Killian McKenna, a PhD student from Dublin, has fought off competition from students from across Europe to win a prestigious European award in Berlin. Killian, who is representing the all-island electricity sector at a European level, was today (Tuesday 2 … Continue reading
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An Intelligent Control System to Improve Energy Efficiencies in Wind Farms Scoops 2014 UCD Start-Up Award
An Intelligent Control System to Improve Energy Efficiencies in Wind Farms Scoops 2014 UCD Start-Up Award – NovoGrid wins €25,000 prize NovoGrid, a new engineering venture, has been declared overall winner of the 2014 University College Dublin (UCD) VentureLaunch Accelerator … Continue reading
Final programmes for Annual Research Sympoium and Associated Events
Several associated events are being held in conjunction with the annual ERC SEES Research symposium which takes on Thursday 9th Oct in the Astra Hall at the UCD Student Centre. On the previous afternoon of Wednesday October 8th, PhD students … Continue reading
ERC Newsletter July 2014
This is the second newsletter from the Electricity Research Centre (ERC) which is an industry‐university research collaboration with research driven by the energy industry worldwide. The ERC is based in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering at University … Continue reading
Opal RT Real-time Digital Simulator
Professor Mark O’Malley and Dr. Terence O’ Donnell were recently the recipients of an SFI Research Infrastructure award [SFI/12/RI/2341 (4)] for the purchase of a real time digital simulator with hardware in the loop test capability. The Real Time Digital … Continue reading
UCD ENERGY21 Programme officially launched
University College Dublin (UCD) has today launched a new Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme that will attract 21 world class researchers to the UCD Energy Institute over the next five years. The Energy21 programme was formally launched earlier today, 12 June 2014, … Continue reading
Dr Andrew Keane’s SFI Industrial Research Fellowship with ESB Networks
Dr Andrew Keane’s Industrial Research Fellowship with ESB Networks, is one of the first tranche of Industrial Research Fellowships announced by The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD on 9th June 2014. In total funding of over … Continue reading
Meeting outlining UCD Energy Institute’s vision and strategy
On 23rd May 2014, Professor Mark O’Malley, the Director of the UCD Energy Institute, hosted an open meeting in the UCD Science Centre during which he outlined the vision and long-term strategy of the Energy Institute. The UCD ENERGY21 COFUND … Continue reading
evolvDSO project
In September of 2013 the ERC officially commenced work on the evolvDSO project which is funded by the European Commission under the seventh framework programme (FP7). The project seeks to identify the new distribution system operator roles that will facilitate … Continue reading
UCD launches Energy Institute
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ANNOUNCES INVESTMENT OF OVER €5M IN NEW ENERGY INSTITUTE Institute to Focus on Energy Systems Integration University College Dublin (UCD) has announced the establishment of a new Energy Institute (www.ucd.ie/energy). The Institute has attracted donor funding of … Continue reading