Internal heating element in Climate Test facility, located at CSIRO Energy Centre in Newcastle, Australia

CSIRO will be testing the system on a solar thermal cooling system.

Demand Side Energy Systems

CSIRO’s Demand Side Energy Systems research aims to improve Australia’s energy efficiency and reliability right now.

9 July 2009 | Updated 16 February 2012

Demand Side Energy Systems (DSES) research is developing new technologies which manage the way energy is used and improves how electricity is delivered.

This research area spans:

energy efficiency
distributed generation
renewable generation
end-use efficiency
energy management
combined heat and power
smart grids.

The DSES group is comprised of four main teams, each focused on developing new technologies which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions:

Intelligent Energy: focuses on finding smarter ways to use, transmit and generate energy
Solar Cooling: researches the use of solar heat energy to provide space cooling
Secure Grids: working on ways to improve the reliability of our electricity networks by increasing efficiency, removing common points of failure and supporting the integration of renewables
Energy Harvesting: looking at ways of capturing energy from the environment for use in low-power electronics.