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Call for Presenters: CIGRE UK Webinar Series 2025

| The Opportunity | CIGRE’s primary purpose is to allow engineers, specialists and thought leaders from all around the world to exchange information and enhance their knowledge related to power…

Honourable Mention for a UK Entry to the NGN Paris Showcase Competition

  Haonan Yang, a PhD student at the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of The University of Manchester, was successfully chosen and sponsored by CIGRE UK, to attend the CIGRE…

CIGRE UK A3/B3 Technical Liaison Meeting | 15th & 16th January 2025

  About this Event This meeting is to provide a high-level overview of the ongoing activities in CIGRE related to Study Committee A3 (Transmission & Distribution Equipment) and B3 (Substations…

Digitalisation and Data Science Conference – Enabler for Net Zero |Report & Presentations

  About this event The CIGRE UK D2 Digitalisation & Data Science – Enablers for Net Zero Conference took place on Friday, 6th December 2024, kindly hosts at Imperial College London. This…

Call for Papers: CIGRE 2025 International Symposium – Montreal, Canada

  The Symposium Organising Committee has decided to extend the Call for Papers deadline to the 27th January 2025, due to requests to extend until after the holiday seasons. For more…

CIGRE UK NGN Committee 2025: Vote for your candidates!

  We need a little more information about you to validate your NGN status. So we are having to re-run the voting. If you had previously voted please vote again….

Post Session 2024 Technical Conference: Update & Presentations

 On Thursday 14th November 2024, CIGRE UK held a post Paris Session Technical Conference at the IET Austin Court in Birmingham.  70 members attended the Conference and heard from individuals…

Uniting Academia and Industry for Net Zero Ambitions: Presentations & Videos

CIGRE UK Women in Energy is committed to advancing knowledge within the energy sector, fostering professional connections, and championing diversity within our community. We were thrilled to organise this event,…

CIGRE UK’s AGMs, Networking Reception and Awards Dinner

  Members are invited to attend CIGRE UK’s Annual General Meetings and then join a Networking Reception, followed by an Awards Dinner, being held at the IET Austin Court Birmingham…

CIGRE UK Next Generation Network Committee Nominations 2024

Dear CIGRE UK NGN Members,  It is that time of year again when we invite members to step forward and contribute to the future direction of our growing network by…

SWITCHGEAR 2024 – Life after SF6

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ next Switchgear: Life after SF6 event will focus on the process of establishing alternative gas insulators for switchgear and the associated manufacturing and distribution challenges…

CIGRE Study Committee A2 Factory Visit

  CIGRE UK Study Committee A2 (Transformers) with CIGRE UK’s NGN section in support, has arranged a factory visit, kindly hosted by Brush Transformers at its Loughborough facility (Nottingham Road,…

Why Join CIGRE

You and your organisation need to keep up with the changing world of power system expertise. CIGRE offers members access to the world’s foremost global community and its world leading…

Digitalisation and Data Science Conference – Enabler for Net Zero

  Overview: This one day conference, kindly hosted by Imperial College London, will feature speakers from industry, government and academia.  Current projects/research will be reviewed and discussed, together with updates…

CIGRE UK Ambassador Programme

The Ambassador Programme This program aims to engage individuals within CIGRE UK’s Collective membership (both Companies and Academic Institutions) and recognise them as champions/ambassadors for CIGRE. An ambassador will serve…

Hold the Date!

CIGRE UK Annual Meeting Day 2023 | Tuesday 14th November 2023 | 11:00 – 18:30 Venue: The IET Austin Court, Birmingham  Outline for the day Annual General Meeting | Networking…

Programme for the Preparation of Papers for Paris Session 2024

Find below the schedule to be followed for the preparation of papers for Paris Session 2024.  For questions please contact John Finn at secretary@cigre.org.uk  

SC B4 Newsletter – June 2023 edition

  Another edition of the B4 Newsletter brimmed full of information (see the table of contents below). To read the Newsletter click on the link below B4 Newsletter June 2023

Joint B3 & A3 COLLOQUIUM Update: 9th – 12th May 2023

  The CIGRE UK National Committee has invited CIGRE Study Committees B3 & A3 to hold a joint Colloquium in Birmingham between the 9th and 12th May 2023 at the…

Call for Papers: CIGRE Paris Session 2024

Although August 2024 may seem a long way away it is now time to start preparing the synopsis for any paper that you wish to submit for the 2024 Session. You…

Membership Renewal 2023

Current members will have receive an invoice for their 2023 subscription renewal via email, during December 2022, to the address we have on record.  If you have not received this…

Speak-Up Policy

Dear CIGRE UK member, As an organisation it is very important that we are open to feedback in the way we operate and that we listen to our members views…

– Net Zero Resource Library –

The objective of this new section of the CIGRE UK website is to collect published information on the subject of Net Zero relevant to power systems and in doing so…

CIRED Porto Workshop 2022

CIRED workshops on specific topics are organized in Europe every two years between CIRED main conferences. In 2022, the workshop will address “E-mobility and power distribution systems“. It will be…