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.
Prize And Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Recipient
- 3/3/2020
- CIGRE Technical Committee Award
- Recipient
- 12/2010
- The CIGRE Technical Committee Award
- Recipient
- 2010
Publications
- Impact of batteries' energy trading on distribution network congestion : a Great Britain case study
- Brush Susan, Hawker Graeme, Bell Keith
- 2024 59th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC) 2024 59th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), pp. 1-6 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/upec61344.2024.10892549
- Locational signals in a reformed national market: a review of options
- Gill Simon, MacIver Callum, Bell Keith, Gross Rob
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00091751
- How far does the power need to go? The impact of GB-wide transmission network capacity on wind curtailment and access to low carbon electricity
- Gill Simon, Bell Keith
- (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00091062
- People, Skills and Jobs in Power System Decarbonisation : Working Collaboratively to Maximise Impact
- Brown Eric, MacKinnon Calum, Bell Keith
- (2024)
- Batteries in wind-dominated areas of network: solution or problem? A Scottish case study
- Brush S, Hawker G, Bell K
- IET Conference Proceedings Vol 2023, pp. 144-149 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2023.3220
- Management of extreme weather impacts on electricity grids : an international review
- Hawker Graeme, Bell Keith, Bialek Janusz, MacIver Callum
- Progress in Energy Vol 6 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1083/ad3f6a
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
- SDSN UK - Going green: Debating the socio-economic impacts of achieving Net Zero
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 24/1/2024
- Joint UK-China Expert Symposium on Sustainable Development and Decarbonisation
- Speaker
- 8/6/2023
- COP26 Reflections
- Participant
- 16/12/2021
- 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
Projects
- Northern Power Grid Intro to Power Systems 2025 Course
- Campos-Gaona, David (Principal Investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator) Kockar, Ivana (Co-investigator) Recalde Camacho, Luis (Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2025
- UK Energy Research Centre Phase 5
- Speirs, Jamie (Principal Investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Co-investigator) Dixon, James (Co-investigator) Hawker, Graeme (Co-investigator) Katris, Antonios (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2028
- Future Energy Skills Summit
- MacKinnon, Calum (Research Co-investigator) Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator) Brown, Eric (Principal Investigator) Anderson, Pauline (Academic)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 27-Jan-2024
- Global Centers Track 1: Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society (EPICS) (NSF Global Centres)
- Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
- SIF NGESO Scenarios for Extreme Events alpha
- Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator) Hong, Qiteng (Co-investigator) Jamieson, Magnus (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- UKERC Phase 4: The Need For New Sources Of Flexibility
- Hawker, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 29-Jan-2024
Contact
Professor
Keith
Bell
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: keith.bell@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4651