The UAE has set several ambitious and strategic energy goals and launched many pioneering energy projects to achieve said goals. Achieving these targets requires the development of intellectual and human capital for providing innovative ideas and solutions to optimize and advance energy production, distribution and utilization. APEC is aspiring to craft the future of electric energy systems allowing seamless and economical operation of high capacity renewable/non-renewable energy resources (PV, CSP, wind, nuclear, and ESS), while supporting hybrid AC/DC power grids, microgrids, AI applications in power systems, and providing optimal architecture, control and operation for smart grid and transportation electrification.
Developing future electric energy systems for seamless integration and economical operation of high capacity renewable/non-renewable energy resources (PV, CSP, wind, nuclear, and ESS), while supporting hybrid AC/DC Power grids, microgrids, AI applications in Power Systems, and providing optimal architecture, control and operation for smart grid and transportation electrification. As transition toward renewables is challenging and critical for our future, APEC aims to overcome a major hurdle in that transition by introducing in-house cutting edge technologies, developing human capital, contributing to society and UAE industries.
Industry engagement is a key part of APEC mission and considered as one of the center strategic priorities. APEC Industry Engagement Strategy is catered towards the mission of the center by ensuring regular, mutually beneficial communication between APEC and a broad range of relevant industrial (and other) stakeholders. Such interactions are aimed to identify and prioritize industrial needs leading to new research and development avenues. The generated research knowledge and technology have been transferred to industry through industry‐academia colloquia, training workshops and demonstrations of the developed methods and tools. APEC has strong active engagement with numerous industrial partners and is continuously working to build on this partnership to engage and broaden industrial stockholders to boost the long‐term mutual activities focused on industry-based research, training workshops/courses, testing/validations and products development as follows:
Professor, Director, Advanced Power and Energy Center, Acting Dean College of Engineering
ehab.elsadaany@ku.ac.ae Theme Lead: Active Transmission and Distribution SystemsProfessor, Deputy Director of Advanced Power and Energy Center (APEC)
mohamed.elmoursi@ku.ac.ae Theme Lead: Renewable Energy Integration Students Alumni & Students PublicationProfessor, IEEE Fellow, Co-Editor-in-Chief - IEEE Trans on Industrial Electronics, Distinguished Lecturer – IEEE IAS, IEEE IAS Fellow Evaluation Committee Member
vinod.khadkikar@ku.ac.ae Theme Lead: Advanced Power ElectronicsAssociate Professor
balanthi.beig@ku.ac.ae Theme Lead: Transportation ElectrificationAssociate Professor
khalifa.halhosani@ku.ac.ae Theme Lead: Industry Engagement, commercialization and Professional DevelopmentProfessor, University of Waterloo
Professor, MIT
Professor, University of Naples
CEO; GCCIA
Asset Managment Director, TRANSCO