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Professor Mark O'Malley

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MARK O'MALLEY

Mark O'Malley is Professor of Electrical Engineering at University College Dublin (UCD), founding Director of the Electricity Research Centre and Director of the UCD Energy Institute a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, industry-supported research activity. He is recognized as a world authority on Energy Systems Integration and in particular Grid Integration of Renewable Energy. He has active research collaborations in Europe, the United States (US) and China and is co-founder of the International Institute for Energy Systems Integration. He has spent sabbaticals in the University of Virginia, the University of Washington and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He has received two Fulbright Scholarships (1994 & 1999). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Mark is a member of the European Academy of Sciences Advisory Council Energy Panel and is the chair of the current Energy Storage Study. He is a member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Wind Power Coordinating Committee, chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society Task Force on Capacity Value of Wind and an IEEE distinguished lecturer in the grid integration of renewable energy. He is currently on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy and is Consulting Editor on the newly launched Global Challenges Journal. He is the Irish representative on the International Energy Agency Research Task 25: Design and Operation of Power Systems with Large Amounts of Wind Power and was a lead author with responsibility for integration issues in the recent International Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. He has consulted with clients across the world including; the International Energy Agency, the US Department of Energy, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Energy Foundation and all majors players in the Irish electricity industry.


2017 Professorship

From April to September 2017, Dr. O’Malley worked closely with TISED members Dr. François Bouffard and Dr. Geza Joos and other Canadian experts to research topics around Electricity Systems Integration (ESI). TISED facilitating the research collaborations, and hosted a one‐week intensive course with leading energy institutions as well as an ‘ICUF James M. Flaherty Lecture’ called “Energy Systems Integration: a multidisciplinary global imperative for a low carbon society”.

The ICUF James M. Flaherty lecture on “Energy Systems Integration: a multidisciplinary global imperative for a low carbon society" washosted by TISED and advertised to university, government and industry members.Dr. O’Malley’s expertise was recorded and available for viewing below.

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