| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S73273/01 |
| Title: |
Electric power system optimisation with regard to increases in renewable energy penetration |
| Principal Investigator: |
Li, Professor F |
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Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Bath |
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Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
03 April 2004 |
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02 May 2004 |
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3,219
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Power Sys Man, Prot & Control |
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The planning, management and operation of electric power systems have undergone rapid changes in recent years due to the privatisation of electricity supply industry, resulting in increased plant operating efficiency and reduced electricity cost across most of the deregulated electricity industry. Further change is now being stimulated by social and governmental pressure to reduce carbon dioxide and combat 'green-house' effects. This pressure is particularly high in the UK since the government has made a firm commitment to promoting sources of cleaner energy and has laid a set of targets to meet. This raises a series of pressing issues to be resolved in power system planning, operation and management. Some of the challenging problems faced by utilities and the regulation body are: how to progressively evolve market structures and regulation to quantify the contribution from various energy sources, how to encourage optimal energy mix within a market environment, what nature, size and site of embedded generators is most beneficial, how to cope with growing uncertainties in system planning, how to incentivise network operators and network users to invest in network expansion, how to incentivise customers to actively participate in demand side management. It is the intention of this proposed research visit to identify partnerships with key researchers in China in the area of power system planning, power system management and operation, market economics and operation and renewable energy utilisation. These partnerships could potentially lead to full research collaborations to address some of those aforementioned pressing engineering and economic challenges.
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