Professor Mark O'Malley, Director of the UCD Energy Institute discusses the use, and role, of Integrated energy systems.

Energy systems have evolved from individual energy devices into complex integrated systems that have strong coupling between energy vectors across spatial and temporal scales. Energy Systems Integration (ESI) is the optimization of energy systems across these energy vectors and scales.

ESI is most valuable at the interfaces where the coupling and interactions are strong and represent a challenge and/or an opportunity. ESI control variables are technical, economic, regulatory with a strong human dimension. ESI benefits include increase reliability and performance, minimisation of cost and environmental impacts and in particular, increased penetration of renewable energy sources.

Biography

Mark O’Malley, is the Professor of Electrical Engineering, director of the Energy Institute and Electricity Research Centre at University College Dublin, Ireland and co-founder of the International Institute for Energy Systems Integration (IESI). He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and is recognized as a world authority on grid integration of renewable energy with active research collaborations in Europe, China and the United States, in particular with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.