Professor Gareth Taylor
Research Centre Director/Professor

Research area(s)

He has contributed to over 250 research publications concerning applied mathematics, data communications, information systems and high performance computing in electrical power systems and engineering.

His current research interests include:

Smart Grids; Renewable Energy Systems; Micro-generation; Reactive power & voltage control; Power systems & network communications and information systems; Power system & network operation; Power system economics & electricity markets.

http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~eesrgat/research/publicat.html

Grants

Project details

He has led and collaborated on a number of high profile power systems, smart grids and renewable energy research projects as follows:

• TDX-ASSIST, RIA, Horizon 2020, 2017-20, £5.2M, Coordination of Transmission and Distribuition data eXchanges for renewables integration in the European marketplace through Advanced Scalable and Secure ICT Systems and Tools, Project Coordinator
• British Council Global Innovation Initiative, 1 April 2014 - 31 March 2016, £134.6K, Design and Development of International Electricity Highway Systems, International Project Lead
• EPSRC-NSFC, 2013, £690k, Developing Scalable Smart Grid Infrastructure to Enable Secure Transmission System Control, International Project Lead
• e-Highway2050, EU-IP, 2012, £8.2M, Modular Development Plan of the Pan-European Transmission System 2050, Principal Investigator
• ADEPT, EPSRC, 2011, £303,898 Advanced Dynamic Energy Pricing and Tariffs, Principal Investigator
• Scenario for the Development of Smart Grids in the UK, Principal Investigator, UKERC, 2011, £500K, a 2 year inter-disciplinary collaborative award to five UK Universities including BIPS, Brunel
• HiPerDNO, EU-STREP, FP7, 2010-13, £5.4M, High Performance Computing Technologies for Smart Distribution Network Operation, Project Coordinator