Report
How are kerbside chargers used?
This report presents insights into the usage of a kerbside charging network in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. It identifies essential features required to make high quality charging sites, as well as higher power charging with short duration dedicated parking spaces. It finds one third of charging demand currently occurs during evening peak grid...
Report
The opportunities to flex water heating and electric vehicle charging loads in the ACT
This research focuses on the opportunity to better utilise existing network infrastructure and reduce energy costs for Australian Capital Territory residents. It finds that significant population growth to 2045 and electrification can be accommodated within existing capacity if electric vehicle charging and water heating occurs in times of otherwise low electricity demand.
Article
Watt equity? Australian's deserve a basic energy right
This article discusses the shortcomings of the energy market and how energy equity would be better achieved through non-market approaches, such as the provision of essential energy for free – labelled as a Basic Energy Right in the essay, and colloquially as a Universal Basic Income for Energy.
Report
Unplugged is inflexible: how drivers’ plug in behaviour determines the flexibility of electric vehicle (dis)charging
This study focuses on how the amount of time that electric vehicles are plugged into chargers impacts the potential benefits of managed charging. The study considers multiple objectives for managed charging and assesses the impacts on the cost of charging, the stress on the distribution network and the potential to align charging with renewable energy...
Discussion paper
Community, batteries: a discussion paper on the impacts of "community batteries" on equity, sustainability and the decarbonisation transition
This paper discusses the potential impacts of 'community batteries', or more generally medium-scale batteries, on the equity and ecological sustainability of the energy system.