Professor Robin Preece

Reader in Future Power Systems
Email: robin.preece@manchester.ac.uk

 

I am a Reader in Future Power Systems within the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester. I’ve been at the university since 2005 when I started my BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering With Industrial Experience degree. I graduated in 2009 and then started my PhD in Power Systems Dynamics which I received at the start of 2013 (my thesis has been published by Springer here). Following 18 months of post-doctoral work as a Research Associate, I started as a Lecturer in July 2014.

I have experience working at, and consulting with, DNOs and TSOs on individual projects and collaborative work on a large number of projects – primarily on the dynamic impact of integrating new technologies and power electronics into large systems. I am an active member of the IET, IEEE and Cigre and regularly review papers for conferences and leading academic journals. I have more than 60 international publications (details here) and have spoken at the leading power system conferences around the world.

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30.09.2025

ECR Travel Funding

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Supported through the ECR Travel Fund, Dr Alicia Terrero Gonzalez recently attended the DINAME conference, organised biennially by the Committee of Dynamics of ABCM, the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering

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30.09.2025

ECR Travel Fund Opportunity

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Supported through the ECR Travel Fund, Dr Dimitri Costa (Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen) recently attended the prestigious International Conference on Vibration Problems and International Conference of Wave Mechanics and Vibrations ICOVP/WMVC 2025.

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12.09.2025

Flexible Funding Awarded

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We are delighted to announce two recently awarded projects through our New Entrant to Energy Networks Flexible Funding.

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10.09.2025

Power networks experts call for speedier connection of renewables to deliver Net Zero and AI goals

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World-leading energy networks experts call for renewable power generation facilities to be connected to the UK grid more quickly at a conference in Bath this week.

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28.05.2025

Energy Networks, Justice & Vulnerability

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Achieving government goals will require expanding some energy networks (electricity and heat in particular), while scaling down or changing the use of others (gas).
Blog post by Sheridan Few, Richard Oduro, Peter Taylor, Lucie Middlemiss & Caitlin Robinson

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28.05.2025

DC Microgrids in Remote Communities

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Blog: Off-the-shelf solar home system equipment to build resilient direct current microgrids for off-grid, remote communities in the Amazon rainforest
Dr Sam Williamson recent trip to Ilha do Pacoca in the Amazon rainforest.

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28.05.2025

Energy Network Solutions for Net Zero Whole System Futures

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Supergen Energy Network Impact Hub is taking a mission approach to solving energy network challenges.
Dr Daniel Carr arranged an internal workshop to further develop research questions and work that can be completed in this area

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9.05.2025

Furong Li appointed Research Chair by the Royal Academy of Engineering

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Phil Taylor elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

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2.04.2025

Clearing the Barriers to Heat Networks and Net Zero

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Heat networks are widely recognised as vital to achieving net zero. In cities they will often be the cheapest form of low carbon heating over the long term because they are efficient and can exploit many different sources of waste and ambient heat

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