The annual Symposium was a big success. Thank You to all who attended and thanks to our participants and speakers. The feedback has been extremely positive on all aspects. The theme of the Symposium was International Collaboration. We had over … Continue reading
Killian McKenna at Power Shift Summit: “Dinosaurs of the Past or Innovators of the Future? Designing digital strategies for electricity companies to engage domestic customers”
PhD student Killian McKenna, as winner of the Eurelectric 2015 Student Award, was selected to give a presentation at the prestigious Power Shift Summit in the Mansion House in Dublin on 18th September 2015. The presentation “Dinosaurs of the Past … Continue reading
All Ireland Student Energy Research Competition and Are we approaching the death of the kWh price?
Joseph Devlin, PhD student at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), has won the 2015 All Ireland student energy research pitching competition, run by the UCD IEEE Power and Energy Society Student Chapter (headed by ERC PhD students Padraig Daly and Killian … Continue reading
UCD Energy Institute receives €1.2 million Horizon 2020 grant
A Horizon 2020 grant of €1.2 million has been awarded to Professor Mark O’Malley from the UCD Energy Institute and the the UCD School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, for his project Realising Value from Electricity Markets with Local Smart … Continue reading
Killian McKenna scoops prestigious European Award
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
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