💡🔌We're hiring! CEEM has two new research positions open for an exciting CER research project. We're looking for bright data scientists, engineers and researchers with experience in CER modelling and integration. Sound like you or someone you know? external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

💡🔌 A new report from the Energy Efficiency Council with authors Dr. Gabrielle Kuiper and CEEM's @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social dives into the demand-side, exploring what's needed to effectively and meaningfully integrate demand-side resources into the NEM. Full report: www.eec.org.au/uploads/Proj...

A short film from the launch of the Fixim Sola vocational training program on off-grid solar repair in #Vanuatu. 48 participants from Tafea province (5 islands) took part in a 2-week program that covered the fundamentals of #solar + how to perform basic maintenance and #repair operations

🔌💡We're excited to receive funding from ECA for our project "Information needs for consumer electrification". The project will explore the information needs of consumers who are electrifying and develop resources to provide tailored information: 🔗 energyconsumersaustralia.com.au/news/funding...

🔌💡 A few weeks ago some of our team ran a panel on “Open-Source Energy Modelling in Australia – Building Tools, Capacity, and Collaboration” at SoERC 2025. If you have thoughts, opinions or experiences in this space, we'd love to hear them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🔌💡Check out upcoming short course lead by CEEM's Baran Yildiz, held by AGSE UNSW and ERICA as part of SoERC 2025. The course covers operations, integration, and governance of CER in the NEM. More details: lnkd.in/gfK97fav 🗓️ 14/06/2025, 10am-4pm 📍UNSW Kensington Campus 👉 Register: lnkd.in/g_W9Ef6t

🔌💡 Excited to share that CEEM's Anna Bruce, @miker66.bsky.social and Simon Heslop are involved with a new RACE for 2030 project around realising retrofit opportunities for apartment buildings! Learn more: www.racefor2030.com.au/project/real...

With contributions from CEEM's @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social alongside awesome data visuals this ABC Climate article explains the NEM, the history and progress of our energy transition, and the challenges facing us now in a perfect pre-election read: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04... 🔌💡

Here's bit of an explainer I was involved in on how the NEM works, and the energy transition unfolding within it. (..including why it's a tough gig for 'baseload' technologies .. like nuclear) 🔌💡 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Our team at @ceemunsw.bsky.social have a new article on 24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity procurement in Australia. This research examined diverse stakeholder perspectives on this emerging form of RE procurement, including its scope for decarbonising electricity in Australia #research

📣 New paper from @shanilsam.bsky.social, @miker66.bsky.social, and other colleagues at @ceemunsw.bsky.social on perspectives of 24/7 "real time" RE procurement in Au! (tl;dr: will likely play a limited role in driving decarbonisation in Australia..) 🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"While we found interest in 24/7 CFE among some sophisticated buyers and the emerging green hydrogen sector, we argue that 24/7 CFE contracting will likely play a limited role in driving decarbonisation in Australia's electricity sector."

New paper from CEEM researchers exploring stakeholder perspectives on 24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity procurement in Australia has just been published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔌💡

CEEM’s @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social with some analysis of the energy policy choices facing Australians at the election 🔌💡

💡🔌 The final report for #SolarShift, a RACE for 2030 project exploring domestic electric hot water heating's "thermal battery" potential, is now public! Read the report here: lnkd.in/g2C5KJN2 Open-source thermal modelling repo: lnkd.in/gcSVxeEV

Call for abstracts from CEEM's growing group of energy social researchers

🔌💡 New open-access paper out exploring historical pre-dispatch price forecasts and the role of centralised price forecasts for scheduling energy storage in the #NEM, from Abhijith Prakash, Anna Bruce and Iain MacGill. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“For example, labelling people as 'consumers' or 'customers' confines our approach to market-based interactions, while focusing solely on 'costs' as tariffs or prices overlooks other important considerations such as time, energy, and environmental impacts.” 👏👏👏

"The projections assume the Australian Government's 82 per cent renewable electricity generation target for on-grid electricity is met by 2030." Phrased differently: the projections show we are on to meet the target, because we assume the target will be met!

☀️ Got rooftop solar in Australia? Avoid #curtailment and maximise #savings by using your solar energy at home! Energy experts @miker66.bsky.social, Baran Yildiz, Dani Alexander and Michelle Vaqueiro-Contreras from UNSW wrote this great article to show you how: theconversation.com/these-3-simp...

🌟 We're hiring! 🌟 We have two exciting opportunities to join CEEM as a Research Associate / Senior Research Associate. In these roles, you’ll be joining a team exploring CER operations, compliance and curtailment in the NEM through data analysis and open-source tool development. lnkd.in/gdT87YSp

“We need ongoing evidence-based and data-driven research to improve our understanding of CER operations in real-world conditions”, says CEEM's Dr. Baran Yildiz, leading new ARENA-funded project CICCADA which will share key insights on CER compliance and curtailment from real-world data 🔌💡 #energysky

This research is eye poppingly interesting. Using hot water heaters to balance the grid, switching night to day

New research from CEEM’s Baran Yildiz and Hossein Saberi on the potential of electric hot water systems for balancing the grid 🔌💡 #energysky theconversation.com/if-our-hot-w...

.. 7GW of curtailment is quite a lot really 🔌💡 (Demand in the NEM was around 14GW at the time..)

Here is one of our brown coal plants being all reliable and what not today 🔌💡:

Recent (open access) paper from CEEM's Abi Prakash and Sophie Adams looking at the shifting approach to dealing with climate risk and the many meanings of "resilience" and implications for climate change adaptation in the Australian electricity sector. #EnergySky 🔌💡 doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

Join us at 10am on November 28th to hear about some of the key findings from the RACE for 2030 SolarShift project, on the financial and environmental benefits of electric water heaters and our new "SolarShift Customer Hot Water Journey" tool. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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