UK-China Joint Research Consortium on Sustainable Electric Power Supply is sponsored by the UK EPSRC. The Consortium includes researchers from 5 UK universities and 13 Chinese institutions to carry out collaborative research focusing on sustainable security of electric power supply systems considering renewable technologies. The Consortium has designed 8 joint research projects to address the issue of sustainable security of power systems from the perspectives of security analysis, renewable generation, power system protection and control. Two key objectives of the Consortium are: (1) To produce significant research advances in the field of sustainable security through joint research projects that combine complementary expertises of researchers of the Consortium from both countries; (2) To provide a mechanism for early and efficient cross-dissemination of the results of the research carried out in both countries by linking SUPERGEN with the nationally funded “973” and “National Key Research Program” research programmes in China.

Principal Investigator of the Consortium in the UK is Prof. Haifeng Wang from the Queen’s University of Belfast and Co-investigators are: (1) Profs. Daniel Kirschen and Peter Crossley, The University of Manchester; (2) Profs. Bill Leithead and David Infield, The University of Strathclyde; (3) Prof. Raj Aggarwal, Dr. Rod Dunn and Prof. Saiful Islam, University of Bath; (4) Prof. Robin Wallace, University of Edinburgh

Leading Chinese scientists of the Consortium are: (1) Prof. Xiaoxin Zhou and Prof. Jianbo Guo, China EPRI; (2) Profs. Qiang Lu, Yuanzhang Sun and Shenwei Mei, Tsinghua University; (3) Prof. Yusheng Xue, NARI; (4) Profs. Zhengqiang Han, Zhejiang University; (5) Profs. Yixin Yu and Chenshan Wang, Tianjin University; (6) Prof. Shijie Cheng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; (7) Prof. Liye Xiao, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; (9) Prof. Jianguo Zhao, Shandong University; (11) Prof. Yongping Yang, North China Electric Power University; (12) Prof. Ping Ju, Hohai University; (13) Prof. Yijia Cao, Hunan University.

The consortium held its first project meeting on the 5th April 2009 at Huadong Hotel, Nanjing, China.