Walking down Grosvenor Street, I often stared at the massive high-voltage equipment behind the engineering building windows. However, I had neither the time nor the opportunity to visit the Manchester High Voltage…
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Tenerife renewable energy
The Canary Islands are a perfect example of modern isolated power systems. The islands integrate more and more renewables and maintain a reliable power supply, not being connected to any mainland grid.…
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First publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Transactions on Power Systems is an iconic journal for the power systems research community. Many legendary authors in the field have been publishing their top papers here since the 1980s. For young…
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Montenegro transmission lines
With over 80% of its territory covered by mountains, Montenegro has a power system supplied mainly via mountain power lines. This can easily be seen from anywhere in the country. Look at…
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Scout Moor wind farm, Manchester
You may see the blurry silhouettes of this wind farm even from the south of Manchester. But once you approach Bury and Edenfield, you start feeling the real amplitude of this engineering…
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First publication in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews
This is the most comprehensive paper I have written so far and one of the lengthiest publications in power systems research. The review evolved from my thesis (Chapter 2), where I analyzed…
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Testing Electric Snowbike prototype at Skoltech
Almost every vehicle nowadays can be driven by electric motors, which are a quiet and powerful alternative to combustion engines. Their only issues are related to cost-effectiveness and electric batteries. My co-author,…
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PhD Thesis Defense
Finally, the moment has come! I have defended my Ph.D. thesis! At the beginning of 2020, I had a plan to swiftly collect the results from my papers and compose the thesis…
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Basin stability
What do you see in the picture? Actually, as it usually happens in science, you see nature. In this case – the basin stability of a one-node power system, where green nodes…
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Cooperative Game Theory applications in power systems – citation network analysis
The new citation network analysis is ready as an introduction to the thesis. Further details will follow soon. An interactive version of the network is available at: http://materials.andreychurkin.ru/network2/ The network is built…