Dr Waqquas Bukhsh
Lecturer In Ad Opt & D S Power Systems
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
Waqquas Bukhsh is a National Grid ESO Lecturer in Advanced Optimisation and Decision-support at the Department of Electrical and Electronics engineering. His research is focused on problems at the interface of optimisation and power systems, typically involving high degrees of risk and uncertainty. He is a lead developer of OATS, which is an open-source power system simulation toolbox.
Before joining Strathclyde, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and before that, he was a PG student at the University of Edinburgh. He was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Copenhagen.
Qualifications
- PhD in Operations Research and Optimization, The University of Edinburgh, 2014.
- BS in Mathematics, COMSATS University, 2008
Publications
- Vehicle to grid : driver plug-in patterns, their impact on the cost and carbon of charging, and implications for system flexibility
- Dixon James, Bukhsh Waqquas, Bell Keith, Brand Christian
- eTransportation Vol 13 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etran.2022.100180
- Identification of important locational, physical and economic dimensions in power system transient stability margin estimation
- Hamilton Robert I, Papadopoulos Panagiotis N, Bukhsh Waqquas, Bell Keith
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy Vol 13, pp. 1135-1146 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2022.3153843
- Hosting capacity assessment of heat pumps and optimised electric vehicle charging on low voltage networks
- Edmunds Calum, Galloway Stuart, Dixon James, Bukhsh Waqquas, Elders Ian
- Applied Energy (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117093
- The impact of interconnectors on the GB electricity sector and European carbon emissions
- MacIver Callum, Bukhsh Waqquas, Bell Keith
- Energy Policy (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112170
- Assessing the value of increasing GB interconnection
- Bukhsh Waqquas, MacIver Callum, Bell Keith
- Electric Power Systems Research Vol 190 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2020.106691
- Metrics for determining the frequency stability limits of a power system : a GB case study
- Nedd Marcel, Bukhsh Waqquas, MacIver Callum, Bell Keith
- Electric Power Systems Research (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2020.106553
Research Interests
Waqquas's research interests lie in the areas of optimisation, networks, algorithm design and analysis, and applications of optimisation to electricty networks.
Professional Activities
- Balancing Programme: Future of the Control Centre
- Speaker
- 19/6/2023
- Calculating capability: powering the future
- Recipient
- 1/4/2020
- National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO)
- Visiting researcher
- 25/2/2020
- Supergen Energy Networks Hub - Markets & Regulation Working Group (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 1/1/2020
- Windfarms2017
- Participant
- 31/5/2017
- 27th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO)
- Participant
- 13/7/2015
Projects
- Assessing the Potential for Hydrogen to Reduce Curtailment of Renewable Electricity in Scotland
- Hawker, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Bukhsh, Waqquas (Co-investigator)
- 18-Jan-2021 - 14-Jan-2022
- OATS Training Course for National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) Pakistan
- Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator)
- A day-long training workshop for the control engineers of the National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) of Pakistan. The workshop provides hands-on experience of solving power flow and optimal power flow problems using Strathclyde's power systems simulation tool OATS.
- 21-Jan-2021 - 21-Jan-2021
- Rethinking the Design of Great Britain’s Capacity Market
- Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
- IAA Balancing the Electricity System – Bulk Despatch
- Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- 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
- Potential benefits of Synchronous Compensators in reducing curtailment costs due to RoCoF considerations
- Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator) MacIver, Callum (Co-investigator) Nedd, Marcel (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2019
Contact
Dr
Waqquas
Bukhsh
Lecturer In Ad Opt & D S Power Systems
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: waqquas.bukhsh@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7233