Professor Gareth Harrison

Professor Gareth Harrison holds the Bert Whittington Chair of Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He has held a number of executive leadership roles in the School of Engineering, most recently as Head of School.

His research is focused on renewable energy integration within energy systems and he has built a reputation for the application of meteorological modelling and optimisation methods for energy network operation and planning. He was Associate Director of the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (2016-2022), Principal Investigator of the EPSRC Adaptation and Resilience in Energy Systems project (2012-2015), examining climate impacts on energy system resilience, and has been Co-Investigator on many EPSRC, Ofgem/InnovateUK Strategic Innovation Framework and EU consortia.

Professor Harrison is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and an Affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He was a founding member and now Emeritus member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland. He is currently a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council, Scotland’s highest level science advisory body. 

• BEng (Hons) Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 1997
• PhD Electrical Power Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2001

• Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET)
• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE)
• Affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• Emeritus Member, RSE Young Academy of Scotland
• Inquiry Committee Member, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Energy Inquiry (2017 - 2019)
• Member of Working Group, Royal Academy of Engineering, Wind Power Inquiry (2012 – 2014)
• Member, SSE Transmission RIIO-T2 User Group (2018 - 2020)
• Associate Editor/Editorial Panel, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Energy (2022 - 2024)
• Editorial Board Member, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (2018 –)
• Editorial Board Member, IET Energy Systems Integration (2018 –)
• Editorial board member, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems (2005 - )
• Guest Editor, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, ‘Special Issue in marine and ocean energy dedicated to the work and memory of Professor Ian Bryden’ (2019)
• International Advisory Board, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment (2013 - 2019)
• Associate Editor, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment (2010 –2013)

• Power Systems Engineering 5/Power Systems Engineering and Economics
• Distributed Energy Resources and Smart Grids
• MSc Dissertation (Advanced Power Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering, Sustainable Energy Systems)

• Renewable resource assessment
• Network Integration of Renewable Energy
• Multi-vector energy systems/energy systems integration
• Climate Change Impacts on Renewable Energy
• Life cycle assessment (or carbon footprints)