Centre for Advanced Energy Integration
Research
The Centre works on collaborative projects to deliver applied research with a focus on the following research themes.
Energy storage modelling, control and economic assessment / planning
- Electricity usage monitoring and modelling algorithms and devices
- Load modelling (load model parameter identification and generalisation)
- Reactive power predictive control/scheduling
Renewable energy generation grid connection impact studies
- Grid battery integration
- Distributed generation penetration impact
- Network peak demand reduction
- Wholesale energy price optimisation
- Voltage regulation
Distribute generation and microgrid
- Smart control centres
- Microgrid and Swer, microgrid planning, microgrid scheduling
- Facilitate smart grid tech -demand response
- Microgrid smart control centre technologies
Energy trading and cyber security
- Network modelling, security and vulnerability
- Cloud computing, computational intelligence and power/smart grid data analytics
Integration of renewable and distributed energy resources
- Consumer and network-oriented optimisation
- System modelling for voltage and frequency excursions
- Stable system operation for high renewable energy penetration
Integration of energy storage technologies and electric vehicles
- Capacity, capability and technological barriers
- Techno-economic implications of wide-scale adoption of electric vehicles
Designing and planning future networks
- Electricity network optimisation, supply and usage paradigms
- Electricity distribution networks of the future
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