Sustainable Energy

Sustainable Energy is one of the two major research themes for the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The other is Sensing and Processing. The academic and research staff in the School contribute towards this theme through their teaching, research and consulting, through membership of research groups and participation in research projects.

The Sustainable Energy theme is broadly aligned with the Faculty of ECMS Sustainable Energy Research Group.

The Sustainable Energy research theme concerns the generation, storage, distribution and efficient use of electrical energy from environmentally sustainable sources. Teaching, research and consulting activities in this theme include:

• Control Systems
• Electrical Machines
• Power Electronics
• Power System Dynamics

Major Projects

Major projects currently underway in the Sustainable Energy theme include:

• Enhancement of the Performance of Large Interconnected Power Systems: this project, funded by seven Australian power companies, is delivering research results to these industry participants through training and production-quality analysis and design software.

Research Linkage

The discipline maintains active links through research contracts with the following end users:

• ElectraNet