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.
Current projects
ANU Below Zero
Benchmarking lithium-ion battery materials
Big batteries: grid-scale batteries to support Australia’s energy transition
Converge: exploring the grid participation of Distributed Energy Resources
Dual-ion batteries
Edith: empowering consumers and energising the grid through dynamic pricing
Hybrid energy storage (lithium-ion capacitors and related devices)
Keeping the community in community batteries
Symphony
Sodium-ion and potassium-ion batteries
Southcoast µ-grid Reliability Feasibility (SµRF)
Finalised projects
Community models for deploying and operating Distributed Energy Resources
Customer-focused network management
evolve: developing smart software for the orchestration of 21st century electricity systems
Meter unbundling conceptual analysis
My Energy Marketplace
Neighbourhood Battery Initiative
New energy VOICEs (Victorian energy and water Ombudsman Investigation into Consumer Experiences)
Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS)
RouteZero: An analytics platform supporting Australia’s largest electric bus fleet pilot project
Sans Limites
Streaming big data for the smart grid
Yarra Energy Storage Systems
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 and analysis to understand the behaviour and performance of energy systems that are characterised by a high penetration of renewable and distributed generation and storage. This theme also captures how we model and analyse multi-energy systems characterised by significant coupling between sectors including Electricity, Transport, Building, Industry and Land and Agriculture.
Developing new capabilities, algorithms and systems that allow for the effective optimisation, control, coordination and orchestration of multi-energy systems.
Undertaking social research and designing and implementing policy, economic and market models that provide new understanding and support the deployment of new capabilities, systems and technologies that will enable the global energy transition.