Day one: Session Energy innovation and technology: consumer engagement and data

Neil Horrocks

Project Manager, The University of Queensland

Project

SHIELD

– a novel approach to data for networks

Professor Neil Horrocks is Director of the UQ Centre for Energy Data Innovation, which undertakes research using near-real-time big data from low-voltage electricity networks. Key research areas include network data infrastructure, network management using big data and network intelligence from big data as well as visualisation of energy data for individuals and industry professionals. For more than 30 years, Neil has been closely aligned with the Energy industry, in the fields of electricity and gas, residential and industry, retail and distribution.

Prior to joining UQ, Neil was the CEO of CitySmart, Brisbane’s Sustainability Agency.

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Martin Egan

PhD candidate, Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney

A customer-first approach to the energy transition

Martin Egan has a had a long career in innovation, disruption and design lead development working in media, finance, publishing and education. After decades in digital product leadership he recently spent several years working with a solar tech start-up, helping the Australian public to understand and engage with the opportunities or renewable and sustainable energy. He is now undertaking PhD research into the role that customer-centric start-up processes could play in an energy transition where customers are owners of grid assets.

Shan (Dora) He Research Fellow,

Australian National University

Neighbourhood batteries and virtual power plants provide better peak demand management per kWh compared to household batteries

Shan He is a research fellow in the School of Engineering and battery storage and grid integration program in ANU. She has a PhD in computer science from Monash University and is passionate about contributing to sustainable energy using innovative algorithms and technologies. Her research interests lie in applying optimisation and data analytics to a range of data-rich energy management problems. She has been looking at how energy storage (neighbourhood batteries and household batteries) can support the increasing generation from rooftop solar panels and reduce electricity costs for consumers while considering uncertainty in the electricity wholesale markets.

Penelope Crossley

Associate Professor of Energy Law, The University of Sydney Law School

Why we need better regulation for the end-of-life renewable technologies: a case study on lithium-ion batteries

Associate Professor Penelope Crossley is an expert in the complex legal issues associated with the energy transition, including renewable energy and energy storage law, and electricity market governance. She is known for her sustained engagement with industry stakeholders, and for developing recommendations that have been directly adopted into law, international policy documents, and consumer guides. Previously, she worked as an international project finance lawyer, and global in-house counsel for BP Alternative Energy. This commercial and practical legal experience informs her research and teaching, ensuring that she focuses on real-world problems and identifies innovative commercial solutions that can be easily translated and applied.

Jaysson Guerrero Orbe

Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney

Jaysson has a background in electrical engineering with focus on power systems. Jaysson’s research specialises in assessing new demand-side schemes for facilitating the integration of distributed energy resources (DER) into low-voltage networks. His work has been focused on exploring novel mechanisms for implementing decentralised peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading schemes considering residential users equipped with an energy management system and photovoltaic and battery systems. Prior to ISF, Jaysson worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Oxford and as a Research Associate at the University of Sydney.