SDG Detail

Are there smarter, low-carbon, economic and resilient power and energy systems for delivering the new architecture for global electricity?

Postgraduate program

Project description

In the span of our living civilisations, electricity as a technology that supports the well-being of human life, spans only about 130+ years. Nevertheless, it has spawned supporting technologies like electronics, computers, software and now data engineering which are all inter-dependent and part of our lives today. As such, electrical energy truly reflects engineering ingenuity. The University of Auckland�s Power Systems Group (PSG) contributes through its energy teaching and research activities. Partnering with like-minded local and global industry and research partners through innovations like Smart Grid, peer-to-peer energy trading, decentralized and resilient solar-battery energy systems, Microgrid, Nanogrid and the electrification of transport, our activities are aimed at delivering �Electricity 2.0�, the new architecture of energy, for the next 100+ years of energy systems. Inspired by a number of Sustainable Development Goals, we aim to help realise carbon-free power systems for everyone for existing and emerging needs, like transport and ubiquitous data services, and help establish a life-spiral for 21st century utilities and providers offering them.