Supervisor(s): Dr. Chandima Ekanayake

Investigation into the risk of fires within household PV systems. Focused on the risk posed by DC isolators in PV systems installed before 2021.

Supervisor(s): Mithulan Nadarajah

This project investigates various EV fast charging solutions for deployment in capacity constrained distribution networks. The project focuses on an NRMA proposed charging site and compares different charging solutions for various charger capacities from both a technical and economical perspective.

Supervisor(s): Tapan Saha

This thesis project examines the impact of removing available system inertia from the grid on the future stability and reliability of the network, specifically looking at frequency and the ancillary services that maintain this stability measure.

Supervisor(s): Ruifeng (Richard) Yan

This research aims to develop a control system based on Siemens S7-1500 programmable logic controller (PLC) for managing and controlling inverters in large-scale renewable energy (solar or battery) farms.

Supervisor(s): Associate Professor Rahul Sharma,Dr Gayan Lankeshwara

The rapid growth in distributed energy resources (DERs) such as rooftop solar and batteries poses challenges for low-voltage network management. Integrating dynamic operating envelopes (DOE) with demand response (DR) enhances DER asset utilisation for customers, while enabling network providers to maintain secure operations within statutory limits under current and future conditions.

Supervisor(s): Ramesh Bonu

The rapid rise of power electronic converter-based generation units led to the evolution of virtual synchronous generators (VSGs) for power system stability. However, VSGs also suffer from instabilities due to improper control design. This thesis alleviates the instability through white box modelling technique and proposes a strategy for control design of VSGs.