The Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory

We are an active centre for research into dielectric materials and insulation systems, as well as high voltage and related phenomena. We are also a commercial testing house and consultancy service. We have state-of-the-art facilities, supported by a specialist engineering team who are all actively involved in internationally leading research.

Highvoltage News

Operation of the magnetic field sensor rig.
The data acquisition phase of a project to field test a cable location system on a 275 kV cable circuit has been undertaken.

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Professor Steve Swingler with his Western HVDC link award
Professor Steve Swingler, a member of academic staff at the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory, has received an award from National Grid in recognition of his work on the Western HVDC Link.

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Thermal image of the energised export cable
Centrica Plc. invited the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory (TDHVL) to tender for a series of tests on a 27m section of 132kV offshore wind farm export cable and subsequently awarded the laboratory with its largest ever contract for commercial testing. Work has commenced on the three month long test programme and on the 7th December the supplied cable section was energized with a 1000 Amps per phase for the first time.

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Professor Paul Lewin
Professor Paul Lewin of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton has been honoured for his contributions to high voltage cable engineering by been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

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Research

HV Research The research activities of the laboratory span a number of topics. More details can be found in the research section of this website.
  

Commercial Testing

HV Research A wide range of testing capability and technical advice is available for commercial customers. Click here for more information

MSc Energy and Sustainability

Lab WikiThis new MSc course will consider aspects of sustainable energy generation as well as the issues concerned with bulk electrical energy transport to the ultimate user.
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Featured ProjectAdvanced dielectric materials

With political pressure to adopt renewable sources of energy such as wind, wave, solar and tidal comes the need to distribute power from the point of generation to the national distribution grid in a... [more]

Most Recently Added Publications

Alghamdi, H A, Chen, G and Vaughan, A S (2013) A New Electro-Thermal Aging Model Based on Trapping and De-trapping Process in Polymeric Materials. In, Dielectrics 2013, Reading, GB, 10 - 12 Apr 2013. , 15-16.

Lau, K Y, Vaughan, A S, Chen, G, Hosier, I L and Holt, A F (2013) Absorption Current Behaviour of Polyethylene/Silica Nanocomposites. In, Dielectrics 2013, 10 - 12 Apr 2013. , 24-25.