AMSI / MASCOS Industry workshop & ICE-EM short course: The mathematics of electricity supply and pricing

Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 22-26 April 2007

Event Review and resources

This 3-day event included three short courses, and 3 afternoons sessions of contributed talks on the mathematics of electricity demand and pricing. The event addressed the latest developments on mathematics and statistics applied to power systems with an emphasis on electricity markets.

A total of sixty-one Delegates registered for the event. Of these the majority were from government and industry with eight delegates from overseas.

Further details can be downloaded below

Program

Event Program including biographies and abstracts (868KB)

Short Courses:

• Adam Kucera, Integral Energy (648KB)
• Tamás Terlaky, McMaster University, Part 1 (I.4MB), Part 2 (176KB), Part 3 (640KB)
• Elliot Tonkes, Energy Edge, Derivatives Pricing (736KB), Physical Market (1.1MB)

Invited speakers

• Matt Davison, University of Western Ontario (868KB)
• Ian Rose, ROAM Consulting, Presentation (152KB), Paper (116KB)
• Tony Ware, University of Calgary (1.05MB)

Contributed talks:

• Chris Amos, Energy Australia, Presentation (208KB), CRNP Methodology (324KB)
• Paul Blackmore, Energex (524KB)
• John Boland, University of South Australia (169KB)
• Jim Brooks, MITACS (540KB)
• Andrew Campbell, Intelligent Energy Systems (264KB)
• George Grozev, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (3.8MB)
• Ariel Leibman, University of Queensland (808KB)
• Alex Miller, Energy Australia (272KB)
• Abby Tan, University of Brunei Darussalam, Presentation (136KB), Paper (332KB)
• Patrick Tobin, Swinburne University of Technology (208KB)
• Stephen Wallace, Intelligent Energy Systems (276KB)
• Phillip Wild, University of Queensland (376KB)

Event Photographs

You can find a web photo gallery here.

Acknowledgments

Global Roam Pty Ltd generously provided the market display software called nem-watch & ez2viewOntario for the event. Stephen Hern who wrote some of the software and attended the event informed us that new versions of both packages are due to be released over the next couple of months. See www.nem-watch.info, and www.ez2view.info/ontario/ for release details or call on +61 7 3371 8438 or +1 416 628 1366 to ask to be notified when either new releases have been completed.

Event Feedback

“Excellent range of presenters from academic and industry covering both generation/network and financial/retail. Very interesting to see the range of methodologies being used for the same problems.”

“Great information on the physical configuration of the grid and also operation of the market”

“Short talks in the afternoon were great”

“Excellent conference - well done! Both the level of presenters and the balance of industry and academia were very good. Hope to see it again in the future”

ICE-EM is managed by AMSI
ICE-EM is funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Education, Science and Training