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Omotola Adeoye

Thesis Title: Reliability of super-grid wide area electricity networks connecting Europe with North Africa and the Middle East

Primary supervisor: Dr. Catalina Spataru
Secondary supervisor: Professor Neil Strachan

Renewable resources like wind and solar are widely spread geographically and are sometimes remote from areas of high-energy demand. In order to balance energy supply from remotely located renewable resources with the demand from urban load centers, it is essential to have super grids that can reliably facilitate long distance transmission between countries and continents. Given the European Union’s goals to increase energy consumption from renewable sources and the high potential of wind and solar energy in North Africa and Middle East, the reliability of a super grid across Europe, North Africa and Middle East needs to be explored. The key aim of this PhD research is to assess the impact of fault conditions and power failures on European countries when transmitting electricity from remote solar and offshore wind plants in North Africa and Middle East to large urban centers in Europe using high voltage direct current transmission lines. 

Biography 

Omotola is a PhD student in the UCL Energy Institute.  She holds a BEng (2010) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Covenant University, Nigeria and an MSc (2012) in Electrical Power Systems from University of Bath.  Prior to coming to UCL, Omotola worked at Arup designing electrical services for building in health, sports and education sector. Her MSc thesis focused on the investigating the impact of distributed generation on voltage profile and harmonic distortion during normal and fault conditions.  As a PhD student her research is in line with her Master’s thesis as it focuses on the reliability of cross continental super grids during fault conditions and power failures.