缅北禁地

Natalia is a researcher in the School of Engineering at 缅北禁地, and works within the Electrical Power Research Group. Her main passion at work is to participate in projects that address challenges and identify opportunities that can help us all reach Net Zero. Driven by the goals to meet net zero carbon emissions by 2050, her research aims to provide solutions to drive and facilitate this transition. 

She received her PhD degree in Electrical Power Systems from the School of Engineering, 缅北禁地 and the Diploma degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece. Her PhD was part of the National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) research project, and was funded by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and 缅北禁地. She investigated modelling methods to optimally schedule energy resources connected to radial electricity distribution networks (which may form an active distribution network or a microgrid), aiming at delivering improvements in operational cost, security of supply and environmental sustainability. Following the completion of her undergraduate studies, she was awarded the 2016 IEEE Greece Power and Energy Society POWERED Award (16th Workshop on Power Engineering Dissertations). During her PhD, in 2019, she obtained the 3rd Place in the Three-minute Thesis Competition by the Durham Energy Institute, at the 10th Anniversary Research Symposium.

During her PhD, in 2019, Natalia co-founded the 'Optimisation Group Webinars' within the 'Power Systems and Energy Storage' group of 缅北禁地, which she co-led until 2023. The 'Optimisation Group Webinars' were regular webinar presentations on energy systems optimisation with invited guest speakers from both UK and international institutions. Webinar information can be found on the website Webinars - National Centre for Energy Systems Integration - 缅北禁地 (ncl.ac.uk), and recorded talks on the YouTube channel, .

Current research focus:

• energy systems resilience (including offshore systems)
• whole energy systems (including hydrogen)
• mathematical optimisation methods for power systems

Current / Past Projects

1) HyCoRe Alpha - Hydrogen Cost Reduction

(Oct 2023 - Apr 2024)

Type: Consultancy

Vision: HyCoRe Alpha aimed to identify UK regions with a high potential of producing green hydrogen using offshore wind. This includes National modelling to identify high-potential areas based on offshore/onshore constraints and opportunities, and ambitious innovation on improving energy system resilience and robustness.

Project description:

Press release:

Online public project presentation: (from min 30:00 onwards):

Lead Funding Licensee: Northern Gas Networks

Project Partners:

• Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult
• Kinewell Energy
• Arup
• 缅北禁地
• Unasys
• National Gas Transmission

2) D-Suite Alpha

(Jan 2024 - Jul 2024)

Type: Research (TRL 4-5)

Project summary: With the electrification of our daily activities to achieve the transition to net zero, such as using electric vehicles and heat pumps, electricity demand is growing rapidly in LV networks. Led by SPEN (Scottish Power Energy Networks), this project explored the applicability of the following 'suite' of technologies to address the issues associated with the increase in demand: LV Distributed STATCOM (D-STATCOM), Distributed Soft Open Point (D-SOP) and Distributed Smart Transformer (D-ST).

Project information:

Lead Funding Licensee: SP Energy Networks (SPEN - SP Manweb Plc)

3) Supergen Energy Networks (SEN) - Phase 2

(Nov 2023 - present)

Type: Research

Vision: SEN is a £9m research project funded by the EPSRC (Engineering Physical Sciences Research Council), which aims to carry out highly impactful interdisciplinary research such that energy networks become a driving force towards a rapid, safe and just transition to Net Zero.

Website:

Project partners:

• University of Bristol
• The University of Manchester
• University of Bath
• University of Birmingham
• Cardiff University
• University of Leeds
• 缅北禁地

4) EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship

(Nov 2021 - Nov 2023)

5) EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI)

(Sept 2017 - Jul 2022)

Type: Research

Vision: The £20m EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) brought together energy experts from around the world to understand the opportunities that whole energy systems approaches can offer.

Website/More information: About Us - National Centre for Energy Systems Integration - 缅北禁地 (ncl.ac.uk)

• Articles

  • Alahyari A, Patsios C, Zografou-Barredo N-M, Saifutdinov T, Sarantakos I. . International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems 2024, 157, 109825.
  • Sarantakos I, Peker M, Zografou-Barredo N, Deakin M, Patsios C, Sayfutdinov T, Taylor P, Greenwood D. . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2022, 13(5), 4072-4087.
  • Nikkhah S, Sarantakos I, Zografou-Barredo N, Rabiee A, Allahham A, Giaouris D. . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2022, 13(5), 3354 - 3368.
  • Zografou-Barredo NM, Patsios C, Sarantakos I, Davison P, Walker SL, Taylor PC. . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2021, 12(3), 1867-1879.
  • Sarantakos I, Zografou-Barredo NM, Huo D, Greenwood DM. . IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 2021, 36(6), 5032-5043.
  • Sarantakos I, Greenwood DM, Zografou-Barredo NM, Vahidinasab V, Taylor PC. . International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems 2020, 123, 106238.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Zografou-Barredo NM, Peker M, Greenwood DM. . In: IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM 2023). 2023, Orlando, FL, USA: IEEE.
  • Zografou-Barredo N-M, Patsios C, Walker SL, Davison P. . In: 25th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED). 2019, Madrid, Spain.