Baran Yildiz is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE), UNSW. He completed his PhD and M.Sc. in Renewable Energy Engineering, SPREE, UNSW and B.Sc. with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Baran's research is multi-disciplinary and involves collaboration with the key industry partners of Australian energy sector. His research focuses on the integration of consumer energy resources (CER), and he is currently leading Project CICCADA (ARENA), SolarShift (RACE for 2030) and PLUS ES South Australian demand flexibility trial (ARENA). Baran’s research has been translated into real-world products benefiting consumers and made policy impact by leading rule changes in Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC). Baran's research outputs have been featured in reports by AEMC, Energy Security Board (ESB), Australian Energy Regulator (AER), Cooperative Research Australia (CRA) and other prime media outlets such as ABC, The Conversation and RenewEconomy.

Key Research Projects:

• ARENA - Project CICCADA (Consumer-energy-resource integration, compliance and curtailment assessment and data analysis), 2025-2028, (Lead CI)
• CRC RACE for 2030 - SolarShift - Turning water heating systems into Megawatt scale batteries, 2023-2025, (Lead CI)
• ARENA - Plus ES South Australia demand flexibility trial, 2023-2024, (Lead CI)
• ARC Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions (IESS) - Community battery energy modelling, 2022-2023 (Lead CI)
• CRC RACE for 2030 - Curtailment and Network Voltage Analysis Study (CANVAS), 2021, (Lead CI)
• Energy Security Board (ESB), Voltage analysis of National Electricity Market, 2021, (CI)
• CRC - Smart Home Energy Management Systems, 2019-2020 (CI)

Baran is the course convener and lecturer of SOLA 4012 Photovoltaic (PV) Systems Design in SPREE.