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Professor Xiao-Ping Zhang received the prestigious 2025 IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award


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

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

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,

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

The 2nd International HVDC Conference held in Shanghai, China between 25–26 Oct 2016


The 2nd International HVDC Conference held in Shanghai, China between 25–26 Oct 2016 Worldwide Experts gathered to discuss the future developments of HVDC technologies. 第二届国际高压直流会议成功召开——专家学者齐聚沪上交流探讨直流输电发展前景 The Second International HVDC Conference was held successfully in Shanghai between 25th and 26th Oct 2016, which was organized by the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, the CIGRE China National

The winner of the College Research Paper of the Month award for July 2016 (伯明翰大学工程与物理学部2016年7月最佳论文奖)


The  paper “Elimination of Commutation Failures of LCC HVDC System with Controllable Capacitors” co-authored by Ying Xue, Prof Xiao-Ping Zhang and Ms Conghuan Yang has been chosen as the winner of the College ( College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Birmingham ) Research Paper of the Month award for July 2016