Welcome to the
'www' home of the UNSW Electricity Restructuring Group, or ERGO. This informal
discussion and research collaboration group focuses on research into electricity
restructuring, from the operation of the Electricity markets here in Australia
and elsewhere, emerging power technologies, through to wider questions of
appropriate energy policy directions and electricity industry sustainability.
Latest news
ERGO researchers have some key roles in CEEM – Associate Professor Hugh Outhred is a Joint Centre Director while Karel Nolles is Research Coordinator (Economics) and Iain MacGill is Research Coordinator (Engineering). The Centre website is now under construction – see www.ceem.unsw.edu.au.
Email list: Would you like to receive email updates from CEEM with announcements of forthcoming events and newly posted papers? We expect that these emails will average one or two a month. Your email address will not be released to any other party. If you'd like to sign up please send an email message to majordomo@explode.unsw.edu.au with a one line message - ‘subscribe ceem-update’ or ‘unsubscribe ceem-update’ as appropriate.
Please contact Iain MacGill if you have any questions regarding CEEM or problems with its website or email list: i.macgill@unsw.edu.au.
Note that we expect to slowly wind down use of the ERGO email list. Due to privacy laws we are not permitted to transfer existing ergo email subscribers automatically over to the new CEEM list – existing subscribers who wish to continue to receive updates should now subscribe to CEEM.
Recent CEEM seminars:
Assessing Transmission Congestion Impacts on Electricity Markets, Prof. George Gross, Dept of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1:00pm to 2:30 pm, Thursday 23 September 2004, Room G24, Electrical Engineering Building, UNSW.
You can download the flyer here and the presentation is also available here
Can energy efficiency policies reduce consumption and save carbon? The UK experience, by Dr Gill Owen, Centre for Management under Regulation, Warwick, Business School, Warwick University, UK, Thursday 9 September 2004, Room G3, Electrical Engineering Building, UNSW, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. The flyer can be viewed here. The presentation is also available here.
How close is the Hydrogen society? by Professor Bent Sørensen, Head of Energy and Environmental Group, Roskilde University, Denmark. Friday 10 September 2004, Room G3, Electrical Engineering Building, UNSW, 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. The flyer can be viewed here.
New ERGO papers and presentations: Please note that many of these are draft discussion papers and may be revised occasionally. Our complete list of publications can be accessed here
P.W. Tham, Hugh Outhred and Iain MacGill, “Derivative Markets in the
Australian NEM: Roles and Issues,” Paper accepted for Australasian Universities
Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2004, Brisbane, September [pdf].
Thai D. H. Cau, Hugh Outhred & Iain MacGill, “Using a market game as a tool for teaching strategic behaviour in an electricity industry restructuring course,” Paper accepted for Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2004, Brisbane, September [pdf]. The associated presentation is also available [pdf].
Iain MacGill, “CEEM - a new UNSW Research Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets” Presentation at the Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2004, Brisbane, September [pdf]
Iain MacGill “The ethics of climate change and the electricity industry,” Presentation to ELEC4011 –Ethics and Electrical Engineering Practice, UNSW, September 2004 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “Electricity Industry Restructuring - A review of progress” Seminar presentation at the University of Otago, New Zealand, September 2004 [pdf]
Tony Owen, “ Environmental
Externalities, Market Distortions and the Economics of Renewable Energy
Technologies,” The Energy Journal, Vol. 25, 127-156, 2004 [pdf].
Tony Owen, “ Oil Supply Insecurity: Control versus Damage Costs,” Energy Policy, Vol. 32, 1879-1882,
2004 [pdf]
Iain MacGill, “Making Market Mechanisms Work for Energy Efficiency,” Presentation to The Business of Energy Efficiency, Australia’s Second National Energy Efficiency Conference, September 2004, Sydney [pdf]
Iain MacGill, “A new UNSW Research Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets”, Presentation to a UNSW World Energy Congress Youth Symposium, 7 September 2004, Sydney. [pdf]
Hugh Outhred and Iain MacGill, Some comments on “The Economic and Environmental Impact of Scale-efficient IGCC plant in the NEM – A Stanwell Coporation discussion paper provided by the CO2CRC, May 2004”, ERGO draft discussion paper 0104, August 2004 [pdf]
Iain MacGill, The Australian Energy Sector and Climate Change –
What Role for Geosequestration? Australian Institute of Energy (AIE)
Evening Presentation Series - Geosequestration – are we burying our problems?
Sydney, 9 August 2004 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “Global trends in electricity markets,” Presentation to Australian
Energy Reform Conference, Melbourne, 29 June – 1 July 2004 [pdf]
Hugh also gave a one day workshop on The CoAG Response to the Parer Report
– three presentations are available: “Principles of electricity restructuring” [pdf], “The COAG Energy Market
Review (the Parer Report)” [pdf] and, “COAG response to the COAG Energy Market Review” [pdf]
Iain MacGill, Hugh Outhred and Karel Nolles, “Some design lessons from market-based greenhouse gas regulation in the restructured Australian electricity industry,” revised paper now In Press in Energy Policy Journal, 2005 [pdf]
Iain MacGill, “A risk-based technology assessment framework for
evaluating our GHG abatement options,” Presentation to Second Annual’Towards
Zero Emissions’ Conference, Brisbane, 26-28 July 2004 [pdf]
Karel Nolles, “Lessons on the Design and Implementation of Renewable Energy, Greenpower and Greenhouse Emissions Abatement Markets from the Financial Markets and Experimental Economics” Paper [pdf] and associated presentation [pdf] at the 24th USAEE/ IAEE North American Conference, Washington DC, July 8-10 2004
Hugh Outhred, An Australian Perspective on Electricity Industry Restructuring and Sustainability, Seminar for Sustainable Energy Ireland, Dublin, 23 June 2004 [pdf]
Muriel Watt, Scott Partlin, Monica Oliphant, Hugh Outhred, Iain MacGill and Ted Spooner, “The Value of PV in Summer Peaks” Paper for EUPVSEC’04 European PV Solar Conference, Paris, June 2004 [pdf]
Iain MacGill, Some Recent Developments in Australian Electricity Industry Restructuring, Seminar for University of Cambridge Department of Applied Economics, June 2004 [pdf]
Iain MacGill (and Hugh Outhred), “Policy options to drive technical innovation”, CAN Europe Workshop: The policy and environmental implications of CO2 capture and storage, hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, May 2004 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred (and Iain MacGill), “The Australian Electricity Industry and Climate Change: What role for geosequestration?” Presentation to CO2 Capture & Storage Conference, Perth, 23 April 2004 [pdf]
Frank Muller, “Policy Issues for a Multi-State Emissions Trading Scheme” Presentation to Emissions Trading in Australia: Status & Prospects: AETF-CRCGA Joint Seminar Program, Sydney, 20 April 2004 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, Electricity Industry Restructuring and its Implementation in Australia, Presentation to a Korean Delegation visiting UNSW, 2 April 2004 [pdf]
Robert Passey, Iain MacGill and Muriel Watt, A Review of Some Recent Australian Government Energy Management Programs, ACRE Energy Policy Group Report, April 2004 [pdf]
Iain MacGill, Muriel Watt, Hugh Outhred and Robert Passey, SERGO Submission (Executive Summary) to the NFEE Discussion Paper “Towards a National Framework for Energy Efficiency – Issues and Challenges, March 2004 [pdf]
Earlier publications can be accessed here
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Research
The Electricity Industry in Australia and worldwide is currently being transformed by:
Industry restructuring with the introduction of competitive electricity markets
New renewable and other small-scale clean generation technologies, and
Growing environmental concerns.
The Electricity Restructuring Group at UNSW is exploring the many technical and policy related questions arising from this transformation.
Electricity Industry Restructuring
The restructuring process underway here in Australia has introduced electricity markets and competition into the industry. This has raised a wide range of questions involving engineering, economics and policy:
Design of electricity spot & derivative markets to incorporate appropriate industry models
Design of "ancillary services" for voltage and frequency control
Creation of a "level playing field" for more sustainable energy systems, such as those based on solar, wind or biomass
Renewable Energy Systems
Many renewable and small-scale clean energy technologies show great promise, but they do raise important technical questions for the electricity grid:
Standards for safety, interconnection and protection
Power electronics and quality of supply
System simulation, analysis, design and control
Implementation of systems in remote communities
Growing environmental concerns
The need for our society to act on global warming by reducing fossil fuel use is near universally accepted.
At present, greater than 90% of Australian electricity comes from coal fired plant. Electricity accounts for 38% of Australia's total CO2 emissions. There are important research questions regarding the most appropriate policies to move the electricity industry towards greater sustainability.
People
Assoc. Professor Hugh Outhred
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
University of NSW
Tel: (02) 9385 4035 Fax: (02) 9385 5993
Email: h.Outhred@unsw.edu.au
http://www.eet.unsw.edu.au/staff/outhred/profile.htm
Dr Iain MacGill
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
University of NSW
Tel: (02) 9385 4920 Fax: (02) 9385 5993
Email: i.macgill@unsw.edu.au
http://www.eet.unsw.edu.au/staff/macgill/profile.htm
Ted Spooner
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
University of NSW
Tel: (02) 9385 4047 Fax: (02) 9385 5993
Email: e.spooner@unsw.edu.au
http://www.eet.unsw.edu.au/staff/spooner/profile.htm
This site is under construction - more folks coming soon...
Events, workshops and seminars
ERGO researchers regularly give presentations to the UNSW Electrical Energy seminar program. Details of these seminars (and associated Powerpoint presentations) can be found here…
Picking up the Pieces after California - Current Issues on the Rocky Road to Deregulation of the Electric Utility Industry in the USA: ERGO hosted a half-day seminar on 5 March 2004 presented by Professor Tim Mount of Cornell on the present status of electricity restructuring in the United States. More details, and downloads of the presentations are available here.
Energy Efficiency: Policy in Practice: ERGO and the AEPG hosted a one day workshop on 4 March 2004 at UNSW exploring energy efficiency policy in Australia. More details and downloads of the presentations are available here.
Wind farm planning, network connection and operation in the National Electricity Market: This one-day workshop, presented by Iain MacGill, was held in association with the Third Annual Australian Wind conference in Adelaide, February 2004. Presentations for the four sessions are available. “Wind resources, technology and performance” [pdf] “Wind farm planning & network-related issues” [pdf] “Energy and Frequency Issues in the NEM” [pdf] “Environmental Regulation” [pdf]
Network and Ancillary Services in the Australian NEM: This one-day workshop, presented by Hugh Outhred, was held in assocation with t heQueensland Power and Gas Conference in Brisbane, February 2004. Presentations for the four sessions are available: “Electricity Industry Restructuring concepts & their implementation” [pdf], “Transmission Network Services in the National Electricity Market” [pdf], “Distribution Network Services & Distributed Resources in the National Electricity Market” [pdf], “Ancillary services & their treatment in the NEM” [pdf]
Experimental Economics Workshop: A workshop on Insights from Experimental Economics for the design of Australian electricity, gas and environmental markets with Professors Vernon Smith and Stephen Rassenti of GMU was held at UNSW on March 6, 2003. More details and presentations made at this workshop can be found [here].
ACRE Energy Policy Group: This group has now ceased operation, however, its publications can be found at http://www.acre.ee.unsw.edu.au/.
Recent reports, papers and submissions
ERGO hosted a half-day seminar at UNSW on 5 March 2004: Picking up the Pieces after California - Current Issues on the Rocky Road to Deregulation of the Electric Utility Industry in the USA presented by Professor Tim Mount of Cornell More details, and downloads of the presentations are available here.
ERGO and the AEPG hosted a one day workshop on 4 March 2004 at UNSW on Energy Efficiency: Policy in Practice. More details and downloads of the presentations are available here.
Iain MacGill and Hugh Outhred, “What are the acceptable limits to wind penetration in power systems?” Presentation at the Third Australian Wind Energy Conference, Adelaide, February, 2004 [pdf].
Iain gave a one-day workshop on Wind farm planning, network connection and operation in the National Electricity Market in association with this conference. Presentations for the four sessions are available. “Wind resources, technology and performance” [pdf] “Wind farm planning & network-related issues” [pdf] “Energy and Frequency Issues in the NEM” [pdf] “Environmental Regulation” [pdf]
Also, two recent and relevant papers by Hugh Outhred on this area of work are available on the Australian Greenhouse Office Website: An estimate of readily accepted wind energy in the National Electricity Market [here] and Wind Energy and the National Electricity Market [here]
Iain MacGill, “Exploring spot electricity market operation through agent based simulation and evolutionary programming” Presentation to an informal pre-AARES Workshop on Experimental Economics, Melbourne, Feburary 2004 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “Emission reduction schemes: MRET, NSW NGAC, Qld Gas Scheme & emission taxes & trading” Presentation to the Queensland Power and Gas Conference, February 2004 [pdf]
Hugh also gave a one-day workshop on Network and Ancillary Services in the Australian NEM in association with this conference. Presentations for the four sessions are available: “Electricity Industry Restructuring concepts & their implementation” [pdf], “Transmission Network Services in the National Electricity Market” [pdf], “Distribution Network Services & Distributed Resources in the National Electricity Market” [pdf], “Ancillary services & their treatment in the NEM” [pdf]
Karel Nolles, Environmental markets, financial markets, and experimental economics, Discussion paper prepared for the ASX Briefing Series, January 2004 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “Competitive & regulated network services in the Australian Electricity Industry” Presentation at ESI2004, The Electricity Supply Industry in Transition, Bangkok, January 2004 [pdf]
Seon Gu Kim, Hugh Outhred, Iain MacGill, “Commercialising Voltage Regulation in Nodal Electricity Spot Markets” Presentation at ESI2004, The Electricity Supply Industry in Transition, Bangkok, January 2004 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, Electricity industry restructuring in Australia, Seminar presentation to the University of California Energy Institute, December 2003 [pdf]
Karel Nolles, Environmental markets, financial markets, and experimental economics – some Australian perspectives, Paper prepared for SIRCA Briefing Program, 10 December, 2003. [pdf]
Iain MacGill, Hugh Outhred and Rob Passey, Climate Change and the Australian Electricity Industry: What Role for Geosequestration? ERGO Draft Discussion Paper – an edited version was presented at the AIE Parallel Session on Fossil Fuel Technologies at ANZSES’2003, Melbourne, November, 2003. [pdf]
Robert Passey and Iain MacGill, “The Australian Electricity Industry and Geosequestration – Some Abatement Scenarios” in Proc. ANZSES’2003, Melbourne, November, 2003. [pdf]
Maria Retnanestri, H. Outhred and S. Healy, “Off-grid Photovoltaic Applications in Indonesia: An Analysis of Preliminary Fieldwork Experience” in Proc. ANZSES’2003, Melbourne, November, 2003. [pdf]
Muriel Watt, M. Oliphant, H. Outhred and R. Collins, “Using PV to meet Peak Summer Electricity Loads” in Proc. ANZSES’2003, Melbourne, November, 2003. [pdf]
Iain MacGill, Hugh Outhred and Karel Nolles, “Some Design Lessons from Market-Based Greenhouse Regulation in the Restructured Australian Electricity Industry” Draft Energy Policy Paper, October, 2003. [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “The Evolving Australian National Electricity Market: An Assessment” to appear in Power Progress: An Audit of Australia’s Electricity Reform Experiment edited by Graeme Hodge, Valarie Sands, David Hayward and David Scott, October, 2003. [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “Distributed resources in the Australian electricity industry” Presentation to the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2 October, 2003. [pdf]
Iain MacGill, Hugh Outhred and Rob Passey, Climate Change and the Australian Electricity Industry: What Role for Geosequestration? ERGO Draft Discussion Paper – an edited version is forthcoming in ANZSES’2003, Melbourne, November, 2003. [pdf]
Robert Passey and Iain MacGill, “The Australian Electricity Industry and Geosequestration – Some Abatement Scenarios” forthcoming in ANZSES’2003, Melbourne, November, 2003. [pdf]
Maria Retnanestri, H. Outhred and S. Healy, “Off-grid Photovoltaic Applications in Indonesia: An Analysis of Preliminary Fieldwork Experience” forthcoming in ANZSES’2003, Melbourne, November, 2003. [pdf]
Muriel Watt, M. Oliphant, H. Outhred and R. Collins, “Using PV to meet Peak Summer Electricity Loads” forthcoming in ANZSES’2003, Melbourne, November, 2003. [pdf]
Iain MacGill, Hugh Outhred and Karel Nolles, “Some Design Lessons from Market-Based Greenhouse Regulation in the Restructured Australian Electricity Industry” Draft Energy Policy Paper, October, 2003. [pdf]
Iain MacGill, Hugh Outhred and Karel Nolles, “Some Design Lessons from Market-Based Greenhouse Regulation in the Restructured Australian Electricity Industry” Draft Energy Policy Paper, October, 2003. [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “The Evolving Australian National Electricity Market: An Assessment” to appear in Power Progress: An Audit of Australia’s Electricity Reform Experiment edited by Graeme Hodge, Valarie Sands, David Hayward and David Scott, October, 2003. [pdf]
Hugh Outhred “Distributed resources in the Australian electricity industry” Presentation to the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2 October, 2003. [pdf]
Iain MacGill, Hugh Outhred and Karel
Nolles, National Emissions Trading for Australia: key design issues and
complementary policies for promoting energy efficiency, infrastructure
investment and innovation, submitted to Aust. Journal of Env. Management, September, 2003. [pdf]
Maria. Retnanestri1, H. Outhred and S. Healy “Off-Grid PV Applications in Indonesia: A Framework for Analysis” in Proc. AUPEC2003, New Zealand, September, 2003. [pdf]
Seon Gu Kim and Hugh Outhred (2003) “Voltage Quality of Supply Incorporated Spot Market Model: A Market Efficiency Perspective” in Proc. AUPEC2003, New Zealand, September. [pdf]
Karel Nolles, “Lessons for environmental markets from the financial markets – some Australian perspectives and experiences” Presentation to the Emissions Marketing Association 7th Annual Fall Meeting & International Conference, Miami, Florida, USA - September 21-23, 2003 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “Climate Change and the Electricity Industry” UNSW Engineering Ethics Lecture, 17 September, 2003. [pdf]
Iain MacGill, Hugh Outhred and Karel Nolles “Experience with Market-based Approaches to Climate Change Regulation in the Australian Electricity Industry” Poster at 6th AARES Annual National Symposium on Market Based Instruments for Environmental Management, Canberra, 2-3 September, 2003. [ppt]
Iain MacGill “Experience with Market-based Approaches to Climate Change Regulation in the Australian Electricity Industry” Presentation to CSIRO Markets for Ecosystem Services Pre-symposium workshop for AARES, Canberra, 1 September, 2003 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “Submission to Joint Jurisdictional Review of Metrology Procedures”, September 2003 [pdf]
Iain MacGill “The Australian Electricity Industry and Climate Change - What role for geosequestration?” UNSW Energy Systems Seminar presentation, 28 August 2003 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “The NSW Electricity Industry: Current Issues & Possible Responses” UNSW Energy Systems Seminar presentation, 14 August 2003 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred “Wind power and long-term issues within the National Electricity Market,” Presentation to the AusWEA Workshop on Wind-Grid Solutions, 23 July 2003 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred “Issues for Effective Management of Intermittent Generation in the NEM, ” Presentation to the BCSE Workshop on Intermittent and Non-Scheduled Generation in the NEM, 17 July 2003 [pdf]
Iain MacGill and Hugh Outhred, “Beyond
Kyoto — Innovation and Adaptation through geosequestration” Article in
EcoGeneration Magazine June/July 2003 [pdf]
(Full report available below)
Iain MacGill, “Market Based Environmental Regulation in the Restructured Australian Electricity Industry” in Proc. 26th International Energy Economists Conference, Prague, June 2003 Presentation [pdf] Full paper [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “Some Strengths and Weaknesses of Electricity Industry Restructuring in Australia², in Proc. IEEE PowerTech¹03, Bologna, 23-26 June 2003. [pdf]
Muriel Watt, “PV Research & Development in Australia - where to from here?” UNSW Energy Systems Seminar presentation, May 2003 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred and Iain MacGill, Submission to the Review of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000, May 2003 [pdf]
Iain MacGill and Hugh Outhred, Energy Efficiency Certificate Trading and the NSW Greenhouse Benchmarks scheme, Draft ERGO discussion paper 0301 April 2003 [pdf]
Power point presentations for Hugh Outhred’s Workshop in association with the IBC Wind Energy Conference, 2nd April 2003. Overview, Session1, Session2, Session3, Session4.
Iain MacGill, Hugh Outhred and Karel
Nolles, National Emissions Trading
for Australia: key design issues and complementary policies for promoting
energy efficiency, infrastructure investment and innovation, ERGO draft discussion paper 0303, April 2003.
[pdf]
Hugh Outhred, “Complementary measures to emission trading for the electricity industry,” presented at the National Emissions Trading Policy Workshop, Melbourne, 16 April 2003 [pdf]
Iain MacGill and Hugh Outhred, ‘Beyond Kyoto – Innovation and Adaptation’: A critique of the PMSEIC assessment of emission reduction options in the Australian stationary energy sector, ERGO Discussion Paper, April 2003 [pdf]
Hugh Outhred, Wind Energy and the National Electricity Market with particular reference to South Australia, A report for the Australian Greenhouse Office, (revised April) 2003 [download pdf].
Hugh Outhred, “Electricity Generation from Renewable Energy,” IEEE Seminar presentation for Electrical Engineering Students, University of Sydney, 24 March 2003 [pdf] (Warning! 5Mb+ file)
Hugh Outhred, “Electricity industry restructuring - beyond the Parer Report" UNSW Electrical Energy Seminar presentation on 27 March, 2003 [pdf]
Iain MacGill, “Energy efficiency certificating trading and demand-side abatement in the NSW greenhouse benchmarks scheme” UNSW Electrical Energy Seminar presentation on 13 March, 2003 [pdf]
A number of papers related to work by our UNSW ERGO group were presented at ANZSES'2002 in November. These papers and their associated presentations can be downloaded from here. Topics covered include distributed generation, the sustainability of renewables projects, environmental regulation in the electricity industry and the integration of high penetrations of wind power into the Australian NEM.
Iain MacGill and Hugh Outhred, "Assessing the technology and policy needs for grid connected renewable energy services" 2nd Annual Australian Renewable Energy Conference, AREC'2002, Sydney, Australia, December, 2002. [download pdf]
Iain MacGill and Muriel Watt, "Jobs and Investment Potential of Renewable Energy for Australia" Australian New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics Conference, ANZSEE'2002, Sydney, Australia, December, 2002. [download pdf]
Submission to the CoAG Energy Market Review Draft Report by Hugh Outhred, Muriel Watt and Iain MacGill for the Australian Energy Policy Group, November 2002 [download pdf]
Hugh Outhred, "Fundamentals of Electricity Industry Restructuring: Australia's Restructured Electricity Industry" [download pdf]
Hugh Outhred, "Fundamentals of Electricity Industry Restructuring: National Electricity Market Design and Performance" [download pdf]
Hugh Outhred "A services model of the electricity industry with particular attention to network services" October 2002 [download pdf].
"A proposal to incorporate formal independent review into the NSW Electricity Supply Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction) bill 2002" by Karel Nolles, Hugh Outhred and Iain MacGill, October 2002 [download pdf].
Hugh Outhred and Iain MacGill, Policy options for encouraging low-emission electricity generation and a possible baseline and credit' approach for the NSW retailer GHG benchmarks scheme, ERGO Discussion Paper, October 2002 [download pdf]. This adds to the recent discussion paper and commented options paper (see below). We presented a seminar on this work on the 31st of October 2002 - check http://energy.ee.unsw.edu.au for more details.
"A Discussion of the Emissions Calculation Methodology for the Revised NSW Greenhouse Gas Emissions Benchmark Scheme: Options Paper" by Hugh Outhred, Iain MacGill and Karel Nolles, September 2002 [download pdf].
A version of the original options paper with added comments from the above authors [download RTF]
UNSW seminar presentation: Regulation to improve the Sustainability of the Electricity Industry by Hugh Outhred and Karel Nolles, 23 May 2002 [download pdf]
Managing Electricity Related Greenhouse Emissions in New South Wales via Retail Licence Conditions - Projected impacts and the importance of accurate accounting [download pdf]
Karel Nolles, Iain MacGill and Hugh Outhred, May 2002.
Hugh Outhred, Muriel Watt, Iain MacGill,
Karel Nolles and Karl Mallon, Submission to the
COAG Energy Market Review Issues Paper, April 2002. [download pdf]
Hugh Outhred, Muriel Watt, Iain MacGill and Karel Nolles, Submission on the IPART Discussion Paper on Distributed Generation April 2002. [download pdf]
Hugh Outhred, Electricity Industry Restructuring in California and its
Implications for Australia, April, 2001. [download pdf].
"A review of electricity industry restructuring in Australia," Hugh Outhred, Electric Power Systems Research 44 (1998) 15-25 [pdf].
INCORPORATING NETWORK EFFECTS IN A COMPETITIVE ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE, H R Outhred and R J Kaye, Chapter 9 in M Einhorn and R Siddiqui (eds) Issues in Transmission Pricing and Technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp 207-228 [pdf].
Analysis of Pacific Power and SECV proposals for an electricity market, Prepared for the Department of Primary Industry and Energy by
Hugh Outhred, John Kaye and Hugh Bannister, February 1993 Executive Summary [pdf]
"Forward Contracts fo the Operation of an Electricity Industry Under Spot Pricing, R.J. Kaye, H.R. Outhred and C.H. Bannister, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 5, No. 1, February 1990. [pdf].
"A Theory of Electricity Tariff Design for Optimal Operation and Investment", R.J. Kaye and H.R. Outhred, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, May 1989 [pdf].
Under construction....
Your comments and questions are always welcome. You can contact us as follows
Assoc. Professor Hugh Outhred
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
University of NSW
Tel: (02) 9385 4035 Fax: (02) 9385 5993
Email: h.Outhred@unsw.edu.au
Dr Iain MacGill
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
University of NSW
Tel: (02) 9385 4920 Fax: (02) 9385 5993
Email: i.macgill@unsw.edu.au