This webinar provided relevant information about what it takes to reach carbon neutrality with the help of hydrogen and other low carbon technologies in transport from the two countries' perspectives; Chile and the UK and Ireland.
Another chance to watch the UK and Ireland PES Chapter co-hosted webinar entitled “Quality Assurance of Transformer” presented by professional engineer Ronnie Minhaz.
Dr Alessandra Parisio, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Manchester, has been awarded the 2021 IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award.
Professor Stephen McArthur, Deputy Associate Principal at the University of Strathclyde for Research, Knowledge Exchange and Innovation, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award.
IEEE UK & Ireland PES chapter held its General Annual Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday 1st December with an online format due to COVID restrictions.
On 24th October the UK and Ireland PES Chapter co-hosted a Distinguished Lecturer Programme webinar in conjunction with the Nigerian Society of Engineers Scotland UK Branch, and the IEEE Nigeria Power and Energy Society Chapter for the first time in the Chapter's long history.
The Power and Energy Society (PES) student chapter at the University of Manchester won two Darrel Chong Student Activity Awards and the PES High Performing Student Branch Chapter Award (2nd regional position across Africa, Europe, Middle East (Region8) ) at the recent IEEE Annual Award Ceremony.
In early November 2020, the IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter at the University of Manchester (UoM) hosted their biggest annual event, MEEPS, via the online platform Zoom. The event attracted 244 registrations, of which 118 were IEEE members, including researchers from around the world, as well as sponsor representatives and guests from industry and academia.
IEEE UK and Ireland Power and Energy Society Chapter won ‘Region 8 Chapter of the year award’ in its large chapter category.
In this webinar Dr Grazia Todeschini provided an introduction to power quality concerns, by reviewing definitions, standards, sources of power quality problems, and available mitigating solutions. She also gave an overview of on-going research projects in this area including modelling of power electronics converters for harmonic assessment, harmonic mitigation, deep learning applied to power quality analytics, power quality in dc microgrids and power quality assessment for tidal energy projects.
