Adrian Kelly is a Senior Technical Leader in the Grid Operations and Planning of PDU. He is based in Dublin, Ireland working out of the EPRI Europe office. He leads work on the real-time operations situational awareness project, in particular developing research for the control center of the future, HMI and display design, alarm management, artificial intelligence, operations security standards and the interfaces with system protection. Mr. Kelly’s also has interest in distribution system operations and adaptive protection as well as protection for the interconnection of renewable generation, and operating the bulk system with very high renewable penetrations especially on quantifying system inertia and its managing its reduction. He contributes to all ongoing EPRI grid operations and planning projects and research projects in Europe. Previously, Adrian worked for 9 years in the Operations and Planning departments of EirGrid, the transmission system operator in Ireland, including working as a real time grid, balancing and market operator. Adrian received a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from University College Dublin in 2007. He is a chartered (professional) engineer with Engineers Ireland and is an active member of CIGRE and IEEE. He lives in North Dublin with his wife and little boy.
