Industry 4.0 Opportunities in White Certificate Schemes – Final Report| Webpage| Technical Guide| PDF
The RACE White Certificates Project examined two Industry 4.0 opportunities for enhancing Australia’s existing State-based white certificate schemes.
Consumer Energy Unleashed – PDF
This report primarily examines what is required to unleash Australia’s Consumer Energy revolution from a range of technological, regulatory, system, and other perspectives.
The Australian Electricity Workforce for the 2024 Integrated System Plan: Projections to 2050. – Final Report| PDF
A rapid scale up of the energy workforce is needed to implement the optimal development path in the Integrated System Plan (ISP) for all three of its scenarios.
Electricity Workforce Projections for the 2024 Integrated System Plan: Focus on New South Wales – Final Report|
This report provides projections for the electricity sector workforce in New South Wales. It is part of a wider study1 that looks at the projected electricity workforce requirements associated with the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) 2024 Integrated System Plan (ISP).
Electricity Workforce Projections for the 2024 Integrated System Plan: Focus on Victoria – Final Report|
This report provides projections for the electricity sector workforce in Victoria. It is part of a wider study1 that looks at the projected electricity workforce requirements associated with the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) 2024 Integrated System Plan (ISP).
Electricity Workforce Projections for the 2024 Integrated System Plan: Focus on Queensland – Final Report|
This report provides projections for the electricity sector workforce in Queensland. It is part of a wider study1 that looks at the projected electricity workforce requirements associated with the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) 2024 Integrated System Plan (ISP).
Electricity Workforce Projections for the 2024 Integrated System Plan: Focus on South Australia – Final Report|
This report provides projections for the electricity sector workforce in South Australia. It is part of a wider study1 that looks at the projected electricity workforce requirements associated with the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) 2024 Integrated System Plan (ISP).
Electricity Workforce Projections for the 2024 Integrated System Plan: Focus on Tasmania – Final Report|
This report provides projections for the electricity sector workforce in Tasmania. It is embedded in a wider study that looks at the projected electricity workforce requirements associated with the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) 2024 Integrated System Plan (ISP).
Energy upgrades for Australian Homes Year 1 report –
Australia needs a targeted and coordinated effort to retrofit the millions of existing homes. This reports presents the foundational…
2023 Participant Survey Report Electric Homes Program – PDF
This report offers an in-depth analysis of survey data collected from 189 respondents, providing valuable insights into awareness levels, participation rates, preferences, barriers, and overall satisfaction with the program.
AI-ready flexible buildings Data requirements and feasibility of unlocking flexibility in commercial buildings – Final Report| PDF
Buildings play a significant role in energy consumption and the emission of CO2 worldwide, accounting for approximately 40% of the world’s energy consumption and contributing to about 35% of total greenhouse gas emissions.
24/7 TRUZERO: Tracking Renewables Utilisation for Zero Emission Reporting and Operation – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
Driven by limitations of current carbon accounting and certification approaches, there is increasing interest in time-matching within corporate renewable energy PPAs and certification.
Flexing industrial refrigeration: A feasibility study for Australian abattoirs – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
Abattoirs are energy-intensive businesses that use vast amounts of energy for both heating (steam and hot water) and cooling…
Using phase change materials for flexible demand in industrial refrigeration – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
Using phase change materials for flexible demand in industrial refrigeration
Electrifying the Cold Chain – Phase 1: Concept Development – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This project has reviewed three commercial transport refrigeration systems (vapour compression, cryogenic and eutectic) and developed a concept design for an innovative eutectic refrigeration system.
Biogas from agricultural waste – A techno-economic evaluation – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This report contains a techno-economic assessment of biogas production using agricultural wastes including sugar mill wastes and chicken manure.
Food Value Chain – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
The food value chain faces many challenges as it delivers essential and valued services to consumers while confronting climate change, increasing costs, disruptive innovation, extreme competition and many other issues.
Mapping Organic Waste in Sydney: Advancing Anaerobic Co-Digestion – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
The energy, water and waste sectors share a common policy objective of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 and a commitment to the Global Methane Pledge of cutting at least 30% of anthropogenic methane emissions by 2030 from 2020 levels.
Testing and monitoring of an energy-efficient indirect evaporative (dew-point) CO2 (DP-CO2) refrigeration system at a Coles supermarket in Adelaide – Webpage|
We have published two milestones reports for this project that can be found on the project’s webpage.
Improving biogas production of sewage sludge – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
Two pretreatment options for improving energy from wastewater treatment plant sludges – thermal hydrolysis and wet air oxidation – are explored in this report.
Techno-economic Feasibility Study of Mechanical Vapour Recompression (MVR) for improving Energy Efficiency in Meat Rendering – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This report is the culmination of a targeted technical and economic feasibility study aimed at reducing the risk of adoption of Mechanical Vapour Recompression (MVR) technology for heat supply in the meat rendering and processing
Industry 4.0 Opportunities in White Certificate Schemes – Webpage|
We have published two milestones reports for this project that can be found on the project’s webpage.
Testing and monitoring of an energy efficient indirect evaporative CO2 refrigeration system at a Coles supermarket – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This report outlines details of the installation and subsequent testing and monitoring of a first-of-a-kind refrigeration system, which integrates a natural, low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant (CO2), with indirect evaporative coolers, to deliver energy efficient cooling at a Coles supermarket in South Australia.
Energy Trends Visualisation Tools – Final Report| PDF
The Energy Trends Visualisation (ETV) project was established to explore and develop prototypes of at least two online tools that assist energy stakeholders access data to navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by the energy sector transformation. By making crucial energy trends more visible and comprehensible, the visualisation tools aim to inform decision-making, build consumer trust, and drive innovation.
Pathways to scale: Retrofitting One Million+ homes – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
Australia needs a targeted and coordinated effort to retrofit the millions of existing homes. This reports presents the foundational…
‘Renovate or Rebuild’ full series evaluation – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
‘Renovate or Rebuild’ is an Australian lifestyle and reality television show about residential real estate that stems from an overarching goal to stimulate..
Incentivising within-day shifting of household electricity use – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This project involved the design, implementation and evaluation of the Load-shifting Challenge, a randomised controlled trial (RCT) specifically designed to test the impact of different incentive schemes on household load shifting, energy procurement costs and net program cost
Curtailment and Network Voltage Analysis Study (CANVAS) – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
Australia has world leading uptake of distributed PV (D-PV) and increasing installations of battery energy storage systems (BESS)…
Pathways for Urban Renewable Energy Zones – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This RACE project brought together a group of organisations from universities, state governments, technology providers, industry experts, electricity network businesses and energy retailers to explore whether a Urban Renewable Energy Zone (UREZ) is a useful mechanism to accelerate DER investments in our cities while maximising the use of existing grid infrastructure and driving other benefits.
Business models and the energy transition – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This report documents an exploration of business models in the electricity system as a way to identify opportunities to accelerate this transition. Simply put, a business model is about how the money is made and the stories and processes that explain how an enterprise works.
Measuring and communicating network export service quality – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This report documents an exploration of business models in the electricity system as a way to identify opportunities to accelerate this transition. Simply put, a business model is about how the money is made and the stories and processes that explain how an enterprise works.
Investigation into VM technologies for future Australian Suburban distribution networks – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This report will inform Australian distribution network service providers and other relevant stakeholders of the pace at which voltage management issues can be expected to emerge in the years ahead as a result of rapid uptake of DERs.
Behind the meter forecasting and optimisation – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This report looks at the difficult prediction and optimisation problem faced during the real time control system of a virtual power plant (VPP). This project developed and evaluated the potential of solutions that jointly tackle the prediction and optimisation problem, to improve the effectiveness of virtual power plant control.
Identification, Key Management and Trust for Inverters for Distributed Energy Resources – Final Report| PDF
All new inverters in Australia and New Zealand have been mandated to possess internet connectivity to comply with the Australian standard AS4777.2:2020 since December 2021. This connectivity significantly expands the cybersecurity attack surface for inverters and exposes them to potential threats from criminal activities, professional hackers, opportunistic or automated hacks and even nation-state-controlled activities.
Business Fleets and EVs: Taxation changes to support home charging from the grid, and affordability – Final Report| PDF
This project investigated how tax changes can accelerate the update of battery electric vehicles within business fleets by encouraging…
My V2X EV: Informing strategic electric vehicle integration – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
The uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) in Australia is expected to increase dramatically in the coming years. Uncontrolled charging of these EVs could lead to substantial growth in electricity demand during peak times, putting the already stressed grid under further pressure.
Strategic EV Integration (SEVI) ‘Embedding Collaborative Research into Integrated Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage Demonstration Projects’ – Webpage|
The growing uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage is creating new opportunities and challenges across the energy and transport sectors globally.
The Green Wave: Adding value through net zero energy strategy – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This report explores new ways to address the challenge of reaching net zero carbon emissions. Specifically, how can we…
The Australian Electricity Workforce for the 2022 Integrated System Plan: Projections to 2050 – Report at a Glance| Main report| PDF
Electricity Sector Workforce Projections for the 2022 ISP: Focus on New South Wales. Revision 1. – Final Report| PDF
Electricity Sector Workforce Projections for the 2022 ISP: Focus on Queensland. Revision 1. – Final Report| PDF
Electricity Sector Workforce Projections for the 2022 ISP: Focus on South Australia. Revision 1. – Final Report| PDF
Electricity Sector Workforce Projections for the 2022 ISP: Focus on Tasmania – Final Report| PDF
Electricity Sector Workforce Projections for the 2022 ISP: Focus on Victoria. Revision 1. – Final Report| PDF
Energy efficiency definitions for the Australian Energy Employment Report – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This report aims to meet the challenge of defining the energy efficiency market. Quality baseline data and workforce projections are needed to support expansion of the sector to meet our climate change targets.
Transforming energy productivity through value chains – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
The report is a review of existing literature and research opportunities for transforming energy productivity through value chains…
Electrification and renewables to displace fossil fuel process heating – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
In Australia, industry consumers nearly half of the total end use energy, out of which, 37% is used in process heat, representing approximately 750 PJ/yr…
Flexible demand and demand control – Report at a Glance| Final Report| Rapid review| PDF
The RACE for 2030 CRC has commissioned an opportunity assessment on flexible demand and demand control…
Industry 4.0 for energy productivity – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This opportunity assessment report explores the various benefits, barriers, regulation, and business models currently available for Industry 4.0 technologies
Anaerobic digestion for electricity, transport and gas – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
The aim of this Opportunity Assessment for Anaerobic Digestion (AD) in Australia is to deliver a research roadmap that identifies the most impactful projects to 2030 that create new markets and scale-up the biogas industry in Australia..
Residential solar pre-cooling and pre-heating – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This OA is a scoping study to determine what is currently understood about residential solar pre-cooling and pre-heating…
Rewarding flexible demand: Customer friendly cost reflective tariffs and incentives – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This OA presents a roadmap of proposed research and industry development to increase flexibility of household electricity use and generation through initiatives.
Enhancing home thermal efficiency – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
The RACE for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030) commissioned this Opportunity Assessment on Enhancing home thermal efficiency (Research Theme H2), to identify priority research areas to accelerate the adoption of home thermal efficiency.
Facilitating smarter homes – Report at a Glance| Final Report| Appendix to Final Report| PDF
This OA “Facilitating smarter homes” reviews the potential for maximising benefits of smart home energy management systems (HEMS) and solar & battery technologies for households directly as well as for providing benefits for the grid.
Low voltage network visibility and optimising DER hosting capacity – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
More so than anywhere in the world, Australia’s electricity customers are choosing to spend their money on rooftop PV systems…
Local DER network solutions – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
In 2023, over 3.36 million photovoltaic systems have already been installed across Australia, with a combined capacity of over 29.7 gigawatts. Future energy systems are becoming more decentralised, and many traditional electricity users are no longer just power consumers,
Distribution System Operator and Beyond – Report at a Glance| Final summary report| Final technical report| PDF
This Opportunity Assessment – Distribution System Operator (DSO) and beyond: Optimising Planning and Regulation for Demand Management (DM) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER), addresses the Networks research theme of ‘DSO and Beyond’ which looks at…
Benchmarking customer priorities and trust in the energy sector – Report at a Glance| Final Report| Appendix to Final Report| PDF
A key determinant of the success of energy transition over the next decade will be the degree of confidence that customers have that this transition will serve and protect their interests. This requires a clear appreciation of both what customers see as their interests in this context, and the extent to which customers trust the energy sector and government to serve these interests.
Giving Power to Energy Networks – Full report|
One of the key challenges facing the energy sector is how to address grid instability and high pricing during peak demand periods. Demand-side management (DSM) is one solution to this problem. DSM encompasses several strategies that aim to modify household energy demand.
Electric vehicles and the grid – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
Uptake of Electric Vehicles will very likely accelerate over the coming years, with upper end projections of share of new sales of all vehicles…
Trust-building for collaborative win-win solutions – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
The E1 Research Theme draws together three crucial and related but inadequately understood elements for building trust in the Australian energy sector…
Developing the future energy workforce – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
Australia’s ability to reach net zero emissions and realise the opportunities offered by such a transformation is intrinsically linked…
Smarter Planning For the Energy Transition – Report at a Glance| Final Report| PDF
This Opportunity Assessment evaluates the current anticipatory planning capacity of the Australian energy system and looks for opportunities for improvement…