Day two: Session Energy transition: renewables, networks and electric vehicles

Angela Simonovska

PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne

Electrical model-free optimal power flow for PV-Rich HV-LV distribution networks

Angela finished her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia, and her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering – Smart Grids at Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy. Currently she is pursuing her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and IT at The University of Melbourne, Australia under the supervision of Professor Luis Nando Ochoa. Her main area of research is related to low-voltage distribution networks, distributed energy resources, machine learning and optimal power flow.

Rosalind Archer

Head of School, Engineering & Built Environment, Griffith University

Electric vehicles: experience from across the Tasman

Rosalind Archer has interdisciplinary interests in energy. She recently moved to Australia after a 19-year career at the University of Auckland where she was Deputy Dean of Engineering, and Director of the Geothermal Institute. Rosalind was also the director of Auckland’s Master of Energy program. She is now Head of the School of Engineering & Built Environment at Griffith University.

Yushan Hou

PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne

EV hosting capacity and voltage unbalance: an Australian case study

Yushan is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Previously, she received an MSc degree from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Before that, she worked as an electrical engineer for two-and-a-half years. Now she is focusing on studying the effect of voltage unbalance on distributed energy resources (DER) hosting capacity and power rebalancing algorithm to mitigate unbalance.