Dr Ivana Kockar
Reader
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
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Publications
- Towards resilient energy communities : evaluating the impact of economic and technical optimization
- Gruber Lia, Kockar Ivana, Wogrin Sonja
- International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems Vol 155 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2023.109592
- Flexibility service design for mitigating voltage unbalance in the distribution network
- Fan Jiabin, Kockar Ivana
- 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech IEEE PowerTech 2023 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/PowerTech55446.2023.10202728
- The impact of forecasting accuracy on the economic performance of flexibility provision
- Howorth Gary, Kockar Ivana, Tuohy Paul, Flett Graeme, Bingham John
- 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2023), pp. 11481 (2023)
- Enhanced virtual power plant design and implementation lessons
- Howorth Gary, Kockar Ivana, Tuohy Paul, Flett Graeme, Bingham John
- 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2023), pp. 11344 (2023)
- Enhanced virtual power plant design and implementation lessons [poster & e-slides]
- Howorth Gary, Kockar Ivana, Tuohy Paul, Flett Graeme, Bingham John
- 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2023) (2023)
- Business models for virtual power plants and their impact on economic operation
- Howorth Gary, Kockar Ivana, Tuohy Paul, Flett Graeme, Bingham John
- 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2023), pp. 11346 (2023)
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Teaching
My current teaching interests include:
- Advanced Power System Analysis and Design
- Power System Economics
- Power Systems and Wind Integration (course for Doctoral Training Centre)
- Supervision of undergraduate individual and group projects as well as MSc group and individual projects
My previous teaching at Strathclyde included:
- Power System Analysis and Design
- Power Systems Engineering
- Wind Energy and Distributed Energy Resources
- Management of MSc group and individual projects and case studies
- Integrating Studies will Laboratory for Power Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Professional Studies
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Research Interests
- New approaches, models and tools for integration of DER resources
- Operation of multi-vector energy systems, including heat, transport and hydrogen
- TSO-DSO integration and coordination schemes, including transition towards a DSO
- Aggregation of DER flexibility and local energy markets
- Provision of reserve by different market participants both at transmission and distribution levels
- Electricity market models, policy rules and pricing mechanisms
- Application of agent-based modelling for analysis of aggregation and trading at different electricity markets
- Power System operation, planning and economics
- Application of HPC for power system analysis tools
- Emissions trading and policies to achieve low carbon power systemsMulti Criteria Decision Analysis for policy decisions regarding network structures: centralized vs. decentralized power systems
Professional Activities
- 23rd Power Systems Computational Conference (PSCC) (Event)
- Advisor
- 9/2023
- IEEE PowerTech 2023
- Participant
- 25/6/2023
- IEEE PowerTech 2023
- Participant
- 25/6/2023
- Reliability Studies in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-dominated Distribution Systems
- Examiner
- 7/6/2023
- IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2022 (ISGT Europe 2022)
- Participant
- 10/10/2022
- Electric Vehicle Aggregation Model: A Probabilistic Approach in Representing Flexibility
- Speaker
- 27/6/2022
Projects
- Innovatium: Provision of Support/Tool for assessment of services
- Kockar, Ivana (Principal Investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Yogo, Raymond Okinyi
- Kockar, Ivana (Principal Investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) Yogo, Raymond Okinyi (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- SIES 2022: Smart Integrated Energy Systems: Enhanced Virtual Power Plant VPP+ Energy Pool Intergration for Local and Regional Resistance
- Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Principal Investigator) Burt, Graeme (Co-investigator) Kockar, Ivana (Co-investigator)
- 14-Jan-2019 - 14-Jan-2022
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids | Whittle, James
- Kockar, Ivana (Principal Investigator) Stephen, Bruce (Co-investigator) Whittle, James (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2022
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids | Gill, Gareth
- Kockar, Ivana (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Gill, Gareth (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 01-Jan-2022
- TIC LCPE: Commercial Frequency Response From Wind
- Kockar, Ivana (Principal Investigator) Nedd, Marcel (Co-investigator) McMillan, David (Co-investigator) Browell, Jethro (Co-investigator)
- Investigating the demand for frequency response in the future and the opportunities for delivering a frequency response service using wind power plants.
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2018
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Contact
Dr
Ivana
Kockar
Reader
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: ivana.kockar@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3110