Imperial expert to lead decarbonisation of power grid with £4m Leverhulme grant

Prof O’Malley in the Digital Energy Demonstrator with Darren Jones, techno
Prof O’Malley in the Digital Energy Demonstrator with Darren Jones, technology manager from Hitachi.
Prof O'Malley in the Digital Energy Demonstrator with Darren Jones, technology manager from Hitachi. Professor Mark O-Malley has joined Imperial College London as the Leverhulme International Professor of Power Systems. Professor O'Malley joins the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering to lead a research team of 13 working to decarbonise the electricity grid, supported by £4million in funding from The Leverhulme Trust. Climate change is the biggest challenge of our generation. A powerful way to tackle this will be transitioning to a fully decarbonised electricity grid Professor Mark O'Malley Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - The grant will focus on developing technologies to run the power grid - the network that delivers electricity from producers to consumers, also known as the electricity grid - using 100 per cent renewable energy like wind and solar. Professor O'Malley said: "Climate change is the biggest challenge of our generation. A powerful way to tackle this will be transitioning to a fully decarbonised electricity grid, and one way of doing this is by going towards 100 % renewable electricity.
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