TDHVL presence at UHVNet 2026

This week, researchers from the University of Southampton participated in the 18th Universities High Voltage Colloquium (UHVNet 2026) hosted by National Grid Electricity Transmission, held in Birmingham on the 20th-21st of May 2026. This annual event brings together researchers, emerging scholars, and industry representatives in the field of high-voltage engineering from across the UK.

In this year’s edition of the conference, TDHVL was represented by eight members:

Associate Professor Dr George Callender, Research Fellow Dr Sunny Chaudhary, HV Research Engineer Lauren Deeth-Kelt, and five PhD students – Angelos Nikolopoulos, Junguo Zhang, Joanna Rzempołuch, Samara Vazquez Perez, and Zoe Zhang.

The group presented their work on a variety of topics, including cost of violations in the control of photovoltaic systems, transient stability for virtual synchronous generators, novel cable cooling techniques, multi-agent coordination of multi-energy buildings, and implications for of cyberattacks on distribution network stability.

Dr Sunny Chaudhary delivered an oral presentation titled “Probabilistic Soil Thermal Inversion for HVDC Submarine Cables”, post completion of the AnTICS project funded by the National Grid.

PhD student Joanna Rzempołuch received an award for the best student poster presentation for her poster titled “ELECTROFISH - ELECTROmagnetic Field Investigation of Submarine High voltage cables”, which outlined the development of an app for the calculation of electromagnetic fields.

UHVNet 2026 provided another great opportunity to showcase Southampton’s expertise in high-voltage research while strengthening connections across the wider research community.