Expressions of interest for Stage 3

Research proposals to join with the Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium to undertake research related to electricity system transformation is now open.

A number of areas of research were identified in the Australia’s Global Power System Transformation Research Roadmap (2022).

You can see the main research recommendations in the G-PST Stage 2 Interim Reports.

Each research proposal will focus on at least one, but up to two of the following topics: 

• Topic 1: Inverter Design - Development of capabilities, services, design methodologies and standards for Inverter-Based Resources (IBRs).
• Topic 2: Stability Tools & Method - New tools and methods required to ensure reliability, security, and stability in power systems.  
• Topic 3: Control Room of the Future - Development of new technologies and approaches for enhanced real-time visibility and analysis in power system operator control rooms.
• Topic 4: Planning - New planning metrics, methods, and tools to capture the characteristics and influence of a changing resource mix.
• Topic 5: Restoration & Black Start - Creating new procedures for black starting and restoring a power system with high or 100% IBR penetrations.
• Topic 6: Services - Quantifying the technical service requirements of future power systems to maintain the supply-demand balance reliably and at least cost. 
• Topic 7: Architecture - Identifying appropriate future power system architectures for coordinating new technology capabilities, regulatory approaches, market design, and the distribution/transmission interface in a highly distributed, variable renewable energy-based system.
• Topic 8: Distributed Energy Resources - Challenges and opportunities from very high levels of distributed energy resources.
• Topic 9: Distributed Energy Resources and Stability – Development and deployment of improved DER models to ensure system operators and network providers can maintain power system security with high levels of DERs. 

Download the forms and get started

• Australian Research Planning for Global Power System Transformation (Stage 3) Request for Quote: Part A PDF (325 KB)
• Australian Research Planning for Global Power System Transformation (Stage 3) Request for Quote: Part B DOCX (140 KB)
• Draft services contract DOCX (57 KB)
• Short Form Servcies Contract - Schedule 4 PDF (1 MB)

Respondents can propose more than one research plan but each plan must be tendered separately i.e. provide a separate Part B response for each research plan proposal