Energy

Transforming the way we produce and use energy is central to creating a more sustainable world. Led by UCD Energy Institute, researchers from across UCD and our national and international partnerships are working collaboratively towards net zero carbon, modernised integrated energy systems, while empowering citizens through education, innovation and digitalisation.

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€11m

Energy Systems Integration Partnership Programme (ESIPP) which is an €11m capacity building project co-funded by Science Foundation Ireland, industry and philanthropic donation.

Innovation

OxyMem Ltd, a UCD spin-out company, declared winner of the overall ‘Innovation of the Year’ Award at the 2014 Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards

Top 1%

UCD's research in Electric Power Transmission Networks; Wind Power; Electric Power Distribution is in the 99th percentile by worldwide Topic Cluster Prominence (Elsevier SciVal).

20+

UCD Energy Institute collaborates with 20+ industry partners on research

Research Units and Programmes

UCD Energy Institute

Collaboration between academia and industry delivering positive impact through research and innovation towards a net Zero Carbon future.

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ESIPP

Flagship programme of UCD Energy Institute that brought together a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research team with expertise in electricity, gas, water and data, with industry partners, to build human capacity and develop a coherent national research activity in ESI.

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EU-SysFlex

Pan-European system with an efficient coordinated use of flexibilities for the integration of a large share of RES, H2020 project to develop new types of services that will meet the needs of the system with more than 50% of renewable energy sources.

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Pan-European Technology Energy Research Approach (PANTERA)

A H2020 project to set up a European research and innovation forum of stakeholders in the fields of smart grids, storage and local energy systems, including policy makers, standardisation bodies and experts.

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WinGrid

Researching Wind Farm Grid Interactions, developing next generation researchers on power system integration issues associated with the large-scale deployment of wind generation.

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EVCHIP

Electric Vehicles Charging Platform for Community Demand Response Aggregators, a project to explore and validate a business model for realising the commercial value of EV charging services aggregation.

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RE-SERVE

Network of industrial partners, universities and SMEs across four EU countries to develop and field test new techniques that can enable a stable supply of purely renewable resources.

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RealValue

A game-changing H2020 energy storage project involving thousands of Smart Electric Thermal Storage Systems (SETS) in over 800 homes and businesses across Ireland, Germany and Latvia.

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Migrate

Massive InteGRATion of power Electronic devices, seeking solutions for the technological challenges facing the grid now and in the future.

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IoE2 Lab

Multi-disciplinary research laboratory particularly focusing on developing enabling technologies and scientific breakthroughs for next generation internet of things and future (5G) communication networks, part of UCD Centre for Internet of Things Engineering.

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5G GaN2

Using Advanced Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology to lower the cost and power consumption, and increase the output power of mm-wave active antenna systems, to enable fifth generation (5G) communications technologies.

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Integrated Energy Lab

Testing new energy management technologies likely to be deployed in houses and small communities, in partnership between UCD Energy Institute and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). 

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EMPowER

Local Electricity Retail Markets for 'Prosumer' Smart Grid Power Services, encouraging and enabling the active participation of citizens that consume and produce energy in the electrical system.

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UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy

World-class expertise in a wide-ranging set of disciplines across Social Sciences and Law, Health and Agricultural Sciences and Business.

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Impact

Assoc Prof Damian Flynn: Maintaining the balance of power – through engineering

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Energy-saving UCD technology breathes life into wastewater treatment

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Prof Bogdan Staszewski: Smart science to power the Internet of Things

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Featured Researchers

Prof Andrew Keane

Director of UCD Energy Institute and of NexSys, specialises in power systems planning and operation, integration of distrbuted energy resources and distribution networks.

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Prof Lisa Ryan

Expert in energy economics and Fellow of UCD Energy Institute, specialises in clean energy technology adoption, energy markets, and climate change economics and related policy. 

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Prof Federico Milano

Professor in Power Systems Control & Protection at the UCD School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, leading expert in power systems modelling, stability analysis and control.

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Dr Paula Carroll

Assistant Professor of UCD School Quinn School of Business, specialises in the application of business analytics and operations research techniques, with focus on optimisation problems in energy systems integration to achieve climate mitigation actions. 

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Environmental Sustainability: Trends in Energy Emissions and Taxation

  • Patrick Malone, UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy

In 2018, total greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland amounted to over 60,900 kilotonne Co2 equivalents, representing a decrease of almost 9.7% from 2008. The largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions came from the energy sector and within that, transport accounted for the largest share. Despite the decrease in emissions during the years 2008-18, Ireland is among the highest emitters of greenhouse gases in the EU.

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Publications

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November 2016

Wind and solar energy curtailment: A review of international experience

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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June 2018

Foundations and challenges of low-inertia systems (Invited Paper)

20th Power Systems Computation Conference, PSCC 2018

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July 2015

Optimal DR and ESS scheduling for distribution losses payments minimisation under electricity price uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

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September 2015

Generalised Model of VSC-based Energy Storage Systems for Transient Stability Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

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