Professor Xiao-Ping Zhang, Professor of Electrical Power Systems, School of Engineering, and Co-Director of Birmingham Energy Institute, received the award for outstanding contributions to the modelling and design of Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) Controllers in Alternating Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC) transmission systems, a vital area for driving a more resilient and sustainable
Welcoming the government’s ‘Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan’, but challenges lie ahead
New plans announced by the Business and Energy Secretary this week to give homes and businesses more control over their energy use and support innovative new technologies, are a welcome and interesting move by the government. The plan outlines action the government, Ofgem and energy industry will take to remove barriers to smart technologies, including
Interview: Global energy internet will make world sustainable energy village
by Wen Xiqiang LONDON, May 9 (Xinhua) — The global energy internet is a promising way to solve the challenges of climate change and global sustainable energy supply, said Prof. Xiao-Ping Zhang, director of Smart Grid at the Birmingham Energy Institute. At the Paris climate conference (COP21) in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the first-ever
Seminar on “Optimization for Demand Response in Smart Grids”
DESCRIPTION We would like to bring your attention to the following upcoming event organised by the University of Birmingham and sponsored by Birmingham Energy Institute and the IEEE UK & Ireland PES Chapter. Event: Seminar on “Optimization for Demand Response in Smart Grids” Host: Professor Xiao-Ping Zhang, University of Birmingham https://www.profxiaopingzhang.org Organisers: Birmingham Energy Institute
Energy Capital
The city of Birmingham has ambitious plans to deliver emission reductions, create a low-carbon infrastructure and to modernise how it deals with waste. Energy Capital aims to establish Greater Birmingham as the global capital for energy systems innovation and market development, associated with its energy, waste, and transport infrastructure. Tyseley Energy and Environmental Enterprise District
The Challenge of Overhead Line Faults with MMC Transmission
Friday 17 February 2017, 14:00 – 15:30 NG16, Gisbert Kapp Building University of Birmingham The Challenge of Overhead Line Faults with MMC Transmission Dennis Woodford, President of Electranix Corporation Application of VSC transmission with overhead transmission lines is a relatively recent application, particularly with MMC converters. An overhead transmission line is prone to faults caused
Developing revolutionary technology that could defend the UK’s National Power Grid against blackouts
First he had the ‘lightbulb moment’; then he showed how it could stay switched on. Now Professor Xiao-Ping Zhang has demonstrated the technology is available to create a ‘power and energy internet’ (PEI) to transform the world’s energy use and management by the exchange of power sources across regions, countries and even continents. In fact,
Smart ‘vehicle-to-grid’(V2G) bi-directional charging station installed at the University of Birmingham in UK’s Energy Capital
University of Birmingham was the first fleet operator in the country to take delivery of the model when it added two to its fleet in 2014. It has successfully installed an electric vehicle to grid (V2G) charging system by the end of 2016.
The 241st Engineering Technology Forum: Energy Internet, organized by Chinese Academy of Engineering, was held in Shanghai on 17th November 2016
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pointed out in the government work report that “the energy production and consumption revolution, is related to the development and the people”. Chinese Premier suggested to develop vigorously wind power, photovoltaic power, biomass energy in the contexts of energy consumption revolution. The concept of ‘energy internet’ and ‘Internet’, heralded the development
Chemistry Nobel Prize-winner, Professor Sir J Fraser Stoddart, University of Birmingham alumnus, celebrating ‘global science community’ in his guest lecture for the University of Birmingham
Professor Sir J Fraser Stoddart, University of Birmingham alumnus and winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, gave his guest lecture at the University on the evening of Tuesday, Nov 1, 2016. Sir Fraser, who received a Nobel Prize earlier this month alongside his colleagues Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Bernard L. Feringa for their work