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Consultancy and Contract Research

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Details of our consultancy and contract research capabilities and expertise will appear shortly. Meanwhile please view the case studies below.

Case Studies

Impact of GB Transmission Charging on Renewable Electricity Generation

Client: Department of Trade and Industry
Partners: SEEF, University of Cambridge, ICF Consulting and Garrad Hassan
Completed: February 2005
Staff involved: Professor Janusz Bialek and Dr Jo Zhou

This work considered the effect of possible dispensations from Transmission Network Use of System (TNUoS) charges for the north of Scotland. Our role involved modelling evolving TNUoS charges while our partners SEEF, Garrad Hassan, ICF Consulting and University of Cambridge did economic modelling. The report may be downloaded from the DTI website or from IES via the following link.

Technical Assessment of Sri Lanka’s Renewable Resource Based Electricity Generation

Client: DFCC Bank, Sri Lanka
Partners: Siemens PTI
Completed: April 2005
Staff involved: Dr Gareth Harrison

This work examined the potential for connecting renewable energy to the Sri Lankan electrical network. It documented the technical considerations and international experience in renewable energy connections and provided an analysis of the opportunity for connections in the existing network. The report can be downloaded from the Sri Lanka Renewable Energy for Rural Economic Development (RERED) project website.

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Dr Robin Wallace
email: Robin.Wallace@ed.ac.uk

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