Dr Calum MacKinnon

R & D Engineer

Power Networks Demonstration Centre

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Area of Expertise

My specialisms are in condition monitoring approaches for high voltage direct current (HVDC) assets to support baseload demand by interconnection, and more recently include control technologies and software design.

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Publications

People, Skills and Jobs in Power System Decarbonisation : Working Collaboratively to Maximise Impact
Brown Eric, MacKinnon Calum, Bell Keith
(2024)
Evolution of electricity distribution control room data streams - UK case study
Morris Euan A, Telford Rory, Mackinnon Calum, Jennett Kyle
2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia) 11th International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (Asia) 2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), pp. 696-700 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1109/isgtasia54193.2022.10003592
A concept solution architecture for electrical distribution control centres
Mackinnon Calum, Hamilton Matthew, Jennett Kyle, Morris Euan, Telford Rory
11th International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (Asia) (2022)
A capacitor bank simulation model
Mackinnon Calum J, Stewart Brian G
2020 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC) 38th IEEE Electrical Insualtion Conference 2020, pp. 494-497 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC47619.2020.9158697
Thermal profiles of high-voltage capacitor units
Mackinnon Calum J, Stewart Brian G
Annual Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (2019) (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP47102.2019.9009725
Regions of electrical stress in high voltage capacitor units
Mackinnon Calum, Stewart Brian G
COMSOL Conference 2019 (2019)

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Projects

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
Cable Health Assessment
MacKinnon, Calum (Co-investigator) Corr, Edward Joseph (Co-investigator)
This project aims to further the work of TAM-011 in developing a facility for asset owners to estimate cables' health and remaining useful life, in anticipation of changing operational burdens these inaccessible assets are expected to see.
29-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
Control Room Analytics
MacKinnon, Calum (Researcher) Telford, Rory (Researcher) Stephen, Bruce (Principal Investigator) Jennett, Kyle (Administrator) Blair, Jennifer (Researcher)
01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
Future Control Room
MacKinnon, Calum (Co-investigator) Morris, Euan (Co-investigator) Jennett, Kyle (Principal Investigator) Telford, Rory (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids | MacKinnon, Calum
Stewart, Brian (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) MacKinnon, Calum (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2015 - 14-Jan-2022

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Dr Calum MacKinnon
R & D Engineer
Power Networks Demonstration Centre

Email: calum.mackinnon@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7439