Australian EPICS Workshop – Australian EPICS Workshop 27-30 January 2026

The Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society (EPICS) Center is an NSF Global Center for use-inspired research addressing global challenges in climate change and clean energy that is led by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and based out of the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI). EPICS in the UK and Australia are funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the CSIRO and are led by Imperial College London and University of Melbourne. Georgia Tech, University of California-Davis, University of Strathclyde, University of Edinburgh, Monash University, and Resources for the Future are also collaborators.

On 27-30 January 2026, CSIRO hosted an Australian EPICS workshop at the Energy Centre in Newcastle. The workshop was attended by 66 EPICS and EPICS-affiliate academics, students and industry representatives, and featured 4 keynote presentations, 20 poster presentations by PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows, and the training tutorial “Emerging approaches in distribution network optimization”.

Workshop agenda in brief
Tuesday 27 January	Wednesday 28 January	Thursday 29 January	Friday 30 January
12:00-17:00 EPICS leads team discussions	9:00-17:00 T100RE modelling and integration of IBR (T2) system services (T5) keynotes, presentations, panel discussions	9:00-17:00 T100RE techno-economic principles (T3) pathways to net-zero (T4) keynotes, presentations, panel discussions	9:00-15:00 student training/tutorial workshop
	17:00-18:00 poster session	17:00-18:00 CSIRO Energy Centre site tour
18:00 EPICS leads dinner	19:00 workshop dinner	19:00 informal dinner

National Science Foundation EPICS Centre

Keynote speakers

Prof. Emer. Ian Hiskens

Dr Mohammad Mohammadi

Prof. Ben Hobbs

Paul Graham

Presentations and session recordings

Thrust 2: T100RE modelling and integration of IBR

Thrust 3: T100RE techno-economic principles

Thrust 4: Pathways to net-zero

Thrust 5: System services

Posters

1. Quantifying resource adequacy risk in Australia’s energy transition

2. Weaving Country into Australia’s energy future

3. Using behind-the-meter reactive power to enhance residential operating envelopes (OEs)

4. Strategic energy infrastructure investments under uncertainty: Coordinated planning for Australia’s electricity and gas systems

5. Transient stability of grid-forming inverters

6. Black-box imedence identification and stability analysis of grid connected inverter under multiple operating points

7. Assessment of stability, voltage-source behaviour, and passivity of grid forming inverters

8. Data-driven frameworks for model identification in IBR-dominated power systems

9. Distribution-connected electrolysers with partial loading limit and power response characteristics

10. Modelling and analysis of scaled-up hydrogen electrolysis plants

11. Data centre: modelling, opportunities, and considerations. Overview of data centre dynamics

12. Emergency PV backstop mechanism

13. Fault ride-through requirements of utility-scale data centres

14. Context-aware stochastic modelling of CER aggregators in electricity markets

16. Network-secure aggregator operating regions with flexible dispatch envelopes in unbalanced systems

18. Dynamic network prices for hosting capacity management

20. Dynamic passivity multipliers for plug-and-play stability certificates

Tutorial in Emerging approaches in distribution network optimisation

EPICS Tutorial Session 1

EPICS Tutorial Session 2

EPICS Tutorial Session 3