Dr Calum MacKinnon
R & D Engineer
Power Networks Demonstration Centre
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Area of Expertise
I work at interfaces between digital systems and physical energy infrastructure. My PhD is in condition monitoring for high voltage direct current (HVDC) assets which support baseload demand through interconnection with overseas power systems, and more recently I have worked on designing data-driven control centres, software design and development for power system operation and asset monitoring, experimental testing, and to support power system skills and industrial strategy.
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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
- CETP Grid Scale-up
- MacKinnon, Calum (Co-investigator) Benghalia, Gladys (Co-investigator) Jones, Kit (Co-investigator) Knight, Richard (Co-investigator) Drury, Will (Principal Investigator) Nikolov, Aleksandar (Co-investigator) Dowson, Martin (Principal Investigator) Cantwell, Paul (Principal Investigator) Agzennai Soares, Samir (Co-investigator)
- In pursuit of the energy transition, £40 bn is to be annually invested in the GB power system to help meet the UK Government's mission for clean energy. Global supply chains are already under strain from similar aspirations internationally, such that demand for power system assets and equipment is likely to exceed available supply capacities. In turn, supply constraints could delay infrastructure upgrades and hence risk clean energy ambitions.
This project lists, and then quantifies, volumes of power system assets required to meet existing plans for new infrastructure, before estimating associated economic opportunities, all of which is supported by engagement with industry representatives. Together this reveals where market failures arise in global supply chains when faced with significantly scaling demand.
This £183,000 project is an early example of collaboration among industry-facing University centres on behalf of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, and draws on contributions from across a 'triple-helix' of interests in UK-based and international supply chains, from: academia; catapults; SMEs; OEMs; network operators; and the UK Government forming a Grid Industrial Growth Plan aligned to the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy. - 02-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- 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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Contact
Dr
Calum
MacKinnon
R & D Engineer
Power Networks Demonstration Centre
Email: calum.mackinnon@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7439