Projects

Completed Industrial and Academic Projects

1. Model-Free Operating Envelopes at NMI Level, 2021-2023 - Funded by C4NET, Australia

   • • More info: Project Website (including reports and papers)

     • Webinars:

       • Going Model-Free: The Future of Flexible Export Limits (Sep 2023)

       • Model-Free DER Hosting Capacity and Operating Envelopes: Project Update (Feb 2023)

       • The Future of DER Hosting Capacity and Operating Envelopes (May 2022)

2. Project EDGE, 2020-2023 - Funded by ARENA and AusNet Services, Australia

   • • More info: Project Website (including reports and papers), ARENA Website

     • Webinars:

       • Making Operating Envelopes a Reality: Project EDGE (Jun 2023)

       • Reactive power and voltage regulation devices to enhance operating envelopes (Jun 2022)

       • Using Operating Envelopes to Ensure Network Integrity: From Concept to Reality (Oct 2021)

       • DER and Network Integrity: Meter-Level Operating Envelopes (IEEE Smart Grid, Nov 2020)

3. Assessing the Benefits of Using Operating Envelopes to Orchestrate DERs Across Australia, 2022-2023 - Funded by CSIRO, Australia and the Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST)

   • • More info: Project Website

     • Webinar: Using Operating Envelopes Across Australia: Findings and Recommendations (Jun 2023)

4. Deployable Adaptive Smart Grid (DASG) Phase 2, 2021-2022 - Funded by QinetiQ and the Defence Innovation Hub, Australia

   • • More info: Project Website

5. EV Integration, 2020-2022 - Funded by Energy Networks Australia (ENA), Australia and C4NET, Australia

   • • More info: Project Website (including reports and papers), C4NET Website

     • Webinars:

       • EV Integration Recommendations and Project Summary (Sep 2022)

       • Managing EVs in Australian Urban and Rural Grids (May 2022)

       • Managing EVs in Australian Urban and Rural Grids: Initial Findings (Feb 2022)

       • Assessing the Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Australian Urban and Rural Grids (Oct 2021)

       • Network Modelling, EV Considerations and Initial Results (Jun 2021)

       • Electric Vehicle Uptake and Charging: The Consumer Perspective (Feb 2021)

6. Review of HV Feeder Models in OpenDSS, 2022 - Funded by Zepben, Australia

7. Australian Research Plan for the G-PST Topic 8 “Distributed Energy Resources”, 2021 - Funded by CSIRO, Australia and the Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST)

   • • More info: Project Website

8. Advanced Planning of PV-Rich Distribution Networks, 2019-2021 - Funded by ARENA and AusNet Services, Australia

   • • More info: Project Website (including reports and papers), ARENA Website

     • Webinars:

       • Advanced Planning of PV-Rich Distribution Networks Project: Consolidation of Findings (Feb 2020)

       • Solar PV Hosting Capacity Using Non-Traditional Solutions (Sep 2020)

       • Solar PV Hosting Capacity Using Traditional Solutions (Apr 2020)

       • Smart Meter-Driven Estimation of PV Hosting Capacity (Dec 2019)

9. Multi-scale ANalysis for Facilities for Energy STorage (Manifest), 2016-2021 - Funded by EPSRC, UK. EPSRC Website

10. MY-STORE: Multi-energY storage-Social, TechnO-economic, Regulatory and Environmental assessment under uncertainty, 2015-2019 - Funded by EPSRC, UK. EPSRC Website

11. Deployable Adaptive Smart Grid (DASG) Phase 1, 2019 - Funded by QinetiQ and the Defence Innovation Hub, Australia

12. Assessment of Integration Solution Methods for Increasing PV Hosting Capacity, 2018-2019 - Funded by EPRI, USA

13. Solar PV Penetration and HV-LV Network Impacts, 2018 - Funded by AusNet Services, Australia

14. Smart Street, 2014-2017 - ENWL, UK. Funded through Ofgem's LCNF Tier 2. YouTube video

    • • More info: Project Website (including reports)

15. Technological and Scientific Developments for the Future Electric Power Distribution Systems: Smart Grids, 2014-2017 - Funded by CNPq, Brazil

16. HV-LV Analysis of Mini Grids Clusters, 2017 - Funded by AusNet Services, Australia

17. Active Management of LV Networks, 2013-2017 - EDF R&D, France. Funded by EPSRC, UK and EDF R&D, France

18. WISE PV: Whole system Impacts and Socio-Economics of wide scale PV integration, 2013-2016 - Funded by EPSRC, UK. EPSRC Website

19. My Electric Avenue, 2013-2015 - EA Technology and Scottish and Southern Energy, UK. Funded through Ofgem's LCNF Tier 2. YouTube video. 

    • • Webinar: Network Modeling (Jun 2015)

20. Customer Load Active System Services (CLASS), 2013-2015 - ENWL, UK. Funded through Ofgem's LCNF Tier 2. YouTube video

    • • More info: Project Website

21. Reactive Power Exchange Assessment and Characterisation (REACT), 2013-2015 - National Grid, Northern Powergrid, Western Power Distribution, Scottish and Southern Energy, UK Power Networks, Scottish Power, and ENWL, UK. Funded through Ofgem's NIA and IFI

    • • More info: Project Website

22. Manchester-Liverpool Advanced Grid-Scale Energy Storage R&D Facilities, 2013-2015 - Funded by EPSRC, UK

23. Low Voltage Integrated Automation (LoVIA), 2013-2015 - ENWL, UK. Funded through Ofgem's LCNF Tier 1

    • • More info: Project Website

24. Assessing the Benefits of Reactive Power Compensation in HV Networks, 2013-2015 - ENWL, UK. Funded through Ofgem's IFI

25. Low Voltage Network Solutions, 2011-2014 - ENWL, UK. Funded through Ofgem's LCNF Tier 1. Download LV network and LCT data

    • • More info: Project Website