About us

We facilitate the transition towards a cleaner energy future through our Network and Systems research. We concentrate on 3 focus areas:

• Engineering the future energy networks, including using our campus as a living lab for understanding energy generation, consumption and storage
• Enhancing the security and resilience of electricity grids and associated communications networks
• Modelling of the sociotechnical aspects of energy transitions and future energy systems.

We also work with energy generation and storage companies, community energy cooperatives, as well as mini-grid and off-grid communities.

We have identified stationary, mobile and intermodal energy storage and future energy infrastructures as key strategic areas of growth and we are slowly building our capacity in this field as well. This includes studying local markets and trade dynamics of distributed energy systems with a high renewables fraction, such as community energy, the diffusion of electric vehicles or the hydrogen economy.

Impact

Our engineers inform the highest levels of policy to the study of the future architecture of the GB electricity grid. Our data scientists work with insurance companies to inform warranty decisions of electric vehicle and grid-scale battery storage and investigate the use of intelligent condition monitoring and fault diagnosis/prognosis of distributed generation systems such as wind and solar photovoltaic with grid connections. Our computer scientists explore the security and resilience of future hybrid communication-energy networks as well as the challenging dynamics of peer-to-peer networks and future decentralized energy systems. And our simulation experts help model reducing carbon emissions from energy for our partners, our the campus and the country.