Webinars
Webinars
The events supported by the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration include webinars on a range of topics. Recordings of the webinars are available to download following the event.
Smart Charging Webinars
This series of webinars provides an introduction to vehicle to grid (V2G) and smart charging projects and topics, with invited guest speakers from institutions in the UK and overseas. View the webinar playlist here. More information on discussions held in our previous webinars on communications protocols are now published in Energy Informatics.
Sign up for our V2G webinar mailing list here: https://bit.ly/v2gwebinars
Open Communication Protocols for Smart Charging: real world demonstrators - GreenFlux and Carbon Co-op
About this event
Hosted by Newcastle University in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute, CESI and Supergen Energy Networks, the Smart Charging webinar series continues with Open Communication Protocols for Smart Charging: real world demonstrators.
Agenda
Introduction to the Smart Charging Webinar Series
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and The Alan Turing Institute
Download the presentation here: Introduction to the Smart Charging webinar slides (PDF: 0.14 MB)
Smart Charging Solution in Electric Nation project
Lennart Verheijen, GreenFlux, NL
Download the presentation here: Greenflux Smart Charging webinar slides (PDF: 2.72 MB)
OpenDSR (BEIS) project
Ben Aylott, Carbon Co-op, UK
Download the presentation here: Using OpenADR and OCPP together to enable smart EV charging in UK homes webinar slides (PDF: 2.6 MB)
Recording of the event
View the video of the webinar.
Bios and talk descriptions
Talk 1: Lennart Verheijen
Lennart Verheijen worked within the Dutch grid operator Enexis for 6 years on the topic of smart grids, flexibility and specifically the integration of electric vehicles into the distribution grid. Five years ago he changed to the commercial sector and started at GreenFlux, a company that provides white label platform solutions for charge point operators and e-Mobility Service Providers. Lennart Verheijen is the manager of the product development and innovation department and ultimately responsible for all subsidized and commercial innovation projects, which are quite often related to smart charging.
Mr. Verheijen was responsible for the creation of the Open Smart Charging Protocol version 1.0 in 2013 and involved in the current development of the 2.0 version of this protocol. Also was he actively involved in the smart charging incorporation in OCPP 1.6 in 2015. He has been project leader of nearly 20 smart grid/smart charging projects, the Electric Nation project being the largest so far.
Lennart Verheijen will present the outline and findings of the Electric Nation project. This three year project, consisting of 700 EV-drivers and chargers at peoples homes, spread out over all of England, is the largest smart charging project in the world so far. Three different smart charging regimes were tested, yielding very large amounts of data and unique insights in customer perception and acceptance of smart charging. In this project, GreenFlux served as the technology provider. For a preview, see also http://www.electricnation.org.uk/.
Talk 2: Ben Aylott
Ben Aylott is an Energy Systems Engineer at Carbon Co-op with 5 years experience in designing and implementing demand side response and smart energy systems. He is the project lead for OpenDSR, a UK government (BEIS) funded project awarded under the Domestic Demand Side Response Competition, which is developing and testing a standards based and open source system for DSR for use in homes and small businesses with close integration with the new UK smart metering system.
Ben Aylott will present an overview of the design and development of the OpenADR and OCPP-based system for demand side response and smart electric vehicle charging in the OpenDSR project. This will consider some of the challenges of using these protocols in the context of home and building energy management system use cases in the UK.
Meet IEEE 2030.5 Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP2) - Gordon Lum
Hosted by Newcastle University in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute, CESI and Supergen Energy Networks, the Smart Charging webinar series continues with IEEE 2030.5 Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP2).
Agenda
Introduction
Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and The Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker
Gordon Lum, Kitu Systems
Keynote Bio
Gordon Lum is:
- Currently CTO of Kitu Systems, a software company providing Smart Energy communications solutions. Have been with the company since 2011.
- Technical editor for the Common Smart Inverter Profile (CSIP) – the guide for using IEEE 2030.5 meet California Rule 21 requirements
- Member of technical workgroup that developed the IEEE 2030.5-2018 specification
- Member of SunSpec Alliance workgroup that developed the CSIP Test Procedure used for California Rule 21 certification.
- Technical lead for SAE J2931/7 (Security for PEV Communications)
- Technical lead for SAE J2847/3 (Communication for Plug-in Vehicles as a Distributed Energy Resource)Participating in SAE J3072 (Interconnection Requirements for Onboard, Utility-Interactive Inverter Systems)
- Member of many Cybersecurity workgroups
- Before working in the Smart Energy space, worked in digital satellite and cable communications systems.
- BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MSEE from the University of California San Diego (UCSD)
Topics discussed include:
1. Purpose and History of IEEE 2030.
2. Architecture of the Protocol
- High Level Features (OSI model, Client/Server mode, RESTful, etc.)
- High Level Functions (DER, DR, Flow Reservation, Pricing, Metering, etc.)
- Key Concepts (Events, Groups, Typical Operation, etc.)
- Cybersecurity and PKI (Cipher suite, Security strength, certificates, etc.)
3. Field Deployed Use Cases
- Using IEEE 2030.5 to meet California Rule 21 (Smart Inverter) requirements. All inverters for residential use in California must comply by March 22, 2020.
- Using IEEE 2030.4 for managing and optimizing Electric Vehicle charging. Current trial in upstate New York in collaboration with Cornell University for optimization residential EV charging.
- Future uses of IEEE 2030.5 (SAE specifications, etc.)
Recording of the event
Cyber Security Webinar Series
This series of webinars provides an introduction to vehicle to grid (V2G) and cybersecurity projects and topics, with invited guest speakers from institutions in the UK and overseas. View the webinar playlist here.
Sign up for our V2G webinar mailing list here: https://bit.ly/v2gwebinars
CESI Webinar Series
This webinar series includes invited talks and panel discussions on a range of energy systems integration topics. View the CESI webinar playlist here.
CESI Panel discussion: How the UK will meet its net zero ambitions by 2050 by taking an energy systems integration approach
In this 1-hour webinar chaired by CESI Director, Dr Sara Walker, the panel discussed the UK’s path to net zero by 2050. How has the UK’s energy system been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? Join our panel of energy experts from industry, policy and academia to discuss how an integrated energy system can help the UK achieve its net zero targets.
About this event
Programme
15:00-15:10 Introduction
Dr Sara Walker, Director, EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration; Director, Centre for Energy; Reader in Energy, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
15:10-15:25 Opening panel presentations
Dr Iliana Portugues, UK Head of Innovation, National Grid
Dr Haris Patsios, CESI Work Package Lead; Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
Dr Charlotte Adams, Commercial Manager – Mine Energy, The Coal Authority
15:25-15:55 Chaired panel discussion
Chair: Dr Sara Walker
Topics for discussion
Following recommendations in the 2019 report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the UK passed laws to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. This target will require the UK to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
Earlier this year, the CCC issued a follow up report to Parliament. In this, they highlighted the progress made in reducing emissions and set out actions needed to ensure a resilient transition to net zero in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report considered what changes would be needed in different sectors of the energy system, including changes in cost and consumer behaviour.
The EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration takes a whole system approach to investigate the value proposition of an integrated energy system. It aims to identify who gains and pays from such an approach, taking into account the resulting costs, greenhouse gas emissions and the resilience of this system.
In this webinar, the panel will discuss how an integrated energy system can help the UK achieve its net zero emissions targets by 2050. What changes to policy and infrastructure are needed to support a clean energy transition for the UK?
Chair and Panel Bios
Dr Sara Walker
Dr Sara Walker is Director of the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration and leads the Centre’s Work Package on Impact, Engagement and Management. She is a Reader in Energy, and Director of The Centre for Energy, in the School of Engineering, Newcastle University and is Deputy Director of the Supergen Energy Networks Hub.
Her research is on energy efficiency and renewable energy at the building scale. She is particularly interested in low-energy and low-carbon buildings, building-scale renewables, small scale energy storage, and electric vehicle charging/discharging load profiles. In her research, she aims to better understand the role of buildings as virtual power plants to support the decarbonisation of heating, cooling, electricity and transport in the UK.
Sara is also interested in concepts of resilience as they are used in other disciplines, and whether these concepts are transferable to the energy sector. Existing concepts of resilience and supply security may not be appropriate to the energy sector in 2050.
Dr Iliana Portugues
Dr Iliana Portugues currently heads up the corporate innovation team in the UK for as part of National Grid Partners, the innovation and investment team within National Grid Group. The remit spans across gas and electricity transmission as well as the non-regulated business which include renewables, metering and interconnectors both in the UK and USA.
Before this she held several leadership positions in the innovation and research space at National Grid Electricity Transmission, the University of Strathclyde and the Electric Power Research Institute, developing intellectual property, securing it, licensing it and commercialising it. Before she decided to focus on corporate innovation in the energy sector, she started and bootstrapped several businesses, start-ups from her academic work and others, in various industries, exporting across the world.
She is passionate about the decarbonisation of energy and the development of a sustainable and prosperous society. She also loves sports and the impact of psychology in it, both as a hobby and as an essential part of mental well-being and both professional and personal growth.
Her background provides her with unique insights into the development of technologies and driving their implementation into the energy sector, early-stage business growth and the development of companies for investment.
She graduated from the University of Bath with a MEng in Electronic and Communications Engineering, where she also obtained sponsorship from National Grid and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) for her PhD on developing a radiometric system to locate partial discharges, which she then commercialised. She is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Dr Haris Patsios
Dr Haris Patsios is a Senior Lecturer in Power Systems in the School of Engineering of Newcastle University. He has a significant experience in the design, modelling and control of power systems including renewables. His research focuses on the development of integrated models and control techniques for energy storage as well as decentralized control in future power networks, working closely with UK industry and academia.
Haris leads CESI’s Work Package on Validation and Demonstration, which makes use of our full-scale, multi-vector demonstrators to help us to understand the whole energy system in real world situations. He is a Co-Director and WP Leader for the Supergen Energy Storage Network. He is also a co-investigator of the £5m EPSRC project ‘Multi-scale ANalysis for Facilities for Energy Storage’ (EP/N032888/1) linking energy storage facilities across the UK.
Dr Charlotte Adams
Abandoned mines have huge potential to decarbonise heat demand. Dr Charlotte Adam’s current role as Commercial Manager for Mine Energy at The Coal Authority involves developing this potential for homes, businesses and Local Authorities across the UK. There are 23,000 abandoned coal mines in the UK which lie beneath around 25% of our built environment.
Charlotte is a hydrogeologist by training, gaining a PhD from Newcastle University. She has interests in water resource assessment, mine water treatment and geothermal energy. She has extensive academic and industrial experience, having worked at Newcastle and Durham Universities and also in the renewable energy industry.
Recording of the event
CESI Webinar: Digitalisation for Net Zero: How data platforms can support decision-making in an integrated energy system
- Date: Wednesday 18 November 2020
- Time: 14:00-15:00 (join from 13:45)
- Hosted via Zoom (dial-in details provided following registration)
About this event
In this webinar, we will hear talks giving examples of how data platforms can support decision making. Dr Muditha Abeysekera and Dr Sathsara Abeysinghe will discuss their CESI Flexible Fund projects to develop decision support tools for public-sector multi-energy systems. Andrew Smyth will give a talk on the Your Online Data Architecture platform, developed by Siemens for the Innovate UK Modernising Energy Data Access (MEDA) project. The webinar is chaired by CESI Work Package 6 Lead and Co-Investigator, Dr Haris Patsios.
Programme
14:00-14:05 Welcome and introduction
Dr Haris Patsios, Co-Investigator and Work Package 6 Lead, EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration; Senior Lecturer in Power Systems, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
14:05-14:45 Keynote talks
Decision support tool for the operation of public sector multi-energy systems
Dr Muditha Abeysekera, Lecturer in Energy Systems, School of Engineering, Cardiff University
A decision tool for real-time operation of public sector multi-energy systems
Dr Sathsara Abeysinghe, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Engineering Cardiff University
Siemens Your Online Data Architecture Platform
Andrew Smyth, Head of Customer Success - Software, Siemens
14:45-15:00 Question and answer session
Chair: Dr Haris Patsios
Recording of the event
CESI Webinar: Approaches to modelling a decentralised, integrated energy system
- Date: Wednesday 9 December 2020
- Time: 14:00-15:00 (join from 13:45)
- Hosted via Zoom (dial-in details provided following registration)
About this event
In this webinar, we will hear about different approaches to modelling an integrated energy system. Dr Merlinda Andoni and Dr Valentin Robu will discuss their CESI Flexible Fund project on Multi-Agent System Modelling Trials. Natalia Zografou-Barredo will give a talk on her investigation of multi-vector demonstrators as enablers for energy network modernisation. The webinar is chaired by CESI Co-Investigator, Dr David Jenkins.
Programme
14:00-14:05 Welcome and introduction
Dr David Jenkins, Co-Investigator, EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration; Associate Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University
14:05-14:45 Keynote talks
Implications of prosumer decision-making on local energy communities: agent-based approaches
Dr Merlinda Andoni, CESI Researcher and Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Smart Systems Group, Heriot-Watt University and
Dr Valentin Robu, CESI Co-Investigator and Associate Professor, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
MicroGrid Resilience-Oriented Scheduling: A Robust MISOCP Model
Natalia Zografou-Barredo, PhD Student, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
14:45-15:00 Question and answer session
Chair: Dr David Jenkins
Recording of the event
CESI Research Dissemination: Evaluating hydrogen and electric energy systems as decarbonisation options for transport
About this event
The EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) in partnership with the EPSRC Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF) has been exploring the challenges on the national energy system level for providing a Net Zero Transport system in the UK.
This research, led by Dr Molly Haugen from the University of Cambridge, has involved analysis of the key issues in the near to long term future for energy pathways that can achieve stepwise reductions in GHG emissions. The multi-objective optimisation requirements across these complex networks were investigated and delivered on environmental, energy and economic priorities. This work has been carried out in association with the UK Department of Transport (DfT).
This seed research has provided
- Initial mapping of the future energy systems interactions with the future transport system
- A detailed literature review of research, evidence and policy in this area
- Identified and assessed the severity of the evidence gaps in the future energy system for transport
- An initial review of the use of existing demonstration facilities such as ReFLEX (Orkney) and InTEGReL (Gateshead) in bridging the investment risk barriers
This workshop in association with UKERC will disseminate some of these early findings and open the discussions on what more is needed to provide evidence to this important policy area for government and industry.
Panel and keynote speakers
- Keynote 1: Dr Molly Haugen, Lead Researcher, Boies Research Group, Dept Engineering, University of Cambridge
- Keynote 2: Professor Phil Blythe, Department of Transport, Chief Scientific Adviser
- Panel member: Dr Adam Boies, Co-Investigator, Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, Trinity College Cambridge
- Panel member: Professor David Flynn, CESI Associate Director, Smart Systems Group, Heriot-Watt University
- Panel member: Dr Sara Walker, CESI Director, Newcastle University
Recording of the event
CESI-DEI Webinar: CESI Case study on Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub
In this joint CESI-DEI webinar, Dr Yiji Lu will discuss the CESI case study: Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub, introducing the project’s ambitious scope and current insights on the project. The project explores the opportunity for hydrogen to deliver distributed heat, cooling and electricity for residential, industrial and commercial applications and provide hydrogen and electric charging services for transport utilising energy systems integration. The session will feature a panel discussion between the case study's co-investigators Dr Yiji Lu and Professor Simone Abram and will be chaired by Professor Tony Roskilly as case study principal investigator.
You can now watch a recording of the event.
About this event
Programme
13:00-13:10 Introduction
Professor Tony Roskilly, PI, CESI Case Study on Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub and CESI Associate Director; Director in the Durham Energy Institute and Chair of Energy Systems, Dept of Engineering, Durham University
13:10-13:35 Presentation
Dr Yiji Lu, Co-investigator, CESI Case Study on Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub and Fellow in the Durham Energy Institute and Associate Professor (Research), Dept of Engineering, Durham University
13:35-13:55 Panel Q&A Session:
Dr Yiji Lu
Professor Tony Roskilly
Professor Simone Abram, CESI Co-Investigator, Director in the Durham Energy Institute and Professor, Dept of Anthropology, Durham University
Topics for discussion
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) recent net-zero pathways envisioned a "hydrogen-enabled" future energy system. However, the potential of many key infrastructure components has not been investigated within an integrated real-world system. It should be recognised that hydrogen deployment provides more than an opportunity to decarbonise heat. Hydrogen provides great potential for the decarbonisation of transportation, the wider electrical energy system, energy storage and other energy services.
The EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration Case Study on Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub explores the opportunity for hydrogen, as the primary energy vector, to deliver distributed heat, cooling and electricity for residential, industrial and commercial applications and provide hydrogen and electric charging services for transport in an integrated, symbiotic system. The technology developed in the case study will contribute to existing CESI research, including gas infrastructure modelling, the blending of hydrogen and the InTEGReL Customer Energy Village (CEV) development.
InTEGReL is one of CESI’s full-scale multi-vector energy demonstrators. Led by Northern Gas Networks, in partnership with Northern Powergrid and Newcastle University, the facility is a new integrated energy facility based in Gateshead. CESI Director, Dr Sara Walker is academic lead for the facility.
In this webinar, we will present a summary of progress achieved to date in our investigation and evaluation of the distribution and storage of hydrogen, integration of Combined Cooling, Heating and Power (CCHP) and thermal storage and district heating, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (HFCV) and battery electric vehicle (BEV) charging infrastructure.
We will discuss the value and implications for different energy users the wider energy system and the policy changes which would be required to facilitate the use of hydrogen in this way.
Speaker and Panellist Bios
Dr Yiji Lu
Yiji is a Fellow in the Durham Energy Institute and an Assistant Professor (Research) in Durham University’s Department of Engineering. His research focuses on the technological development of low carbon energy systems, including research into Renewable and Clean Energy Conversion, Energy Storage and Cleaner/Alternative Fuels to tackle the Climate Change challenges.
Yiji contributes to CESI work packages 2 and 3 and is a co-investigator of the CESI-funded Case Study on Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub. He is the Principal Investigator/awardee from Royal Academy of Engineering under the Transforming Systems through Partnerships Scheme, which aims to study clean energy technologies in transport sector.
Yiji has an MPhil in Sustainability (2012) and PhD in Energy Systems (2016) from Newcastle University, being awarded a prestigious Outstanding Research Award towards his PhD project. Yiji is an Associate Editor of the Elsevier Journal 'Energy Reports' and is an editorial member of various energy-themed journals. He has recently guest-edited several journals, including 'Energy Storage', 'Hydrogen Economy' and 'Fuels of the Future'. He has published over 60 articles in high-quality international journals and peer-reviewed conferences, and one book chapter, with currently (July 2020) over 500 citations and an H-index of 14 (Google Scholar).
Professor Tony Roskily
Tony is a Director of Durham Energy Institute and Chair of Energy Systems in the Department of Engineering, Durham University. He has over 30 years’ experience in the design, control, and operational optimisation of energy systems. He manages a large and highly successful team of researchers who specialise in energy systems integration, decarbonising buildings, transport and industry, hydrogen and biofuels, and energy storage. Tony is an Associate Director of CESI, leading the Centre's Work Package 3 - Infrastructure and Storage.
Tony was formerly Director of the Sir Joseph Swan Centre for Energy Research and Director of Research at the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability. He also previously held a number of senior positions at Newcastle University including Dean of Research for the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering.
Professor Simone Abram
Simone is a Director of Durham Energy Institute, leading on Social Sciences and Health and a member of the Department of Anthropology at Durham University. She is a co-investigator of CESI’s core programme of research and is co-investigator of the CESI Case Study on an Integrated Zero-Carbon Hub.
She qualified in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Manchester University in 1988 and was awarded a DPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University in 1994. Since then, her research has brought together science studies and governance, through studies of tourism, urban development and land-use planning. Simone’s energy interests lie in relating different disciplinary perspectives on energy and society, including the governance of energy developments, recent transformations of energy markets, ethical questions in energy modelling, and the changing social and political significance of energies, particularly electricity.
Simone is a member of the European PERSON network for social sciences in energy research and co-convenes the European Energy Anthropology Network.
Recording of the event
Optimisation Group Webinars
This series of webinars provides presentations on energy systems optimisation, with invited guest speakers from institutions in the UK and overseas.
View the webinar playlist on YouTube here.
This group is led by Dr Natalia-Maria Zografou-Barredo and Dr Ilias Sarantakos. If you wish to sign up for future webinars, please fill in this form. If you have any questions, please contact the organisers using the emails below:
- Dr Natalia-Maria Zografou-Barredo, EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow, Newcastle University: natalia.zografou-barredo@newcastle.ac.uk
- Dr Ilias Sarantakos, Research Associate, Newcastle University: ilias.sarantakos@newcastle.ac.uk
All upcomnig webinars will be advertised on the Centre for Energy Website.
Centre For Energy Webinars
This webinar section includes webinars from the Centre for Energy which are relevant to CESI research and cover a range of energy topics.
Whole Energy Systems
The Whole Energy Systems Interest Group at Newcastle University are excited to announce this terms webinars, to be held fortnightly on Thursdays from 11:00 - 12:00 (GMT/UTC), please register to join the talks.
View the webinar playlist on our YouTube channel.
This webinar series is led by Dr Matthew Deakin and Dr David Greenwood.
Data Group
The Data Group at Newcastle University focusses on data and digitalisation in energy systems. In this page you can find webinars, workshops, and other related activities.
This group is led by Dr Zoya Pourmirza. If you wish to collaborate with the Data Group, or would like to recommend a speaker please contact us using the below email:
Zoya.pourmirza@newcastle.ac.uk