The Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program (BSGIP) is undertaking research into battery materials and the development, integration, operation and optimisation of energy storage in electricity grids and electricity markets globally.
Projects
Benchmarking lithium-ion battery materials
Community energy models for deploying and operating distributed energy resources
Dual-ion batteries
Evolve: developing smart software for the orchestration of 21st century electricity systems
Hybrid energy storage (lithium-ion capacitors and related devices)
My Energy Marketplace (MEM)
New energy VOICEs (Victorian energy and water Ombudsman Investigation into Consumer Experiences)
Realising Electric Vehicles-to-grid Services (REVS)
Sodium-ion and potassium-ion batteries
Streaming big data for the smart grid
Research Themes
BSGIP research activities are categorised into the following four themes:
Designing, building and characterising new battery storage devices, based on a fundamental understanding of different chemical and material behaviours. Exploring opportunities for battery recycling, reuse and failure analysis based on characterisation capabilities.
Progressing the state-of-the-art in modelling, forecasting and prediction to understand the behaviour and performance of power systems with a high penetration of distributed energy resources (DER) including solar PV, battery storage and electric vehicles.
Developing systems and capabilities for the effective optimisation, control, coordination and orchestration of battery and energy storage systems, and electric vehicles in modern power systems.
Undertaking social research and designing and implementing policy, economic and market models to support the deployment of energy and battery storage including residential, precinct and grid-scale battery storage and electric vehicles.