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.
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
- Unpacking the Sixth Carbon Budget - the transition for manufacturing, construction and fossil fuel supply
- Chair
- 15/12/2020
- Unpacking the Sixth Carbon Budget - the transition for energy
- Chair
- 14/12/2020
- What the Sixth Carbon Budget means for Scotland
- Chair
- 9/12/2020
- UKERC-BEIS workshop on future energy markets
- Organiser
- 30/11/2020
- Can we meet people's need for electricity without burning fossil fuels?
- Keynote speaker
- 1/10/2020
- UK Universities' COP26 Network (External organisation)
- Chair
- 10/2020
More professional activities
Projects
- Credible routes to GB electricity system collapse and the impact of new demand (Supergen FlexiFund)
- Colson, Abigail (Principal Investigator) Bedford, Tim (Co-investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator)
- 10-Jan-2021 - 19-Jan-2022
- Control React [NIA, subcontracted by TNEI]
- Browell, Jethro (Principal Investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021
- Network headroom, engineering upgrades and public acceptance (NEUPA): Connecting engineering for heat system change to consumers and citizens
- Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator) Hawker, Graeme (Research Co-investigator) Flower, Jack (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2023
- 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 - 30-Jan-2021
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