Spotlight on: Power and energy networks
Welcome to our latest Research Spotlight, this time looking at some of the university’s many innovations around power and energy networks.
In an ever-more demanding energy and climate environment, researchers at The University of Manchester are building on our over 100 year history of industrial collaboration with partners like National Grid and Rolls-Royce, to drive vital innovations. We are helping to both make our energy network much more efficient, and to develop ways that it can grow sustainably.
Watch: our latest power and energy networks research
Read: examples of real world impact
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Increasing renewable energy and reducing customer bills
Using managed connections and flexible demand response controls in the electricity network to support decarbonisation with the minimum infrastructure investment.
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Reducing usage of fossil-oil-based insulating liquids in power transformers
Delivering environmental, safety, and financial benefits.
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Discover: our High Voltage Lab
The High Voltage Lab is the biggest electrical infrastructure test facility in UK academia.
Here, interdisciplinary teams innovate at pace, working with industry and governments worldwide, to develop solutions for deployment on the live electricity network.
Find out more about the high voltage lab.
Discover: facts and figures
Our researchers supported National Grid in developing a new T-Pylon design, linking Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station to the National Grid.
Through this research we've helped deliver power to 6 million homes and led to £11 million in estimated cost savings to the UK energy network.
Read: latest news stories
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Manchester’s global challenge-tackling partnership with National Grid shortlisted for Bhattacharyya Award
The University of Manchester’s partnership with National Grid is one of six exceptional industry-academic collaborations shortlisted by The Royal Academy of Engineering and WMG at the University of Warwick for the second annual Bhattacharyya Award.
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Manchester researchers tackling the challenge of increasing electricity demand
Scientists at Manchester are supporting National Grid on a project funded through the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) from Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) to address the challenge of increasing demand for electricity, particularly in more densely populated urban environments.
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Five year energy innovation partnership announced with National Grid
Researchers at Manchester will help decarbonise the electricity system in Great Britain and accelerate progress towards net zero, in a five-year innovation partnership announced with National Grid.
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University of Manchester supporting National Grid’s Strategic Innovation Fund - Sustainable Electrical Gas Insulated Lines
The University of Manchester is supporting a Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) from Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem).
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