Sustainable Electrical Power Systems Engineering Course undertaken at Manchester University

Nine colleagues at Blake Clough have recently enrolled on a unit of the Sustainable Electrical Power Systems Engineering course at Manchester University, taking the Introduction to Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems Module. This initiative, supported by Blake Clough, will allow our graduate consultants to apply their existing STEM background experience more specifically to the field of Power Systems as a part of their development at the company.

The course offers a comprehensive overview of the structure and role of modern electrical energy systems, focusing on issues surrounding the integration of renewable energy sources and the increasing penetration of inverter-based resources. For those students who have come to Blake Clough from a different STEM background to electrical engineering, this is proving an excellent opportunity to bolster their existing skills and knowledge with the relevant information for working with power grids.

Sustainable Electrical Power Systems Engineering - Offshore Wind Farm

For Blake Clough’s consultants who are new to the GB grid applications process, the information taught as a part of the course is already being put into good use; helping our team design circuit diagrams and calculate fault level contributions for proposed solar and Battery Energy Storage System farms connecting to the GB distribution network as a part of a G99 grid application.

The Sustainable Electrical Power Systems Engineering course offers biweekly tutorial sessions, which provide a chance to engage directly with a member of the academic staff from Manchester. Having this regular forum to ask questions and raise issues is a highlight of the course, particularly given the opportunity to collaborate with other students on the course from different parts of the industry on challenges facing the more general energy sector; for example, the challenges and opportunities faced by the increasing electrification of transportation and its impact on energy demand.

In the next few weeks, students on the course will be creating a 6-minute video presentation which compares power systems in two countries of their choice, explaining how different nations tackle the challenges of energy generation and network management, as well as how these differences naturally arise as an inherent difference of the country’s natural resources and population characteristics.

We wish all of our colleagues good luck as they complete their studies and work towards completing the course by the end of next month.

Sustainable Electrical Power Systems Engineering Course - Manchester Uni