Table 3. List of IRG members AGL
Ausgrid
Jemena
Starling Energy
AEMO
Chargefox
Tritium
Horizon Power
NRMA
EV-NRG
Vicinity
NSW Planning
Nissan
FBICRC
ANU
Western Energy
Startup Bootcamp
EA Technologies
EPRI
DELWP
The inception meeting was conducted on 12th March 2021 to meet with and establish the IRG members and confirm the IRG’s role. The meeting was led by the IRG Chairs, Behyad Jaffari (EV Council) and John Frick (Ultima), and facilitated by the project leader Roger Dargaville and the UTS project delivery team. Project team members were also present in the meeting. Meeting outcome: The desired meeting outcomes were for everyone to be clear on their role, the research agenda, and to get to know the project team and other IRG members. As part of the meeting, IRG members were also asked about their aspirations for the project. Initial recommendations for research focus include customers behaviour and preferences, industry trends, uptake predictions, least cost integration, charging optimisation, and harmonisation at the global scale.
2. Literature review and discussion papers The research team conducted a review of Australian and international literature (peer-reviewed institutional publications and grey literature) to produce two discussion papers for discussion at the IRG on the following topics: •
Identification analysis of barriers to uptake of EVs (i.e., access to charging infrastructure) and barriers to sub-optimal performance of EVs in relation to the grid (i.e., tariff structures that fail to avoid charging load at peak times; lack of a framework for enabling V2G under circumstances such as extreme demand)
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Identification of opportunities based on the barriers to uptake of EVs identified in Workshop 1
The discussion papers were presented to the IRG and its members’ responses were collated for further desktop analysis, including cost/benefit analysis and scenario analysis. The scope of the literature review was divided into four areas. The review of each area was led by the university project teams (RMIT, UNSW, Curtin University) and CSIRO. The areas were – •
Techno-economic assessment of market and technology trends/practices (CSIRO)
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