SUPERGEN HDPS - CORE

Completed

Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electric power conversion)
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution)
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Energy storage)

Basic and strategic applied research

SOCIAL SCIENCES (Economics and Econometrics)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Business and Management Studies)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Sociology)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment)

Not Cross-cutting
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy)

Professor D G Infield
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Strathclyde

Standard

EPSRC

01 October 2009

30 September 2013

48 months

£4,177,322

Energy

Scotland

Energy : Energy

Professor D G Infield, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde

Prof GA Ault, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Prof KRW Bell, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Dr GM Burt, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Dr TT Cockerill, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London
Dr J Ekanayake, Engineering, Cardiff University
Prof NJ Eyre, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Dr SJ Finney, Institute for Energy and Environment, University of Strathclyde
Dr JE Fletcher, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Dr S Galloway, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Professor T Green, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
Professor GP Hammond, Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath
Professor N Jenkins, Engineering, Cardiff University
Mr C Johnstone, Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Dr N Kelly, Energy Systems Research Unit, University of Strathclyde
Dr I Kockar, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Professor P McGregor, Economics, University of Strathclyde
Dr MC McManus, Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath
Dr M Ristic, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London
Professor G Strbac, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
Dr M Thomson, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University
Prof S Watson, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University
Professor B W Williams, Institute for Energy and Environment, University of Strathclyde
Dr A Winnett, Economics and International Development, University of Bath

Dr C Jardine, University of Oxford

The HiDEF consortium will explore highly decentralised energy futures. At the core of this is a sustainable electricity supply system that makes optimum use of decentralised assets and in which energy consumers participate actively in appropriately structured decentralised markets. This major change from the present arrangement, where most consumers are passive users of externally supplied energy services, will require new attitudes to energy and new ways working. The technical, market and social aspects of this transformation will be addressed in detail by the multi-disciplinary consortium that has been formed to embrace power system engineers, experts in electricity markets and researchers aware of the social and perceptual challenges.The technical developments that underpin the changes outlined above are the development of new high efficiency micro-CHP units (including the latest high temperature solid oxide fuel cells), the development of ever cheaper PV and micro-wind systems and the role out of smart electricity meters that will facilitate the involvement of even domestic consumers in demand side management. As time varying renewable sources become increasing prevalent in electricity supply, both in the form of small decentralised generators, and in the form of major offshore wind farms, tidal and wave energy installations, the role of highly decentralised load management will become ever more important. In addition the power electronic interfaces of decentralised generators can be used to provide more than just power - with suitable control other important network services like local voltage control, and even system frequency control, can be contributed.The consortium builds on the important work undertaken by the Highly Distributed Power Systems (HDPS) project that established base line models for the new technologies, developed suitable scenarios, and developed the cell concept of delivery

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