ProfessorGoran Strbac

Goran Strbac is a Professor of Energy Systems, with extensive experience in advanced modelling and analysis of operation, planning, security and economics of multi-energy systems. He led the development of novel advanced analysis approaches and methodologies that have been extensively used to inform industry, governments and regulatory bodies about the role and value of emerging new technologies and systems in supporting cost effective evolution to smart low carbon energy future. He is currently Co-director of the joint Imperial-Tsinghua Research Centre on Intelligent Power and Energy Systems,  Member of the UK Smart System Forum, Member of the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for the Energy Transition, and Member of the Joint EU Programme in Energy Systems Integration of the European Energy Research Alliance. He co-authored 4 books and published over 500 technical papers. 

Research areas
Whole-energy system modelling - Integration of multi-vector energy systems (electricity, hydrogen, transport, heating, etc.) , across operation and investment timescales & local district and national level infrastructures,

Energy market design - market for energy and flexibility services in low carbon systems, P2P trading, efficient network pricing, business models for decentralised operation and investment.

Integration of renewable energy sources – role and value of emerging technologies and systems in supporting cost effective integration of variable renewable generation, system integration costs.

Distributed energy resources - business case for energy storage technologies, value of flexible demand, vehicle to grid.

Security and resilience of future energy infrastructure – reliability performance of energy infrastructure, fundamental review of network operation and design standards.

Energy planning under uncertainties – design of future energy systems under multi-dimensional uncertainties; option value of flexible technologies.

Current Membership of expert and advisory committees / groups 

Member of EU ETIP-SNET WG1 
Member of the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) - Study Committee on Distribution Networks and Distributed Generation, representing UK
Member of the National Technical Committee of the Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED) and Reporter for Section 4 on Distributed Energy Resources
Member of Annex 25 of the International Energy Agency - Power Systems with Large Amounts of Wind Power
Member of the IEEE PES System Economics SubCommittee

Member of UKPN DSO Advisory Board 

Member of OFGEM Climate Resilience Expert Panel

Journal Editorial 
Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Electric Power & Energy Systems
Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Foundations and Trends in Electric Energy Systems
Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Applied Energy
Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Energy Storage
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources and Smart Grids

Associate Editor of the iEnergy Jurnal

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