Professor Gareth Harrison is Bert Whittington Chair of Electrical Power Engineering and Deputy Head of the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. His research is focused on renewable energy integration within energy systems and he has built a reputation for the application of meteorological modelling as well as use of optimisation methods for energy network operation and planning. He is Associate Director of the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration, was Principal Investigator of the EPSRC Adaptation and Resilience in Energy Systems project, examining climate impacts on energy system resilience, and has been Co-Investigator on many UK and EU consortia.

Professor Harrison is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is an Affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He was a founding member and now Emeritus member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland.

• Renewable energy resources
• Grid integration of renewable energy
• Life cycle carbon emissions of energy sources
• Operation and planning of electricity transmission and distribution networks
• Operation and planning of gas networks
• Energy systems integration
• Optimisation of energy systems 
• Climate impacts and adaptation in energy systems

Hydropower Interdisciplinary Group Design Project

Sustainable Energy Group Design Project (MSc)