Janusz Bialek

Biography

Education: MEng and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology in 1977 and 1981, respectively. Employment record: 1981-1989  Lecturer, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. 1989 – 2002 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Durham University, UK. 2003 – 2009 Bert Whittington Chair of Electrical Engineering, the University of Edinburgh, UK. 2009 – 2013 Chair of Electrical Power and Control, Durham University, UK 2013 – 2014 DONG Energy Chair of Renewable Energy, Durham University, UK since 2014 Director of Center for Energy Systems, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia External appointments: 2000 Visiting Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) 2001 secondment to National Grid, UK 2007 Honorary Professor, Heriot-Watt University, UK 2008 Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University 2012 DECC/EPSRC Science Policy Fellow, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), UK Government Honours Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) “for contributions to transmission pricing and power system dynamics”. IEEE is the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology. Selected external activities since 1990s, reviewer for top energy journals, both engineering and economics since 1990s, member of Technical Committees of major power engineering conferences including Power System Computation Conference, IEEE PowerTech, IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe and other since 2007 – member of the Dispute Resolution Panel for the Single Electricity Market Operator, Ireland. 2007-2011 member of Advisory Board of Electricity Policy Research Group, Cambridge University. 2012 Guest Editor of a special issue “Risk and reliability modelling of energy systems”, Journal of Risk and Reliability (Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Part O. 2014 Technical Chair of Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS) since 2016 member of Advisory Editorial Board, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems since 2016 member of International Scientific Advisory Board, EPSRC Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) 2016/17 member of Editorial Board of special section on Energy System Integration, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids Industrial experience and consultancies Non-executive independent Director of KEGOC, Kazakhstan National Grid Company. Consultant to the UK government, International Energy Agency, European Commission, Scottish Government, Elexon, Polish Power Grid Company, Scottish Power and Enron. (Details on request) Research profile Generally, Janusz’s research deals with achieving stable, secure, sustainable and economic supply of electricity while meeting the challenges of reducing CO2 emissions – please see his interview in 17 October 2011 edition of New Statesman. His particular expertise is technical and economic integration of renewable generation in the power system, smart grids, preventing of electricity blackouts and power system dynamics. His main engineering background is in power systems but his research is interdisciplinary in nature and he collaborates closely with economists, statisticians, mathematicians, physicists, social scientists and computer scientists. Although Janusz is mainly interested in tackling long-term fundamental research problems, and as such his research used  to be primarily funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK, he also works regularly with transmission and distribution network operators, government agencies, and consultancies. Publications 2 books, 2 chapters in books, 8 published reports and about 150 research papers including nearly 50 academic journal papers. The publications have attracted about 3400 citations according to Google Scholar. His two seminal sole-authored papers on electricity tracing have attracted about 1200 citations according to Google Scholar.

Research Interest

power system analysis power system economics power system dynamics technical and economic integration of renewables in power systems smart grids blackouts and their prevention Recent research grants Ministry of Education and Science (MES), Russian Federation: “Distribution grid dynamics, stability and control”, 2014-2017, 24M Rubles. Projects funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK: Principle Investigator (PI) of “Preventing wide-area blackouts through adaptive islanding of transmission networks“, 2009-2013. This £1.1M consortium involving also Edinburgh and Southampton was funded from EPSRC Energy Challenges in Complexity Science call Co-Investigator (Co-I) of “Energy storage for low-carbon grids” (2012-2016) awarded in a prestigious Grand Challenges in Energy Storage call. This £5M interdisciplinary project led by Imperial College involves power engineers, economists, chemists and material scientists from 9 universities to address, in an integrated manner, all aspects of the Grand Challenge in Integrating Energy Storage into Future Energy Networks. CoI of “The Autonomic Power System” project awarded in a prestigious EPSRC Grand Challenges in Networks call (2011-2015). This is a large (£3.4M) interdisciplinary project undertaken in collaboration with Strathclyde, Imperial College, Manchester, Cambridge and East Anglia PI for Durham of “High Energy And Power Density (HEAPD) Solutions to Large Energy Deficits”, submitted in response to the India / UK Smart Grids Call, 2014-2018. The project involves collaboration with Bath (lead), Cardiff, and four Indian Institutes: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITK), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur. Co-I of “Development and Evaluation of Sustainable Technologies for Flexible Operation of Conventional Power Plants”, 2013-2018. This £4.6M Durham-led consortium includes Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh and Leeds with the aim to accelerate progress towards achieving operational excellence for flexible, efficient, controllable, safe and environmentally sustainable thermal power plants. PI for Durham University of “Pumped Thermal Electricity Storage” (2012-2016). This project is aimed at investigating a novel storage technology that uses a high temperature-ratio heat pump to convert electrical energy into thermal energy. The project is led by Cambridge University and includes Imperial College. PI for Durham of “Coarse geometry and cohomology of large data sets” project awarded in Maths Underpinning Digital Economy and Energy call (2011-2015). The proposal came first in the Digital Economy panel. This is an interdisciplinary project  undertaken in collaboration with mathematicians in Southampton Co-I of “Mathematical foundations for energy networks: buffering, storage and transmission” project awarded in Maths Underpinning Digital Economy and Energy call (2011-2015). The proposal came first in the Energy panel. This is an interdisciplinary project undertaken in collaboration with mathematicians in Cambridge and Heriot Watt PI of initially Edinburgh (and then Durham) involvement in SuperGen “Flexible Networks” consortium (FlexNet), 2007-2011. The consortium included top UK universities and most of UK Distribution Network Operators. PI of Edinburgh involvement in SuperGen 5 “Asset Management and Performance in Energy Networks” (AMPerES) consortium, 2006-2010. The consortium included top UK universities of and most of UK Distribution Network Operators. PI of Edinburgh involvement in “AURA-NMS Autonomous Regional Active Network Management System (AURA-NMS)”, 2006-2009. This smart-grids consortium included 6 UK universities with industrial support provided by ScottishPower, EdF and ABB. PI of Edinburgh involvement in EPSRC project “Smart Grid Oscillation Management for a Changing Generation Mix”,2006-2008. PI for Edinburgh of SuperGen 1 “Future Network Technologies” consortium, 2003-2007, £317k. The consortium involved the following universities: Edinburgh, Imperial College, Cambridge, Manchester, Strathclyde, Birmingham, Bath, de Montfort. Janusz has been also involved in the following projects funded by the industry and governments: Co-I on £54M “Customer-led Network Revolution” project awarded by Ofgem in Low Carbon Network Fund initiative (2011-2014). The UK’s biggest smart grid project is in the forefront of the move towards a low-carbon economy. 14,000 homes and businesses, mostly in the North East and Yorkshire, is involved in this innovative £54 million project, helping us to find ways for customers to reduce both their energy costs and carbon emissions in the years to come. Co-I of “Investigating the Role of Energy Storage Systems in Smart Grids” project awarded in 2010 by Electricity North West Co-I of “Risk Limiting Dispatch” funded by Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), USA, 2009-2011. The aim was to develop an integrated scheduling system that accommodates the new information capabilities of Smart Grids. The project involved Professor Felix Wu of Hong Kong University and Professor Pravin Varaya of University of California, Berkeley. Co-I of “Matching Renewable Electricity Generation with Demand“, 2004-5. The study was commissioned by the Scottish Government to determine whether Scotland could meet its target for electricity being supplied from renewable resources. The study involved comprehensive survey of on- and off-shore wind, wave and tidal resources in Scotland PI of “Identification of parameters of synchronous machine”, funded by EPRI, 2001-2 PI of “Real and Reactive Power Tracking: Proof of Concept and Feasibility Study”,funded by EPRI, 1999 PI of “Decentralized Damping of Power Swings: Feasibility Study”,  funded by EPRI, 1999