Melbourne Energy Institute
The Melbourne Energy Institute delivers influential, interdisciplinary research on the transition to a clean energy system. We work with the community, industry and government on some of the world's most pressing energy challenges.
News & Events
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Podcast: AEMO Q4 2019 Quarterly Dynamics Seminar
Listen to the recording of AEMO's recent presentation of their Q4 Quarterly Energy Dynamics report.
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MEI supports the AEMC framework to enhance power system resilienceNews
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Spotlight on a Student: Ceren Ayas
Justice in Energy Transitions: How can justice facilitate low-carbon transition?
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Spotlight on a Student: Mathieu Pichault
Characterisation, Detection and Forecasting of Intra-hourly Wind Power Ramps Under Complex Topography
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Australian Energy Regulator releases Final Report on Value of Customer Reliability Review
On 18 December 2019, the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) released the Final Report on its Value of Customer Reliability (VCR) Review.
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MEI Symposium 19
On 13 December, graduate students and research staff showcased the cutting-edge research into energy being undertaken across the University of Melbourne at the MEI Symposium.
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Podcast: Energy Futures - Hydrogen, worth the hype?
Listen to the podcast from our Energy Futures seminar, in which Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel AO, provided an overview of the National Hydrogen Strategy.
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Government funding announced for i-Hub's integrated design studio
Funding by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) for the Affordable Heating and Cooling Innovation Hub (i-Hub) was announced last week.
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Spotlight on a Student: Morgan Li
Experimental study of a turbulent boundary layer over surfaces with spatially varying roughness
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Podcast: AEMO Q3 2019 Quarterly Dynamics Seminar
Listen to the recording of AEMO's recent presentation of their Q3 Quarterly Energy Dynamics report.
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Third Lateral Learning Program on Smart Grid Technologies and Implications for Inclusive Development
Fifty participants attended the Third Lateral Learning Program on Smart Grid Technologies and Implications for Inclusive Development from 14-17 October 2019 at the University of Melbourne.
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Spotlight on a Student: Davy Brouzet
Investigation of combustion noise in turbulent premixed flames using direct numerical simulations
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Unravelling the enigma of turbulence by integrating simulation and modelling
Prof. Richard Sandberg, MEI's Energy Technology Program Leader, has recently received an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for his research into designing quieter and more efficient aerospace technologies.
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Proa Analytics delivers first solar farm self-forecast to AEMO
Proa, a start-up by University of Melbourne alumni, has recently become the first, independent provider of solar or wind farm forecasts to be integrated into the National Electricity Market Dispatch Engine (NEMDE) run by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).
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Spark wins the Energy Hack 2019
After six weeks of working to develop a project aiming to power the energy transition, on 16th October Energy Hack 19 finalists pitched their ideas to an expert judging panel for a chance to win part of $35,000 in prize money.
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Spotlight on a Student: Jianhua Zhao
Porous materials for energy-efficient gas separation and carbon capture
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Hydrogen - a pathway to environmental and regional prosperity - where to for Gippsland?
A recent forum hosted by the Australian Carbon Innovation and Federation University explored hydrogen’s potential as a sustainable fuel for the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland
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Podcast: Energy Futures - It's time for a longer term view on delivering the great energy transition
Listen to the podcast from our Energy Futures seminar, which considered how to address the challenges and realise the opportunities of the great energy transition.
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Spotlight on a Student: Maria Panagiotidou
Energy and life-cycle cost optimisation framework for multi-residential building retrofit
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Reducing impact on the electricity grid
David Byrne, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne, has been instrumental in the design and evaluation of a Power Changers large scale randomised controlled trial at Victorian energy distributor Jemena.
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ACM e-Energy'20 Call for Papers
Paper submissions have opened for the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), to be held in Melbourne in June 2020.
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Spotlight on a Student: Abbas Ihsan
Techno-economic and environmental performance of a distributed, hybrid renewable energy power plant
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Podcast: Energy Futures - Whither Australian energy policy over the next 3 years?
Listen to the podcast from our recent Energy Futures seminar, which explored what Australia's energy policy may look like following the last election.
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Spotlight on a Student: Nasim Pour
Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS); Sustainability, Challenges and Potential
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Spotlight on a Student: Javad Jazaeri
Demand side management using thermal storage of residential buildings
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Dr Reihana Mohideen to lead workshop on gender equality in the energy sector at ACEF
Dr Reihana Mohideen, Program Leader for Energy, Community and the Region at MEI, is a member of the 2019 Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) Advisory Group and has organised a workshop at the Forum on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) considerations in the energy sector.[Dr Reihana Mohideen at the University of Melbourne. Picture: Sam Davison.]
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Podcast: AEMO Q1 Quarterly Dynamics Seminar
Listen to the recording of AEMO's recent presentation of their Q1 Quarterly Energy Dynamics report.
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Prof Garnaut: Climate & Energy Transition in Australia
Over six seminars Prof Garnaut built the case for the energy transition in Australia, calling on knowledge of climate science and studies of the economic benefits of mitigation.
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Spotlight on a Student: Jia Sheen Nah
Empirical Studies of Consumer Search and Market Power
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The opportunities and risks of decarbonising Australia's transport
Australia is behind on regulating vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, but we have many options that when combined carefully could achieve deep abatement, clean our air and even save us money
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Grant awarded to University of Melbourne automotive engineering graduate placement program
The University of Melbourne have been successful in their application to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS) for funding of the Automotive Engineering Graduate Program (AEGP).
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Spotlight on a Student: PhD Candidate Glen Currie
Customer roles in the future energy system
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ARENA grant success for two Melbourne Energy Institute affiliates
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced the outcomes of their Short-Term Forecasting round.
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AEMO Q4 Quarterly Dynamics Seminar
Access the slides from the Australian Energy Market Operator's (AEMO) presentation of their latest Quarterly Dynamics report.
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Spotlight on a Student: PhD Candidate Meghalim Phukan
Mineral precipitation from C02-saturated water in basalts and its potential for self-sealing of fractures and joints
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AEMO's Quarterly Energy Dynamics Reports - Why they matter
MEI interviewed AEMO’s Farhad Billimoria and Dr Jonathan Myrtle about why their Quarterly Energy Dynamics reports are critical to decision making, planning and policy in Australia.
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Professor Pierluigi Mancarella awarded 2018 Newton Prize
Professor Pierluigi Mancarella, Program Leader for Energy Systems at MEI, has been awarded the 2018 Newton Prize for an international project on power system resilience.
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Spotlight on a Student: PhD Candidate Thomas Moore
Immobilised Solvent Systems for Carbon Capture
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Spotlight on a Student: PhD Candidate Stephen Pollard
Imagining the carbon neutral city: Conceiving, designing and enacting low carbon urban transitions
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Hydrogen: Has its time come?
The promise of a hydrogen economy has waxed and waned, but the falling cost of renewable energy could be the game changer that makes hydrogen fuel economic.
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MEI Symposium
On 12 December, graduate students, research staff and energy industry professionals from across the country met to exchange ideas and explore collaborations at the MEI Symposium.
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Spotlight on a Student: PhD Candidate Rob Ryan
Measuring Australia's air quality using atmospheric spectroscopy
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If all else fails, do the conventional thing
Intervention by different governments in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) is in vogue. However, without a coherent national approach we risk reduced reliability, higher prices and missed targets.
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Using OPF for Smart Grids: From Concept to Reality
The University of Melbourne’s Smart Grid lab has been involved in an exciting project researching Smart Grid technology. Researchers at the lab have been using Optimal Power Flow (OPF) as a means to control distributed energy resources in distribution networks.
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Energy Technology Innovation in South Asia: Implications for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
Dr. Reihana Mohideen, Program Leader for Energy, Community and the Region at the Melbourne Energy Institute, has recently published her eagerly anticipated working paper addressing how energy systems and services in South Asia can improve women’s economic empowerment and well-being.
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Energy prices and emissions: Compare policies ahead of the Victorian election
In a recent edition of Election Watch, Prof. Michael Brear, Director of the Melbourne Energy Institute, compares key policies of political parties against the backdrop of the current energy landscape in Victoria and nationally.
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Power Rangerz win Energy Hack 18
On the weekend of 19-21 October, industry and students came together to help solve Australia's greatest energy challenges at Energy Hack 18.
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Spotlight on a Student: PhD Candidate Catherine Kain
The value proposition of low carbon sustainable housing development: a property developer’s perspective
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Energy Hack Profile - Ashley Broad
Ashley will be a mentor at this year's Energy Hack, and with ten years under her belt as a Siemens engineer she's got a lot to offer.
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Energy Hack Profile - Jonathan Anderson
Meet Jonathan Anderson, veteran of MEI's two-day hackathon 'Energy Hack'.
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Spotlight on a Student: PhD Candidate Angela Rojas
Modelling socio-technical configurations to explore energy transition pathways
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Podcast: Energy Futures - Energy policy. Where to from here?
Listen to the podcast from our recent Energy Futures seminar, which discussed the future of Australian energy policy.
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Podcast: AEMO Q2 Quarterly Dynamics Seminar
Listen to the recording of AEMO's recent presentation on their Q2 Quarterly Energy Dynamics report.
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MUSE Seminar Slides
Access the slide presentation from our event that explored MUSE, a new Integrated Assessment Model framework developed at Imperial College London.
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Renewable hydrogen research grant awarded to University of Melbourne and partners
The University of Melbourne, together with University of New South Wales (UNSW), yesterday announced an $8.6 million research project investigating the performance and value of efficient, heavy duty, reciprocating engines running on renewable hydrogen.
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Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar
Han Wang, an electrical engineering PhD student, has been selected as the University of Melbourne delegate to the 2018 Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar, widely considered the most prestigious youth science event in the world
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Professor Dan Li's successful ARC grant outcomes
Dan Li, Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Melbourne, has recently been successful in two ARC grant outcomes.
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Submission on 'Clean Air for All Victorians' Victoria’s Air Quality Statement
A group of experts have entered a submission to ‘Clean Air for All Victorians’, using their diverse knowledge to provide a vision for Victoria’s Air Quality Statement.
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Spotlight on a Student: Fateme Fahiman
Machine Learning techniques for time-series forecasting with application to Smart Grids
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Podcast: Energy Futures - The way back to affordable electricity
Listen to the podcast from our Energy Futures seminar, which discussed the final report from the ACCC’s electricity affordability inquiry.
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Spotlight on a Student: Paris Hadfield
Financialisation and scaling towards 'just' urban sustainability transitions - the possibilities and limits of renewable energy innovations in cities
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MEInetwork18 Seminar Series exploring energy systems of the future
Energy Systems Seminar Series launched with guest speakers from AEMO.
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Podcast: AEMO Quarterly Dynamics Seminar
Listen to our podcast from the Australian Energy Market Operator's (AEMO) presentation of the results from their Quarterly Dynamics report.
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Spotlight on a Student: Daniel Marshman
Performance of Electricity Markets & Power Plant Investments in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Power System
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IMNIS mentor program open to PhD students working in Energy
IMNIS have expanded the scope of their mineral resources mentor program to include graduate researchers in Energy. Eighteen places are available to PhD students in their second year or early in their third year.
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Podcast: Energy Futures - National Energy Guarantee
Listen to the podcast from our Energy Futures seminar on the central issue of energy and climate policy in Australia - the National Energy Guarantee.
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Chancellery support for Universitas21 'Sustainable Futures' workshop
University of Melbourne Chancellery Research is offering support for up to four Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to attend a Universitas21 ECR Workshop at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on the theme of ‘Sustainable Futures’.
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Podcast: Energy Futures Seminar
Listen to the podcast from our Energy Futures seminar that explored exactly what a sustainable electricity network would look like.
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Future Fuels CRC gets green light
The Assistant Minister for Science, Jobs and Innovation Senator the Hon Zed Seselja has recently announced that the Federal Government’s Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program will be co-funding Future Fuels CRC with $26.25m.
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Spotlight on a Student: Han WangNews
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Melbourne Energy Institute 2017 Wrap UpNews
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Energy Hack 2017 Winners xsSPACE
Read all about the Energy Hack 2017 winners.
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Podcast: Distinguished Lecture Series 2017 - Professor Sally Benson
Listen to the podcast from the 2017 Distinguished Lecture given by Professor Sally Benson on the role of energy systems analysis in making good energy choices.
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Podcast: the role of pumped hydro energy storage in the Australian energy transition
Listen to the podcast from our event launching the feasibility study report into using seawater in a pumped hydro energy storage facility in Cultana, South Australia.
pumped hydro, ARENA, EnergyAustralia, Arup
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Advisory Board
The Melbourne Energy Institute Advisory Board is comprised of energy industry leaders that provide strategic advice to the Institute. Meet the Institute Advisory Board members.
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Institute Fellows
Senior researchers from the University provide the Institute with insight and knowledge. Meet our Institute Fellows.
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Institute Team
The Melbourne Energy Institute is operated by a small team of staff. Meet the Melbourne Energy Institute team.
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Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is made up of senior academics engaged in energy research whom, along with the Director, govern the Institute. Meet the Institute Executive Committee.
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Energy Systems
The Energy Systems program considers how different energy technologies interact with one another. The program includes the analysis and optimisation of energy networks, wholesale and retail energy markets, and energy system planning.
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Environment and Resources
The Environment and Resources Program examines the interactions between our energy systems and the environment. This program examines energy resource extraction and use, and how current energy systems influence environmental and human health, including legal and economic implications and opportunities.
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Hydrogen and Clean Fuels
The Hydrogen and Clean Fuels program integrates research into production, distribution and use of hydrogen in the energy system. The program studies electrolysis and clean fuel production, as well as hydrogen and clean fuel distribution and use in industrial and transport applications.
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Power Generation and Transport
The Power Generation and Transport program brings together researchers who investigate several forms of renewable and low emission power plants for stationary and mobile applications. This includes advanced wind, solar, gas turbine, reciprocating engine and energy storage technologies.
The University of Melbourne offers Masters and PhD level studies in many aspects of energy. Please visit our Research tab to contact specific researchers who may be available for Masters by Research and PhD supervision. We also offer interdisciplinary coursework via our Master of Energy Systems.
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This program integrates the study of the technology, business and science of energy, focusing on the key areas of: evaluating energy systems; energy-related investment decisions; policy development and implementation; and greenhouse gas management issues.
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MEInetwork is a unique program that gives participants a comprehensive view of the energy sector as it faces the challenges of reliability, affordability, and reducing emissions as new generating and digital service delivery technologies emerge.
This new program provides energy industry professionals and University of Melbourne graduate students with important tools and deeper understanding of the changing energy landscape.
Activities across the year include the Energy Systems Short Course, Seminar Series, Energy Hack and the MEI Symposium.
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Energy Systems Short Course
A short course on analysing the financial, technical, and environmental performance of energy projects.
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Seminar Series
Each seminar leads participants through the major components of the energy supply chain.
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Energy Hack
An innovation event where teams compete to create the most compelling new energy project or business model.
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MEI Symposium
A showcase of the University of Melbourne’s multi-disciplinary energy research.
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