ERC’s Dr Andrew Keane (Lecturer) and Dr Peter Richardson (Postdoctoral Researcher) recently completed UCD Innovation’s first Commercialisation Bootcamp workshop series to further develop their commercial ideas for smart grid applications in power systems.

The goal of their project is to develop software tools which will enable power systems to successfully incorporate new technologies and energy resources, such as wind generation, on existing electricity networks.

Providing power system operators, planners, and analysts with novel simulation software tools, together with new analytical techniques for studying and optimising power system operation will, they believe, play an important part in the delivery of sustainable and secure power systems and will form an integral part of developing smarter grids.

“After completing the UCD Commercialisation Bootcamp at NovaUCD we now have a deeper awareness and understanding of what it takes to build a commercialisation plan around our research outputs,” said Dr Peter Richardson.