PrEng BSc(Eng) Natal MBL SA PhD Cape Town FIET FSAIEE

An electrical engineer with over 40 years of experience with an equipment manufacturer, electricity utility, consulting engineer, and in teaching and research, Trevor Gaunt specialises in power delivery system planning and design, including technology, financial analysis, and development and organisation planning.  He is an NRF-rated researcher.

Research Interests

• Electricity distribution technology and electrification
• Load models and voltage calculation
• Geomagnetically induced currents
• Reliability and costs of interruptions
• Power theory, apparent power and power factor
• Electricity industry restructuring and policy

Postgraduate Supervision

Postdoctoral

• Hilary Chisepo

PhD

• Kehinde Awodele, A model of customer outage cost appropriate for regulatory decision making
• Mark Anthony Bruintjies, Creating a probabilistic health indicator from traditional stator bar insulation diagnostic tests in air cooled hydro generators
• Allouise Albonita Van Deventer, (Title pending)

Masters

• Wardah Isaacs, Investigating the requirements for capacity building of a nuclear regulator for a new build programme
• Michael Ngubane, Condition Assessment using dissolved gas analyser
• Katleho Thabiso Malatse, Optimal LEAP into UCT Renewables Objectives (Co-Supervision)