Events

2024 Seabrook Chambers Public Lecture

Commentary about judicial processes and functions generally includes references to “open justice”. In this lecture, Chief Justice Mortimer examines the origins of the concept of “open justice”, and offers some views on how it might be understood. The Chief Justice then considers what place the concept has in the administration of justice by a court such as the Federal Court of Australia.

​​​​​​​The Seabrook Chambers Lecture

The Seabrook Chambers Lecture is an annual lecture series established by former Judges of the Accident Compensation Tribunal in the State of Victoria. This series invites internationally renowned guests to speak on issues relating to the rule of law in Australia and around the world.

The Melbourne Energy Institute invites you to the sixth MEInetwork seminar for 2024, presented by Professor Pierluigi Mancarella, MEI’s Energy Systems Program Leader, Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the University of Melbourne, and Professor of Smart Energy Systems at the University of Manchester, UK.

MEInewtork24 Seminar #6 - Enabling the DER revolution - from dynamic pricing to virtual power plants, energy communities, and microgrids

Making the demand side more active and flexible is considered the Holy Grail to enable integration of renewable energy into power systems and markets and whole-system decarbonisation. In this regard, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) embedded in distribution networks are becoming widespread in most countries worldwide. In Australia, in particular, household-level consumer energy resources (CERs) such as rooftop solar photovoltaics, battery energy storage systems, electric heat pumps, and soon electric vehicles too, are poised to play an essential role towards net-zero targets and more consumer-centric system developments. Local energy systems with shared assets such as community storage are also emerging as important options of interest. Key ongoing debates now refer to how different distributed technologies and schemes should be fully integrated into power and energy systems and markets.

In this lecture we will present fundamental techno-economic aspects of key approaches that could enable large-scale deployment of DERs and CERs – from dynamic pricing to virtual power plants, energy communities, and microgrids – and discuss the benefits of demand side integration into systems and markets. Several case studies from recent projects in Australia and internationally will be used to exemplify the concepts presented.