Advanced Power and Energy Center

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.


Mission

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.

Vision
  • Perform high quality, cutting-edge research and scholarship that applies a unique combination of faculty academic and industrial expertise with excellent established laboratory facilities
  • Promote and facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary research with local and international industries and develop long-term research networking capacity
  • Transfer and mobilize knowledge gained through research into applications with societal and/or economic impact
  • Develop an excellence-training center based in Abu Dhabi to help and provide engineers in power sectors worldwide with knowledge, understanding and skills relating to the new and emerging technologies applied to the electric grid.

Impacts

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:


Center Leadership
Dr. Ehab Fahmy El-Sadaany

Professor, Director, Advanced Power and Energy Center, Acting Dean College of Engineering

ehab.elsadaany@ku.ac.ae Theme Lead: Active Transmission and Distribution Systems
Dr. Mohamed Shawky El Moursi

Professor, Deputy Director of Advanced Power and Energy Center (APEC)

mohamed.elmoursi@ku.ac.ae Theme Lead: Renewable Energy Integration Students Alumni & Students Publication
Dr. Ahmed Al-Durra

Professor, Associate Provost for Research

ahmed.aldurra@ku.ac.ae
Dr. Vinod Khadkikar

Professor, 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 Electronics
Dr. Balanthi Abdul Rahiman Beig

Associate Professor

balanthi.beig@ku.ac.ae Theme Lead: Transportation Electrification
Dr. Khalifa Al Hosani

Associate Professor

khalifa.halhosani@ku.ac.ae Theme Lead: Industry Engagement, commercialization and Professional Development
Advisory Board Members
Prof. Magdy Salama

Professor, University of Waterloo

Prof. James Kirtley

Professor, MIT

Prof. Massimo De Falco

Professor, University of Naples

Dr. Bruce Stedall

Asset Managment Director, TRANSCO