Energy Systems

An Electrical and Mechanical Engineer by training, Camilla now teaches about sustainable energy and researches the environmental impacts of energy. Currently this mostly involves developing better tools and techniques to analyse the climate change impact or carbon footprint of changes to the electricity system: whether new renewable energy developments, new transmission lines or even new market operations.

Camilla is a Co-Investigator in the EnergyREV project, leading the work package on developing a Multi-Criteria Assessment tool for Smart Local Energy Systems. She is also the Deputy Co-ordinator on the NEWEST-CCUS project, and is leading a multi-disciplinary international team on the specific task of robustly quantifying the atmospheric-carbon-reduction-potential of waste-to-energy plants with carbon capture and storage.

Camilla is also a keen advocate for diversity in Engineering. She is the founding chair of the School's Molly Fergusson Initiative, and was named one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering - Sustainability in 2020.

Her pronouns are she/her.

• PhD Carbon and Energy Payback of Variable Renewable Generation, University of Edinburgh, 2014
• MEng(Hons) Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2004

• Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, MIET
• Winner Top 50 Women in Engineering 2020 - Sustainability

• MSc Sustainable Energy Systems - Dissertation supervision
• Technologies for Sustainable Energy - Course-organiser and lecturer

• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and carbon footprinting
• Marginal carbon analysis
• Renewable resource assessment
• Daylighting analysis

Dr Andrew Lyden is a Lecturer in Energy System Economics and Management within the Institute for Energy Systems. His research focus is on advancing open-source energy system science including data, models, and outputs. He is working on research and consultancy projects related to net-zero electricity markets, integrated multi-energy (electricity, heat, transport, food, water) markets and models, decarbonised district heating and cooling, and long-term energy storage technologies (e.g. underground thermal energy storage).

As part of his work on the INTEGRATE project (which focussing on modelling of the integration of multiple energy sources with seasonal thermal energy storage to decarbonise heat), he developed a transmission network model of the GB power system, PyPSA-GB, which can model historical years and National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios. During his PhD he worked on modelling local energy systems with particular interest on the optimal design and control of heat pumps and thermal storage. As part of this work he developed the open-source tool PyLESA (Python for Local Energy Systems Analysis). He has previously worked on numerous research and industry projects including topics such as future district heating design, community energy masterplanning, and virtual power plants.

Publications.

• PhD in Renewable Energy Systems, University of Strathclyde, UK
• MSc in Renewable Energy Systems & the Environment, University of Strathclyde, UK
• BSc in Physics, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Course organiser - Energy & Environmental Economics MSc
• Supervisor - Sustainable Energy Systems Disseration MSc

I'm a Research Associate in Energy Market Integration for Grid-Scale Storage at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh. Prior to this, I’ve been a Faculty Member at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sirjan University of Technology, Iran, from Jun. 2017. I have Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Power Systems from the University of Isfahan, Iran obtained in Oct. 2016 and my thesis title was “Generation Scheduling of a Virtual Power Plant Considering Industrial Microgrids in Power Systems”. My Ph.D. dissertation discusses about a transmission power network that is actively working under a regional electric company, and different VPPs within this system are included various types of distributed generation units like wind powers and demand response loads. The purpose was focused on industrial VPP and its management under a stochastic environment in a short-term power market. From Oct. 2015 to Apr. 2016, as a visiting researcher, I’ve worked on VPP self-scheduling problem in a power system and robust optimization method and I’ve also worked on day-ahead and intraday power markets of MIBEL (Iberian Electricity Market) in Electrical Engineering Department of Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, Spain. I’ve been also involved as PI or Co-PI in 5 research projects within the power and energy systems field funded through universities or companies.

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, 2016.
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Kashan, Iran, 2011.
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran, 2008.