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 Electricity Market Program

Introduction & Career Prospective

The power industry is being deregulated world-wide and power engineers need to have a knowledge of both power engineering and market issues to provide a linkage between engineers and economists/accountants. The Master of Engineering in Electricity Market provides these skills, and  graduates of this program will find opportunities in both Australia and around the world to work not only with traditional power companies but also with consulting firms and government agencies that provide services for the broader energy market.

Students enrolled in this program can choose from Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Engineering in Electricity Market.

You can view the attributes our graduates can expect to acquire here.

Uniqueness

This is the only known such program offered in Asia Pacific region.  The program welcomes students and professionals interested in working in the new deregulated power industry or associated industries to explore the most up to date knowledge through its carefully designed and selected courses. Theoretical knowledge and hands on practical experience are delivered through this program by experienced lecturers and senior industry professionals.

Selected Projects

  • Electricity market simulation techniques
  • Electricity market demand and price forecasting
  • Power quality issues in a deregulated electricity market
  • Power system condition monitoring in a market environment
  • Power system security assessment
  • Power system planning
  • Computational intelligence and its application in power systems engineering
  • Ancillary services market research
  • Operations research in an electricity market
  • Risk Management
  • Power system probabilistic power flow analysis
  • Power system probabilistic security assessment
  • Energy supply market
  • Power system transfer capability assessment
  • Interconnector issues in a competitive electricity market
  • Power system stability and control

Links to industry

Contact

For more information please contact the Power Systems Research team,
Professor T. K. Saha (shah@itee.uq.edu.au) or Dr Z. Y. Dong (zdong@itee.uq.edu.au):

Professor Tapan Kumar Saha
Fellow CPEng (IEAust), Senior Member (IEEE).
School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering
University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld-4072, Australia
Tel: 61-7-33653962  Fax: 61-7-33654999
Email: saha@itee.uq.edu.au
URL: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~saha/index.html

Dr Zhao Yang Dong
Member IEEE, Senior Lecturer
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia
Tel: +61-7-3346 9052  Fax: +61-7-3365 4999
Email: zdong@itee.uq.edu.au
URL: www.itee.uq.edu.au/~zdong

More Details

Details of the program requirements and available courses are here.

last updated 11/01/2008