Current projects

UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute funds projects across all faculties, while connecting researchers with industry leaders. Get in touch if you have a study area that aligns with DGFI’s mission to enable electrification and decarbonisation.

 

  • PSCAD short course development — Jayashri Ravishankar 
     
  • Inverters — Georgios Konstantinou
     
  • Vivid Sydney show development — Laura Toulampi
     
  • Geni Hub, VPP/microgrid modelling — Baran Yildiz, Anna Bruce & Rob Passey
     
  • Solar pre-cooling model — Shayan Naderi
     
  • Policy submissions on future National Electricity Market Design — Abhijith Prakash
     
  • Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Curtailment Analysis Tool — Baran Yildiz
     
  • Active balancing topologies for stationary energy storage systems — Branislav Hredzak
     
  • Development of a modelling tool for flexible green-hydrogen electrolyser participation in the NEM — Declan Heim
     
  • CleanAir Schools Program — Donna Green
     
  • Firming variable renewable energy generation through strategic oversupply — Elona Rey-Costa supervised by Donna Green
     
  • Green ammonia production and end use cost analysis tool — Jack Shepherd
     
  • Electric bus loads open source model for distribution networks — Katelyn Purnell
     
  • Co-constructing knowledge of renewable energies with First Nations communities and rural schools — Laura Tuohilampi
     
  • Assessing use preference to support the deployment of electrical infrastructure for active transport and e-mobility — Lee Roberts
     
  • Case study to evaluate, asses and deliver efficient decentralised renewable energy solutions to SMEs — Maria Balatbat
     
  • Just transition for coal-dependent communities — Matthew Kearnes
     
  • Mitigating the risk of bearing failure in freight drones — Matthew Priestley
     
  • Market opportunity analysis for short courses in the automotive sector — Matthew Priestley
     
  • Open-source visualisation tools for exploring NEM participant behaviour and market dynamics — Nicholas Gorman
     
  • Reconfigurable architecture for integration of PV generation, energy storage and electric vehicles — Omair Khan
     
  • Solar array open source model — Phillip Hamer
     
  • Coordinated dynamic security defence for stochastic electric power systems — Rachel Zhang
     
  • Creating a sustainability education body of knowledge — Sandeep Seshadrinath