Overview
Concerns about climate change, diminishing resources, and rising energy demand provide one of the key challenges of our time.
To meet this challenge and advance research towards securing a sustainable, affordable energy supply into the future, the Melbourne Energy Institute takes an interdisciplinary and collaborative research approach.
By bringing disciplined-based research strengths together and by engaging with stakeholders outside the University, the Energy Institute offers the critical capacity to rethink the way we generate, deliver and use energy.
The Melbourne Energy Institute is an access point for industry, government and community groups seeking to work with leading researchers on innovative solutions in the following areas: new energy resources; developing new ways to harness renewable energy; more efficient ways to use energy; secure energy waste and frame optimal laws and regulation to achieve energy outcomes.
The Energy Institute presents research opportunities in bioenergy, solar, wind and geothermal power; and carbon capture and storage. It also engages in energy efficiency for urban planning, architecture, transport and distributed systems, and reliable energy transmission.
Economic and policy questions constitute a significant plank of the Energy Institute’s research program and include: market regulation and demand, carbon trading, system modelling, climate change feedbacks and social justice implications of energy policy.
The Melbourne Energy Institute brings together the work of over 150 researchers providing international leadership in energy research and delivering solutions to meet our future energy needs.
For further information about the Energy Institute’s research expertise and activities please visit our website at www.energy.unimelb.edu.au or contact us directly.