Professor Keith Bell

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

Keith Bell joined the University of Strathclyde in 2005 having previously worked as a researcher in Bath, Manchester and Naples and as a system development engineer in the electricity supply industry in Britain. He was appointed to the ScottishPower Chair in Smart Grids in late 2013 and became one of the co-Directors of the UK Energy Research Centre in 2014. In July 2018, along with Ian Cotton, he became Scientific Director of the Electrical Infrastructure Research Hub established by the University of Strathclyde with the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and the University of Manchester and, in April 2019, became a member of the Committee on Climate Change. He is an invited expert member of CIGRE Study Committee C1 on System Development and Economics, a member of the Executive Board of the Power Systems Computation Conference and a member of the Executive Committee of the IET Power Academy, an initiative to promote electric power engineering as a graduate career in the UK. He is a Chartered Engineer and, at different times, has advised the Scottish Government, the Republic of Ireland government, Ofgem and the UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on power systems issues as well as being active in a number of engineering research projects in collaboration with UK and European industry and academic partners.

Prizes and awards

CIGRE Technical Committee Award: Recipient; 12/2010
The CIGRE Technical Committee Award: Recipient; 2010

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Publications

Heterogeneity of UK residential heat demand and its impact on the value case for heat pumps: Flower Jack, Hawker Graeme, Bell Keith; Energy Policy (2020)
Electric vehicles : battery capacity, charger power, access to charging and the impacts on distribution networks: Dixon James, Bell Keith; eTransportation (2020)
OATS : Optimisation and Analysis Toolbox for power Systems: Bukhsh W A, Edmunds C, Bell K R W; IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2020)
Containing a credible loss to within frequency stability limits in a low inertia GB power system: Nedd Marcel, Browell Jethro, Bell Keith, Booth Campbell; IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Vol 56, pp. 1031-1039 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2019.2959996
An investigation into spatial and temporal aspects of transient stability in power systems with increasing renewable generation: Hamilton Robert I, Papadopoulos Panagiotis N, Bell Keith; International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems Vol 115 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2019.105486
Metrics for determining the frequency stability Limits of a power system : a GB case study: Nedd Marcel, Bukhsh Waqquas, MacIver Callum, Bell Keith; 21st Power Systems Computational Conference (2020)

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Teaching

Contributor to EE576/976 (Power System Economics, Markets and Asset Management)
Module registar for EE807 (Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Grid Operation) delivered within the Centre for Doctoral Training on Future Networks
Contributor to EE986 (Assignment and Professional Studies)
Supervisor of 4th year undergraduate projects, MSc projects, and projects in the Centres for Doctoral Training on Wind Energy Systems and Future Networks
Strathclyde representative on the IET Power Academy Executive

Research interests

Power system planning and operation and 'smart grids'
Power system economics, markets and regulation
Energy policy and energy system modelling
Managing risk in power systems and use of statistical methods and intelligent systems
Grid integration of renewables

Professional activities

Risk Day 2020 (EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub): Keynote/plenary speaker; 4/3/2020
Scottish Renewables Offshore Wind Conference, Exhibition & Dinner 2020: Keynote/plenary speaker; 29/1/2020
Digital Planet: Interviewee; 13/1/2020
Northern Ireland Reforming Energy Vision: Speaker; 9/12/2019
MISSION ZERO BUSINESS SUMMIT: Speaker; 12/11/2019
PowerSwarm: Future Electricity Networks and Ancillary Services: Organiser; 5/9/2019

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Projects

Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee of the Scottish Parliament: Bell, Keith (Academic); 25-Jan-2020
NIA Project: Application of convex optimisation to enhance National Grid's NOA process: Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator); 16-Jan-2019 - 15-Jan-2021
Sustainable Security of Supply in a Low Carbon Electricity System: Climate XChange: Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Papadopoulos, Panagiotis (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 29-Jan-2021
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids | Gordon, Samuel: Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Hong, Qiteng (Co-investigator) Gordon, Samuel (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2022
OREC EIRH: Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator) Anaya-Lara, Olimpo (Co-investigator) Burt, Graeme (Co-investigator) Stewart, Brian (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator); 04-Jan-2018 - 03-Jan-2023
Electricity system analysis and policy: Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 03-Jan-2018

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Address

Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Royal College Building

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