governance challenges for energy systems in the UK, by Emily Judson from University of Exeter, UK
- Delivering a modern digitalised energy system, by Jake Verma from Energy Systems Catapult, UK
- Predicting the impact of climate change on performance of energy systems using ML, by Dr Yousef Akhlaghi from Newcastle University, UK
Recording
This workshop is recorded, see the video below:
Cyber Security Workshop
Cyber Security WorkshopIn November 2021, Dr Zoya Pourmirza and Professor Sara Walker led and chaired a successful workshop on topics related to cyber security challenges in energy systems.
Topics and speakers
- Are we prepared to fend off cyber-attack in the energy sector?, by Dr Zoya Pourmirza from Newcastle University, UK
- Cyber security research for residential demand response in smart grids, by Dr Carsten Rudolph from Monash University, Australia
- The SNIPPET project: Secure ad privacy-friendly peer-to-peer electricity trading, by Dr Mustafa Asan Mustafa from The University of Manchester and KU Leuven, Belgium, UK and Belgium
- ICS cyber security in digital transformation, by Parisa Akaber from Siemens, UK
- Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst: how to talk better about security of emerging technologies? By Dr Ola Michalec from University of Bristol, UK
Recording
This workshop is recorded, see the video below:
Whole Energy Systems
The Whole Energy Systems Interest Group at Newcastle University are excited to announce this terms webinars, to be held fortnightly on Thursdays from 11:00 - 12:00 (GMT/UTC), please register to join the talks.
View the webinar playlist on our YouTube channel.
This webinar series is led by Dr Matthew Deakin and Dr David Greenwood.
Upcoming Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
Information regadring our upcoming webinars will be added soon.
Previous Webinars
Previous Webinars
Our previous webinars can be viewed below:
An Open-Source Python Platform for Developing Smart Local Energy System Applications
An Open-Source Python Platform for Developing Smart Local Energy System ApplicationsSpeaker
Dr Thomas Morstyn from the University of Edinburgh, was hosted on 8th October at the Autumn 2020 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
Find the recording here on our YouTube channel.
Drivers and Challenges for Multi-Energy System Analysis
Drivers and Challenges for Multi-Energy System AnalysisSpeaker
Dr Graeme Hawker, University of Strathclyde, was hosted on 3rd December at the Autumn 2020 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
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Quantifying the sensitivity of European Power Systems to Climate Variability and Change
Quantifying the sensitivity of European Power Systems to Climate Variability and ChangeSpeaker
Dr Hannah Bloomfield, University of Reading, was hosted on October 22nd 2020 at the Whole Energy Systems Webinar Series of Newcastle University.
Recording
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From Transmission to Thermostat: Integrated Building/Grid Operations
From Transmission to Thermostat: Integrated Building/Grid OperationsSpeaker
Prof. Kyri Baker, University of Colorado, Boulder, was hosted on 19th November at the Autumn 2020 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
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Co-innovating the development of distribution systems to enable decarbonisation
Co-innovating the development of distribution systems to enable decarbonisationSpeaker
Dr Pádraig Lyons, ESB Networks, was hosted on 28th January at the Spring 2021 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
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The future of cooling and its links to the Sustainable Development Goals
The future of cooling and its links to the Sustainable Development GoalsSpeaker
Dr. Nicole Miranda, University of Oxford, was hosted on 11th February at the Spring 2021 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
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Open energy system models: overview, community, legal context, emerging infrastructure
Open energy system models: overview, community, legal context, emerging infrastructureSpeaker
Robbie Morrison, of the Open Energy Systems Modelling Community, was hosted on 25th February at the Spring 2021 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
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Abstract
This webinar introduces the Open Energy Modelling Initiative (openmod) formed in Berlin in September 2014 to advance open energy system modeling. The webinar examines open data as a shared resource, covers some related legal issues, inventories key data projects within the openmod community, and concludes by reviewing nascent work on an energy modeling ontology and a shared metadata standard.
Links
The OpenMod Forum can be found here.
Their Youtube channel here.
Decarbonising heat and shipping
Decarbonising heat and shippingSpeaker
Olivia Carpenter-Lomax, Ricardo Energy & Environment, was hosted on 11th March at the Spring 2021 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
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Model-based decision-support for the energy transition with Calliope
Model-based decision-support for the energy transition with CalliopeSpeaker
Dr Stefan Pfenninger, TU Delft, was hosted on 22nd April at the Summer 2021 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
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A decision tool for real-time operation of public sector multi-energy systems
A decision tool for real-time operation of public sector multi-energy systemsSpeaker
Dr Sathsara Abeysinghe, Cardiff University, was hosted on 20th May at the Summer 2021 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
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CESI Operational model: Introduction and instances of application
CESI Operational model: Introduction and instances of applicationSpeaker
Dr Hamid Hosseini and Dr Adib Allahham, Newcastle University, were hosted on June 3rd at the Summer 2021 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
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Load Forecasting for Low Voltage Distribution Systems
Load Forecasting for Low Voltage Distribution SystemsSpeaker
Dr Stephen Haben, Energy Systems Catapult, was hosted on 5th November at the Winter 2021 Webinar Series of Newcastle University Whole Energy Systems Interest Group (NUWIG).
Recording
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Data Group
The Data Group at Newcastle University focusses on data and digitalisation in energy systems. In this page you can find webinars, workshops, and other related activities.
This group is led by Dr Zoya Pourmirza. If you wish to collaborate with the Data Group, or would like to recommend a speaker please contact us using the below email:
Zoya.pourmirza@newcastle.ac.uk
Data Group News
Data Group NewsGovernment report
Professor Sara Walker, Director of the National Centre for Energy Systems Integration, and Dr Zoya Pourmirza Security and Resilience Theme Lead of the centre recently contributed to key government report on energy sector digitalisation. This report presents an overview of key digital technologies and their main applications in the energy sector. It highlights the potential benefits to using these technologies, and recent developments in this area.
Read the full report: https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0655/
Upcoming Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
Information regarding our upcoming webinars will be added soon.
Previous Webinars
Previous Webinars
Our previous webinars can be viewed below:
Energy Systems Digitalisation Workshop
Energy Systems Digitalisation WorkshopIn November 2021, Dr Zoya Pourmirza and Professor Sara Walker led and chaired a successful workshop on topics related to digitalisation in energy systems.
Topics and speakers
- Digital Energy initiatives for energy sector in Australia, by Professor Ariel Liebman from Monash University, Australia
- The digitisation journey of energy sector in Denmark, by Dr Razgar Ebrahimi from Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Data governance challenges for energy systems in the UK, by Emily Judson from University of Exeter, UK
- Delivering a modern digitalised energy system, by Jake Verma from Energy Systems Catapult, UK
- Predicting the impact of climate change on performance of energy systems using ML, by Dr Yousef Akhlaghi from Newcastle University, UK
Recording
This workshop is recorded, see the video below:
Cyber Security Workshop
Cyber Security WorkshopIn November 2021, Dr Zoya Pourmirza and Professor Sara Walker led and chaired a successful workshop on topics related to cyber security challenges in energy systems.
Topics and speakers
- Are we prepared to fend off cyber-attack in the energy sector?, by Dr Zoya Pourmirza from Newcastle University, UK
- Cyber security research for residential demand response in smart grids, by Dr Carsten Rudolph from Monash University, Australia
- The SNIPPET project: Secure ad privacy-friendly peer-to-peer electricity trading, by Dr Mustafa Asan Mustafa from The University of Manchester and KU Leuven, Belgium, UK and Belgium
- ICS cyber security in digital transformation, by Parisa Akaber from Siemens, UK
- Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst: how to talk better about security of emerging technologies? By Dr Ola Michalec from University of Bristol, UK
Recording
This workshop is recorded, see the video below: