China’s most influential academic in Electrical Power System Planning awarded Distinguished Fellowship at Bath
The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded Professor Xifan Wang a prestigious and highly competitive Distinguished Fellowship, to be held in our Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. Here he will work closely with Dr Furong Li (Reader in Power System Economics) in developing a new philosophy for the transmission of distant offshore wind power and new commercial models for power infrastructure networks (such as the National Grid). Together they will explore how to substantially reduce the cost in long-distance power transmission and adapt Dr Li’s pricing scheme, which is now established for the UK market, to a fast growing economy such as China’s.
Professor Xifan Wang, Director of the Institute for Electric Power System Research at Xi’an Jiaotong University, is widely recognised as China’s most influential academic in electrical power system analysis, economics and planning. He has provided critical guidance in the rapid expansion of China’s power industry and directed the generation and transmission planning for the well-know Three Gorges hydroelectric power project, which is the largest power-generation project in the world. He has also led a national committee to guide and support the separation of power generation and distribution, in China’s move to a deregulated power system. Prof. Wang now leads the country’s technological developments needed to unlock China’s ambition for large-scale wind generation. This technology is in the test phase within the Northwest Power Grid that is used for the transmission of energy out of China’s biggest wind farms in XingJiang province.
Professor Wang has published over 200 journal and conference papers and 10 books. Many of his books have been used as standard text books in China and abroad, e.g. Modern Power System Planning, published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, London, 1994. He is an IEEE Fellow and an Executive Member of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering.
