Personal statement

I joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Strathclyde in 1998, and am currently a Reader in Electrial and Electronic Engineering.

Based within the Advanced Electrical Systems group within the Institute for Energy and Environment (InstEE), I currently lead two research groups,
the first in Novel Electrical Systems and the second in Data Analytics. My research is concerned with multi-domain modelling of aircraft, marine
and micro-grid applications and the data analytics related to smart energy, smart grid and behavioural change.
As such, the research spans two of the defining themes of the University’s Technology and Innovation Centre, namely, Power & Energy and
Human & Social Aspects of Technology

I have been fully committed to and engaged with Departmental undergraduate and MSc course delivery for more than 10 years, accumulating extensive
experience of teaching, assessment, module design and course development at all levels.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

Applied mathematical optimisation
Novel electrical systems
Electrical demand characterisation
Data analytics
Social and behavioural aspects of energy

Publications

Design of a DSO-TSO balancing market coordination scheme for decentralised energy: Edmunds C, Galloway S, Elders I, Bukhsh W, Telford R; IET Generation Transmission and Distribution Vol 14, pp. 707–718 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-gtd.2019.0865
Sustainability of solar PV energy kiosks for off-grid energy access : Malawi case study: Frame Damien, Dauenhauer Peter, Eales Aran, Galloway Stuart; 2019 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2019 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC46095.2019.9033449
Sustainability evaluation of community-based, solar photovoltaic projects in Malawi: Dauenhauer Peter M, Frame Damien, Eales Aran, Strachan Scott, Galloway Stuart, Buckland Hannah; Energy, Sustainability and Society Vol 10 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-020-0241-0
Non-Gaussian residual based short term load forecast adjustment for distribution feeders: Stephen Bruce, Telford Rory, Galloway Stuart; IEEE Access Vol 8, pp. 10731-10741 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2965320
Assessing the market for solar photovoltaic (PV) microgrids in Malawi: Eales Aran, Alsop Alfred, Frame Damien, Strachan Scott, Galloway Stuart; Hapres Journal of Sustainability Research Vol 2 (2020); https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20200008
The Impact of Energy System Decarbonisation and Decentralisation on Scotland's Electrical System: Telford Rory, Galloway Stuart, Robertson Elizabeth, Frame Damien; (2019)

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Teaching

Mathematical experience
Applied Optimisation
Information from data
Programming for research

Research interests

Industrial applications
Experimental design
Human factors in energy
Scenario development

Professional activities

QFF Quarterly Forecasting Forum, June 2018: Organiser; 8/6/2018
IET Electrical Systems in Transportation (Journal): Editor; 7/2010

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Projects

The Impact of Energy System Decarbonisation and Decentralisation on Scotland's Electrical System CxC Project J Bowes: Galloway, Stuart (Principal Investigator); 06-Jan-2020 - 05-Jan-2021
SMPP (Scaleable Multi-Platform Power Systems): Norman, Patrick (Principal Investigator) Burt, Graeme (Co-investigator) Galloway, Stuart (Co-investigator); 09-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2021
Analytical Middleware for Informed Distribution Networks (AMIDiNe): Stephen, Bruce (Principal Investigator) Browell, Jethro (Co-investigator) Galloway, Stuart (Co-investigator) Wallom, David (Co-investigator); The programme of research that constitutes AMIDiNe will devise analytics that link point measurement to whole system to address the increasingly problematic management of electrical load on distribution networks as the UK transitions to a low carbon energy system. Traditionally, distribution networks had no observability and power flowed from large generation plant to be consumed by customers in this 'last mile'. Now, and even more so in future, those customers are generators themselves and the large generators that once supplied them have been supplanted by intermittent renewables. This scenario has left the GB energy system in position where it is servicing smaller demands at a regional or national level but faces abrupt changes in the face of weather and group changes in load behaviour, therefore it needs to be more informed on the behaviour of distribution networks. The UK government's initiative to roll out Smart Meters across the UK by 2020 has the potential to illuminate the true nature of electricity demand at the distribution and below levels which could be used to inform network operation and planning. Increasing availability of Smart Meter data through the Data Communications Company has the potential to address this but only when placed within the context of analytical and physical models of the wider power system - unlike many recent 'Big Data' applications of machine learning, power systems applications encounter lower coverage of exemplars, feature well understood system relations but poorly understood behaviour in the face of uncertainty in established power system models.

AMIDiNe sets out its analytics objectives in 3 interrelated areas, those of understanding how to incorporate analytics into existing network modelling strategies, how go from individual to group demand behavioural anticipation and the inverse problem: how to understand the constituent elements of demand aggregated to a common measurement point.

Current research broadly involving Smart Metering focuses on speculative developments of future energy delivery networks and energy management strategies. Whether the objective is to provide customer analytics or automate domestic load control, the primary issue lies with understanding then acting on these data streams. Challenges that are presented by customer meter advance data include forecasting and prediction of consumption, classification or segmentation by customer behaviour group, disambiguating deferrable from non-deferrable loads and identifying changes in end use behaviour.

Moving from a distribution network with enhanced visibility to augmenting an already 'smart' transmission system will need understanding of how lower resolution and possibly incomplete representations of the distribution network(s) can inform more efficient operation and planning for the transmission network in terms of control and generation capacity within the context of their existing models. Improving various distribution network functions such as distribution system state estimation, condition monitoring and service restoration is envisaged to utilise analytics to extrapolate from the current frequency of data, building on successful machine learning techniques already used in other domains. Strategic investment decisions for network infrastructure components can be made on the back of this improved information availability. These decisions could be deferred or brought forward in accordance with perceived threats to resilience posed by overloaded legacy plant in rural communities or in highly urbanised environments; similarly, operational challenges presented by renewable penetrations could be re-assessed according to their actual behaviour and its relation to network voltage and emergent protection configuration constraints.; 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2021
AGILE - Aggregators as diGital Intermediaries in Local Electricity markets: EPSRC/ESC Follow on Funding: Galloway, Stuart (Principal Investigator) Irvine, James (Co-investigator) Stephen, Bruce (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2020
Rural Energy Access through Social Enterprise and Decentralisation (EASE): Galloway, Stuart (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2020
Modern Energy Cooking Services Programme MECS: Galloway, Stuart (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2023

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