Researcher

Dr Baran Yildiz

Biography

Baran is a Senior Research Associate School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE), UNSW. He completed his PhD in load forecasting & smart home energy systems, M.Sc. in Renewable Energy Engineering, SPREE, UNSW and B.Sc with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Baran is currently leading two major projects on the control and coordination of domestic electric water heating systems to soak-up...view more

Baran is a Senior Research Associate School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE), UNSW. He completed his PhD in load forecasting & smart home energy systems, M.Sc. in Renewable Energy Engineering, SPREE, UNSW and B.Sc with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Baran is currently leading two major projects on the control and coordination of domestic electric water heating systems to soak-up excess solar generation in networks: SolarShift (RACE for 2030) and Flexible demand trial (ARENA). Baran previously lead Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and RACE for 2030 projects focusing on the development of integrated smart home energy management systems and integration of distributed energy resources. Baran's research is multi-disciplinary and involves collaboration with leading industry partners of Australia's energy market. Baran's research has been translated into real-world products benefiting energy users and network and featured in reports by Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC), Energy Security Board (ESB), CRC and other prime media outlets such as ABC, The Conversation and RenewEconomy.

Current Research Projects:

CRC RACE for 2030 - SolarShift - Turning water heating systems into Megawatt scale batteries (Lead CI)
ARENA - Flexible demand trial of domestic water heaters (Lead CI)
ARC Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions (IESS) - Community battery energy modelling (Lead CI)
Essential Energy Tariff Behavioural Trial (CI)
NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) - PV fault diagnosis (CI)

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

My Grants

SolarShift: CRC RACE for 2030 grant ($ 552,000)

Flexible demand trial: ARENA grant ($ 266,675)

Curtailment and Network Voltage Analysis Study (CANVAS): CRC RACE for 2030 grant ($100,000)

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Earth grant ($50,000)

Voltage Analysis of Low Voltage Network across the National Electricity Market (NEM): Energy Security Board (ESB) ($40,000)

My Research Activities

Demand side management and demand response

Smart home energy management systems

Appliance scheduling and control

Demand forecasting

Integration of distributed energy resources

Distributed energy resources curtailment

My Research Supervision

Supervision keywords

grid-connected pv system

building energy management

demand side participati

demand forecasting

intelligent energy management systems

grid-connected inverters

Areas of supervision

Residential electricity load analysis, forecasting and clustering

Demand side management and demand response

Home energy management and appliance scheduling

Integration of distributed energy resources

Distributed PV and batteries

Distributed energy resources curtailment

Electric Vehicle integration

PV system modelling

Currently supervising

I am currently supervising/co-supervising four undergraduate students and a masters student.

My previous and current supervision research topics include:

clustering and classification of household electricity loads for PV and battery sizing,
tariff analysis and battery energy modelling for Virtual Power Plants (VPP),
integration of electric vehicles and vehicle to grid (V2G) technology in microgrids,
potential of distributed rooftop PV in China,
bi-facial PV yield modelling,
thermal modelling of innovative PV mounting structures.