2025

Socio-economic and environmental impacts of renewable energy deployments: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Vol 207, January 2025.
Dan Virah-Sawmy and Bjorn Sturmberg

2024

Household Energy Glossary. Emerging Technologies Research Lab. December 2024.
Rex Martin, Fareed Kaviani, Kari Dahlgren, Yidan Gao

How trial network tariffs impact the potential benefits of neighbourhood batteries. BSGIP report. July 2024.
Marnie Shaw, Shan (Dora) He and Tim Rock.

How neighbourhood batteries can unlock network capacity for Consumer Energy Resources. BSGIP report. July 2024.
Marnie Shaw, Shan (Dora) He and Tim Rock.

Unplugged is inflexible – how drivers’ plug in behaviour determines the flexibility of electric vehicle (dis)charging. Prepared for the ACT Government. June 2024.
Bjorn Sturmberg.

Comparison of battery configurations and social research findings for virtual power plants and neighbourhood battery trials. Prepared for the ACT Government. June 2024.
Maureen Boyle and Shan (Dora) He.

Vehicle-to-grid response to a frequency contingency in a national grid – successes and shortcomings. Research Square. June 2024.
Bjorn Sturmberg, Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Laura Jones, Lahiru Hapuarachchi and Justus van Biljon.

Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand. Energy Research & Social Science. Vol 113, July 2024.
Rex Martin and Yolande Strengers.

Ignore variability, overestimate hydrogen production – Quantifying the effects of electrolyzer efficiency curves on hydrogen production from renewable energy sources. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. May 2024.
Dan Virah-Sawmy, Fiona Beck and Bjorn Sturmberg.

Multi-objective planning of community energy storage systems under uncertainty. View PDF version. Electric Power Systems Research. Vol 230, May 2024, 110286
K.B.J. Anuradha, Jose Iria, Chathurika P. Mediwaththe.

Challenges and opportunities for delivering grid-tied microgrids for energy resilience: Professional perspectives on governance and business models. Southcoast µ-grid Reliability Feasibility (SµRF) project. April 2024.
Hedda Ransan-Cooper and Kathryn Lucas-Healey.

Project Symphony social research report, 2021 – 2023. ARENA Knowledge Sharing Report.
Maureen Boyle, Phillipa Watson, Jade Soh, Heather Lovell and Laura Jones.

Exploring design challenges and opportunities for microgrids to improve resilience in the Eurobodalla. Southcoast µ-grid Reliability Feasibility (SµRF) project. April 2024.
Bjorn Sturmberg.

Converge project final ARENA knowledge sharing report. March 2024.
Laura Jones, Phillipa Watson, Sarah Wilson, Brenda Martin and Dan Gordon.

Trial of shaped operating envelopes. Final technical knowledge sharing report. March 2024.
Jose Iria, Paul Scott, Dan Gordon, Ahmad Attarha and S. Mahdi Noori R. A.

Converge project final ARENA social science report. March 2024.
Phillipa Watson, Laura Jones, Brenda Martin and Sarah Wilson.

Maximum likelihood estimation of line parameters for a nonlinear model of distribution grids. TechRxiv, March 2024.
Shubhankar Kapoor, Adrian G Wills, Johannes Hendriks, Lachlan Blackhall.

We may be underestimating the power capabilities of lithium-ion capacitors. Journal of Power Sources. Vol 591, January 2024. PDF version.
Chiara Cementon, Thrinath Ramireddy, Daniel Dewar, Michael Brennan and Alexey M. Glushenkov.

2023

Does site selection need to be democratized? A case study of grid-tied microgrids in Australia. Energy Policy vol 183, December 2023.
Pierrick Chalaye, Bjorn Sturmberg, Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Kathryn Lucas-Healey, A. Wendy Russell, Johannes Hendriks, Paula Hansen, Matthew O’Neill, Warwick Crowfoot, Phil Shorten.

System identification in distribution grid without phase angle using expectation maximization. Vol 56, Issue 2 IFAC-PapersOnline. PDF version.
Shubhankar Kapoor, Johannes Hendriks, Lachlan Blackhall.

Reference Architecture for Consumer Energy Resources. September 2023.
The Distributed Energy Integration Program (DEIP) Interoperability Steering Committee. Corresponding author Tim Moore.

Meter unbundling: final report. June 2023.
Laura Jones, Tim Moore and Michael Thomas.

Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program Five Year Impact Report. June 2023.
Sarah Wilson and Alix Ziebell.

Social science report 1: intermediary insights on dynamic and shaped operating envelopes. Project Converge. May 2023.
Phillipa Watson, Andrew Fraser and Hedda Ransan-Cooper.

Community perspectives on microgrids and resilience in the Eurobodalla. Southcoast Microgrid Reliability Feasibility (SURF) project. May 2023.
Pierrick Chalaye and Hedda Ransan-Cooper

Evaluating and tracking impacts of neighbourhood batteries. May 2023. 
Wendy Russell, Louise Bardwell, Hedda Ransan-Cooper and Marnie Shaw.

Customer focussed distribution network management project: Final Report. May 2023.
Laura Jones, Brenda Martin and Phillipa Watson.

Recent commentaries on the expected performance, advantages and applications of sodium-ion batteries. Energy Materials, Vol 3, Issue 2. April 2023.
Alexey M Glushenkov.

Solar for renters: Investigating investor perspectives of barriers and policies. Energy Policy, March 2023.
Mara Hammerle, Lee V. White and Bjorn Sturmberg.

Shaped Operating Envelopes: technical design and implementation report. Project Converge. February 2023.
Paul Scott, Jose Iria, Dan Gordon, Andrew Fraser, Benjamin Weise, Ahmad Attarha and S. Mahdi Noori R. A.

Emissions and prices are anticorrelated in Australia’s electricity grid, undermining the potential of energy storage to support decarbonisation. PDF version here. Energy Policy, January 2023.
Louise Bardwell, Lachlan Blackhall and Marnie Shaw.

Common Smart Inverter Profile – Australia. January 2023
DER Integration API Technical Working Group. Corresponding author Tim Moore.

2022

Modelling V2G: A study on the economic and technical value proposition for V2G. Knowledge Sharing report for ARENA as part of the Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) project. December 2022.
Laura Jones, Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Bjorn Sturmberg and Johannes Hendriks.

RouteZero: user guide and knowledge sharing report. November 2022
Johannes Hendriks and Bjorn Sturmberg.

Creating value from V2G: A report on business models (report). V2G Business Model (spreadsheet). Knowledge Sharing report for ARENA as part of the Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) project. September 2022.
Laura Jones, Kathryn Lucas-Healey and Bjorn Sturmberg.
 
Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Marnie Shaw, Bjorn C.P. Sturmberg, Lachlan Blackhall.
 

Advanced Dual-Ion Batteries with High-Capacity Negative Electrodes Incorporating Black Phosphorus, Advanced Science Volume 9, Issue 20, July 2022.
Jens Matthies Wrogemann, Lukas Haneke, Thrinathreddy Ramireddy, Joop Enno Frerichs, Irin Sultana, Ying Ian Chen, Frank Brink, Michael Ryan Hansen, Martin Winter, Alexey M. Glushenkov, Tobias Placke.

Exploring the feasibility of electric vehicle travel for remote communities in Australia. PDF version here. Australian Geographer. July 2022
Keigan Demaria, Bjorn C.P. Sturmberg, Brad Riley and Francis Markham.
 
Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Hugo Temby and A. Wendy Russell.
 

Evaluation of FCAS capabilities of a V2G capable EV charger – a case study. Knowledge sharing report for ARENA as part of the Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) project. June 2022.

Md Mejbaul Haque, Laura Jones, Kathryn Lucas-Healey, and Bjorn Sturmberg.
 
Crossing sectors: a how-to guide for putting V2G into practice. Knowledge Sharing report for ARENA as part of the Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) project. June 2022.
Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Laura Jones, MD Mejbaul Haque and Bjorn Sturmberg.
 
Final Social Report. Knowledge Sharing report for ARENA as part of the Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) project. June 2022.
Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Laura Jones and Bjorn Sturmberg.
 
Grid performance of a V2G capable EV charger: a case study. Knowledge Sharing report for ARENA as part of the Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) project. June 2022.
Md Mejbaul Haque, Laura Jones, Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Bjorn Sturmberg.
 
Md Mejbaul Haque, Laura Jones, Bjorn Sturmberg and Kathryn Lucas-Healey.
 
FACTS: A Framework for an Australian Clean Transport Strategy. May 2022.
Developed by 18 clean transport and energy experts including Dr Bjorn Sturmberg.
 
Dynamic Operating Envelopes Working Group: Outcomes Report. By the Distributed Energy Integration Program (DEIP) Dynamic Operating Envelopes Working Group. March 2022.
 
Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. Vol 42, March 2022, Pages 442 – 456.
Kathyrn Lucas-Healey, Bjorn CP Sturmberg, Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Laura Jones.
 
Distribution system state estimation with losses in radial medium voltage and low voltage networks. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies – Asia (ISGT Asia). February 2022.
Shubhankar Kapoor, Lachlan Blackhall, Bjorn Sturmberg, Marnie Shaw.
 
Electric vehicles and the grid: analysis, gaps and recommendations. ARENA knowledge sharing report. January 2022.
Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Laura Jones, Md Mejbaul Haque, Bjorn Sturmberg.
 
Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance. Earth System Governance. Vol 11, January 2022.
Jonathan Pickering, Thomas Hickman, Karin Backstrand, Agni Kalagianni, Michael Bloomfield, Aysem Mert, Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Alex Y. Lo.

2021

Distribution system state estimation with losses. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe). December 2021.
Shubhankar Kapoor, Lachlan Blackhall, Bjorn Sturmberg, Marnie Shaw.

A mutually beneficial approach to electricity network pricing in the presence of large amounts of solar power and community-scale energy storage. Energy Policy, Vol 159, December 2021.
BCP Sturmberg, ME Shaw, CP Mediwaththe, H Ransan-Cooper, B Weise, M Thomas, L Blackhall.

Common Smart Inverter Profile – Australia. Developed by the DER Integration API Technical Working Group. September 2021.

Nano germanium incorporated thin graphite nanoplatelets: A novel germanium based lithium-ion battery anode with enhanced electrochemical performance. Electrochimica Acta, Vol 391, Sept 2021.
Authors: Irin Sultana, Md Mokhlesur Rahman, Alexey Glushenkov, Srikanth Mateti, Khagesh Tanwar, Shaoming Huang, Ying Chen.

‘We want it to work’: understanding household experiences with new energy technologies in Australia. Final report of the VOICES project (Victorian Energy and Water Ombudsman’s Investigation of Consumer Experiences). August 2021
Authors: Hugo Temby and Hedda Ransan-Cooper.

Applying responsible algorithm design to neighbourhood-scale batteries in Australia. Nature Energy, July 2021. Full text free version.
Authors: Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Bjorn Sturmberg, Marnie Shaw and Lachlan Blackhall.

Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) Interim Social Report. May 2021.
Authors: Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Laura Jones, Bjorn Sturmberg and Hedda Ransan-Cooper.

End-of-Life Photovoltaic Recycled Silicon: A Sustainable Circular Materials Source for Electronic Industries. Advanced Energy & Sustainability Research, May 2021.
Authors Md Mokhlesur Rahman, Srikanth Mateti, Irin Sultana, Chunping Hou, Alexey Falin, Pavel Cizek, Alexey Glushenkov, Ying Chen.

The Jacka community battery: concept design workshop report. Produced on behalf of the ACT Government. May 2021
Lead author: Marnie Shaw 

The Jacka community battery: feasibility study. Produced on behalf of the ACT Government.
Lead author: Marnie Shaw.

Big Canberra Battery, co-design workshop report. Produced on behalf of the ACT Government. April 2021
Lead author: Andrew Fraser.

Lessons learnt 1: Insights from the Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services (REVS) trial. April 2021
Authors: Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Laura Jones, Bjorn Sturmberg and Md Mejbaul Haque.

The A to Z of V2G: A comprehensive analysis of vehicle-to-grid technology worldwide. ARENA knowledge sharing report for the Realising Electric Vehicles-to-grid Services (REVS) project. January 2021.
Authors: Laura Jones, Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Bjorn Sturmberg, Hugo Temby and Monirul Islam.

Optimisation of sodium-based energy storage cells using pre-sodiation: a perspective on the emerging field. Energy and Environmental Science Journal, January 2021. 
Authors: Daniel Dewar and Alexey M. Glushenkov. 

2020

Mechanochemistry: A force in disguise and conditional effects towards chemical reactions. Chemical Communications journal. December 2020.
Srikanth Mateti, Motilal Mathesh, Zhen Liu, Tao Tao, Thrinathreddy Ramireddy, Alexey M. Glushenkov, Wenrong Yang and Ying Ian Chen.

Implementing community-scale batteries. Final report for the ARENA-funded Community Models for Deploying and Operating DER project. December 2020.
Contact author: marnie.shaw@anu.edu.au
Contributing authors: hedda.ransan-cooper@anu.edu.au, bjorn.sturmberg@anu.edu.au, chathurika.mediwatthe@anu.edu.au, lachlan.blackhall@anu.edu.au.

Implementing community-scale batteries: regulatory, technical and logistical considerations. December 2020.
Contact author: marnie.shaw@anu.edu.au
Contributing authors: hedda.ransan-cooper@anu.edu.au, bjorn.sturmberg@anu.edu.au, chathurika.mediwatthe@anu.edu.au, lachlan.blackhall@anu.edu.au.

Frustration, confusion and excitement: Mixed emotional responses to new household solar-battery systems in Australia. Energy Research & Social Science, Vol 70, December 2020.
Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Heather Lovell, Phillipa Watson, Andrew Harwood, Veryan Hann.

Documenting capacity and cyclic stability enhancements in synthetic graphite potassium-ion battery anode material modified by low-energy liquid phase ball milling. Journal of Power Sources, Vol 476, November 2020.
Md Mokhlesur Rahman, Chunping Hou, Srikanth Mateti, Khagesh Tanwar, Irin Sultana, Alexey M. Glushenkov, Ying Chen.

On the calculation and use of dynamic operating envelopes. evolve project M4 Knowledge Sharing Report. October 2020
Corresponding author Lachlan Blackhall.

Network-aware demand-side management framework with a community energy storage system considering voltage constraints. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. August 2020.
Chathurika Mediwaththe, Lachlan Blackhall.

Consumer engagement in energy data services: recommendations moving forward. Report submitted for Wattwatchers’ My Energy Marketplace (MEM) project, supported by ARENA. July 2020.
Marnie Shaw.

A review of publicly available energy data sets. Report submitted for Wattwatchers’ My Energy Marketplace (MEM) project, supported by ARENA. July 2020.
Shubhankar Kapoor, Bjorn Sturmberg, Marnie Shaw.

Stakeholder views on the potential role of community scale storage in Australia. Report submitted for Community Models for Deploying and Operating Distributed Energy Resources project, supported by ARENA. June 2020.
Hedda Ransan-Cooper.

Community batteries: a cost/benefit analysis. Report submitted for Community Models for Deploying and Operating Distributed Energy Resources project, supported by ARENA. June 2020.
Marnie Shaw.

Probing electrochemical reactivity in an Sb2S3-containing potassium-ion battery anode: observation of an increased capacity. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Issue 22, 2020.
V. Lakshmi, Alexey A. Mikhaylov, Alexander G. Medvedev, Chao Zhang, Thrinathreddy Ramireddy, Md Mokhlesur Rahman, Pavel Cizek, Dmitri Golberg, Ying Chen, Ovadia Lev, Petr V. Prikhodchenko, Alexey M. Glushenkov.

N-doped carbon nanofibers from pyrolysis of free-base phthalocyanine. Diamond and Related Materials, Volume 105,  May 2020.
Vladimir A. Basiuk, Lina M. Bolivar-Pineda, Victor Meza-Laguna, Alexey M. Glushenkov, Billy J. Murdoch, Elena V. Basiuk.

A Decentralized Electric Vehicle Charge Scheduling Scheme for Tracking Power Profiles. 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT).
Nanduni Nimalsiri, David Smith, Elizabeth Ratnam, Chathurika Mediwaththe, Saman Halgamuge.

An Incentive-Compatible Energy Trading Framework for Neighborhood Area Networks With Shared Energy Storage. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, Vol 11, Issue 1, January 2020.
Chathurika Mediwaththe, Marnie Shaw, Saman Halgamuge, David B. Smith, Paul Scott.

2019

Facile Solution Processing of Stable MXene Dispersions towards Conductive Composite Fibers. Global Challenges, Volume 3, Issue 10, October 2019.
Shayan Seyedin, Jizhen Zhang, Ken Aldren S. Usman, Si Qin, Alexey M. Glushenkov, Elliard Roswell S. Yanza, Robert T. Jones, Joselito M. Razal.

Phasor-Based Adaptive Control of a Test-Feeder Distribution Network: Application of Retrospective Cost Adaptive Control to the IEEE 13-Node Test Feeder. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol 39, Issue 4, August 2019.
Syed Aseem Ul Islam, Elizabeth Ratnam, Ankit Goel, Dennis S. Bernstein.

The NextGen Energy Storage trial in the ACT, Australia. Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, June 2019.
Marnie Shaw, Bjorn Sturmberg, Lin Gao, Xinyu Gao, Elizabeth Ratnam, Lachlan Blackhall.

3D printing of poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene): a poling-free technique to manufacture flexible and transparent piezoelectric generators. MRS Communications, Volume 9, 2019.
Nick A. Shepelin, Vanessa C. Lussini, Phillip J. Fox, Greg W. Dicinoski, Alexey M. Glushenkov, Joseph G. Shapter, Amanda V. Ellis.

New developments in composites, copolymer technologies and processing techniques for flexible fluoropolymer piezoelectric generators for efficient energy harvesting. Energy and Environmental Science, Issue 4, 2019.
Nick A. Shepelin, Alexey M. Glushenkov, Vanessa C. Lussini, Phillip J. Fox, Greg W. Dicinoski, Joseph G. Shapter, Amanda V. Ellis.

Operating a community-scale battery: electricity tariffs to maximise customer and network benefits. ARENA report.
Marnie Shaw, Bjorn Sturmberg, Chathurika Mediwaththe, Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Deborah Taylor, Lachlan Blackhall.

The Impact of Residential Batteries on PV Self-Consumption and PV Exports: early results from the Nextgen Trial in the ACT, Australia. 2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES).
Marnie E. Shaw, Bjorn C.P. Sturmberg, Lachlan Blackhall, Elizabeth Ratnam.

Corrective receding horizon EV charge scheduling using short-term solar forecasting. Renewable Energy, Vol 130, January 2019.
Guang Chao Wang, Elizabeth Ratnam, Hamed Valizadeh Haghi, Jan Kleissl.