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Expertise in battery management systems including the ability to monitor temperature, state-of-charge, and maintain the system within safe operating limits to improve battery life.

Developing power electronic-based optimiser circuits that maximise the energy output, in real time, from photovoltaic panels that have become shaded, hot or are deteriorating. Doing so attacks the costs and benefits of PV systems from two significant directions, improves the yield and enhances the return on investment.

>Providing expertise in broad areas of non-linear control engineering, including the application of control design and algorithm analysis for microgrids.

Using expertise in analysis and control of microgrids to develop and implement novel solutions.

The development of innovative inverter control techniques that improve the overall response of microgrids during both normal operation and grid disturbances.

Research into wind technologies to analyse the impact wind energy has on electricity markets, develop models, and assess the technical impacts of integrating it into the grid.

The expertise to assess the development of microgrids across a range of timescales from the long-term, lifetime cost of energy down to the short intervals required for protection and control systems, where events can occur—and need to be acted on—within milliseconds.

A resynchronisation system has been developed to bring the voltage, phase and frequency of a microgrid back into alignment with the main grid in the event of a fault on the distribution line.

The use of DC microgrids is a potential growth area with a range of platforms including vehicles, aerospace, marine and rail. There is a need for developing tools, techniques and models to back up serious experimental work on hardware prototypes, and is working on protection devices and systems.

Addressing the characterisation of photovoltaic (PV) generation variability to help network operators to plan appropriately for high penetration of distributed PV. A method for estimating the amount a low-voltage feeder can accommodate without exceeding upper voltage limits has been developed, along with methods to manage distribution voltage levels.

In an advanced distribution management system, multi-timescale Volt/VAR functionality enhances the efficiency, sustainability, stability and security of a grid, and its impact can be further improved with fast-acting smart inverters and battery energy storage systems.

Aiming to extend the use of modular multilevel converters across multiple application areas. The family of modular multilevel converters is the very definition of state-of-the-art when it comes to high-power power-electronics conversion.