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Personal Profile
Jarrad Wright predominantly works in improving the understanding of power system integration across generation, transmission, and distribution. This is undertaken by applying advanced modelling and simulation tools to optimally plan for, design, and analyze transmission, distribution, and bulk power systems to push the boundaries of innovation, integrated analysis, and computational tool development. He has extensive energy sector experience in 11 African countries predominantly involved energy systems operations and planning, sector-coupling, system stability, network planning, resource forecasting, storage and enabling market arrangements.
Research Interests
Professional Experience
Commissioner, The Presidency: National Planning Commission of South Africa (2015–2021)
Principal Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (2015–2021)
Regional Manager and Senior Consultant, Energy Exemplar (2014–2015)
Studies Engineer, Parsons Brinckerhoff (2010–2014)
Education/Academic Qualification
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
Master, Electrical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
Bachelor, Electrical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
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Collaborations and Top Research Areas From the Past 5 Years
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Case Study: BESS Capacity Building for Malawi
Bilich, A., Mazza, K., Reber, T. & Wright, J., 2026, 19 p.Research output: NLR › Technical Report
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Interregional Transmission Operational Coordination (IRTOC)
Chen, Y., Lara, J. D., Chen, H., Bossart, M., Manrique Machado, S. & Wright, J., 2026, 51 p.Research output: NLR › Technical Report
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Real-Time Multiregional Market-to-Market Congestion Management Through Exchange of Relief Cost Curve
Chen, H., Chen, Y., Lara, J. D., Wright, J., Bossart, M., Machado, S. D. J. & Bo, R., 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
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IEEE Power and Energy Society (External organization)
Sahu, A. (Member), Hoke, A. (Member), Solanki, B. (Member), Palmintier, B. (Member), Saleem, D. (Member), Comden, J. (Member), Panda, K. (Member), Panwar, M. (Member), Koralewicz, P. (Member), Dhulipala, S. C. (Member), Paul, S. (Member), Singh, V. K. (Member), Wang, W. (Member), Wright, J. (Member), Kiboma, L. (Member), Poudyal, A. (Member), Thiagarajan, R. (Member), Lara Aguilar, J. D. (Member), Kumar, U. (Member), Chen, Y. (Member), Ucer, E. (Member), Venkataramanan, V. (Member), Joshi, P. (Member), Brodt-Giles, D. (Member) & Guruwacharya, N. (Member)
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International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) (External organization)
Wright, J. (Member) & Wijekoon, R. (Member)
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (External organization)
Ginley, D. (Member), Nagarajan, A. (Member), Markel, A. (Member), Bernstein, A. (Member), Solanki, B. (Member), Hodge, B.-M. (Member), Uriarte, C. (Member), Barrows, C. (Member), Perkins, C. (Member), Palmintier, B. (Member), Thomas, D.-M. (Member), Saleem, D. (Member), DeVoto, D. (Member), Khan, F. (Member), Seo, G.-S. (Member), Moreno, G. (Member), Johnson, G. (Member), Cavraro, G. (Member), Dunham, H. (Member), Jorgenson, J. (Member), Zhang, J. (Member), Sanyal, J. (Member), Kisacikoglu, J. (Member), Rivera, J. (Member), Duwadi, K. (Member), Doubleday, K. (Member), Panda, K. (Member), Sedzro, K. S. (Member), Panossian, N. (Member), Guba, N. (Member), Martin, M. (Member), Guerra Fernandez, O. J. (Member), Baggu, M. (Member), Emami, P. (Member), Paret, P. (Member), Koralewicz, P. (Member), Awara, S. (Member), McFly, S. (Member), Dhulipala, S. C. (Member), Ovaitt, S. (Member), Paul, S. (Member), Abraham, S. A. (Member), De Silva M, T. (Member), Singh, V. K. (Member), Zhang, X. (Member), Zhou, X. (Member), Agalgaonkar, Y. (Member), Wright, J. (Member), Pao, L. (Member), Kekelia, B. (Member), Chang, C.-Y. (Member), Kiboma, L. (Member), Ramirez Arbelaez, L. (Member), Chaudhary, R. (Member), Wijekoon, R. (Member), Ahrenkiel, R. (Fellow), Kurtz, S. (Member), Truong, T. (Member), Poudyal, A. (Member), Sekulic, W. (Member), Pawaskar, V. (Member) & Emery, K. (Member)
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