Pierluigi Mancarella
Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems
The University of Melbourne
Victoria
Pierluigi Mancarella is Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Professor of Smart Energy Systems at the University of Manchester, UK. His key research interests include techno-economic modelling and analysis of multi-energy systems, grid integration of renewables and distributed energy resources, energy infrastructure planning under uncertainty, and security, reliability, and resilience of low-carbon networks.
Pierluigi is the Energy Systems Program Leader at the Melbourne Energy Institute, an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow and an IEEE Power and Energy Society Distinguished Lecturer, the Convenor of the CIGRE (International Council of Large Electric Systems) C6/C2.34 Working Group on Flexibility Provision from Distributed Energy Resources, holds the 2017 veski innovation fellowship for his work on urban-scale virtual power plants, and is a recipient of the international Newton Prize 2018 for his work on power system resilience in Chile. He is author of several books and over 300 research papers and reports, and is a journal editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation, and the Oxford Open Energy.
In the past few years, Pierluigi has supported the Finkel Review panel, the Australian Energy Market Operator, the Australian Energy Market Commission, and the Australian Energy Regulator on relevant research and consultancy projects on power system security, reliability, and resilience, and has led and been involved in several projects via the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Cooperative Research Centres.
Speaker agenda
Risk-Aware Flexible Integrated System Planning
The critical step to a zero emissions economy is said to be electrification. However, with consumers starting to feel the cost of decarbonisation and the huge uncertainty we face in energy system and market developments, it is essential that wide-scale investment in grid infrastructure is carried out considering the optionality value and risk reduction that new planning methodologies could unlock. Professor Mancarella will present new planning methodologies that, by both introducing investment flexibility and deploying the operational flexibility available in new technologies such as storage, could enable reduction in both expected cost and risk